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How to Finance a Lamborghini Delivery Car for Your Brewery Through Kickstarter: A Look at Swag-Based Crowd Funding

Financing a brewery, either in part or whole, through crowd funding campaigns like Kickstarter is a fascinating phenomenon. Old-fashioned lengthy business plans with amortization charts, projections and risk assessments are buried at the bottom of the recycling bin, or better yet, under a box of hip ... More >>

Dead Flowers Will Be Dead or on the Road in Six Months

A lot of good things have happened in the past two years for Dead Flowers. They've played many well-attended shows since their formation, and frontman Corey Howe had the honor of opening The Revival Tour last year at Trees. This past Tuesday, Dead Flowers' debut album, For You, came out digitally, ... More >>

Bands: You Cannot Crowdsource Your Way to Financial Success

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Spoonfed Tribe Prepares Their Eighth Genre-Exploding Album

Spoonfed Tribe's music has served as a master class; a kind of Bob Villa-esque how-to in creating nebulous sounds within the infinite possible combinations of ethnomusicology and American pop genres from the last 15 years. Their sound throughout that timeframe has evolved and shifted, maturing and n ... More >>

Bishop Cidery Kicked Off with a Successful Kickstarter: Here's How

Every time I see a Kickstarter or similar Internet based financial campaign for a food business, I raise an eyebrow. For one, I don't understand why people want to invest in a business with no model for return. Sure, some of the better campaigns award nifty incentives for their donors, but the small ... More >>

Robots: Getting You Drunk One iPad at a Time!

If a Kickstarter project out of California gets its way, you could soon be hitting on a robot when you just want a motherslugging drink, for the LOVE of God. On Wednesday, Eater National reported on the efforts of Party Robotics, a gaggle of drunk nerds who need a very large stack of cash to fund th ... More >>

The Virgin Wolves are Pretty Evil

The 15 Best North Texas Releases of 2012

In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do "yourself" and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few of the art ... More >>

Pearl Cup Founders Turn To Their Community To Fund Coffee Truck Venture

Earlier this week, Carlene Saelg and Rita Davis announced a new business venture on Twitter. In addition to new traditional Pearl Cup locations, (the latest is in Richardson) the two are trying to get a coffee truck rolling to take their java on the move. While the two have funded their previous bu ... More >>

Co-Creator of White Buffalo: An American Prophecy: Investigation into Animal's Death a "Crock of Shit"

In this week's edition, the cover story chronicles the short life and ambiguous death of Lightning Medicine Cloud, the rare white buffalo born to Hunt County rancher Arby Little Soldier. To the Lakota Oyate, the animal was prophecy, heralding the return of the prophet White Buffalo Calf Woman, and a ... More >>

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon Is A Free Man

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon On The Election: "It's Two Blokes Fighting Over A Polished Leather Chair"

Since fronting the Sex Pistols in the mid-'70s and branding the nascent punk rock genre with its promise of "No Future," John Lydon, once known as Johnny Rotten, has appeared on Judge Judy, hosted a show on VH1 and used his name and face in commercials for Country Life butter. Yes, those butter comm ... More >>

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Thursday, October 4, at AT&T Performing Arts Center

Somebody's Darling is Ready for Their Close-up

Somebody's Darling Are Ready For Their Close-up

Guitarist David Ponder is sitting in a bar on Lower Greenville, feeling cautiously optimistic. His band, Somebody's Darling, just released its sophomore album, Jank City Shakedown, and he thinks it's something special. "I don't know if I would call this album a make-it-or-break-it record," Ponder s ... More >>

Vanessa Peters On Kickstarter, Grizzly Bear and Keeping Her Chin Up

The last ten years have seen singer-songwriter Vanessa Peters roaming the globe, living in Italy, and touring across Europe and the States. That nomadic lifestyle is reflected in her lyrics, like those of "Drowning In Amsterdam," from 2009's Sweetheart, Keep Your Chin Up: "Well it could rain for d ... More >>

Fan Landers: Should I Publicly Shame My Mooch Of A Bandmate?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop doing it wro ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Dallas This Week

Will Johnson Monday, October 1, at Good Records/Tuesday, October 2, at Texas Theatre We chatted with Centro-matic frontman Will Johnson last month about his new excellent solo album, Scorpion, and how he finds time to record while also being in a bajillion side projects. He'll be celebrating the rel ... More >>

Super Rad Records' Paul Ford: "I Recorded a Song in the Back of a Station Wagon Once"

Paul Ford spent some time playing in a couple local bands, including The London Scar. In 1997, at only 16 years old, he and a colleague formed Yuppiefest, which brought local talent to the 'burbs of Lewisville, including Bowling For Soup, The Latchkey Kids, Darlington and more. Ford claims they dona ... More >>

The Living Plaza Folks Want to Make Shade, But First They Need Your Money

The Living Plaza project, the temporary installation of people, food and miscellanea in front of City Hall, has been breathing life into the desolate concrete wasteland at 1500 Marilla for more than a year now. It's fueled by the type of creative energy one doesn't expect from the great edifice of b ... More >>

15 of This Weekend's Best Shows: Miguel Migs, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Iris DeMent and More

It'll Do Club Grand OpeningSaturday, June 16, at It'll Do ClubEver driven eastbound on Elm Street until it hits the dead end? Then chances are you've seen the It'll Do Club. Shrouded in the long-forgotten East Ellum neighborhood, this club opening marks another step in Deep Ellum's expansion. Plu ... More >>

Vickery Meadow: The Movie

Filmmaker Bentley Brown was born in Dallas, but he moved to Chad with his family when he was eleven. It was in high school there that he began making short films with friends. Brown returned to the States for college at Emory and, for a time, suppressed his post-grad predisposition to filmmaking as ... More >>

Girls Rock Dallas Gets a Little Help From Amanda Palmer, Goes IndieGoGo

Last night, Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer was in town, mixing her new album with the ubiquitous John Congleton. Not only did she do a Violitionist Session with Neil Gaiman (yes, Neil Gaiman was in Denton, let that sink in), she also donated money to Girls Rock Dallas. They've declared today Ama ... More >>

Champ d'Or, This Totally Unpretentious $45 Million Denton Estate, Could Sell for $10 Million

The wife and I are house-hunting, looking for something modest and sensible: good school district, open floor plan, lots of windows, pool out back, pool inside, bowling alley, racquetball court, theater, tennis courts, and -- this is a must -- a conservatory. You know: Your average East Dallas rebui ... More >>

Beach Fossils Do Slowdive's "Alison"

Before we get into this week's edition of Covering Tracks, a quick aside. Are you familiar with digital panhandling? Seems begging for money under the cloak of art and charity is socially acceptable these days. With a financial goal, a well-crafted mission statement and a Kickstarter account, you to ... More >>

Brain Gang Blue Remixes "Party On" With An All-Star Dallas Cast

With Brandon Blue currently making some of the most innovative beats in Dallas hip-hop, it's no wonder Slim Gravy (A.Dd ), Dave (The Mohicans), Dustin Cavazos and -topic joined fellow Brain Gangbanger JT in reworking "Party On," the lead single from the Numb EP. Not only is this beat a dramatic im ... More >>

Reunion Brewing Company, Dallas' Next Brewery, is Coming to the Design District

​Lakewood Brewing Company is nipping at the heels of Peticolas Brewing Company and Deep Ellum Brewing Co. to be the third Dallas-area beer maker, but it's not the only start-up on the way. According to its Facebook page, Reunion Brewing Company last week signed a lease for a space in the Design Di ... More >>

Funding Issues Block Local Film Students From Screening in France

the whale [trailer] from Jaime Chapin on Vimeo.Back in the fall of 2010, a group of senior film students at the University of North Texas wrote, shot and directed The Whale, a hauntingly beautiful short feature about a little boy, a wretchedly abusive family, and the transcendent power of imaginatio ... More >>

Fever in the Funkhouse go back to their original recipe

National Haiku Day: This Is Why You Care

​ A NEW YELP IN TOWN? THERE COULD BE, IF YOU'RE DOWN TO KICKSTART IT FOR THEM Watch out Yelp. Three Dallas dudes are hoping a Kickstarter campaign will help them launch a new mobile app they're calling Haiku Review. Stu Hill, Wes Hendrix and Brad Alesi are asking for $65,000 to help them buil ... More >>

'Tis the Season: Girls Rock Camp Dallas Needs Your Stuff

​We reported a few weeks ago that Dallas is getting its own Girls Rock Camp. They'll be starting a Kickstarter campaign, too, in anticipation of this summer's camp. But right now, they need your equipment. Got an old guitar lying around? A bass? An amp you keep tripping over? A drum set in t ... More >>

Kickstarter: Giving Local Food Businesses A Kick In The Pickle

​"What do you think of Rick's Mean Bean's," I asked Katherine Grover, co-founder of Two Sisters Organic, a small, local pickle purveyor trying to get off the ground in Dallas. "Nobody likes a limp pickle," she replied. Grover wasn't trying to disparage Rick's -- she thinks they make a fine p ... More >>

Used to Be Everyone Square Danced 'Round These Parts. Now, It's An Art Project.

A friend directed my attention to something entirely unrelated on Kickstarter, where I stumbled across this intriguing item: Square Dance: A Community Project, which the organizers -- Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy -- are billing as a "public art project." Which is how you have to bill an event ju ... More >>

Deep Ellum Community Association Needs Some Seed Money to Plant an Urban Garden

​What you see at right is the urban garden the Deep Ellum Community Association would like to plant on this lot at Canton and Good-Latimer. The idea isn't new: In December 2009 we wrote about DECA's attempt to green up Deep Ellum, and initially they'd looked at planting on the site of the old Rock ... More >>

The Festival That Won't: Proposed Construction Along Trinity River Blocks Music Festival Plans

Well, just not in 2012.​Earlier this week, Denton musician Jessie Frye accomplished quite the feat. She, like so many other area artists before her, had taken to Kickstarter to raise funds for her art -- in this case, money to help produce her first-ever music video. She figured she needed $1,000. ... More >>

Care to Kammok? Dallas Start-Up Raises Cash To Help You (And Orphans) Relax.

Courtesy KammokGreg McEvilly says Kammoking is the new planking. We'll forgive him if you do.​Greg McEvilly and his co-workers typically hold their meetings tethered to branches, poles or anything they can find that will support their body weight. They do it because they don't have an office, ... More >>

Armadillo Ale Works: One Big Step Closer To Keeping Denton Beered

Don Thorp wants to open denton's first craft brewery.​When the last day of their Kickstarter campaign rolled around, Bobby Mullins and Yianni Arestis of Armadillo Ale Works were getting nervous. Although they had been approached by investors who wanted to help them open Denton's first craft br ... More >>

Colin Hanks Wants You To Help Him Fund His Tower Records Documentary...

​Tower Records is a record store chain that once had a shop in Dallas. Last we checked, the old building where it was housed was going to be turned into an appliance store, although nothing of the sort has happened yet. (But, for what it's worth, Wilonsky swears he saw something happening there ye ... More >>

Help Friend of Unfair Park Fund, Finish "Comprehensive Map" of Downtown Tunnels

Photos by Noah JeppsonThe Thansk-Giving Square Concourse​Add City Manager Mary Suhm to the list of folks lined up to bury the so-called Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as the downtown tunnels. But two days ago she told the DSpotters that those inhabiting the maze of passageways beneath ... More >>

World Beer Company Bottle Shop Pub and Store Soft-Opens Saturday, and More Local Beer News

No word on whether Obama beer is among the 500 available at World Beer Company Bottle Shop.​A hat tip, along with a couple of corrections, to UrbanDaddy, which scooped us on this beer bar and package store, but must have spent a little too much time coming up with a trademark story-ending zinger t ... More >>

Will Johnson Releases Solo EP, Josh T. Pearon Gets Daytrotted and Robert Gomez Gets Smart.

​Three dudes who were once local but aren't any longer -- Will Johnson (Austin), Josh T. Pearson (Paris) and Robert Gomez (Seattle) -- are up to some cool things of late. One just released a new EP. Another gets some lingering post-SXSW. And the third needs your help in putting out a whole bunch o ... More >>

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When Pigs Fly (Self-released)

Sunnybrook Releases Water Me Glow Album As Free Download

Sunnybrook​Earlier this year, Denton's own Paul North, otherwise known as Sunnybrook, needed some money to release his album, Hay Daze, on Appalacian Records. So what did he do? He used the popular funding platform, Kickstarter, to raise funds from fans and contributors through pledges. Unfortunat ... More >>

Local bands turn to Kickstarter to fund their next release.

Unexpected Influences: A.Dd Explains Its Love For Cee-Lo, Gorillaz and Maroon 5

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.A.Dd ​Local hip-hop duo A.Dd , rappers Paris P and Slim Gravy, has been on our radar ever si ... More >>

Austin Steps Up Food Cart Game with Vegan Seafood Concept

Too long have they angered the sea.​A pair of Austin vegans is tackling the food group many ethical eaters consider the most difficult to recreate without resorting to animal slaughter: Seafood. While liquid smoke and seitan make a passable faux roast, even talented cooks have trouble conjuri ... More >>

A.Dd Asks For Your Help In Releasing Its Long-Awaited Debut, When Pigs Fly.

A.Dd ​Speaking of promising local hip-hop upstarts who are taking their sweet time releasing their next album, in-house DC9 favorite A.Dd is in the throes of a fundraising effort so it can finally get around to releasing its long-anticipated Picnic-produced debut full-length, When Pigs Fly. And, ... More >>

Local Filmmaker Joe Scott Hopes To Spotlight The Dallas Music Scene With New Film

​Local filmmaker Joe Scott wants to put Dallas music in the movies. No, really."I want people to be able to see all these great Dallas bands and, for that matter, venues up on the big screen all over the country," he says.He's committed to it, too: About this time last year, Scott, who, in 2004, r ... More >>

Help Finish Clay Liford's WUSS, With a Sneak Peek at "Pseudo-Comedy" About High School

From the WUSS Facebook pageTony Hale, best known as Arrested Development's Buster Bluth, has a small role as the band director in Clay Liford's WUSS​Only yesterday we directed your attention to a handful of local filmmakers, musicians and writers looking for a little Kickstart. It didn't take long ... More >>

Meet the Dallas Filmmakers, Musicians and Novelists In Need of a Kickstart

​Merritt was just on Kickstarter, funding a friend's project, when she decided to peek at the Dallasites in need of dough from the "crowdsourced fund-raising service." She forwarded along this most eclectic and interesting list, among 'em: "Batman Rebuilt" co-creator Caleb Christopher needs two gr ... More >>