Michael Jackson

50 Important SXSW Music Questions

Editor: We have so many questions in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some 'za, which is now absolutely the slang for pizza? 5. How far can you sprint w ... More >>

One Night, Four Dive Bars

Recently, I've been thinking a lot about dive bars, that sub-sect of watering hole fiercely guarded by established regulars. The type of place where the bartender and waitress know 90% of their customer's names and take the time to invest in conversation past the precursory friendly pre-drink banter ... More >>

Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands: San Francisco Gets Life Lessons From the School of Wonder

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He's more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he's our Dickens or Dalí: a figure of impassable recognition, discussion, talent, lo ... More >>

For 26 Episodes in 1966, WFAA Played Host to the Funkiest, Most Soulful TV Show in America

​Last night, I got a text from Peter Schmidt, who could not believe I've never written about a short-lived 1966 TV show called The !!!! Beat, hosted by iconic Nashville deejay Bill "Hoss" Allen. Wrote Peter, who'd come across it yesterday after a lunchtime discussion about Etta James turned up an ... More >>

Dude Food: Dairy Palace isn't Quite Fit for a King

​Dairy Palace2301 N. Trade Days Blvd.CantonDude Factor: 5, or Antiques Roadshow, on a scale of 1 (Cash In The Attic) to 10 (Pawn Stars).  The little missus and I recently found ourselves with an unexpectedly free weekend and a serious case of wanderlust, so we pulled out a map and decided on ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 29: DJ Fishr Pryce

​ DJ Fishr Pryce thrives off spontaneity -- and, as has been made clear in the past, he doesn't like to take himself too seriously."I'm not afraid to be goofy," he says. "And I think that makes me a little different [from other DJ's in town]." Fittingly, the experienced hip-hop DJ, who has been sp ... More >>

Coppell's Emily Elbert Gets Some Love From Glamour For Her Jazzy, Acoustic Stylings.

21-year-old area singer-songwriter Emily Elbert's no stranger to local music fans, having performed her fair share of gigs at Opening Bell and the Kessler Theater in recent years since picking up the guitar at age 15. She's no stranger to the Internet either: Her jazzy, acoustic take on Michael Jack ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 23: DJ WISHFM

​Wade Randolph Hampton, aka DJ WISHFM, is seasoned at his craft. The DJ/booker/promoter and now, band manager, has been spinning for 25 years at this point. Never one to slow down, Hampton books for The W's rooftop club, Ghostbar, serves as that club's resident DJ, and manages popular local acts i ... More >>

This Is How We Do It

Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now

Sunday, May 23, at Hailey's in Denton

Year in Review: Sampling the Best DJ and Dance Music of 2009

The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the 1970s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation. Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs all dabbled in the sound. Even Michael Jackson was said to be working on a dance album with the Peas ... More >>

Turn Your Pad into a Haunted House With These Small-Screen Scares

Good Friday: Black Joe Lewis, Allman Brothers, The Paper Chase, Who's Bad, Finch, Jonathan Tyler, Quebe Sisters, Miranda Lambert, Colin Hay, Hollywood Undead, Miley Cyrus

Rivalries bring out the best in people, huh?​Don't even begin to kid yourselves: Getting around town this weekend will be a pain. Lower Greenville in particular? It's gonna suck. So hard.What really sucks though, is that it's a pretty packed weekend of live music, and if you're gonna head out on t ... More >>

You've Got Red On You

Demi Lovato's Sophomore Disc Could Possibly Stand Atop Next Week's Billboard 200 Chart, Maybe.

Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville's own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week's Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato's debut, Don't Forget, debuted at No. 2 on the cha ... More >>

Politically Incorrect

Richie Whitt 1964-2009

Like it did with you, all these recent deaths - Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Alexis Arguello, Steve McNair and Best Damn Sports Show - got me to thinking about my own mortality. Today, the day I celebrate turning halfway to 90, I thought I'd dip my toe in the deep, dark water to see what it ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Less Than Jake, Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Rhett Butler

Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center on Sunday, July 5Anti-Flag, Bad Religion and Less Than Jake headlined the 15th annual Warped Tour. For $40, it offered something for all types of Hot Topic-clad teenage rockers, from the roots of punk to the MySpace man of glamour, Jeffree Star. That's fierce... ... More >>

Get Yer Independence Day Dance Jam On With A Few Choice Local Mixtape Downloads

There's gonna be a whole lot of barbecuing and pool-hopping this weekend, if common sense is any indicator for what we should expect to go down on this Fourth of July weekend. Course, there needs to be a soundtrack to it all...So, on that note, here are a couple DC9-approved mixtapes from area DJs ... More >>

Will Your Texas Rangers Ever See First Place Again?

Maybe we starting celebrating singles?Notable deaths in the last week: Ed McMahon. Farrah Fawcett. Michael Jackson. Billy Mays. The Texas Rangers? After getting 1-hit last night by someone named Chad Gaudin and losing two of three to a San Diego Padres outfit that hadn't won a serie ... More >>

After a Few Drinks, Dallas Cowboys and Playboy Bunnies Can Get Along Famously

Danny HurleyNothing says "happy birthday" quite like seeing your jersey number right here.After surviving last weekend's Terror on the Tarmac, we figured photographer Danny Hurley had earned a sweetheart assignment for Unfair Park this week -- so when we heard the Dallas Cowboys and Playboy bunnies ... More >>

Hophead: Too Much Of A Very Good Thing

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain (and with Dogfish Head's super-strong beers, barely enough really is enough)When I was a kid, my Papa Salfi had a framed poster in a guest bathroom from which I first learned about the effects of alcohol. It had a numbered series of lines on ... More >>

How R&B has descended into Rap and Bullshit

Our annual Death Pool: Which artists will croak in '09?

Who should fear the reaper this year?

The Top 10 Most Memorable Moments in the History of Grand Ol' Texas Stadium

  Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof - so God could watch his favorite football team, duh - was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later - Oct. 24, 1971 - Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys' business. Come Saturday night, the ol' joint at Loop 12 and Highway ... More >>

Last Night: Raheem DeVaughn and Bryan-Michael Cox at Gilley's

The Human Touch

Last Night: George Michael at American Airlines Center

10 Artists We'd Resurrect for Easter

Included: Freddie Mercury, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline

Open Mind, Keep Eyeballs

In Terabithia, there's no Pan

Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Ho

The kids sample Shirley Temple

He Will Survive

Cornell outlived grunge and didn't sink "Like a Stone"

Knightmare

Aqua Rangers: All Wet

Mind Games

Ricky Kalmon commands you to...

Nintendo Wizards

Senses are overloaded

at And/Or, the new gallery

on the block

Goooooaaal!

Gut Blast From the Past

Cheeburger Cheeburger captures the essence of the greasy spoon--not in look, but in bloated regret

Odds & Ends

Falkon leaving town, clubs denied late-night permits and When Rock GoesBad

Dirty Jokes

Blondes have more fun

Bolton No More in ’04

And other New Year’s resolutions we’re not sticking with

Hat Tricks

"Weird Al" Yankovic has turned other people's careers into his own

Holding Court

Anderson is simply magical

Electric Six | Junior Senior

Fire (XL/Beggars) | D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat (Crunchy Frog/Mercury)

Mick Jagger / Paul McCartney

Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin) / Driving Rain (Capitol)

Scene, Heard

KRBV's change in format causes barely a ripple in the airwaves

Nelly Furtado/Phoenix

Whoa, Nelly! (DreamWorks)/United (Source/Astralwerks)

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Roadshows

Rushes