Yup: On Saturday, July 18, we’ll be taking over Lowest Greenville yet again–for the third year in a row, I believe–to offer up a lineup of 39 Dallas Observer Music Award-nominated acts performing six different venues, all for the low, low cost of five dollars. Check the entire DOMA Showcase…
Myspace has been running a free concert series called The List–a pretty interesting deal in that, if you befriend The List’s Myspace page on the networking site, you can get into certain free performances when the company decides to put them on in your city. And it’s not just slouches…
Drove by Trees this morning on the way into the office–and, gotta say, the place looks pretty great. The building’s been painted a dark gray color and the outdoor trim on the windows and garage door now boast a bright green. Needless to say, it catches the eye. But owner…
Another coup for that spaceship out in Arlington: It’s the Beatle’s first Dallas show since 2005, and his sole Texas stop on his current North American tour. Perhaps most impresively, though, the press release announcing the show indicates that the concert should last a solid 2.5 hours. Tickets go on…
We’ve had the date of August 14 circled on our calendars for some time now–and with good reason; that’s when the revered Deep Ellum rock club Trees is set to re-open its doors after after a three-and-a-half year hiatus. And while we’ve heard rumors of what’s to come from Clint…
Granted, this is hardly a local story–but it’s kinda interesting, and it’s happening tomorrow night at the Meyeson Symphony Center so cha-ching!Anyway: At tomorrow night’s Brian McKnight show at the Meyerson, McKnight will present his tour support, Matt Cusson, with the Maxell Song of the Year prize from the 12th…
Because I’m a huge loser and clearly a major sucker for pop culture slop, yes, I still watch The Real World–even this so-far atrocious Cancun season. (Don’t judge me. Please.)And, in last week’s episode, I thought I noticed a few familiar notes–oh, and you may recognize them, too–playing in the…
At least in the confines of my office, where the above song gets played, on average, twice a day (a low estimate), this comes as pretty exciting news: Dorrough’s debut abum, Dorrough Music, will see its official release on July 28.More reasons why you should consider this something of a…
So, first and foremost: Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Now, let’s talk about the weekend in music, per protocol. As always, the stuff we already discussed up first.Tonight’s pretty busy, actually: Asylum Street Spankers, Porterdavis and The O’s play the Granada; The Edge gets the 20th Anniversary treatment at…
Like a poorly played game of Telephone in elementary school, there’s been a lot of erroneous information passed along about Club Dada in the past few days–a lot of it generating from a story we ran here on DC9 that has somehow become mangled up by a few other organizations…
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…
It might not have the editing chops of say, their labelmates’ tour doc, but there’s a certain charm to the above clip that sums up Smile Smile’s tour with Metric and Sebastien Grainger–just as there is with all things the band does, I guess. Anyway, check it out–especially the part…
Fort Worth’s Pixies acolytes, The Cut*Off have a new video promoting the first single from their upcoming disc–and, it’s a whole lot more on the alt-country side than the Pixies side of things. And that’s perfectly OK, ’cause the song, especially when set to the above Schoolhouse Rock-appropriated clip, makes…
Given that Michael Jackson’s passing on Thursday afternoon came as perhaps the first major death of this age of Twitter, it comes as little surprise just how quickly word of his death spread throughout the nation—and, on a much smaller scale, among the music fans right here in Dallas, who…
The biggest gripe—if there’s one worth having—with THe BAcksliders’ 2008 release, You’re Welcome, was that it didn’t showcase the band’s best side; for whatever reason, the disc found the long-running, hard-partying area rock act’s classic, gritty blues-rock sound pushed aside in favor of a more New Wave-y, poppy sound. It…
Maybe you’ve seen some of the to-do surrounding Neon Indian? Perhaps on another Dallas-based blog? They’ve got a pretty cool sun-drenched sound–kinda like the audio equivalent of the visuals in Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” video, only not as nightmarish and much poppier than that description would imply.Anyway, the “secretive” group’s…
Waco rapper/producer Symbolyc One of Strange Fruit Project is one of Texas’s most under-appreciated hip-hop talents, flying largely under the radar despite working with Erykah Badu, Little Brother and others. Seems he’s kinda embracing his place in life right now, though: Yesterday, S1 released a new mixtape, fittingly called Still…
Last we spoke with Vincent Sliva, aka LehtMoJoe, the area producer/remixer was promising a whole lot: A show at the Granada on July 31 with himself, Mount Righteous and Anonymous????; a new CD; and, most impressively, a new remix every week.He’s been keeping up with all of those tasks, including…
After the Warped Tour stops through town on Sunday, a handful of the bands on the tour–Dance Gavin Dance, A Skylit Drive and Hit The Lights–will be stopping by Denny’s, because, hey, why not?According to the press release announcing the after-party, “These select bands will hang out with fans while…
According to Club Dada co-owner Ben Tapia, last night’s visit from the TABC was “just standard protocol,” and came as the result of someone “tipping off the TABC,” claiming that the long-running club was going to be pouring drinks from unlabeled bottles as the result of financial difficulties, which Tapia…
Two representatives of the City of Dallas fire marshal office and four Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission officers stopped off at Club Dada within the past hour–and are still there at the time of this posting–saying they are undergoing an “investigation” and “following up on a complaint,” although the TABC officers…
Over on Wired.com, there’s a pretty cool story up, detailing the specs of the new stage set-up for U2’s impending world tour, which kicks off tonight in Barcelona. Probably right about now, in fact.Anyway, it’s a massive undertaking with huge screens and elaborate mechanisms. The idea, basically? To somehow turn…
