In what can only be deemed a questionable PR move (at best), Play-N-Skillz has agreed to a live, 5 p.m. interview today with DJ Bay Bay on KKDA-FM 104.5 to discuss the recent claims that Lil Wayne never paid the brothers Salinas for their production work on the third single…
There’s a nice pairing atop the bill on tomorrow night’s somewhat avant-metal-leaning show at the Granada Theater as the Boston-founded, L.A.-based Isis rolls through town with the Chicago-based (and instrumental) Pelican in tow. Never seen Isis live, but I can say from experience that Pelican’s is a show that shouldn’t…
Still waiting to hear back from, well, pretty much all possible sources on what went down on at the Rec Shop’s customer appreciation celebration on Sunday afternoon. As our slideshow and, now, the above video clip shows, a whole bunch of cops showed up to emphatically shut down the party…
I swear, one of these weeks, I’m gonna be able to make it out to The Libertine for its weekly Monday night event, The Local Yokel Show, where it’s all local music, all the time on the bar’s PA.And, actually, tonight seems as good a time as any for me–or,…
Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records’ annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and…
A bunch of luminaries, local and otherwise, celebrated the 32nd birthday of R.C. Williams at the downtown ultralounge Plush last night, including Erykah Badu, Devin the Dude and area rapper/goofball Pikahsso, who shot the above clip of Badu singing “Happy Birthday” to the man she employs as her touring keyboardist.In…
Another weekend, another slew of Youtube uploads reminding us about what we did…Kenny Chesney at Pizza Hut Park on May 17, 2009Kenny Chesney returned to Frisco last night to make up for his rained-out performance from earlier in the month. It was so awesome, the crowd even cheered as Chesney…
Earlier this month, local DJ/producer LehtMoJoe entered a Passion Pit-sponsored contest to remix the band’s song “Little Secrets” in anticipation of the band’s debut LP release, Manners, due out on Tuesday. And he’s had some success with it: Two days ago, his remix of the track, which had already been…
A couple Friends of DC9 have checked in with us over the course of the day today wondering if there’s some sort of conspiracy afoot with the Tool show coming up on July 25 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. Well, far as David Ireland, marketing manager for the…
In this week’s print edition, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs calls tomorrow night’s show at Hailey’s in Denton with The Dears, Great Northern and Eulogies “probably the don’t-miss show of the week,” and, actually, it’s tough to argue with him, given The Dears’ penchant for dramatic live shows.So…wanna to see this…
Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com’s “Track Reviews” feature. Not a bad precedent, I’d say. So how’d it go? Well, let’s break it down…Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from “No Reasons”–a song we’ve already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily–from VEGA’s…
In this week’s print edition, Kelly Knickerbocker spoke with Fischerspooner’s Warren Fischer, who helped detail his and bandmate Casey Spooner’s ascent from art school weirdos into pop culture commentators/electro-dance freaks. It’s an interesting story–check it out–and sheds some light into what Fischerspooner hopes to accomplish with its notoriously excessive live…
Like your country music even more traditional than, say, Junior Brown? Well, Billy Joe Shaver’s probably right up your alley. And, hey, lookie here, we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to his Saturday night performance at the Longhorn Saloon, as well!Wanna see the show, which will also…
And so it’s all come full circle for The Polyphonic Spree: A year after its label, TVT Records, went bankrupt, Tim DeLaughter, the band’s frontman and mastermind, has announced that the band has purchased back its rights and is returning to its own Good Records label, where the band launched…
Kenny Chesney already scheduled a make-up date of sorts for his rain-soaked concert at Pizza Hut Park from a couple weeks back. Actually, it’s this Sunday, to be exact. Hope you remembered!But now comes this (which, really, maybe isn’t that much of a surprise, considering Chesney’s got a song called…
Country music traditionalist Junior Brown stops by the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tonight for a set that’ll be opened by local alt-country rabble-rousers 100 Damned Guns (who, it just so happens, have a new disc to promote–catch our review of said disc in next week’s paper, won’t you?).And we’ve…
Yesterday morning, Erykah Badu and a few friends treated the students of St. Philip’s School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School to quite the music lesson at the House of Blues: While mixing in live performance with powerpoint slideshow and lecture, Badu and Co. schooled the young ‘uns on…
Over on Unfair Park today, Robert’s got some great, unbeatable news: Anvil, the best-reviewed documentary of the year, which tells the story of a real-life band of the same name that never made it (but is still trying, some 25 years later), is coming to Dallas–finally–at the Magnolia Theatre starting…
An interesting item of potential note in this interview with noted UNT alum and North Texas native Don Henley in the Tulsa World today: Seems the Eagle/Boy of Summer/Dirty Laundrist is considering opening up a studio in Dallas. No, really–he says so himself. Might happen this year even. Check it:…
Last night at the Prophet Bar, The Cannabinoids, Bavu Blakes, Pikahsso and many others joined the regular Wednesday night jam session crew of Erykah Badu’s live backing back on stage for a night of freestyling and funked-out jamming to celebrate the birthday of RC Williams, the keyboard player who has…
Curious as to what Rhett Miller’s appearance on 30 Rock will entail? Well, this two-minute preview of tonight’s show should shed some light on what to expect: Basically, Alec Baldwin’s character blackmails every musician he can think of into performing at a benefit concert for his newfound father, far as…
Welcome to the second installment of DC9 in SPACE, this one featuring the great Doug Burr and his longtime performing partner Glen Farris, playing the 2008 DOMA-winning “Slow Southern Home” from Burr’s beautiful On Promenade disc. This DC9 in Space performance was shot last Wednesday night–and, yes, it was indeed…
