Just a couple months after celebrating 17 years on the air as the host of KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge’s Sunday night staple, “The Adventure Club,” Josh Venable can now add another notch to his belt: This morning, he was named program director of the station. It appears for now as…
Late-breaking news this early evening as rap femme fatale Nicki Minaj prepares to take the stage at the American Airlines Center as the opening act for tonight’s Britney Spears concert: TMZ is reporting that Minaj was “‘struck’ in the lower lip by a man” last night during a confrontation of…
Today marks the 20th anniversary of John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood, the film that, in many ways, put the tragic world of Los Angeles street culture into our nation’s collective consciousness. Really, it’s a point relative to nothing other than the fact that it might make a few of…
Many congratulations this week to the folks at KHYI-95.3 FM The Range, who, over the weekend, earned themselves some hardware to hang up around the office, courtesy of the people behind the Academy of Texas Music.The academy announced the winners for its annual Texas Music Awards on Saturday, and, in…
Denton folk five-piece Seryn truly has had a remarkable year, earning praise left and right, and everywhere else for that matter, on the strength of their actually pretty great, uplifting full-length debut, the January-released This Is Where We Are.What’s most impressive, though, is that the positive words about the band…
Back in June, we got word that an interactive-app-as-music-video for the Polyphonic Spree’s first single in four years, “Bullseye,” was en route. And, indeed, said app comes today, the first single on frontman Tim Delaughter’s recently relaunched Good Records Recordings label via Louisiana’s Moonbot Studios.It’s a charming little app, too,…
Still no word from the folks either at the American Airlines Center or concert promotion conglomerate Live Nation about what, if any, accommodations will be made for the Rihanna fans upset that their Friday night concert experience was cut shot after a fire broke out above the performer’s stage. Update…
Back in February, just as revered area folk-rock duo The O’s were gearing up to release Between The Two, their much-anticipated second release, Taylor Young and John Pedigo released a music video for their album’s lead single, “We’ll Go Walking.” The clip, we were told at the time, was to…
Quite the hullabaloo here on DC9 over the past few days, namely in regards to this post that we ran last week on The King Bucks, and our reviewer’s somewhat controversial opinion that they lack a certain amount of necessary on-stage showmanship.It happens, I guess. Musicians tend ***SWEEPING GENERALIZATION ALERT!***…
Centro-matic, Sarah JaffeJuly 7, 2011Dan’s SilverleafBetter than: listening to old-timers go on and on about the “glory days” of local music. It’s abundantly clear at this point: Sarah Jaffe is a big deal around these here North Texas parts. She’s a local darling, and rightfully so: Riding high off of the…
Unlike the subject of Beyonce’s new single, “Best Thing I Never Had,” we’re thinking that it hardly sucks to be Dallas’ Own Symbolyc One right now.It was back in April that the local product, also a member of The Cannabinoids and Strange Fruit Project, revealed to us that, in addition…
Not all posters turn out the way they were initially intended to look…
…says Billboard, at least. This week, the Disney starlet, from straight outta Grand Prairie, took over the No. 1 slot on the trade magazine’s launched-in-December “Social 50” chart, which combines all sorts of web-centric information — Twitter followers, Myspace listens, YouTube views, etc. — into some sort of tangible thing…
Every few months or so, it just so happens that someone will pop up on our radar and ask us how this here blog got its name. To be honest: We’re not quite sure who picked it. Our memories here in the music department tend to be hazy. Maybe it…
Will Johnson is nothing if not prolific. Starting with the 1995 release of his first Centro-matic recording, Non-Directional Jetpack Race, which was released exclusively on cassette tape, he has put out 18 full-length titles either under the Centro-matic banner, its South San Gabriel doppelganger persona, his own name or, in…
We’ve seen this coming for quite some time now — that the Dallas-based, Grammy-winning hip-hop production duo of Play-N-Skillz was going to be taking things in a more electronic direction at some point.We saw it in the videos they’ve released, in their (highly successful) collaboration with David Guetta, and, well,…
For the third time in its four-year history, Denton’s four-day, pre-South by Southwest music festival will have a new name in 2012.A press release sent out this morning confirms that, after changing its name from “North by 35” to “35 Conferette” in advance of its 2011 edition, the festival will…
The tunnels are long gone. But on Good-Latimer Expressway, near where they once stood, another entrance marker for quite some time welcomed visitors to the music-centric neighborhood just east of downtown Dallas — an old neon sign that, if a little rustic (and thankfully so), more than served its purpose…
This past Sunday night in Deep Ellum, the folks behind Dada officially opened their side-room space, which had been previously used as the venue’s green room and by the previous owners as “The Listening Room,” as a new dive bar concept called The Red Door. The soft, unannounced opening took…
Is that the disembodied head of a paper mache raccoon? With lasers coming out of its eyes? Yes. And that’s pretty awesome…
For almost two months now, we’ve been waiting patiently for the chance to hear some music out of Preteen Zenith’s camp — you know, it being the new band from Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter and Secret Machines member Philip Karnats, and also featuring members of The…
Back in January, Stickybits co-founder Billy Chasen registered the domain name turntable.fm. Earlier this month, the previously alpha-tested music-sharing site made its debut as as an invite-only beta site, the only prerequisite being that new users had a Facebook friend with an already registered profile. By last week, the site…
