Exploding Plastic Prepares First Release: Little Black Dress

Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records art-pop imprint, is almost ready to go with its first release, Little Black Dress’ Snow In June, which is set for a May 5 release.You may recognize a few members of Little Black Dress’ lineup–namely frontman Toby Pipes, also of Deep Blue Something,…

Sink Your Teeth Into This Odd eBay Story…

A friend of DC9 passed along a link to this news story this morning, which, within it, mentions that a Rockwall man purchased the plaster impressions of Tiny Tim’s top and bottom teeth on eBay earlier this week from a seller in Methuen, Massachusetts. Even more odd? He paid the…

Good Friday: The Good Friday Edition.

Happy Good Friday, everyone! Wait–is this a happy holiday? Hell if this Jew knows. Oh well. Onto the weekend!First, the shows we’ve already hyped…Tonight, the big ‘un is happening over at the Palladium, where the legendary Moz is set to croon the masses at around 8:30 or so. Not feeling…

Wild Light’s Seth Pitman Checks In Re: Getting Robbed In Dallas

Yesterday, we mentioned an item we came across that said that the members of the New Hampshire-based Wild Light were robbed in Dallas when the band stopped through to play Club Dada. Today, Wild Light multi-instrumentalist Seth Pitman checks in to explain what happened.”Getting robbed in Dallas capped off about…

Video: St. Vincent — “Actor Out of Work”

About two weeks back now, we told you where you could find yourself a free download of the new St. Vincent single and kinda-title track off her new Actor disc, the song “Actor Out of Work”. Now you can watch the video for the song, as Annie Clark has done…

Wanna Eat A Meal Cooked On Dan Deacon’s Tour Bus?

Baltimore-based soundsmith Dan Deacon’s got himself a reputation for putting on one hell of a crazy live show, as the above photo certainly more than indicates. And his music’s got a fine reputation, too–especially his most recent disc, Bromst, which is earning adoring reviews all across the land. But, turns…

M2S2 Prepares For Its Second Annual Offering

The folks at Life In Deep Ellum are pretty deep into the throes of preparing its second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase–or M2S2 for short. This year’s free event, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, will feature 12 local acts, a performance from the students of Zound…

The Nervebreakers To Reunite For Austin, Club Dada Shows

The original lineup of Dallas punk rock legends The Nervebreakers have reformed (just as had been suggested on DC9 by an anonymous commenter a few weeks back). But it’s not just for a couple Austin gigs during SXSW and an April 11 gig at Club Dada. No sir. See, there’s…

The Nervebreakers Prove Old Punks Never Die

The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, Roky Erickson. Pick one to match your musical flavor, ’cause, no matter, there’s a Nervebreakers connection to each; the Dallas proto-punk outfit opened for every one of those legendary acts, as each made its first—and in some cases, only—travels into North…

The Paper Chase’s New Record Begins To Leak…

We’ve already gone on record as saying that The Paper Chase’s Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 is one of our most anticipated records of the year here at DC9, and it’s not just because we’re aching for new material from John Congleton, Sean Kirkpatrick, Bobby Weaver and…

Jessica Simpson Annoyed, Loaned.

Two quick follow-ups to yesterdays items on Jessica Simpson, then back to talking about things that actually matterFirst, according to MSNBC, a source close to Jessica said Simpson saw Eminem’s “We Made You” video yesterday and was none too pleased. Shocking, I know. “Of course Jess finds it annoying,” the…