Just got word from Lance Yocom at Spune Productions that Denton’s own Doug Burr has been tapped to open up for Jay Farrar’s Uncle Tupelo offshoot, Son Volt, on a five-day, five-city swing in February that will take Burr and the alt-country legends to Houston, Austin, Denton, Oklahoma City and…
At, oh, about 11:15ish last night, Robert gave me a call. Earlier in the day, we’d half-kidded about going to a strip club to watch the inauguration–surely, it was the most inappropriate place we could think of for watching the festivities (without putting ourselves in harm’s way, at least). But…
Or so one can glean from the Associated Press piece, datelined in Carrollton, that ran in the Morning News and in countless other outlets this past weekend. (No big deal, but we’ve already covered this ground, AP! Only, well, not so gushingly…) This piece, which compares Barney to The Mickey…
The New York Times has an obituary today on Clint Ballard, Jr., who died on December 23. 2008.Ballard, a longtime Dallas and Denton resident, wrote a number of hit songs, including Linda Ronstadt’s No. 1 hit single, “You’re No Good.” His death comes two and a half years after he…
Dear troops,Just writing to let you know that Plano resident Sue Adkins has written a song in your honor. The above clip is her duet performance of the track, called “Watch Over My Child”, with Djore Nance. Surely, its awesomeness speaks for itself.Love,Pete…
Morley didn’t pen the Dallas theme–that was this guy–but the transexual composer and conductor (born Wally Scott) did receive an Emmy nomination for scoring a few Dallas episodes, says this Variety obituary…
Just went looking for Dallas concert clips on Youtube, and all I found was……this performance from LA singer-songwriter Porter at Opening Bell Coffee:…
Between the music section and the calendar section, we’ve tipped you off to most of the interesting shows going on around the region already. So, a quick refresher…Tonight, there’s the newly-signed Rescue Signals show at the Liquid Lounge, The Killdares at the House of Blues, Glen Campbell at the Nokia…
A few quick items worth passing along…Over on Idolator comes word that certain videos that are using the music of Pantera are coming up mute (see the above, soundless example). Why? ‘Cause Warner Music Group never approved use of their songs in these clips, and the struggling major wants to…
Fort Worth just continues to explode: Lance Yocom of Spune Productions passes along word of two new venues set to open up in Fort Worth at the end of the month this weekend and next, both of which will be booked by Spune and owned by Lola’s Saloon owner Brian…
It’s cool if you do–the Greenville native is quite willing to join you, actually. Pre-order his new Changing Horses disc, and, in addition to getting some autographed merch just for doing so, you’ll also be entered into a competition where you could either earn more free merch or, potentially, a…
Lost among the throngs of new music that we passed along word about yesterday was news of new music from Beauxregard–something we swear we wholly meant to tell you about then, but, um, forgot to…Anyway, the new tracks, especially “So Long” and “High Noon” are for sure worth checking out…
Will Johnson says everything will be just fine. (Matt Pence)Yeah, Robert already mentioned this over on Unfair Park (you can take the man out of the music editor gig, but you can’t take the music editor gig out of the man, I guess), but it’s certainly something worth mentioning over…
John Iskander, the man behind Parade of Flesh booking (The Lounge on Elm Street, Club Dada, Pastime Tavern), has announced the lineup for his inaugural South by South Flesh show, which will take place at The Lounge on Sunday, March 22–or, y’know, the day after SXSW ends in Austin. And…
Only so much news to provide on this front, other than to, pretty much, repeat the post headline and provide the links to the Myspace streams…So without, further ado, you can now hear…Two new tunes from face-melting, grindcore duo Akkolyte (from the group’s upcoming full-length release)…One new track (the reverb-heavy…
The answer: Move to San Diego, work in retail.Or so is the only real moral I glean from this Q&A on CNN.com today with singer-songwriter Erin McCarley (pictured right; credit: Reid Rolls), who gets the star treatment here because McCarley, a Dallas native, recently had her song “Pitter-Pat” featured on…
A few brief notes to pass along that some DC9 maybe, kinda, sorta, might, could possibly be interested in…Over on Unfair Park, Robert’s got the goods on an item that the New York Times and others are all over: George Steel, the man who was tapped to lead the Dallas…
Last season, area American Idol fans desperate for some sort of personal connection to a contestant were able to toss their hats into the ring of support for Rockwall’s Jason Castro, who went on to finish fourth in the seventh season of the reality-based talent competition. Well, thing’s ain’t all…
When you’re the Numero Uno sports talk radio station in the metroplex (in spite of a sometimes lacking broadcast signal, no less), how do you go about celebrating the 15th anniversary of your existence? Um, by continuing to talk, it seems. Because, yep, that’s what you’re gonna get at KTCK-1310…
Six months ago at the Granada Theater, the much-adored local alt-country kings in Centro-matic took to the stage to—big shock here—blow away its die-hard audience’s mind with yet another impressive live show. Yada yada yada. Pretty much par for the course for Will Johnson and crew. But on that summer…
The list of bands playing SXSW 2009 got updated today, and, unlike last time, there’s actually some legitimately local acts on there. And more than just one!So, who got added? Glad you asked… Jump to find out…
Welcome to This or That, the weekly segment here on DC9 where we stream an unmarked song and ask, simply enough, “Is this [POP BAND X] or just another crappy local band?” Why? Because we don’t think you’ll be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the…
