It ain’t Rolling Stone or Spin. Hell, it’s not Bona Fide Darling or Subservient Experiment either. But, either way, sure, I’ll mention it: The blog It’s Hard To Find A Friend has named Centro-matic and South San Gabriel’s split double-album Dual Hawks as its third favorite record of the year…
Smile Smile, perhaps Dallas’ greatest pop duo that also happens to be an ex-couple, has a little treat over on its Myspace page for your listening please: A surprisingly touching and sweeping cover fo the famed Christmas class tune “Silent Night”–and you can download it, too, iff’n you feel so…
Fans of The Paper Chase looking forward to catching up with the band on Saturday night (present company included) are in for some bad news: The band has pulled out of its scheduled show alongside Sarah Jaffe and The Boom Boom Box at Denton’s Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, as lead…
Listen: It’s been a great year for DFWd music. It really has. And in the coming weeks, we’ll be offering our insight into the best and brightest discs we’ve seen from area artists over the past 12 months. But first: Can we just take a second right now to recognize…
Hey, remember that Dia De Los Toadies festival shindig back in August? Course you do–we gave away tickets. Anyway, Spin.com, a site that’s showed no shortage of love for the Toadies’ still-newish No Deliverance record, has another exclusive with the band today, this time of the band performing–get this–“Possum Kingdom”…
Sure, some other blogs have already beat me to the punch on this one today–shocking, but sometimes here at DC9 we’re not just sitting at our computer, refreshing our email inboxes over and over–but, whatever. Since you and I both know that this is the only music blog worth reading…
There was a time, oh, about two and a half years ago, right around the release of the band’s debut album, Movements, when it was cool to like Black Tie Dynasty. And why not? Frontman Cory Watson, drummer Eddie Thomas, bass player Black McWhorter and synth man Brian McCorquodale had…
The New American tends not to be anyone’s first go-to source for arts and entertainment news, but, alas, that hasn’t stopped the magazine from taking the time to check in with Dallas native, blues guitar legend and Stevie Ray sibling, Jimmie Vaughan this morning.Why? Well, mostly because Vaughan’s not scared…
It looks like Dallas musicians are making a big splash on “Best of 2008” lists all over the world wide internet…For instance, Will Johnson isn’t alone in doling out some praise for Eryka Badu’s 2008 release. Today, the Dallas native’s album New Amerykah, Pt. 1: The 4th World War comes…
Spend your Wednesday night under Eugene Chadbourne’s gaze.With the fact that we’re just two weeks off from Christmas, and, well, it being Wednesday and all, you’d think this would be a slow night for good shows. Well, you’d be mistaken. There’s actually several acts playing about Metroplex tonight–and all of…
Check out the above video for Damaged Good$ and British rapper Xrabit’s new collaborative single (and first official video), “Follow The Leader”. Now, we know we might not be the first kids on the block to be posting this video, but screw it–we like DMG$ (been hyping them for a…
Welcome to This or That, a 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…
As teased yesterday on the blog, in today’s paper, you’ll find yourself a nice little piece written by noted family man Jesse Hughey on a couple family-friendly holiday shows you can proudly bring your kids to, without worrying that a) you might fall asleep, or b) that you’re priming your…
In the dead paper version of DC9–out today in most parts of the Metroplex–you’ll find, right there on the front of the music section, my take on Black Tie Dynasty’s new record, Down Like Anyone. Finally, right? I know, I know…Anyway, I’ll link to the story once it’s up, but…
Haven’t heard much from anyone who was at last Wednesday’s My Brightest Diamond show at the Granada–and I couldn’t make it myself, unfortunately. But, if that live set from one-time Dallas native Shara Worden (read Darryl Smyers’ story on her here) sounded anything like her phenomenal Daytrotter Sessions (which can…
I know that those who contribute to this blog–including me–have not been overly kind to bands of the emo variety. Sorry, but shows that start at 6:30 p.m. in Plano (especially on a Tuesday) just don’t seem to warrant the attention of a weekend event at a venue in Dallas…
Not too much going on news-wise around here, but I am sure finding a butt load of area musicians’ songs floating around the mythical blogosphere this afternoon. Like this one, from Dallas’ own Lisa Loeb, who Jesse Hughey interviews in tomorrow’s paper, actually, which I guess makes this post somewhat…
Good news first: The I Rock Cleveland blog has leaked the song “Ditch” from The Marked Men’s upcoming record Ghost, which is due out in January on Dirtnap Records. It’s a fierce little two minute jaunt through in-your-face, straight ahead punk.And now the bad news: The blog incorrectly calls the…
OK. Question of the Day time: Ever heard of a rockabilly artist named Dennis Herrold?No? OK, good. Us either. Which is why we were intrigued to learn a little bit about him when we stumbled on this post about him while, actually, looking for something else entirely. But once we…
Yesterday, of course, was the fourth anniversary of Dimebag Darrell’s untimely death–which probably explains the large amount of information we keep finding about him and the biographies being written about him and whatnot of late. And, sorry we didn’t post this yesterday when it went up, but, to commemorate the…
Good news today for Evan Birdsong, the man behind the tangtrastic Blackbird Harmony: Hardwood Exits (which we quite glowingly reviewed back in October) has made the slowcoustic blog’s year-end top 25 albums list, coming in as the blogger’s choice for the 23rd best record of the year. Which is saying…
Looks like Play-N-Skillz took some time to speak with Billboard.com on Friday to discuss their most recent Grammy nominations for their production work on Lil Wayne’s hugely successful (on all fronts, really) album. Says Play:”This was a little bit more shocking than the last one. I wasn’t as surprised for Tha…
