Anatomy of a Buzz: Fight Bite

fight bite n. 1 an infected, human bite-inflicted wound (ex: Johnny bit Suzy’s hand and now that shit looks nasty; 2 a new-ish Denton-based band that everyone apparently thinks is amazing (ex: This band Zac Crain really likes is playing Space on Saturday!) Let’s take a retrospective look at how…

Free Concert At Club Dada To Mix Music And Politics

An entity called The Revolution Party of Dallas is hosting an event entitled Freedom Tour ’08 to be held at Club Dada on June 16th. While also featuring local acts Dustin Tavella, Fish Fry Bingo and Catfish Whiskey, the show will be headlined by folk singing activist Marc Scibilia. Known…

Stream The Toadies’ “No Deliverance” At Spin.com

It was just over a week ago now that the Toadies started streaming a 22-second clip of the title track from its upcoming album, No Deliverance, on its Web site. Now there’s this: Spin.com’s got a full stream of the track on its site this afternoon. For what it’s worth,…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, June 10, 2008

We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. Some are left over from previous music editors, others fell by the wayside because they were trumped week after week by albums that…

Last Night: The Cure at American Airlines Center

Robert Smith, looking a little like The Joker. (Daniel Rodrigue) The Cure, 65daysofstatic American Airlines Center June 6, 2008 Better Than: Any concert The Cure’s played in Dallas since 1992–and maybe, just maybe, even better than that one. Download: The accompanying slideshow of photos taken at the show. Three hours…

Playback: The Week (5/30/08 – 6/6/08) In Review

Here’s what you might’ve missed this week on DC9 as you celebrated the democratic party finally getting around to a maybe, sorta, kinda nomination… – We heard 22 seconds off the new Toadies record and shrugged apathetically. – We busted out our camera phones to help History At Our Disposal…

Bonus MP3: Daniel Folmer — “Robots”

It helps that Daniel Folmer’s a pretty funny guy–he signs all his emails to our offices “Love, Daniel”–but his quirky pop tunes are just up our alley this time of year. You know what I mean, right? How it’s almost, kinda summer and you’re antsy about it, and your mind’s…

Bonus MP3: Mount Righteous — “Licorice Nights”

There’s power in numbers. (Brian Harkin) This is it–I swear. I’m not gonna bore you with any more incessant Mount Righteous love…well, OK, after this one last post. See, the band just gave me permission to post another track of their on this here blog. (I wanted one to coincide…

Booker T. Washington Alums Come Home–And, Yes, That’s HUGE

You may be familiar with some of the names who’ll be in town tomorrow night at Booker T. Washington High School as the Arts Magnate celebrates the reopening and the completion of its two-year, $55 million renovation. Erykah Badu? Norah Jones? Edie Brickell? Roy Hargrove? Lost actress Elizabeth Mitchell? Hmm…well,…

Slideshow: Deep Ellum Thriving In The ’90s

Slow Roosevelt. From about nine years ago? (Denny Doran) Jeff Liles has had his hand in the Dallas music scene for the better part of 20 years now, and we can thank the fairly impressive catalog he’s amassed over at his History of Dallas Music Myspace page for this slideshow…

Austin’s The Gougers Offer Latest CD for Free

Austin’s The Gougers go the Radiohead route. (Traci Gourdie) Just a few weeks before the band hits the stage at the Granada, alt-country combo The Gougers is making its nifty latest release, A Long Day for the Weathervane, available for free via the Web site feegougers.com. The Austin quartet released…

The Ever-Prolific Pikahsso Pens An Obama Anthem

Maybe PPT’s break-up wasn’t as dramatic as we thought. Or maybe Pikahsso’s just a machine. Somehow, in the wake of the local hip-hop act PPT’s split, at least one member of the trio, Pikahsso, has refused to slow down. He’s already penned a track called “Vote For Obama (Yes We…

Damn Bloody Shame: Red Blood Club To Close

Ten days left. The people behind Red Blood Club have made it official: The Deep Ellum venue will close its doors for good on June 15. In a blog post put up today on the club’s Myspace page, co-owners Brad Garrett and April Collmar explain that they just couldn’t afford…

Bonus MP3: I Love Math — “Volcanic Ash”

You’ll see Darryl Smyers’ review of I Love Math’s new disc, Getting to the Point Is Beside It in this week’s print edition of DC9. And in it, you’ll see how Darryl can’t resist bringing up Philip Peeples’ tie-in as the drummer for both I Love Math and for the…

Tahiti Talks PPT’s Break-up…And Reality TV?

We caught up with Tahiti, the “T” in the recently split Dallas hip-hop group PPT, to get his version of the events that led to the breakup and to talk about his future as a musician. His take on the cause of the breakup isn’t significantly different than Pikahsso’s and…