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…
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…
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,…
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…
Norah Jones’ set came after the sun went down. (Pete Freedman) It was sticky as hell in the Saturday evening sun at Booker T. Washington’s outdoor amphitheater as the masses gathered for a performance of some of the school’s most prominent alums (go here for a slideshow). The good news,…
Daniel Rodrigue won’t stop raving about The Cure’s show at the AAC on Friday night, so we here at Weekend Roundup have decided to treat you to two of their clips. Hopefully, this will shut him up…
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…
Put Stumptone on your list of things to do. I’m gonna go ahead and assume, again, that, if you’re reading this, you’ve read our print edition. And that means’ you know about tonight’s Mount Righteous, The Cure, Helio Sequence, Dax Riggs/John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death shows. Oh, and tomorrow’s…
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…
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…
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…
Lil Stevie. (NBC Photo/ Heidi Gutman) Steven Van Zandt just called to chat about his syndicated Underground Garage radio show, which can once again be heard on 92.5 KZPS-FM at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights. Now in its seventh year, the show can be heard on more than 140 stations…
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,…
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…
Click and Clack, the Boston brothers Magliozzi behind the NPR show Car Talk (aired weekly on 90.1 KERA-FM), are the subjects of As The Wrench Turns, PBS’ first-ever animated prime-time series, which is set to premiere on July 9. Sure. Why not? That’s kind of cool. But, um, the local…
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…
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…
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…
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…
That’s Robert on the left, standing next to Leif Edling. Prior to 2007, Robert Lowe was just another local working stiff. After a day in his cubicle working for an insurance company in Addison, Lowe would sometimes go practice with one of the metal bands he fronts around the region…
Airline uses its powers for good. Usually. (Jason Upshaw) – Remember when we told you about Airline getting some college radio love? Well, now the band’s getting more: Airline’s album, Farewell Republica, ranks #171 in the most recent CMJ 200 chart and has earned airplay on 50 more college radio…
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…
