The ugly truth behind this most recent tour from U2—named the 360-Degree tour, as it’s an in-the-round type set-up—is that the band, despite having played some three dozen shows already on this jaunt, has yet to make a profit. Ticket sales aren’t the culprit—rather it’s the massive stage setup, which…
The weekend’s here, which is good news for anyone hoping to catch up on sleep and boost their immune systems so they don’t catch that darn H1N1 virus going around. And good news for music fans, too, as there’s enough rock going on to melt both your face and all…
Back in May, we told you about the greatness that is the weekly, Wednesday night, R.C. Williams-led Prophet Bar jam sessions, where local hip-hop and funk musicians gather to create beats on the fly, sometimes with the help of touring acts like Bun B and Raheem DeVaughn.Still haven’t ventured out…
Grapvine’s own The Rocket Summer–or pretty much the person we all have to thank for the success that all the mall-punk acts of the region have been having in recdent years–dropped some big news earlier this week, announcing two new records set for release in the near future. Later this…
We’ve been geeking out about the upcoming Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill double-bill at the Granada for months now (four, to be specific), and now that it’s almost here, well, really, we can hardly contain ourselves–which, I promise, is meant to read far more honestly and less facetiously than…
Y’know what’s adorable? This video, made for the second single for from Q-Tip’s The Renaissance. Good timing, too, as we’re just over a month away from the new release from North Texas’ own Norah Jones.(Via.)…
Surely, a good number of you are already aware of this–after all, it was announced in an ad in this week’s dead tree edition of DC9 (page 48 to be specific). But, then again, seeing as how few of our regular DC9 readers seem to realize that we produce some…
Today, we welcome back an old friend to the blog. That’s right: It’s the return of Aural Ambush, a feature we hope will be back and running regularly in these confines we call DC9. It’s been a while, though, so, for those who may have forgotten the concept, a quick…
Oh, what the hell: Just for kicks, here’s a clip of Dallas’s own The Secret Handshake, currently out on the road on an Alternative Press-sponsored tour, at a show, covering that Miley Cyrus song that’s unavoidable at the moment.(Via.)…
Kings of LeonAmerican Airlines CenterOctober 7, 2009 Better than: spending a nice evening listening to top 40 radio? By the box office, before last night’s Kings of Leon performance began at the American Airlines Center, there seemed some doubt as to whether the late arrivers would be able to buy their way…
…and for the Youtube-inclined, here’s your link.Fresh off a three-star review Rolling Stone review of its new EP, Appaloosa, Brooklyn-based retro-rock outfit HYMNS stopped by to participate in our ongoing DC9 in SPACE series last Wednesday night, offering up toned-down versions of the new EP’s songs while also sharing a…
Stumbled across the above clip recently, which features one Robert Gomez offering up his take on The Theater Fire’s hilariously named “The Testicle Song” and giving the most beautifully arranged song we’ve ever heard about genitalia an even more subtle, almost dainty undertone. We highly recommend you check it out–and…
Speaking of reissues: School of Seven Bells, one of our favorite bands from the past year or so (local tie or no), is set to receive the deluxe reissue treatment next week for its phenomenal debut release, Alpinisms. Out October 13 on Vagrant Records, the reissue of Alpinisms will feature…
We’ve been waiting on this one for a while–pretty much a year and a half now, actually–so pardon us if we geek out here for a moment. But, this week, we finally heard some official news on the new collaborative project from Centro-matic’s Will Johnson and Magnolia Electric Co.’s Jason…
OK, so, admittedly, we’re a little behind on this note (been busy with our own coverage, sorry), but it still bears mentioning: Both Sarah Jaffe and Neon Indian found themselves earning positive reviews over the weekend as part of Rolling Stone’s blog coverage of the Austin City Limits Music Festival–in…
Lots of news out of Smile Smile camp this morning. First and foremost, a new video (watch it above), this one for the song “Tempo Bledsoe,” which, for all intents and purposes, is the first single off of the band’s upcoming album Truth on Tape, the duo’s sophomore release on…
Thanks to all the area musicians, DJs, local music fans, and, well, everyone else who stopped on in The Libertine last night to check out the little experiment we’re calling The Local Hang with Playlister P. It was a night not without flaws–I’ll admit that it took me a while…
There’s a lot going on tonight, I know. But if I may do a little self-promotion here and offer up one more suggestion for you to keep among your night-crawling options this evening: Starting at 10 p.m., I’ll be holding up shop at The Libertine, taking over the PA system…
It had been 15 years–according, at least, to one of Eddie Vedder’s asides during the closing set of this weekend’s Austin City Limits Music Festival–since Pearl jam had played what he called “The Live Music Capital of the Nation.” And, as such, Vedder promised the mud-covered audiences at Zilker Park,…
Like the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s set on Friday night, The Dead Weather’s ACL offering captivated audiences not because of Jack White’s part, but rather because of Alison Mosshart’s enthralling efforts at the front of her supergroup. Mosshart prowled and posed and teased before her audience on Sunday, appearing as if…
The Dirty Projectors may have been around since 2002, but make no mistake: 2009 is the Brooklyn-based act’s breakthrough year, thanks tot he success of the band’s phenomenal earlier-this-year-released Bitte Orca, a true gem of a folktronipop of a record, riff with lush instrumentations and as impressive a colelction of…
Surely, it was with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks that the members of the Toadies opened their 4 p.m. set at the festival’s main stage on Sunday with longtime Rubberneck favorite “I Come From The Water.”But, a funny thing about the Toadies’ set on Sunday afternoon: For the…
