Teren Delvon Jones is hardly new to the hip-hop business. The man who goes by the name of Del the Funky Homosapien got his start back in the early ’90s, when he was writing rap lyrics for his cousin Ice Cube’s band, Da Lench Mob.Since striking out on his own,…
Back in July of last year in the paper version of DC9, we stated that folk troubadour and musical entrepreneur Joe Pug “devised a strategy for marketing himself that simply wouldn’t have been possible only a few years ago.” We were talking about the Internet, of course — and in…
I guess Rick Perry isn’t just pro-gun; turns out he’s also pro-sword. Or so we can glean from the above photo, which also indicates that he might be pro-mall-punk, too. Yes, that’s Jonathan Cook and Austin Bello of Dallas’ Own Forever The Sickest Kids crossing swords with the Governor of…
Lest Waco’s semi-controversial new burger joint, Fat Ho Burgers, need even more attention, Dallas-based soul artist Quentin Moore has now penned a jingle for the joint that we’re pretty sure no one actually commissioned, wherein he promises that Fat Ho’s burgers are as “juicy as they want to be.” Sexy…
Back in January, you may recall, we passed along a new Air Review track called “Waiting Lessons,” which the supremely talented local band offered up to DC9 readers as a free download, all while warning that the song would not be included in the band’s forthcoming America’s Son EP. Scary…
Akron/Family, Delicate Steve The Loft March 31, 2011 Better than: staying home and watching the Mavericks lose to the Lakers. True believers in Akron/Family’s brand of psychedelic folk showed up in relative force to worship at the altar of all things bizarre and wonderful last night at The Loft, and…
It’s an annual tradition around these here pars, when those oh-so-hip folk with the leather jackets and motorcycles fake square off against the ones in square-framed glasses and their Italian scooters. Yes, it’s Rockers vs. Mods weekend. And this weekend’s festivities are once again quite full of events to keep…
Just a couple days ago now,we shared with you the news that Dallas’ Own Old 97’s would be releasing the second volume of songs in their two-part The Grand Theatre series on July 5. But it seems the band isn’t completely ready to give up on Vol. 1 just yet:…
Thursday is diversity night this week, as freak-folk and hardcore country reign supreme…
Poster designer Brian Cvejanovich is no stranger to our winner’s circle here at Poster of the Week. He won our honor back in October for a design he made to promote a performance by The Thermals at the Granada Theater.But this poster? Man, it kind of takes the cake…
The infamous, mostly deadly, 20-inch snake that vanished from a Bronx Zoo’s Reptile House five days ago (and may or may not have created a Twitter account in the process) was captured this afternoon. According to the Huffington Post, the thin snake was found in a off-exhibit area inside the…
There are plenty of bands over the years who have used the word “cult” in their names. From ’70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult to ’80s Brit rockers The Cult to ’90s art rockers Cloud Cult to current indie darling duo Cults, the phenomenon isn’t really all that new. Meanwhile,…
Musicians releasing songs to benefit those in need is not a new phenomenon — look no further than 1985’s “We Are the World” charity single, by the supergroup USA for Africa, featuring Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and strangely enough, Dan Aykroyd. And let’s not forget the awesomely awful Haiti remake.Civic…
I tell ya, Chris Brown’s pattern of emotional breakdowns makes for some good drama. It’s kinda like watching a show about cakes — I don’t really care about the cakes, I just want to see them fall over. Cakes and celebrities are similar in that way.Anyway, Brown’s been complaining lately…
A couple weeks ago, we shared with you the music video for Dallas rapper Que P’s collaborative effort with A.Dd+’s Slim Gravy, a song called “Ain’t No Mo Love,” in which Que P bemoans, in rather incendiary manner, the lack of shared appreciation between hip-hop acts in town. Seems Que…
A little more eye candy for you this morning, this time courtesy of Kiddrae of the almost sickeningly cool Centre shop at Mockingbird Station, who stopped by Beauty Bar a few weeks back to visually check in DJ Sober’s weekly residency, Big Bang!, at the new Henderson Avenue hotspot. This…
I watched this video like seven times last night. It’s amazing. It has no local ties; according to the people that uploaded the clip, it’s from a group of Japanese musicians. I asked the Fizzy Dino Pop’s Avery Williamson, who now lives in Tokyo, if he knew who it was…
Maybe the best free event you’ll attend all year, the annual joint celebration that Good Records throws for both Record Store Day and the store’s birthday always makes for quite the happening shindig. No surprise, then, that this year’s offerings are once again top-notch.On Saturday, April 16, the Lower Greenville…
Since it’d be an incredibly trite way to open this rant, I won’t consult the fine works of Merriam and Webster and bore you with the definition of an encore. Like you, I already know the word’s meaning. Unfortunately, I’m also aware of what encores have become. From what I’ve…
It would be easy to pass off Kirby Brown as another in the short list of local Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights wannabe acts. Brown, after all, cites several of The Northern Lights in the liner-note credits of his solo debut album, Child Of Calamity. He lists the rest…
Blistering, driving and tearing from one song to the next, Here Holy Spain show no signs of slowing down on Division, the band’s sophomore release on Idol Records. And while some bands would cringe at a review that used the words “loose,” “menacing” and “gritty” to describe their music, that’s…
Tiger Darrow may be best known for her acting work in the Robert Rodriguez Spy Kids series, and her scoring efforts on his most recent film, Machete. But Darrow is just a student at Booker T. Washington, a kid star of sorts. And only three months into 2011, the accomplished…
