Hailing out of Denver, Flashbulb Fires is an alt-rock quartet in vein of the Arcade Fire and Pedro The Lion. At least, that’s what the band’s promotional material says. To me, there are some other interesting influences popping in and out of the band’s somber drone. Like The Walkmen, Flashbulb…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 25, 2010…Pitchfork counts down the best 50 videos of the ’90s–and they actually have some good choices!The guy who wrote “What A Wonderful World” has died.Guns N’ Roses has been warned to be on time for the Reading and Leeds…
Back in February, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme, the duo that makes up local indie pop act Smile Smile, put their history as an engaged and then broken-up couple out for all to see–or, as the title of the album they released that month implies, placing their Truth on Tape,…
For whatever reason, we’ve been thinking a lot about Eisley lately–maybe it’s the whole all of them being married thing, dunno. More likely, we’re just getting antsy waiting around for new material, which, hey, this post from family band’s patriarch, Boyd Dupree, says is still coming, and soon. Says the…
Who covers Led Zeppelin better than Heart? If you’re skeptical, which I was as a massive Led Zeppelin fan, well, then you haven’t heard their spot-on, no-Black-Crowes-members cover of “Black Dog.”But I digress.Heart brought its particular brand of rock, along with with the tunes of Dreamboat Annie, to the House…
KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat’s sixth annual custom car show and concert jam-packed a massive lineup of rap stars and souped-up cars at the Dallas Convention Center Sunday, August 22. The event’s headliners were Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug, Dorrough–not to mention the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 24, 2010…Fantasia admits that you “can’t accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”Weezer is planning on playing Pinkerton and “The Blue Album” in their entirety… if that’s cool with promoters.The Army seems to be at least a little bit cooler…
On its MySpace page, L.A.’s The Delta Mirror claims that its music comes “from the bent circuits of electronica, dead IDM laptops and broken shoegaze strings.” Amazingly, that description is pretty damn spot on. Craig Gordon, David Bolt and Karrie K create a dreamy, electronic pop that wheezes and moans…
The folks up at WeDentonDoIt just keep on killing things with their steady stream of impressive video offerings, this time doing so with a clip of one of DC9 HQ’s favorite new area bands, Sundress, performing a new song out in the woods. Called “Bloom” the song takes the band…
Well, this above clip is a nice treat. Featuring Dallas’ own Ben Curtis and his School of Seven Bells bandmates the Deheza sisters, this nicely shot piece shows the New York-based three-piece on tour Down Under, going even farther under, performing an acoustic take of its song “Dust Devil” in…
Cee-Lo Green, formerly of the Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley, released one of the greatest songs in the history of humankind last week. It’s called “Fuck You” (NSFW) and it’s full of modern poetry. But, beyond it’s lyrical genius, “Fuck You” has an indescribable, unique quality that’s just perfect for…
The often-controversial, sometimes provocative local music blog WeShotJR, notorious around town for a few reasons, not the least of which has always been its writers’ insistence on keeping their identities anonymous, announced today in a post penned by head honcho “Stoned Ranger” that its five-year run (the site launched in…
Tanya Morgan, Bodega BrovasGreen ElephantAugust 20, 2010 Better than: Any hip-hop concert you would see at an American Airlines Center bill filled with marquee acts that get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to destroy your ear drums. Tanya Morgan has been touring the country sporadically for the past few…
Followers of Dallas rapper Dorrough, the man behind “Walk That Walk,” “Ice Cream Paint Job” and “Get Big,” on Twitter were treated to an onslaught of retweets on Thursday from the fast-rising performer’s account, most of which centered around a rumor that the Lancaster native’s cell phone was stolen and…
On Saturday, after watching an episode of Saved by the Bell and knocking back a few ecto-coolers, we sent photographer Rachel Parker over for a seriously-’90s night at the Superpages.com Center with the Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, and Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance. Between the Dolls and Sean Hannity’s Freedom…
Maybe it was the intense heat–or the fact that the school semester begins this morning–but the dance crowd was out for Dallas’ Dub Assembly at the Granada Theater on Saturday night. DJs Mundo, Royal Highnuss, Jimmy B, LBFD and Aries3 played the latest dubstep for a very energetic crowd. Meanwhile,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 23, 2010…A man intentionally leaped to his death at a Swell Season show.Turns out Wyclef won’t have to worry about what will happen to him if he were president. Charles Haddon jumped to his death after his band’s set at…
This weekend marks 97.9 The Beat’s sixth annual custom car show, which will take place on Sunday, August 22, at the Dallas Convention Center. This year, the event’s headliners are Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug and a man who will definitely show…
Listen: I’m not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We’ve got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.) But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press…
On Sunday night, the Daptone Records-backed, instrumental Afro-beat purveyors in The Budos Band will roll through town for a gig at the Granada Theater, supporting its just-released, third studio full-length, the oh-so-cleverly-titled The Budos Band III. Should make for a good, relatively trippy, smoke-filled time.And, perhaps, a free one, too…
We here at DC9 have been salivating over Kanye West’s new single, “Power,” pretty much all summer long. Why? Well, for a few reasons–namely, because the song is a beast, one of the best hip-hop tracks we’ve heard all year, but also because, yessir, it was produced by Dallas’ own…
Last we spoke with Sarah Jaffe, the prodigious local singer-songwriter spoke excitedly about the new material she was already hard at work on–songs that would take her music in a more lo-fi, perhaps more aggressive direction, the singer warned. Given the first insight we had into that direction–a second take…
