For a band that has only had one release to date, doesn’t play out often and has never really toured, White Drugs is nonetheless a relevant name you hear tossed around from time to time in Denton. Assuming people aren’t talking about actual white drugs when dropping their name, the…
You’ve probably noticed: There are a lot of festivals. It doesn’t matter that not all are rousing successes (look at the rampant cancellation of dates for the reborn Lilith Fair, which was once upon a time also scheduled to come to Superpages.com Center this week). Each summer, there seem to…
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we’ve been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to…
Erykah Badu was in Chicago this past weekend, performing at Lollapalooza and donning a brand new, blonde mohawk to boot. While there, Billboard caught up with Ms. Badu for a little chat. And it’s kind of a revealing one–not quite, say, “Window Seat” revealing, but, hey, they can’t all be…
2010’s been a banner year for Dallas’ Symbolyc One, known best around these parts for his work with both Erykah Badu’s Cannabinoids and his own long-running Waco-based hip-hop collective, Strange Fruit Project. “I’ve been doing work,” the producer says over the phone this week. “I’ve been doing a lot of…
A growing trend among indie-folk musicians these days is going out to the woods by themselves, living off of the land for an extended time, and writing a weirdly brilliant album. Bon Iver frontman Jason Vernon is probably the most notable, but years before he got the notion, A.A. Bondy…
We’re knee-deep in the dog days of summer. And you know what that means: It’s obligatory hip-hop song about the summertime! And from a local, no less! Last year, Trai’D’s “Summertime” was our guilty pleasure of choice. And this year’s likely successor? Why, that’d be the above clip from Big…
Up-and-coming old-school blues act Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears hasn’t been around very long, but they’re quickly gaining a lot of steam. And it certainly didn’t take long for Black Joe to get noticed in Austin’s large music community after starting out in 2007; Spoon drummer Jim Eno took…
Sufjan Stevens didn’t get too far in his attempt to write an album for each state in the US. Of the 50, he completed two–and then he kind of disappeared for a few years after the release of his Christmas album in 2006. Maybe if he hadn’t put more than…
At 57, Cyndi Lauper is as feisty today as she was when her debut album, She’s So Unusual, was released back in 1983. Still performing in those outlandish outfits with an ever-changing array of multi-colored wigs, Lauper has always been a new wave pop and rock trailblazer. These days, Lauper…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010…The Train hit song “Drops of Jupiter” was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn’t like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music career…
Tomorrow night, as the Granada Theater celebrates its six year anniversary (and with it, all the great shows enjoyed at the Greenville Avenue venue over that time), owner Mike Schoder and his staff will host a pretty phenomenal bill featuring Built to Spill, Finn Riggins (not to be confused with…
Well, finally: An email from New West Records today finally gets around to confirming all that hard work and reporting we’ve been kicking out since April on the next, once-thought-to-be-a-double-album-but-now-known-to-be-a-two-part-release from Dallas’ own Old 97’s. Meaning: Yes, it’ll be called The Grand Theatre, Volume One. Yes, it’ll be out on…
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. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Dax Riggs (Austin,…
Most music megastores have disappeared. Fast. The two Virgin Megastores I worked at–the first being Dallas’ Mockingbird and 75 location, the second on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles–are now defunct. The similar big boxes that remain–whether they be Target, Best Buy or Barnes & Noble–are mega for a reason:…
The members of Midlake are in the middle of the busiest year they’ve ever had: They’ve already toured the world a few times over, won a MOJO award for Best Live Act, and, ahem, perhaps most importantly, they won a DOMA for Best Indie Rock act.And now, upon returning from…
If you’re experiencing summer American Idol withdrawals, you had your chance last night to jump/scream at the best of the best on stage. The American Airlines Center hosted a big juicy chunk of the Idol favorites, including Tim Urban’s hair of Duncanville and Fort Worth’s Casey James–like an Avenger team…
This afternoon, after spending much of Monday on life support in an Austin hospital, Ryan “Ace” McNeely died at the age of 30.A familiar face to many in the Dallas music community, McNeely worked as the sound engineer at City Tavern and, most recently, played bass in Grant Jones &…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2010…Like the rest of the major labels, Universal Music Group continues to act like a bunch of bitchy little girls as they pulled all their videos from MTV’s web sites. But, considering MTV rarely airs music videos, it may…
There’s little doubting Robert Wilonsky’s stance on Bedhead–dude’s a fan.So there’s little surprise then, that, in his August 6, 1998 article, “Putting it to bed,” Robert’s writing took on a somber tone. Hell, the last sentence in the piece might as well be sobs: “So sad,” Robert wrote at the…
They’re sometimes called “America’s Rock and Roll Band.” And, yes, fastidious Aerosmith fans will shout for the rooftops that “Dream On” is a badass song. But, au contraire, friends, for there are several facts after the jump that prove the falseness of any “badass” accusation you may make. In fact,…
Speaking of new music videos and, uh, fetishes, the biggest rapper going in Dallas released a new music video this weekend for the song “Hood Chick Fetish,” from his Gangsta Grillz mixtape and, one assumes, from his upcoming sophomore release, Get Big, from which we’ve already seen the title track…
