DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 12: DJ Wild in the Streets

Lisa Bush, aka Wild in the Streets, got her start in college, hosting a radio show on KTCU, which led to DJing house parties and at small venues around town. In time, Wild in the Streets had a regular gig alongside soul and funk DJ Eric Hermeyer at the Wreck…

Last Night: Angels & Airwaves and Say Anything at the Palladium

Angels & Airwaves, Say AnythingPalladium BallroomMay 20, 2010Better than: staying in and listening to Angels & Airwaves on small computer speakers.    Angels & Airwaves has never been a vanity project for its singer/guitarist, Tom DeLonge. While he’s back with Blink-182, the band that brought pop-punk to the masses at…

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

You know what really gives us the summertime blues? “Summertime Blues,” not to mention other maddening summer hits like “All I Wanna Do,” “Margaritaville” or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing “Hot Hot Hot.” It’s bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cup in the microwave–why must we be subjected…

Listen: Drake — “9 AM in Dallas”

Last night, budding rap superstar (and former handicapped Degrassi High student) Drake took to the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas for the latest stop on his current tour.  Must’ve been quite the inspiring show, too, because, this morning, a new freestyle from the Young Money member started circulating around the Internet…

Idol Rich: Fare Thee Well, Casey James

That small-town charm, camera-ready look and actual musical skill–though a little jam-bandy–couldn’t win Casey James the title of American Idol…or get him into the finale. Gotta say I would’ve traded Lee DeWyze for the CeeJer if only because both CJ and Crystal Bowersox incorporated their own original songs into their…

Watch: WeDentonDoIt Chats It Up With Dosh

More choice footage this week from the folks at WeDentonDoIt. Yesterday, the Denton-centric blog posted the above interview and performance clip featuring Dosh, who, as you recall, played Hailey’s Club up in Denton at month’s start as part of Spune Productions’ 2k10 Finals Bash. Back when we previewed his Hailey’s…

Bonus MP3: Sundress — “Locust”

Way back in November, we welcomed a young Denton band called This Old House into our weekly video sessions. There, the band wowed us with its deliberately-paced, heavy-on-the-atmosphere indie rock. In the following months, the band changed its name–twice, even. First, at NX35, it debuted as ODYSSEY. Then, a few…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Thursday, May 20, 2010.

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.The Service Industry…

M.D.C., The Restarts, Warcola, Odor, Teenage Kamikaze

The accolades went to rivals the Dead Kennedys, but hardcore provocateurs M.D.C. weren’t far behind. The band began while singer Dave Dictor attended the University of Texas in Austin. Outraged at the outpouring of grief over John Wayne’s death in ’79, Dictor connected Wayne’s right-wing views and jingoistic films in…

Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now

Combining music and comedy is a dicey proposition. For every Flight of The Conchords, there are 100 dudes who decided to punch up their awful stand-up acts with the three chords they know how to play on an acoustic guitar. That’s not the case with Everybody Was In The French…

Annuals, Most Serene Republic

When a band travels in the uncharted territory between the genres of progressive, indie and pop, they walk a fine line between magnificent and stupid. Lucky for the North Carolina sextet Annuals, their latest EP, Sweet Sister, mostly falls in line with the former. The well thought-out parts scattered throughout…

The Besnard Lakes

The Besnard Lakes are more than a band whose name kind of looks like “Barenaked Ladies” if you look at it really fast. They’re also a four-piece from Montreal, centered on husband Jace Lasek (lead vocals and guitar) and wife Olga Goreas (vocals and bass). Yeah, a married Canadian couple—sounds…