Last night, I finally got around to starting Ozzy Osbourne’s just-released autobiography, I Am Ozzy, which, no surprise here, is already a New York Times best-seller. And, this morning, the Barnes & Noble here in Dallas on the Northwest Highway has confirmed some big news on that front: The Ozz-man…
Just as the All-Star weekend crowd filtered back out of Dallas, there were still a few big sports-themed parties going on in town, and just in time for the weekend, we direct your attention to some nightlife photos from those.First off, Terrell Owens and Josh Howard closed out the All-Star…
This past weekend, sometime blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s other band, Angels & Airwaves, released its third studio full-length, an album called LOVE. Which is fitting, of course, since that was Valentine’s Day weekend and all. But the band also took an interesting route with this release, offering it up as…
Welcome to the first in a blog post series called “The Problem With…” where we’ll immerse ourselves in pop music, tackle a noteworthy piece of the racket, and tell you why it sucks. So. Ke$ha’s kind of a catchy musician. And she wants me to tag along to some party?…
Ebbot Lundberg, the rotund and intense front man for Sweden’s The Soundtrack to Our Lives, had just landed in D.C. a couple of hours before giving me a few minutes of his time. Perhaps suffering from a bit of jet lag, but Lundberg sounded like a guy happy to be…
…and for those of you still stuck on the YouTubes, here’s your link.Looks like we finally took care of those technical difficulties–and good thing, too, as we’ve been itching to post the above video, featuring longtime DC9 favorite galleryCat playing our weekly video series for a couple days now. And,…
So much for a completely walkable NX35 festival–but at least Denton’s pedi-cab operators will be busy. The Flaming Lips and Midlake show set for 6 p.m. Saturday, March 13, has been moved to the North Texas Fairgrounds just over a mile and a half north of the Square, according to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 19, 2010…New Found Glory has been added to the Slam Dunk Festival line-up. Conspicuously missing… Dikembe Mutumbo.Legendary London nightclub Ministry of Sound may have to close it’s doors. So, if you’re “best friend” doesn’t know your not actually dead, is…
Well, it’s great to see people answering the DC9 Admiral’s call to arms last week; we got the most submissions I’ve seen in weeks! We see a lot of cool artwork out there, but if you don’t actually submit it to our little weekly pageant, then it wouldn’t be fair…
Last night, The Cavern’s free Wednesday night affair, Detour, hosted the live debut of local experimental electro outfit Museum Creatures. And it was a pretty entertaining display offered up by the latest project from Dallas’ once-upon-a-time piano-pop musician Tommy Hernandez, most recently of sleaze dance outfit Boytap: Hernandez went to…
Besides being ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, Warren Haynes is also one bad mother on stage.But, off stage, the Allman Brothers/Gov’t Mule guitarist turned out to be a pretty affable guy who spoke quite eloquently about a number of subjects–beginning with what he thinks…
Just a couple weeks after the residency’s one-year anniversary party, Sober is pulling up the anchor on his upstairs Thursday night DJ set at the cavern. Tonight’s “Bon Voyage Sober” party marks the final night of DJ Sober’s “Top Notch,” at least as a weekly event, as Sober will leave…
Jack’s MannequinHouse of BluesFebruary 17, 2010 Better than: spending a day sweaty and dehydrated, getting trampled and crowd-surfed on at Warped Tour. It’s incredibly cliché to say, but you’d never know Andrew McMahon survived Leukemia if you got the chance to see one of his shows. From the opening chords…
Merle Haggard, Kris KristoffersonBass Hall, Fort WorthFebruary 17, 2010Better Than: Watching classic country performances on YouTube and thinking to yourself “damn, I wish I’d seen so-and-so before he died.” Dressed head to toe in black, 73-year-old legend Kris Kristofferson looked as cool as ever opening Wednesday night’s inspired pairing with…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 18, 2010…Peaches one-woman reimagining of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Peaches Christ Superstar,” has been halted by the Germans. I’m sure it would go over well here in the bible belt too.Adam Lambert got a little pissed and yelled at a fan…
I first happened upon the phenomenal Portland-via-Seattle-via-Colorado songwriter Laura Veirs maybe four years ago, after she’d already released a couple of albums. But 2005’s dreamy, quirky, occasionally orchestral-poppy, sometimes biting Year of Meteors grabbed me and didn’t let go of my ears (or my CD player) for ages. Her voice…
If rock ‘n’ roll started in America and the British perfected it, then where does that leave the Swedes? If The Soundtrack of Our Lives’ new album, Communion, is any indication of the current state of Swedish music, then the Swedes are like the amp that turns things up to…
Guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes is a busy man, juggling roles in the Allman Brothers, the Dead and Gov’t Mule, which he leads and founded with late Allman bassist Allen Woody. Like the other bands Haynes is involved with, Gov’t Mule is based on a classic-rock sound: hard, blues-drenched rock…
OK, so he speaks in yoga metaphors and describes wealth that regular humans can’t hope to comprehend. Auh! His late career adjustments to the forever-young rap game consist mostly of the genre’s most repulsive ad-lib—auh!—and indifferent patronage toward hip-hop’s untested and uneven powers. Auh! He mispronounces as many as two…
It’s probably not a surprise to hear that Bridges and Blinking Lights frontman Jake Wilganowski is a restless man. His band’s two records—2007 debut Standing on the Same Stick and the forthcoming sophomore album Heroes, Guns and Snakes—both make the most of their run times, packing an album’s worth of…
At 9:30 on Monday—p.m., mind you—Juan Salinas finally awoke from his recuperative slumber. It was a well-deserved rest. For the previous four days, the man who goes by the stage name of Play and serves as half of the Dallas-based, Grammy-winning production duo of Play-N-Skillz with his brother Oscar (stage…
One of the finest surprises of last year was the release of We Were Promised Jetpacks’ debut album, These Four Walls. With a disc that exhibits lifting melodies and popping beats, this Glasgow four-piece became a band you had to urge your friends to hear. It wasn’t just some simple,…
