Seems you can’t swing a dead cat around the Metroplex without hitting at least one country band in one of the genre’s many forms. And with the talent-rich pool we have to draw from in the area, sometimes, even the most talented can get lost in the mix.Which is why…
In yet another sign that the ’90s are back, or perhaps never really ended, Lilith Fair is returning this summer with a 33-city schedule (including Dallas) revealed so far. Even better news: the lineup is strong enough that you won’t have to promise your boyfriend a blowjob to convince him…
Pardon my interloping, but I’ve asked Pete for his permission to post over here as a friend just forwarded along this trio of tracks from a Haiti benefit in Brooklyn over the weekend. DC9 favorite and Lake Highlands grad Annie Clark, or St. Vincent, performed with the likes of Bon…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 26, 2010…The creator of the MP3 is working on a new music file called “MusicDNA.” Great, now I’m gonna have to get another iPod!Awwww… Nikki Sixx has dumped Kat von D.INsaNE CloWN POssE HavE MadE A weSTerN…
Reverend Horton Heat took the Granada Theater stage Saturday night, along their tour supporting the band’s latest release, Laughin’ & Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat.The band kept the energy running high, joined onstage for a few songs by Eleven Hundred Springs’ Matt Hillyer. Our photographer Gloria Levario was there,…
On a weekend stacked with Haiti benefit shows around the country, the Prophet Bar played host to a local fund-raising effort, the “Heartbeats for Haiti” show with Brave Combo, Spoonfed Tribe, and a grab bag of world music acts from reggae to meringue.Our Spike Johnson was there for the party,…
A pretty exciting e-mail just popped up from the folks at Kirtland Records: Specifically, the release is centered around the Toadies, announcing the third annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival, which, in 2010, will take place at White Water Rocks in New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin, Texas. This…
When this next week’s Observer is distributed around the Metroplex, our stand on the new disc from the Denton-based Midlake, The Courage of Others, which is due out statesdide on February 2, will be made known. But plenty of others have already made their positions on the new, darker disc…
The folks at NX35 just posted a new blog entry on their site, effectively announcing the adds we already warned you would soon come. And, well, this list of 45 new acts (add that to the 123 previously announced performers) is chock full of gems, among them touring acts HEALTH,…
The CribsGranada TheaterJanuary 22, 2010Better than: Missing the show entirely. I clearly need to pay more attention to the Granada’s useful day-of-show set-time tweets. Friday night at the Granada, there was a lineup of three great bands. Adam Green (formerly of the Moldy Peaches) and The Dead Trees opened for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 25, 2010…Looks like Prince’s “Purple And Gold” didn’t really help out the Vikings much.NOOOOOOO! The Scorpions are breaking up!Steven Tyler may not be able to join Aerosmith while he’s in rehab–but, on the plus side, he has plenty of time…
Many apologies for the slow blog day today–hell the slow blog week, really. Things have been especially hectic this week, for reasons I won’t bore you with. On the promising front, though, the weekend is here–and when the work-week kicks back up on Monday morning, we’ll be ready and waiting…
For those who know Jonathan Richman only as the goofy balladeer in There’s Something About Mary or possibly as the guy behind the Modern Lovers’ two-chord proto-punk masterpiece “Roadrunner,” this week’s Nicholas Hall piece may have come as a surprise. Believe it or not, Hall writes, Richman, while still creating…
Earlier today on DC9, Darryl related his thoughts on the show Everclear III put on at the House of Blues last night. Though he wasn’t too enamored of the performance, his sizing up of the scene, where guys cowered in the corner to avoid the “Volvo Driving Soccer Moms” on…
Everclear, Clayton Senne, Oso ClosoHouse of BluesJanuary 2, 2009 (Barely) better than: Staying home and listening to my “best of” Everclear CD A surprisingly large and diverse crowd assembled at the House of Blues last night to catch ’90s alt-rock icons Everclear at the House of Blues. Actually, the band…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January22, 2010…Mystikal has been released from prison after six years. Finally, even unborn babies get to listen to the iPod! Conan O’Brien sticks it to NBC with the help of the Rolling Stones. Suck it, Leno…
Alright team, let’s huddle: I know I’ve been away for a little while, but I’m back, and ready to make this week’s pick for DC9’s Poster of the Week. So let’s not waste any time, OK? Ready… BREAK!That’s about as sporty as I can get, folks–and it’s quite the antithesis…
Earlier this week, Dallas-area mashup artist Objektiv One released the second in his collection of mashup EPs, this one following up his party-starting 2009 release, Beer Pong Champion. Called, quite hilariously I think, Rad Jams, Bro!, Objkektiv One’s newest collection follows largely the same format of his last, combining elements…
Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy charities. And, as you’d expect, the Haiti earthquake catastrophe has prompted an outpouring of support from the local music scene. First…
Way back in 1995, Everclear’s “Santa Monica” (off the album Sparkle and Fade) was one of the best songs on the radio. And, although often unfairly accused of being Nirvana-lite, Art Alexakis and his revolving cast of backup musicians were capable of channeling a lot more than grunge into their…
Seems as good a time as any to pass along word that the folks at Spune Productions have a couple big shows looming on the horizon, both of which we here at DC9 are proud to say we’re co-sponsoring.The first up comes on Saturday, January 30, at Hailey’s Club in…
The results are in from our New York sister paper’s annual Pazz + Jop critic’s poll, which aggregates the opinions of thousands of music scribes into one, easy-to-peruse list of the best music from the year that was 2009 (or was it 1901?). In total, some 1,934 albums were nominated…
