T Bone Burnett Wins Golden Globe, Meryl Streep’s Admiration

Sorry if you missed last night’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth native T Bone Burnett walked with the Hollywood Foreign Press’…

Watch: Spector 45 — “Emulate”

Ran into Spector 45’s Frankie 45 at his “day job” tending bar at the Amsterdam in Exposition Park over the weekend and was promised that, come Monday, there’d be a little present for DC9 readers in the ol’ inbox. Sure enough, here it is: The band’s first music video, far…

Night Moves: Ishi and Big J at Plush

Ishi drew a well-inked crowd to Big J’s Friday night party at Plush Basement, for what Pete predicted would be the dance party of the weekend. From the looks of things, the show didn’t disappoint. Our photographer Mattie Stafford was there for the show, and you can check out more…

NX35 Releases Preliminary List of Performers

There’s a nice little write-up in this morning’s Denton Record-Chronicle about last week’s NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan’s Silverleaf. But, if we’re being completely honest, it’s not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that’s got our attention. Why’s that? Ah: The piece includes a list of…

Good Friday: Descender, Dana Harper, RTB2, Red, Dust Congress, Telegraph Canyon, Ishi, Red Hot Poker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Wayne Hancock, Ugly Mus-tard, The Burning Hotels, The Happy Bullets and Teenage Cool Kids

No need to pussyfoot around the berrybush here, folks, let’s juts dive right in. As the great Dylan McKay was known for saying, “You know the drill.”First, the shows we’ve already discussed.Tonight’s got some heavy-hitters: The Paper Chase, True Widow and The Boom Boom Box share a crazy bill at…

Waaga Records’ Denton-Heavy Compilation Gets A Nod From Pitchfork…

A couple days ago, we hipped you to the new, free-to-download compilation offered up by Sarcramento-based, Lefse Records offshoot Waaga Records, and its heavy focus on Denton. No surprise here, really, but yesterday, the comp scored a nice little nod from Pitchfork, and the write-up helped offer a little insight…

Rhymefest Leaks Two Tracks Featuring Production By S1

El Che, the forthcoming LP by Kanye co-writer Rhymefest, features four songs with beats by Strange Fruit Project producer/MC S1 (Symbolyc One), two of which Fest leaked today on Ruby Hornet to build momentum for the official release. Both leaked songs also feature Phonte of Little Brother, who S1 says…

Gig Alert: Brittany Shane Tonight at The Lounge on Elm Street

Out on her very first nationwide tour, San Francisco’s Brittany Shane is innocence personified–and her recently released third effort, Have Heart Live Young, is as optimistic and peppy a collection of folk pop as one is ever likely to hear. But Shane’s music is only part of the story: The…

Night Moves: Erotic Bash at Skye Bar

It wasn’t easy coming up with just one shot with which to tease this mid-week Night Moves set. If the photos from last night are any indication, it’s a wild scene down at Skye Bar’s monthly “Erotic Bash” parties, between the body art, the slow-dancing, the grinding up against mirrors…

Watch: Smile Smile — “Beg You To Stay”

The love lost between Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme ain’t exactly a secret: Hamilton proposed to Hirunrusme, she said yes, and, later, she broke off the engagement. But the break-up, in turn, did something else: It inspired Hamilton and Hirunrusme each to write the most revealing songs they’d…