[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 14 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah prayer as the…
Wake Up Jon by Friends of Jon BroomThis week, local musician Daniel Miller and fellow area musician/producer Salim Nourallah released their above co-written track, a song dedicated to their friend Jon Broom, who, on September 5 was in a motorcycle accident that caused severe brain injury and resulted in Broom…
The Lizard Lounge–which, it should be noted, will celebrate its very impressive 18th anniversary on Saturday night with a set from house DJ Robbie Rivera among others–played host to a freak show performance from the DFW-based touring sideshow Hellzapoppin last night. Among the not-for-the-weak-stomach sights seen: Fire-eating, walking on broken…
Plush hosted its third annual “Nightmare Before Christmas” party Thursday night, and DJ Aiden was on hand to spin for the pre-Christmas party. Jusone King performing live, and the Plush go go dancers helped the crowd stay festive. Check out more photos, by Roderick Pullum, here in our slideshow…
Exciting news for Seryn today: Spune has just announced via a press release that it has signed the band to a management/artist development deal and that it will release the band’s debut album in spring 2010. Not bad for a band born just this past March. Then again, we’ve already…
Rooney is more than just an O.C.-guest-appearance-making, perfume-commercial-scoring powerpop group from L.A.–the band also has a local connection.And no, I’m not referring to the band’s opening slots on Jonas Brothers and Kelly Clarkson tours. Rather, as Darryl Smyers writes in this week’s print supplement to DC9, the title track of…
This morning, after late-breaking news from Denton last night that The Flaming Lips would be headlining this year’s NX35 Festival, we’ve received confirmation from both the folks at NX35 and with The Flaming Lips: It’s on.In fact, in an email just sent our way, NX35 publicist Lyndsay Knecht Milne even…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, December 18, 2009…Weezer have canceled the rest of it’s North American tour, per doctors orders, because of their bus crash. Apparently the UK music press is only-concerned-about-Rage-Against-The-Machine vs. Joe-McElderry-Christmas-song-battle.If your guitarist quits the band and no one notices does it count?…
Last night, at a listening party for his band’s upcoming The Courage of Others disc in Denton, Midlake’s Eric Pulido announced to a crowd of about 50 people that Midlake would be playing the North by 35 conferette. No news there necessarily–except that four sources who were there say Pulido…
Ho ho ho-ly frijole! What devil am I looking at? It’s the poster of the week… Or is it?Well, if you take a photo of this very meticulously crafted three-dimensional installation on plywood and print it out, then, just like a Christmas miracle, it becomes quite the visually curious gig…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 15 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
David Ponder, guitarist for the local alt-country combo Somebody’s Darling, just sent word that his band and The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton’s band, which just played The Loft earlier this week) will both play the Screen Actor Guild’s Holiday Party tonight at Gilley’s.Although Gilley’s website doesn’t mention the gig, SAG…
Friend of the program Nico Martini, who hosts “American Highway” every Monday afternoon on the Indie-verse, put together the above short clip on Dallas’ own The King Bucks, who started off as “just a bunch rock guys that were doing country music” and have grown into one of the top…
Been interested in Fizzy Dino Pop hip-hop collaborators Sore Losers but haven’t caught their live act yet? Tonight’s your chance to catch them in Dallas at The Lounge On Elm Street, along with the DC-9-approved Ty City. Also on the bill are Drama Tha King, Madam Ice, Jesse Flamez, John…
YouTube? Sure, right here. Regular viewers will catch a few familiar faces in this week’s video from El Sibil — folks from The Beaten Sea and The Fox and the Bird are among the DC9 in Space vets who join in the act. They’re all there in support of Jacob…
Judging by the lines I faced while shopping at Borders this weekend, books are one of the top gift items this holiday season. And what better gift for the music geek in your life than a rock biography? This year, there have been several interesting life stories to hit the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, December 17, 2009…That Toby Keith, he loves to court controversy. He made a “racist” gesture at a Nobel Prize after party while rapping with Will Smith. Yes, you read that right… he was rapping.About 500 Lil Wayne fans are enjoying his…
Well, it’s officially list-making season again. Everyone’s doing it, listing their top songs and albums of the year and/or decade and whatnot. So, too, are we. Online, on our DC-9 at Night blog, we’re counting down our favorite local songs of the year, one a day, till we get to…
Proclaiming yourself the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world isn’t quite as bad as elevating yourself above Jesus Christ, but, man, that’s still a lot of self-generated hype to live up to. Yet it’s a title the Supersuckers have been working toward for 20 years, after writing itself…
Rife with character-heavy narratives and big-sky imagery, country music has always been an ideal soundtrack for driving. We’re reminded of that on Dale Watson’s second album of highway songs, following 1998’s The Truckin’ Sessions. With lots of fiddle and a clear love of the road, Austin’s inveterate Watson elevates the…
There have always been misconceptions surrounding Reverend Horton Heat. For starters, there’s no preacher frontman—it’s just a name. Then there’s the whole genre classification issue; despite the popularity of the band’s awesomely unhinged ’90s cut “Psychobilly Freakout,” the trio doesn’t really fit under the banner or feel a musical kinship…
