If you’ve got the hump day blues, there are a bunch of options for you to check out tonight–and we’ll give you the rundown on a few of them as the afternoon rolls along. First up, Rick Yost.Even though Yost owns the nightclub where he’ll be performing this evening, that’s…
The Dandy WarholsGranada TheaterSeptember 8, 2009 Better than: the recession, for one. If the lights behind The Dandy Warhols on stage weren’t alone enough of a reminder that the slick psych-rock outfit came prepared to offer its fans a show worth the price of admission, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor soon made…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 9, 2009… Not a lot of people are happy about turning 30. However, Pete Doherty took it to the extreme and tried to throw himself off the top of a hotel. Apparently Lady GaGa doesn’t like being questioned about her…
Well, it’s that time of year again, I guess, where (mostly) unknown acts take to the Internet in competition to try and snag the final spot at this year’s ACL Fest in the annual battle known as The Sound and The Jury. By my count, three locals have made it…
We’re not sayin’, Jay-Z. But the Internet sure is…
Somehow stumbled across this edit of the 1986 film Solarbabies, set to a new track from local electro-pop outfit Ishi called “Pastel Lights”–which, for my money, is the best darn thing the band’s released yet. Big thumbs up all around–the track, the video, all of it. Anyway, check it out…
The above streaming cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” comes courtesy of The Dandy Warhols, who, as Darryl Smyers noted in his interview with the band in last week’s print edition, were kinda obligated to cover the song as soon as Michael Jackson passed away. And it’s not all that bad…
The Honorary Title on Friday, September 4, at The DoorHere’s a clip of Jarrod Gorbel of The Honorary Title charming the crowd with a quiet two-man performance of “Stay Away” at The Door over the Labor Day weekend. (Swoon.)…
B-Hamp done been all over the world. And everywhere he goes, he sees people jiggin’. So … you know him!The Dallas rapper responsible for making the world “Do The Ricky Bobby” has come up with a brand-new dance and its accompanying single, “I B Jiggin,” as you can see above…
September to RememberOak Point Amphitheater, PlanoSeptember 6, 2009Better than: a September to Forget?A 15-band lineup, including PlayRadioPlay!, The Secret Handshake and Drop Dead, Gorgeous brought a crowd of mostly (at least 90 percent) 12- to 18-year-olds wearing skinny jeans and V-neck T-shirts to the Oak Point Amphitheater on Sunday.But it…
Fight NightThe Schoolhouse, DentonSeptember 5, 2009Better than: shooting bourbon in an actual schoolhouse. Nestled away from the venues of Denton’s idyllic Square and Fry Street’s controversy, the Schoolhouse is a deceptively ordinary one-story yellow and white residence. But Saturday, at around 3 p.m., as a slew of musicians rolled or…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 8, 2009… Wanna sing like T-Pain? There’s an app for that! Now the other side of the story: Bret Michaels hair piece breaks it’s long silence. Johnny Lydon plans to reform a version of PiL to celebrate the 30th anniversary…
It’s Labor Day weekend, which means most of us will be taking Monday off–including us here at DC9. Nothing like a three-day weekend to honor the workingman and -woman. Or a four-day weekend, for those kids whose ignorant redneck parents would rather force their children to skip school than allow…
Hope you’re not yet sick of the smash summer single “Ice Cream Paint Job” from Dallas’ own Dorrough (that’s him in the above photo). Because, if you were, well, you’re out of luck, friend. In recent weeks, Dorrough’s breakthrough single has seen the man from Lancaster getting all sorts of attention–and…
In next week’s dead tree version of DC9, we’ll be running our review of the new Jay-Z disc, The Blueprint 3. (Spoiler alert: Meh.)Of course, we won’t be the first to wax poetic about the disc; early returns elsewhere see the disc as something of a failure, with reviews lambasting…
Since there was such a clamor yesterday over the early Amazon mp3 download figures for Danny Balis’ solo debut, Too Much Living, a quick update: Last night, the disc crack the site’s top five downloads in the folk genre (coming in at No. 4) the top 10 n the country genre…
Those looking forward to checking out Neon Indian’s live debut, at J&J’s Pizza in Denton on Thursday, are gonna have to change up their plans: Yesterday, local music blog WeShotJR announced that the show, which it is hosting and promoting, will be moved one day up, from Thursday to Wednesday. Fix…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Ice Cube is working on a documentary about the Raiders. Funny, I thought he quit giving juice to the Raiders, ‘cuz Al Davis never paid him? A girl attending the Leeds festival had to be helped out of a…
Jared Connor designed this week’s featured poster. It promotes the Dandy Warhols and Spindrift bill at The Granada Theater Tuesday; Darryl Smyers interviewed Dandys guitarist Peter Holmstrom for the print supplement to DC9 to preview the show. One commenter to GigPosters.com, where I found the poster, remarks that the images…
It’s still more than five months, but plans are already in motion for the weekend of February 12 through February 14–or, as we’ve already called it, the most important weekend in Dallas hip-hop history–when the 2010 NBA All-Star game rolls through town.So far, at least one hip-hop party plan is…
With the summer heat dying down and letting outdoor shows become enjoyable once again, a couple pairs of free tickets seem in order for this year’s September to Remember showcase from Third String Productions, which, now in its third incarnation, is being held in an outdoor facility for the first…
