Like the Kid Rock/Skynyrd show at Superpages a few weeks back (or even the chihuahua owners from last weekend), the shots from Saturday night’s Crue Fest are worth a look if only as a window into a world you’d otherwise rarely have reason to encounter.That said, Roger Caldwell’s shots of…
Late yesterday we were fixing to end the day on a high note, and send two pair of DC9 readers to the Granada’s double-bill of hip-hop duos scheduled for tonight.But the good people at the Granada sent word instead that Clipse and Cool Kids had bowed out. Close followers will…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 11, 2009…Police shut down an all-night rave when fans of opening band Crystal Castles jumped from balconies onto the floor. Well, at least they played this show. Jay-Z is Oprah’s newest favorite thing? I smell a 50 Cent diss track…
Could’ve filed this one under “Night Moves” just as easily, because the King Bucks’ poolside set at the Belmont Hotel last weekend was all about the scene.Under Thursday night’s full moon, with the Dallas skyline lit up behind them, the Bucks spent hours on the lawn stage, while the hotel’s…
This morning, Fergus & Geronimo’s 7-inch for “Tell It (In My Ear)” was made available for pre-order from London-based blog/record label Transparent. But if you want to secure yourself a copy, you’d better start reaching for your credit card because Transparent is only having 300 copies of the vinyl single…
For over fifteen years, the Canadian quartet known as Our Lady Peace has been parlaying its version of slightly grunge-influenced rock while racking up CD sales of well over 5 million. Over that time, the band has gone through the predictable bouts with major labels, even losing founding member Mike…
Well, Pitchfork once again reached its thick red prongs all the way to our fair metro area this morning, by featuring two tracks by the Denton-based experimental act Abacus. “What’s in the water in Denton, Texas?” the Pitchfork author jokes in the write up — this is after all the…
Otep at The Loft on Thursday, August 6 “Nirvana means freedom from pain…” quoted Otep Shamaya before hammering into this Nirvana classic with a pungent admiration for Kurt. Otep’s new album Smash the Control Machine is due out next Tuesday…
As Catherine eloquently related over the weekend, Broken Social Scene finally made their long-awaited Dallas tour date, after the flu-induced fevers and hot tempers of their late January cancellation.For those of you hankering for another look at the show, Stevey Visneau brings us this photo set with more shots of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 10, 2009…The “Big Four” music companies are taking on Apple with a new form of digital music. Maybe they should ask Bill Gates what happened to the Zune. It seems like Kings of Leon are starting to figure out they’ve…
Method Man & Redman With Ghostface KillahHouse of BluesSaturday, August 8, 2009Better than: Watching How High sober. From Ghostface’s rant about how “the rap game in New York is fucked up” and how nothing on the radio these days inspires him to the cheers that greeted Method and Red every…
Broken Social ScenePalladium BallroomAugust 7, 2009Better than: The last time I caught Broken Social Scene in Vancouver. Check out photos from the show in our slideshow here.When Broken Social Scene frontman and co-founder Kevin Drew fell ill earlier this year, the band was left with no choice but to back…
Bob Schneider, Odis and Charlie Shafter and the Gnomes The Granada Theater August 7, 2009 Better than: Listening to a 68-year-old man proposition you to lay across his big brass bed. If you’ve never attended a Bob Schneider gig, it’s highly probable you spent a good portion of last night’s…
This is one of the biggest music weekends in recent memory, and it seems like there’s something for everyone regardless of budget or musical taste. First up is the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cougar show at Quiktrip Park in Grand Prairie. There are still tickets available, according to the Airhogs Web…
Perhaps you’ve seen the above ad in the past couple issues of our dead tree publication about a new monthly happening down in Deep Ellum, brought to you by seven of the neighborhood’s venue’s, one of its art galleries and us here at DC9? Yeah? Well, as the above image…
A few months ago, much of the Observer’s SXSW posse closed out the mess by catching Bobby Bare Jr. in a pretty empty barroom on the second floor above Sixth Street. With his always-straining voice, smart lyrics and easy turns from folk to all-out rocking, he was a breath of…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert has the details on what looks to be the final nail in the coffin for the building 508 Park Ave.Which would be no big deal, except that some dude named Robert Johnson apparently recorded some music there or something? Or so Robert’s told…
In this week’s column space, I geeked out about some of the projects that very-busy local producer Picnic is about to drop in the upcoming weeks and months. And for good reason, too: Guy’s just got a lot going on, between working with Kid Cudi, The Cannabinoids (who’ll be touring…
In case you haven’t noticed, we, and everyone else (including Subway) have been kinda inundated with ticket offers and discounts from Live Nation all summer long.Well, this week, the folks at the national booking/promotions superpower have put a few more worth-mentioning doozies into the pot.First, there’s this “Ultimate Access” deal,…
We hadn’t heard anything in some time about investigation that followed the murders of two Christian music producers, Matthew Butler and Stephen Swan, as the two were leaving Butler’s Zion Gate studio late one night last June. Well, not since James Broadnax and Demarius Cummings were arrested in connection with…
I admit, this is about as tangential as local music coverage can get, but it’s still kinda funny: Last night, in an ABC News story about the issues Twitter and Facebook faced yesterday as a result of cyber attacks that may or may not be related to the ongoing conflict…
Yesterday, charming Tyler-based family rock (and DOMA-winning, mind you) outfit Eisley posted the above clip to Youtube, updating its fans on what’s to come. Kinda a good news/bad news deal. The good news: The band’s third full-length album is on the way. The bad news: It won’t be coming out…
