As expected, Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato’s debut disc, Don’t Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs…
LP33.tv, a music site out of Santa Monica, California, recently interviewed the sometimes Denton-based electro-pop duo Roy G. and the Biv for a short featurette about the band’s jazz background, pop sensibilities and the “pretty solid” grasp the duo has of its futuristic, uh, future. Check it out in the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 29, 2009… Marilyn Manson has threatened music journalists who say things about his band he doesn’t like. Way to be a crybaby, Brian. Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill feels a bit overworked from all the touring he’s done lately…
Paul Slocum may be heading for New York, but he is leaving Dallas fans (and anyone with an Internet connection) with a parting gift: four free MP3s from his Tree Wave music project. Go to Tree Wave’s web site and you’ll be redirected to an FTP where you can download…
We’ve brought up LehtMoJoe a few times now on DC9, mentioning Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva’s various remixes, and marveling at his production rate–and, specifically, how he planned to release a new remix ever week leading up to the release of his solo album, Spaghetti Western. Well, on Friday night,…
Well, this is somewhat shocking. But true! The fine intellectuals over at National Public Radio have deemed the “Let’s Go Crazy” cover from Denton punk ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers as their song of the day. No, really. Color us kind of shocked at this revelation. When the Spin magazine Purplish…
Haven’t yet heard this track from Dallas rapper Trai’D on local hip-hop radio, but it seems as likely as some of the other Dallas hip-hop jams of the summer to make it big, thanks in large part to its catchy–and no doubt female-placating–hook. And, sure, it helps that it’s called…
Our nightlife crew began their weekend with the Kixpo pre-party at the Lounge on Elm Street Friday night, where DJs Sober and A1 spun and rappers Jabee and Playdough performed for the shoe-loving crowd.By Saturday night, at least some folks on the floor were ready to go shoeless as New…
This year’s Kixpo at Life in Deep Ellum showcased the most impressive sneaker and streetwear collections in town, with music from DJ Love and Tyrone Smiley. There were shoes for the buying, cupcakes for the grubbing, a skate deck design contest and an afterparty at the Lounge on Elm Street…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 28, 2009… The Get Up Kids have formally apologized for a nation full of eyeliner and tight jean-wearing emo kids. Thank you, it’s long overdue. Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been forced to cancel a…
Area hip-hop product Dorrough–and subject of my column in this week’s print product–is gonna be tough to avoid in the coming weeks as he prepares for his debut album’s August 4 release (moved back a week from last we heard). For one, all this week, the MTV Jams Fab Five…
VNV NationListening to VNV Nation is reminiscent of listening to alternative music when it was a viable and legitimate form of music. The band isn’t something you’re going to hear on a traditional modern rock radio station; combining elements of electronica, dance music and a little bit of industrial for…
The O’s at AllGood Café on Friday, July 24Foot stomping, banjo picking and two good ‘ol boys screaming heartache? I’m absolutely loving this duo. You may notice Willie Nelson keeping a close eye on The O’s during this set…..
Reel Big Fish, The English BeatGilley’sJuly 26, 2009 Better than: Going to bed early out of loyalty to a 9 to 5 job you don’t like anyway.”Hey, after the show, you wanna turn this energy around and ride the rollercoaster on the ceiling?” says Reel Big Fish frontman Aaron Barrett,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 27, 2009… Nerds unite! A symphonic concert version of Star Wars will start in October. The symphony will play the classic John Williams score set to different video pieces of the beloved franchise. Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan thinks U.S. music…
After Tuesday’s festivities, it almost feels redundant to have an actual weekend. But there are plenty of musical reasons not to waste the weekend catching up on all the things that hangover kept you from finishing on Wednesday. As for stuff going on Friday, we’ve already told you about Kixpo…
Tonight marks the start of Dallas’ third annual sneakerhead indulgence weekend, as sneaker and streetwear expo Kixpo kicks off its 2009 rendition with an official pre-party concert at The Lounge on Elm Street, with performances from Jabee and Playdough, and DJ sets fron A-One and Sober. But that’s just the…
Over at Pitchfork today, area sun-drenched retro-pop outfit Neon Indian (side project of Vega, your DOMA-winning Best Dance/Electronica Act) has been awarded a Best New Music tag for its song “Deadbeat Summer.”Writes reviewer Richard Armitage, while giving the song a score of 9 out of 10: “Here the project really…
…and for those of you of the Youtube persuasion, your link is right here. Last week’s guest at DC9 in SPACE were Paul Slavens, Audrey Easley, Tamara Cauble and Rachel Yoder, who, when their powers combine, join to form the neo-classical electro-chamber orchestral outfit Chameleon Chamber Group. Unsurprisingly, at least…
The Waco-born and Booker T. Washington-educated two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has announced the details of his next album, a disc called Emergence, which will see the light of day a month from tomorrow, on August 25.The disc is a little bit of a departure for Hargrove, but…
It was, well, about six months ago now, almost to the day, that we first came across the quick-rhyming styles of area hipster-hop act/skate-rapper GalleryCat and fell head over heels for his single “Say Say Say,” a high-energy, borderline eight-bit dance romp about the difficulties of finding love in an…
The above clip is one man’s take–this “one man” in question being Pugs & Kelly producer Eric Marc–on Tuesday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony. Warning: There is puke involved. (To be fair, I never promised it was gonna be a classy party…)But others are still talking DOMA in the…
