Perhaps you saw that new Cheap Trick eight-track cartridge that Stephen Colbert was holding up and promoting on his Colbert Report last week? Made in Arlington. Hand to God. By mom-and-pop outfit KTS Productions, to be specific—though you’d never know it from reading recent stories concerning Cheap Trick’s expensive gimmick,…
Last week, a certain local music blog—one which will remain anonymous here so long as its proprietors insist on being anonymous themselves (however pointlessly)—took issue with the house party theme surrounding this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards, implying that it’s a calculated move on our part. No worries, though, ’cause…
Now that George W. Bush has been ousted from office, what’s left for punk bands to gripe about? Well, there’s still the war in Iraq, the failing economy and the world’s increasingly negative view of the United States—all of which happen to be topics that Chicago’s Rise Against tackles on…
Perform in a band for nearly 40 years and a few occurrences are unavoidable: You will experience both thrilling highs (Grammys, Academy Award noms, platinum sales to the nth degree) and crashing lows (drug addiction, the acrimonious departure of original members); you’ll break social boundaries (Run-DMC’s collaborative rap remix of…
Jessica Lea Mayfield isn’t the type of young singer-songwriter who’s wise beyond her years; if anything, her songs show just how young she is. Her lyrics speak to the hardships of a young girl trying to understand the rapturous feeling of falling in love and the heartbreak of breaking up…
Expectedly mellow, R&B crooner Maxwell’s much-teased fourth album, BLACKsummers’night, is part one in the BlackSummers’Night trilogy to be completed over three years with BlackSUMMERS’Night and BlackSummers’NIGHT. Oh, boy. The title/concept, in true Maxwell fashion, is embellished, sure. You could picture an exasperated theater student explaining, “No, no, this one is…
“Orange Shirt,” the first track off the debut album, LP, from indie electro-pop duo Discovery, sums up perfectly the funky electro-pop sound the band is striving to achieve. DIY laptop-pop drums and synths are greeted right away by light, cherubic, indie-rock vocals—a kooky amalgamation that works right from the get-go…
The Features play sturdy, charismatic rock—which is why the band never should have been on a major label. Yet in 2004, the Nashville quartet dropped its excellent debut album, Exhibit A, on Universal. Despite strong reviews and attention-grabbing tours with The Walkmen and Kings of Leon, is it such a…
For all the jazz-related hype and buzz Denton gets, the off-campus opportunities to listen to up-and-coming jazz musicians are as irregular, fluctuating and intermittent as the music itself—with one exception. Sure, the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and the city is home to the…
In the coming days, we’ll be flooding DC9 with more and more exciting news surrounding this year’s DOMA Showcase on Saturday and the Awards Ceremony, which will take place starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Granada Theater.For now, though, let’s just get this exciting news out of the…
On Tuesday, August 18, Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon will release its highly anticipated sophomore release, the Will Johnson-produced The Tide and The Current–a disc I can, having heard it, say is definitely worth the hype and the wait since 2007’s excellent debut, All The Good News. Oh, and speaking of…
Apparently, every week on the new Web Soup show on G4, host Chris Hardwick shows his viewers a clip called “Things You Can’t Unsee” and follows it up with another, cutesy animal clip called the “Palate Cleanser.” Well, we’re a little late to the game on this one, but it…
…and for ye of the Youtube generation, here’s your link.Last week, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme, better known ’round these parts as the indie pop duo Smile Smile, stopped by SPACE Studio for the latest installment of our ongoing DC9 in SPACE–or episode No. 11, for those of you keeping…
The O’s are helping a friend shoot a pilot for a potential travel show in which bands show host Vydra around town, and will be filming and hanging out at The Libertine Bar (2101 Greenville Ave.) today at 4 p.m. And, because bars typically aren’t exactly at capacity at that…
Rx Bandits, Dredg, Good Old WarGranada TheaterJuly 14, 2009 Better Than: Staying in to watch that overrated jackass on Hell’s Kitchen. They look unwashed, unshaven, lazy and listless. They’re wearing what looks like the same clothes they pulled on days ago. They resemble Austin street-hippy people. …
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Kip Malone of TV on The Radio has described his solo record as Beyonce pop fused with biblical analysis. Or something like that. Katy Perry had to refer to deviled eggs as “angelic eggs” as a kid? And I…
Later this week, we’ll have a slideshow of photos taken from inside the building as renovations are being completed, but in the meantime, we can pass along the below info in reference to the goings-on at Trees, as it plans for its Friday, August 14, re-opening..First and foremost: There will…
…and it’s another nationally recognized band from the DFW region: Bowling for Soup. The band joins the already stacked, nine-hour event bill featuring the Toadies, The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Eleven Hundred Springs and The Boom Boom Box. Tickets to the event, which will be held Saturday, August 29, at…
If, like me, you’ve been an admirer of the album artwork Teenage Cool Kids’ Andrew Savage provided for his band’s excellent new album, Foreign Lands, or for the band’s 7-inch singles “Poison Sermons” and “Speaking in Tongues,” then you’re in for a treat today. Savage has announced that he’s selling…
Ever since Faith No More went platinum with “Epic” way back in 1989, there has always seemed to be a spot in the marketplace for industrial strength metal/funk. Korn certainly took the sound to new heights of popularity and the genre proved financially viable enough for lesser-known bands to carve…
In Nate Jackson’s write-up for tonight’s Rx Bandits/Dredg/Good Old War show at The Granada, Rx Bandit Steve Choi opines that the band’s latest material is a reflection on the late-20s struggle of finding one’s place in this world. That kind of lyrical content may sound like coffee-shop acoustic-guitar material, but…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 14, 2009… Ozzy Osbourne has decided to drop Zakk Wylde from his band. But, he may want to tell Zakk… According to a new study, the percentage of teens who illegally download music has dropped by almost half in the…
