If there’s one thing not to adore about St. Vincent’s just-released sophomore release, Actor, it’s that the album includes two bonus track in addition to its listed 11 songs. Only, they’re not available on the CD.Instead, the songs “Bicycle” and “Oh My God” are exclusive bonus mp3s that come with…
Although never a big admirer of Korn, I can appreciate guitarist Brian Welch’s decision to leave the multi-platinum band behind and dedicate himself to his chosen religion. The guy was baptized in the Jordon River and has built several orphanages in poverty stricken areas of India, so it’s pretty fair…
Life will be imitating art pretty much all night tonight as B-Hamp celebrates the release of his full-length debut, B Dash, by stopping and posing for the frame (thanks, I’ll be here all week) at a slew of events scheduled to take place around town tonight.First up, at the Eargazum…
In what can only be deemed a questionable PR move (at best), Play-N-Skillz has agreed to a live, 5 p.m. interview today with DJ Bay Bay on KKDA-FM 104.5 to discuss the recent claims that Lil Wayne never paid the brothers Salinas for their production work on the third single…
There’s a nice pairing atop the bill on tomorrow night’s somewhat avant-metal-leaning show at the Granada Theater as the Boston-founded, L.A.-based Isis rolls through town with the Chicago-based (and instrumental) Pelican in tow. Never seen Isis live, but I can say from experience that Pelican’s is a show that shouldn’t…
Still waiting to hear back from, well, pretty much all possible sources on what went down on at the Rec Shop’s customer appreciation celebration on Sunday afternoon. As our slideshow and, now, the above video clip shows, a whole bunch of cops showed up to emphatically shut down the party…
As big a fan as I am of Josh Alan Friedman, I always sort of dread writing about him–just listing his credentials takes longer than writing the full text of most blog entries. Anyway, Friedman (DOMA-winning acoustic blues man, Dallas Observer contributor, Tales of Times Square author, Al Goldstein biographer,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 18, 2009… You know what sucks about reading? Words. So to that end, the good folks from the 33 1/3 music book series will let you download the newest installment focusing on the Beastie Boys classic Paul’s Boutique for free!…
I swear, one of these weeks, I’m gonna be able to make it out to The Libertine for its weekly Monday night event, The Local Yokel Show, where it’s all local music, all the time on the bar’s PA.And, actually, tonight seems as good a time as any for me–or,…
Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records’ annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and…
A bunch of luminaries, local and otherwise, celebrated the 32nd birthday of R.C. Williams at the downtown ultralounge Plush last night, including Erykah Badu, Devin the Dude and area rapper/goofball Pikahsso, who shot the above clip of Badu singing “Happy Birthday” to the man she employs as her touring keyboardist.In…
Another weekend, another slew of Youtube uploads reminding us about what we did…Kenny Chesney at Pizza Hut Park on May 17, 2009Kenny Chesney returned to Frisco last night to make up for his rained-out performance from earlier in the month. It was so awesome, the crowd even cheered as Chesney…
The Dears, Great Northern, EulogiesHailey’s Club, DentonMay 16, 2009Better than: a bill featuring The Dear Hunter along with The Dear and the Departed. For The Dears’ first show in Denton, it was rather surprising to see Hailey’s far from capacity. Blame this on the fact that UNT was out of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 18, 2009… Coldplay knows that most of us without millions of dollars and superstar wives have it bad because of this recession thing. So, to help out the people who want to see them live, but can’t, the band is giving away…
There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it’s almost overwhelming. Remember, back in the days when you used to go to video stores to rent movies, how it felt to just stare at the cases with no idea what you wanted to watch, and there were…
You know you’re getting old when a guy in a band emails and says that he can be contacted after 3:35 on weekdays because that’s when school lets out.Hayden Doskocil, 15-year old guitarist for local metal band Fear Me, Paris, was the culprit this time–but hey, kudos for the guy…
Earlier this month, local DJ/producer LehtMoJoe entered a Passion Pit-sponsored contest to remix the band’s song “Little Secrets” in anticipation of the band’s debut LP release, Manners, due out on Tuesday. And he’s had some success with it: Two days ago, his remix of the track, which had already been…
A couple Friends of DC9 have checked in with us over the course of the day today wondering if there’s some sort of conspiracy afoot with the Tool show coming up on July 25 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. Well, far as David Ireland, marketing manager for the…
In this week’s print edition, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs calls tomorrow night’s show at Hailey’s in Denton with The Dears, Great Northern and Eulogies “probably the don’t-miss show of the week,” and, actually, it’s tough to argue with him, given The Dears’ penchant for dramatic live shows.So…wanna to see this…
Hailing from Austin, Dead Earth Politics claims all of the cool metal influences: Iron Maiden, Lamb of God, Slayer, Mastodon, etc. And surprisingly, the quartet does incorporate most of them into its loud and dense onslaught. Lead vocalist Ven Scott was gracious enough to send over a track off the…
Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com’s “Track Reviews” feature. Not a bad precedent, I’d say. So how’d it go? Well, let’s break it down…Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from “No Reasons”–a song we’ve already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily–from VEGA’s…
In this week’s print edition, Kelly Knickerbocker spoke with Fischerspooner’s Warren Fischer, who helped detail his and bandmate Casey Spooner’s ascent from art school weirdos into pop culture commentators/electro-dance freaks. It’s an interesting story–check it out–and sheds some light into what Fischerspooner hopes to accomplish with its notoriously excessive live…
