I just spent way too long on Youtube searching for videos from this past weekend in area concert-going (apparently our spring semester interns’ last days have come and gone), and all I came up with were videos from Edgefest 19 up at Pizza Hut Park this past weekend.But beggars can’t…
Renowned musician and Fort Worth native Stephen Bruton passed away on Saturday after complications from throat cancer. He was 60 years old.Over a nearly 40-year career, Bruton worked with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, T. Bone Burnett, Bonnie Raitt, Johhny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings Kris Kristofferson and many, many…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Booking residencies on late night talk shows has become quite the fad this year. But I think Eminem needs to figure out what a residency actually means. Like Prince did with Jay Leno, Eminem will perform for three nights…
We already reminded you once, but what the heck, let’s do it again: Sunday is Mother’s Day. Remember it. Write it in permanent ink on your hand. Don’t spend the next year in the doghouse with mom, because, really, moms rock. Now, onto some actual rock. As always, let’s lead…
Tonight, Reno’s Chop Shop in Deep Ellum has a great lineup of punk and punk-influenced local acts that includes Rocket For Ethiopia, Warcola, Division of Power, Sleep As The Enemy, Just Another Consumer and Embolization. Even better than the bill is the cause. The Phoenix Project is a DIY space…
Tonight, Hailey’s hosts the record release party for Denton’s own Backside Pick’s sophomore release, Higher Place. Good Hailey’s regulars probably already know the band as bar-manager Rocky Ottley’s progy-funky rock band. Ottley, who writes and arranges the songs himself, thinks you’re gonna like the album’s title track, so he passed…
It’s no secret that we love us some Black Joe Lewis around these parts. Got a soft spot for retro soul, I guess. Dig Lucero, too, because, really, there’s nothing wrong with whiskey-soaked alt-country–nothing whatsoever. And though the two might make for an interesting pairing because, well, they’re so sonically…
Tomorrow night, the local heroes of all things angst and angularity, The Paper Chase, will take to the stage at the Granada Theater to perform a pseudo-release show for its new (and quite fantastic) Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1, a disc Jesse Hughey dutifully and quite capably…
Some DC9 readers poked fun at me for listing Kenny Chesney show at Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park in last week’s Good Friday blog post. Well, love him or hate him, at least Chesney has some principals: Even though he only made it through a few songs before torrential rain shut…
Mother’s Day is nigh upon us–and c’mon, you can do better than some crappy (and sappy) card. It’s time to give your mom a gift that reflects how you really feel about her. Now, she may not enjoy the following music-related gift ideas, but make sure you throw that gift…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 8, 2009… Time to practice your hammer-ons and roll-offs–Guitar Hero: Van Halen will hit shelves some time in the second half of this year. Band in-fighting and prima donna attitudes not included. Jane’s Addiction may be jumping on board the…
A major hurdle’s been cleared for former Firewater talent-buyer Clint Barlow in his efforts to re-open Trees come late summer: The City Plan Commission voted unanimously today to recommend that the city grant the club a two-year special use permit. In mid-June, the City Council will have the final vote…
Welcome to the newest weekly feature here on DC9, called, quite aptly, I think, DC9 in SPACE. (Pause for effect.)The concept is pretty simple: Every Wednesday night, we’re inviting a different act to play at Hal Samples’ SPACE Studio for an intimate, filmed performance. And it’ll be shot however the…
This week’s featured poster is for Jay Gummer (Band), which performs Saturday at the Lakewood Bar & Grill. Nothing too fancy, but I like the style, which is distinctive to Gummer’s posters. Dunno the artist yet, but will update when I do. And I appreciate all the suggestions I’ve been…
Thanks to his work with former Def Jux artists Hangar 18 and others, area beat maker, producer, and DJ Rob Viktum’s got a resume most area producers would love to boast–hell, the guy even (kinda) remixed “Jenny’s Song” for us back in September. So you know he’s a good sport,…
The venerable Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram checks in today with some crappy news over on the Fort Worth daily’s music blog: Calhoun appears to be calling it quits after its next gig, on Friday, May 15, at the Aardvark. Click the link for all the details on the likely…
I’m not going to pretend this is exclusive news or anything; I just wanted to say something. Over on Gorilla Vs. Bear yesterday, Chris Cantalini offered up his readers a free download of the latest VEGA track, a song called “No Reasons” (download after link), which should be included on…
The New York Times checked in with St. Vincent yesterday, a day after her sophomore album, Actor, earned its official release–mostly, it seems, because the NYT wants in on the hype, dammit. The piece is mostly a straight up feature profile, with very little color commentary from the article’s scribe…
Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes EarleGranada TheaterMay 6, 2009 Better than: Drinkin’ your corn liquor and lettin’ cocaine be. From the time the crowd started arriving at the Granada it was apparent that Old Crow Medicine Show was the place to be: If it wasn’t apparent by the crowd…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 7, 2009…The script for the Nick Cave-penned sequel to Gladiator has been unearthed. Nick Cave may need to quit his day job with the Bad Seeds and start writing movies.You can check out the possibly new track from the Beastie…
Lucero isn’t the first group to mix punk rock’s aggression with country’s penchant for twang, but the Memphis, Tennessee, act has spent the last decade becoming the band of choice for PBR-swilling, trucker-hat-wearing fans everywhere. Although the group’s latest release, Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers, is more rock-oriented than its…
Jonathan Coulton is OK with being a geek. After all, his geekiness is the key to his success as a musician who writes about mad scientists, sad robots and being a code monkey. “I’m lucky in that the things I am interested in and the things that I write about…
