The video for Ben Kweller’s “Fight”–the same song he performed on Letterman earlier this week–premiered on Myspace today and, well, it’s quite a literal translation of the lyrics (at the start at least). But what country song isn’t? And, yes, it is a little silly. Borderline stupid, even. But the…
The “official” “deadline” for bands to submit their application to play NX35 came and went last Thursday, and, according to the festival’s mastermind, Chris Flemmons, the first-year conferette managed to spread the word and nab enough submissions to fulfill their contractual obligations with Sonicbids.So, bands that didn’t send in their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 29, 2009… Lynyrd Skynyrd’s keyboardist, Billy Powell, died at his Florida home at the age of 56. It looks like the Joaquin Phoenix “rap career” could possibly be a hoax after all. I really hope it is because, well, he sucks…
A few days after Christmas, in a drafty house in Northwest Dallas, Amber Farris and David Ponder smile, even as they shiver. “Maybe I should turn up the heat,” Ponder suggest to Farris, who quickly nods her approval. As the room temperature approaches a more comfortable level, Farris and Ponder’s…
Like any traveling group of musicians, Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene has one thing in common with an army: It travels on its stomach. Excluding mega-stars who travel with personal chefs or have contract riders guaranteeing catered meals, most bands tend to rely on convenience stores and restaurants for…
B-Sides: Most every critical take I’ve seen on your lastest release, Saturdays=Youth, has called it out as perfect material for a John Hughes film soundtrack—which is pretty spot-on by my account too. How do you feel about that comparison? Anthony Gonzalez: I like it. The John Hughes movies have been…
north of the dial The sidewalks surrounding the University of North Texas were teeming with people last Tuesday at about 9 p.m. as nearby restaurants, bars and clubs at the intersection of Fry and Hickory streets started filling up with students. That morning, while the spring semester began at Denton’s…
A while back, I watched a video of Andrew Bird improvising with Yo-Yo Ma after an artist-on-artist interview. It was evident that Bird was humbled and honored to play with Ma, but no less confident in his hybrid of classical and folk violin taming—and that master whistling. Over the course…
Although the cover lists only the band’s name, this debut effort from local reggae/rock/hip-hop outfit Automorrow is referred to in promotional materials as The Diver EP. Whatever the band chooses to call its product, the five songs contained on this intriguing debut point to a band worth watching. On four…
Singer-songwriter Daniel Folmer is nothing if not prolific. Every time audiences digest an album from the young hockey player, he’s got another to throw out. And it’s nothing short of a thrill to watch and hear someone wield the pen and a pick with talent that just keeps growing more…
Be prepared to witness the before-and-after of Internet hype at this Club Dada show. Tapes ‘n Tapes, quintessential darlings of the blog world, exploded out of Minneapolis with its 2006 debut album, The Loon. After immediately earning praise from bedroom journalists and a rating of 8.3 on Pitchfork, the quartet…
It might seem counterproductive to use such a blatantly anti-consumerism song to sell a product, but for Apple it seems to make sense: Ever since last summer, the company has been using The Submarines’ “You Me and the Bourgeoisie” to hawk it’s iPhones. And who could blame them? Even before…
We noted yesterday that Rhett Miller’s in town to record a new solo album. Last night he played what was supposed to be a double-bill with Sarah Jaffe, to try out some of his new material in an acoustic show at Sons of Hermann Hall.Jaffe didn’t make it (we had…
Answer: That AwkQuarius gig at Rubber Gloves that we told you about in last week’s Good Friday. Of course, we didn’t tell you about the Dallas-based hipster-hop outfit known as galleryCat that opened for Pikahsso and Tahiti–mostly because we didn’t know them at the time either…..
Since Automorrow had the CD release party for its The Diver EP on Friday, and also since my review of said EP runs in this week’s print edition of the Observer, we at DC-9 thought you might like a little taste of the band. While the band incorporates ska and…
On Thursday, January 22, a little past 8:00 p.m., a car crashed through the front window of local music store CD Source. Seems an unlucky gent had pulled in front of the store and erroneously thought he had put his car in park. Once he opened the door and stepped…
Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father–and says he’s eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing…
Well, lookie, lookie: We just had so much darned fun making our year-end podcast a couple of weeks ago that we’ve decided to try and go ahead and try to do the same thing on a somewhat regular basis. Perhaps even weekly!So, here we present you with the official debut…
Billboard reports today that Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson is set to make chart history tomorrow. Here’s how: When the results for this week’s Hot 100 chart are officially revealed tomorrow, they will show that Clarkson’s newest single, “My Life Would Suck Without You”, will have made the largest jump to…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Wild…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 28, 2009… Scarlett Johansson remains dead set on adding “singer” to her resume: She has now covered Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye” for the soundtrack for He’s Just Not That Into You. You know the movie your girlfriend is going to drag you…
Per a Myspace blog post and a press release sent out to area media outlets by now-former frontman Cory Watson, local New Wave act Black Tie Dynasty–ever the line in the sand when it comes to area music fan tastes–has decided to call it quits. Says the band’s Myspace post:”Black…
