Assuming you’ve picked up a copy of the Observer or read this blog in the past two weeks, the news that the Old 97’s are playing our St. Patrick’s Day Parade After Party Concert is old hat by now. Well, today, we’ve got some additions to the bill. Supporting the…
As promised, Greenville’s own Ben Kweller stopped by Letterman last night to debut the song “Fight” off his upcoming album Changing Horses. The song’s a little bit more country than most Kweller fans might be expecting (which has one blog poking fun already). But I kinda dig it, in that…
Yesterday over at GvB, Chris Cantalini posted a clip of DFWd’s own St. Vincent privately performing her song “Marry Me” for the folks of Shoot The Player at the Sydney Festival. It’s a hell of a video–and not just because Annie Clark takes the time to perform a gorgeous stripped-down…
Wax poetic all you want about the beauty to be found in the act of destruction (looking at you, Gallagher) but there’s also something that’s just fun about lighting shit on fire and tearing it up. Rare is the occasion when we’re able to do it with a cheering audience…
… ’cause the man who put on the fifth-best show of 2008 ain’t bringing his Working on a Dream tour through the D. Well, at least not yet….(Sobs.)…
Two weeks ago, we passed along word that Tim DeLaughter had written the theme song for the new Diablo Cody- and Steven Spielberg-produced Showtime series The United States of Tara. Well, that’s the opening above. And, yes, it does mention nature, love and happiness, as anticipated. (Tip o’ the ball…
Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller is back in town–this time to record his upcoming solo record with Blame It On Gravity producer Salim Nourallah. But it’s not all work and no play for the singer-songwriter. Tonight, he takes to the stage at Sons of Hermann Hall for a quick one-off…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 27, 2009… The rights to a stage version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller 1=28102″>have been purchased by Broadway producer James Nederlander. The show, once it actually gets produced, will included songs from Jacko’s Thriller and Off The Wall albums. No word…
This week, two new interns joined the Aural Ambush squad and our $20 Discman was replaced with a borrowed iPod. A few weeks/months off and suddenly this is a high class operation? Well, actually, that’s fitting: Only the best would do for the esteemed Knox Street patrons and joggers of…
No, nothing will ever, ever compare to this, the original version of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”. Nothing.And yet, somehow, this new cover of the song (via) from one-time Dallas resident Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) is a pretty decent effort in its own right–and certainly worth a listen. Girl’s…
Greenville native Ben Kweller’s new full-length album, Changing Horses, will see the light of day next Tuesday (February 3), and, as we already told you, those excited about the release can go ahead and pre-order that sucker to get some extra goodies from the shaggy-haired redhead. Oh, and those folks…
After YouTubing like mad, I’ve come up with some concert videos from shows you might have missed this past weekend. R&B smooth-crooner John Legend performed at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie on Thursday, January 22. Is it just me, or does his starry backdrop look like the Windows Media Player…
Seems that native Fort Worthian Andrew Kenny, founding member and frontman of Austin-by-way-of-Fort Worth act American Analog Set, has started a new band. It’s called The Wooden Birds–and, no big deal, the brand new band’s already been signed to the phenomenal Barsuk label, in fact. Happened on Friday, wouldn’t ya…
Today is Australia Day, dear readers, in case you didn’t know. Yep, a whole damn day dedicated to celebrating all things Down Under. Go figure.(Also: It’s the Chinese New Year, if my Replacements calendar is to be trusted.) To honor this day, you should probably go ahead and read Darryl…
Seems we keep coming back to Daytrotter in recent weeks. Already, twice in the past two months–when the studio recorded My Brightest Diamond, and then again when the studio recorded Ben Kweller–we’ve linked to the tour-stop recordings made at this little, but well-known (thanks, Internet!) Illinois studio. Now let’s go…
Well, Ex-Ghosthustler frontman Alan Palomo did promise us that he’d have a new Vega single out by mid-January, and over the weekend he delivered. “Well Known Pleasures” (no hyphen!) was made available for download on Gorilla Vs. Bear, as well as, ahem, “exclusively” over on on Discobelle. Well, “exclusive” must…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 26, 2009…Wu-Tang mastermind RZA and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadijan are working to finish up a collaboration on a new album. The group, called, Achozen, will not, according to Odadijan, be a Nu-Metal band…Kanye West has denied the…
AC/DC, The AnswerAmerican Airlines CenterJanuary 23, 2009 Better than: Watching Spinal Tap for the hundredth time while smoking crack in a trailer park in Balch Springs. In front of a sold out crowd at the American Airlines Center, legendary hard rock icons AC/DC delivered nearly two hours of thundering, unapologetically…
It’s weekend time, fair readers. Here’s your schedule of events…First, as always, the shows we’ve already spoken on…Tonight seems to be the biggest hotbed of action: Radiant*, Salim Nourallah, Menkena and Winslow Bright play the Granada; Big Red Rooster and Sublime cover act Badfish take to the House of Blues;…
Here’s something worth mentioning: Local rock outfit Macon Greyson has a song in the Mickey Rourke comeback flick, The Wrestler. The band first announced to its fans that its song “Blacklight”, off the band’s 2007 release 20th Century Accidents, would appear in the movie back in mid-December via a Myspace…
Tonight at the American Airlines Center, before Aussie rock legends AC/DC will be bringing back a lot of high school memories by banging out classic hard rock warhorses such as “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hell’s Bells”, the crowds will be warmed up by Ireland’s The Answer, a…
Welcome to This or That, the weekly segment here on DC9 where we stream an unmarked song and ask, simply enough, “Is this [POP BAND X] or just another crappy local band?” Why? Because we don’t think you’ll be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the…
