Six months ago at the Granada Theater, the much-adored local alt-country kings in Centro-matic took to the stage to—big shock here—blow away its die-hard audience’s mind with yet another impressive live show. Yada yada yada. Pretty much par for the course for Will Johnson and crew. But on that summer…
Yet another weekend in Denton chock full of shows. But other than a rather, um, noisy bill at the house venue House of Tinnitus, it was a rather business-as-usual kind of Saturday night at Denton’s venues. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just that, at some point, seeing…
There’s no shortage of challengers to iTunes’ hegemony: In September, MySpace opened its new music storefront, and Best Buy purchased Napster to dip into online music retailing; in August, Rhapsody formed a partnership with MTV/Viacom to help market its subscription and download service; two years ago, Microsoft launched its Zune…
When you wake up on Tuesday, January 20—the day of President-elect Obama’s inauguration—should you consult your copy of the Times or Billboard to set expectations for the next four years? It all depends on whether you believe in the monoculture. The mono-what? Let us explain. Though the word “monoculture” began…
Speaking from his American house in, of all places, Atlanta, Georgia, Norwegian industrial/techno wizard Andy LaPlegua, leader of Combichrist, comes across like the nicest punk you’re ever likely to meet. A few minutes spent talking with the polite, well-spoken and surprisingly good-humored LaPlegua and I was just about ready to…
Funny that Yo! Majesty’s Futuristically Speaking…Never Be Afraid didn’t make Christianity Today or Patrol’s 2008 best faith-based albums lists. After all, “Never Be Afraid,” from the Florida electro-crunk rap duo, offers a frank presentation of the Christian gospel, bemoaning worldly evils and celebrating the salvation offered by the Holy Ghost…
Quite the quartet of semi-local, well-respected indie acts assembled on this particular evening—and the headliner might be the least interesting of the bunch. While Black Tie Dynasty makes the girls go crazy with all sorts of retro chic, Austin’s What Made Milwaukee Famous doesn’t need to plunder the graveyard of…
The list of bands playing SXSW 2009 got updated today, and, unlike last time, there’s actually some legitimately local acts on there. And more than just one!So, who got added? Glad you asked… Jump to find out…
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…
In tomorrow’s print supplement to DC9, Quia Querisma gives an enthusiastic recommendation of Dallas battle rapper Info-Red’s Kaleidescope, praising his verbal versatility and the album’s “mid-’90s East Coast Feel (a very good thing).” You can get a taste for the album by checking out a couple of its tracks on…
Greenville native done good Ben Kweller was the featured artist for Monday’s Daytrotter Session. As part of the session, the baby-faced troubadour has offered up three songs from his new album, Changing Horses, and one from 2004’s On My Way. Kweller also offers up some insight into the inspiration for…
The National Association for Music Merchants is having its winter get together in Anaheim, California this week and Arlington’s Glitter Rose (right, as photographed by Kaci Okabayashi of Industrial Envy) is playing a showcase for Moody Leather, the company that endorses her guitar strap. Ms. Rose informs me via email…
Hailing from New Mexico, Michael Hearne plays Americana music with such a gracious demeanor, some might overlook the depth of his songs simply because of their mellow, mostly acoustic presentation. To do so would be a shame, however, as Hearne is one of the best singer/songwriters (not to mention guitar…
For what it’s worth, when Los Lonely Boys stop through town for a gig on Sunday, January 25, at the Granada Theater, it will be for, what their publicist calls, “a very special acoustic show.”Ah, the ol’ “special acoustic show” trick, eh? We’ve seen this one before.Should be, um, lively and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 14, 2009… It looks like another legendary band could be getting back together–if a promoter can cough up enough dough. Yep, this time it could be indie legends Pavement who could be on the reunion trail. I like to see they…
Well, OK, so it’s not completely a reunion…or much of one at all, really. But, still, a real treat coming up tomorrow night at Club Dada, as part of Sunward’s month-long artist-in-residency: After opening sets from Young and Brave and Sunward, three members of Sunward (frontman Doug Kershaw, bassist Dave…
Although not quite keeping up on his resolution to blog more regularly in 2009 (like, c’mon, at all…what gives?), Hunter Hauk does have a nice little gem over on Quick’s blog this afternoon: A Tim DeLaughter-penned and -performed song has been selected as the opening theme song for the new…
It’s not exactly a secret at this point–it’s on Dan’s Silverleaf’s online calendar, on opening act The O’s’ Myspace page and on the fan-run Slobberbone Myspace page–but we might as well pass along the news (although one commenter already, um, kinda did earlier today): Slobberbone’s reuniting for two area shows.And,…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in…
Dallas-based soul singer N’dambi, who, once upon a time, sang backup for Erykah Badu and is now signed to Stax Records, will be in D.C. next week during all them inaugural proceedings.Well, OK, not quite. N’dambi (pictured right, as photographed by Andreas Branch) will be performing on Sunday at the…
Vinnie Paul Abbott’s at it again, folks. About half a year after the Pantera, Hellyeah and DamagePlan drummer put his oven up for sale on eBay, Abbott (as seen above) is now selling an old Motorola Startrac–his first cellphone, actually, which was given to him by his brother, the late,…
A streaming version of the new single from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson, “My Life Would Suck Without You”, is beginning to hit the web, and, yep, that’s it right atop this post. So far, the term “catchy-as-hell” has been applied to the song, and well, it’s not a wrong assessment…..
