Almost a year to the date after Club Dada unceremoniously shuttered its doors under its last ownership regime, a team of investors led by City Tavern owner Josh Florence has signed a new five-year lease on the historic venue. On Monday, workers will enter the building to begin work on…
When local artists receive coverage from national press, we usually give little more than a thumbs up and keep on moving. But the past few days has seen an exceptional number of Dallas-based acts in the news. So, on that note, here’s a little grab bag for you:Today, The Orbans’…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 26, 2010…How can using auto-tune not unfairly reflect a singers talent in a singing competition?How awesome must your watch be if your family thinks you would kill yourself because someone stole it?Is the Contra cover girl mad because her picture…
Frisco is turning into quite the rock ‘n’ roll city thanks to the folks at Lochrann’s Irish Pub & Eatery and Spune Productions. Spune began booking Thursday night shows at Lochrann’s a few months back, offering Frisco(ans?) a chance to see the area’s best bands without having to drive 20…
For the past five years, WeShotJR, for better or worse, has been a fairly prominent player in the local music scene, be it for its authors’ secret identities, for its even-more anonymous commenters’ rantings or for its honest, if oftentimes harsh, criticisms and opinions.When it launched in January of 2006,…
Dallas native and Lincoln High School graduate Chris Bosh may be breaking the bank these days as “that other guy who went to the Miami Heat,” but the guy who saw his stock rise more this NBA offseason than any other player (maybe in the history of the league), still…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 25, 2010…Pitchfork counts down the best 50 videos of the ’90s–and they actually have some good choices!The guy who wrote “What A Wonderful World” has died.Guns N’ Roses has been warned to be on time for the Reading and Leeds…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 24, 2010…Fantasia admits that you “can’t accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”Weezer is planning on playing Pinkerton and “The Blue Album” in their entirety… if that’s cool with promoters.The Army seems to be at least a little bit cooler…
The often-controversial, sometimes provocative local music blog WeShotJR, notorious around town for a few reasons, not the least of which has always been its writers’ insistence on keeping their identities anonymous, announced today in a post penned by head honcho “Stoned Ranger” that its five-year run (the site launched in…
Followers of Dallas rapper Dorrough, the man behind “Walk That Walk,” “Ice Cream Paint Job” and “Get Big,” on Twitter were treated to an onslaught of retweets on Thursday from the fast-rising performer’s account, most of which centered around a rumor that the Lancaster native’s cell phone was stolen and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 23, 2010…A man intentionally leaped to his death at a Swell Season show.Turns out Wyclef won’t have to worry about what will happen to him if he were president. Charles Haddon jumped to his death after his band’s set at…
Listen: I’m not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We’ve got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.) But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press…
We here at DC9 have been salivating over Kanye West’s new single, “Power,” pretty much all summer long. Why? Well, for a few reasons–namely, because the song is a beast, one of the best hip-hop tracks we’ve heard all year, but also because, yessir, it was produced by Dallas’ own…
Last we spoke with Sarah Jaffe, the prodigious local singer-songwriter spoke excitedly about the new material she was already hard at work on–songs that would take her music in a more lo-fi, perhaps more aggressive direction, the singer warned. Given the first insight we had into that direction–a second take…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, August 20, 2010…Conrad O’Brien is releasing two albums on Jack White’s Third Man label.So it looks like all those church stories about kids taking acid and thinking they could fly are true. Gigwise–well, their Twitter followers–declare the most overrated bands ever…
Less than a week from now, on Wednesday, August 25, at the Palladium Ballroom, the electro-funk masters in Chromeo will roll through town, bringing with them Brooklyn’s Holy Ghost!, and, surely, the same tongue-in-cheek attitudes that have served them so well since bursting on to the scene with their 2004…
We’ve known for some time now that the new disc from the Old 97’s, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, was being prepared for a Tuesday, October 12, release. But as for any coinciding performances with that release? Well, on that front, the band’s calendar’s been rather dark. Until now.Yesterday, we…
Dallas Family Band cohort Jacob Metcalf is leaving town. But is he off to NYC, like Norah Jones or Neon Indian? Or, perhaps, he’s just fulfilling the old cliche and moving to Austin? Nope. But he is headed south.”I’m going to Guadalajara,” Metcalf says over the phone from his parents’…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 19, 2010…The Haitian government pulled a Lee Corso when they told Wyclef: not so fast my friend!Sometimes a match made in hell isn’t meant to last.Kings of Leon turned down licensing their music to Ugly Betty and Glee in fear…
Exit 380’s intentions aren’t always clear–and, really, let’s face it, the band’s recent EP release, Cities Townies EP earlier this year didn’t really help matters. Are they trying to be the next Alice in Chains? Or are they trying to head down a more country/folk rock path better suited to…
More often than not, when bands break up, they do so in a blaze of glory–or, at the very least, with one final show to milk out every last bit of interest that they can. But, as one Frenemy of DC9 noted in the comments yesterday, pretty much the whole…
Nova Posta Vinyl, the record label that’s owned and operated by Midlake’s Eric Pulido and Robert Gomez, has been busy lately. Just last week, we found out that the Denton label will be re-releasing Midlake’s The Trials of Van Occupanther on vinyl. And now? They’re offering up a free download…
