Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 15, 2010…Pete Wentz picked a hot Staten Island chanteuse for this side project, Black Cards. I would assume if we take a time machine forward to at least two years from now he’s left Ashley Simpson for her. ACE OF…
For the past couple of weeks, our marketing department here at the Observer has been running a special Wednesday-only promotion on tickets to this weekend’s Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase. A steal already at $10 per wristband for 10 hours of music and performances from 46 bands, the Wednesday deals…
Yet another local-on-local cover to share with you all today: This one comes courtesy of the Best Blues-nominated Tweed EQ, who’ve tackled the task of turning Air Review’s “Chasing Corporate” anthem into a blues jam. It just might be the most interesting cover we’ve seen yet, too. Give it a…
We’ve got a couple more local-on-local cover songs to share with you today, adding to our growing catalog, which already includes covers from Air Review (doing Ishi), Ishi (doing Sarah Jaffe) and Shiny Around the Edges (doing Neon Indian). First up this afternoon? The above clip from the multiple DOMA-nominated…
Just a few months after we openly pondered what will surely go down as great question of our time (“Is the D-Town Boogie dead?”) it seems as if we’ve received a temporary answer, courtesy of a collective of west coast rappers known as the Cali Swag District. In short: No,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 14, 2010…You know recording sessions are going bad when you have your psychiatrist call your producer and tell him to back off. In from “bad to worse” news–the new version of Sublime is set to record a new album. Frat…
We’re just gonna keep bashing you over the head this week with more information and more reasons to attend Saturday’s 10-hour, 46-band DOMA Showcase in Deep Ellum (example: buy your $10 all-access wristbands here), but, for now, a quick dalliance from that vendetta so we can bring some information on…
Not to rely too heavily on the folks at Pitchfork this morning, but they just keep breaking stories with local ties today. And this latest one is a pretty exciting one, too: Neon Indian has announced its touring plans for the rest of the summer and into the fall–and, included…
Last week we ran a story about a local jazz family Dennis, Aaron, and Stefan Gonzalez and their recent work with L.A.-based freak-folk artist, Ariel Pink. The collaboration resulted in a 12″ EP titled Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz, which was just released last weekend on the brilliantly named record…
Ola Podrida is a pretty weird name for a band–unless you grew up near the old theater of the same name in East Dallas as did singer David Wingo. Wingo split town to move to New York a few years ago, but he and the band will be back at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 13, 2010…Despite being locked up, Weezy is dropping an EP this September. I guess it’s a good thing to have tons of material recorded and stocked away in case of the occasional prison sentence…The Hard L.A. electronic music festival has…
So far, this DOMAXXII season, Ishi, which is up for four awards this year (Best Group, Best New Act, Best Song and Best Electronica/Dance Act) has received a whole lot of love, standing on on the receiving edge of not one, but two covers of its irresistible “Pastel Lights” track…
Shiny Around The Edges has a lot going on these days. Aside from following Air Review’s lead and making the above video, in which they rearrange the melody and general mood of fellow Dallas Observer Music Award nominee Neon Indian’s “I Should Have Taken Acid With You,” the Best Experimental/Avant…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 12, 2010…Reggae singer Sugar Minott has died.Looks like all us guys can cross Carrie Underwood off our lists… she got hitched.Usher shows Weezy ain’t got nothin’ on his work ethic as he sets the release for his second album in…
A couple weeks back, we announced the initial, tentative lineup for this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase, which will run from 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, until the wee hours of Sunday, July 18, at six venues–not to mention an outdoor stage–in Deep Ellum. We really couldn’t be…
Denton’s Teenage Cool Kids have been tinkering away on their highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s Foreign Lands, an album we not only adored among last year’s crop, but that we also named as one of the area’s best releases of the ’00s.And, actually, it seems like they’re closer to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 9, 2010…At this point in its career, starting a label is probably the smartest thing Wilco could do.The Toadies are offering up on of their “new” Feeler for free download over at Spin.com.Drake just can’t catch a break in the…
A few months ago, we were surprised to find that local independent record label Executive Music Group boasted a No. 1 single on Billboard’s Alternative Radio chart. It was baffling news because we’d never heard of the label, nor their SoCal-based, Sublime-sound-a-like band, The Dirty Heads, who earned the No…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 8, 2010…And people thought the vuvuzela’s were annoying at the World Cup: Now attendants of the closing ceremony are going to have to suffer through Shakira’s warbling.Who knew Lady Gaga would stir up illegal cosmetic contact sales? Did Arcade Fire…
Yesterday, I found out that I would have the opportunity today to speak to a member of Hole–and even “possibly Courtney Love,” her publicist assured me. So I immediately got on the computer doing a little last-minute research, all the while wondering if she’d even call in the first place.I…
We’re pretty much swamped here at DC9 HQ these days, working out some final DOMAXXII plans and whatnot (more announcements coming soon!), which is, well, a good thing, really. But, unfortunately, it means a temporary re-organization of some of our priorities. And, with that, some news: We’re gonna be holding…
Last week, we told you about new Pitchfork Media offshoot site Altered Zones, which, instead of heavily relying on writers to fill its site with content, is instead relying on bloggers, including DFW’s own Gorilla vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck. Well, today saw the launch of the site–and, with…
