Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 11, 2010… Is it really fair to call a supergroup a combination of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin when there isn’t a real Zeppelin member in the band?I realize the members of Pearl Jam and their team aren’t from the…
One need not dig too far on the Internet to find copies of Feeler, which was intended to be the Toadies’ second album for Interscope Records till the label ultimately scuttled its release. But those versions aren’t quite the real thing; they are, instead, unmixed and unmastered iterations — and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 10, 2010…Can you really “out” a song and peg it as gay when most of the songs on the list are by gay artists? It’s like shooting fish in a fabulous barrel, right?Good thing Lady Gaga knows to dress appropriately…
Some drop-boxes in and around Dallas may already have the dead tree versions DC9 loaded with our latest edition. Most of you, though, will have to wait until tomorrow, the issue’s official run date, to see the paper.Shame you’d have to wait, though. After all, isn’t it in this week’s…
If you didn’t already know by now, Kara Howell of Darktown Strutters has become quite the local booking maven. But, in case you haven’t heard about the recent kefuffle, Howell’s no longer booking for Tradewinds Social Club. Many of the bands Howell had booked for the Oak Cliff dive bar…
Quietly, over the course of the past few weeks, The Lounge On Elm Street has undergone an ownership change. And, in the next few weeks, it’ll undergo a name change, too.According to new owner Victor Villalobos, the venue will soon be called The Nightmare. (Get it?)Over the past few years,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 9, 2010…Soccer moms and tender hearted dudes have something to look forward to next year… Snow Patrol will release their album!The best way to piss off a real DJ? Nominate Jersey Shore’s Pauly D as one of “America’s Best DJ’s”.Either…
South by Southwest was quite good to Dallas ex-pats Neon Indian this year–and, turns out, it was even better than the on-the-street buzz the band was getting that week in Austin may have originally implied. Today, Billboard reports that Neon Indian has signed a new record deal–the result of “speculation…
Many thanks to all who came out to the ninth rendition of the little monthly event I throw in conjunction with The Libertine every first Monday, The Local Hang. It’s been a good time since the jump–and last night was no exception. I mean, c’mon, a legit crowded room of…
Yesterday, on its MySpace page blog, soon-to-be-returning-to-the-spotlight buzz band Interpol (which is slated to release its fourth studio album, a self-titled release, in September) announced that it was adding two members to its live set-up–former Slint guitarist Dave Pajo and Secret Machines bassist/keyboardist/vocalist and Dallas native Brandon Curtis.Prior to forming…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 8, 2010…Marvin Isley is dead… Isaac Brock has a painting of himself hanging in the office of Portland mayor.Stuart Cable, ex-drummer for Stereophonics, has been found dead…
There’s no such thing as too much publicity–and these days, Sarah Jaffe, who later this week kicks off her gig as the tour opener for Lou Barlow, is getting plenty. And the hits just keep coming: Today, in the wake of mentions in Magnet, Paste and elsewhere (including a four-star…
It’s that time of the month again. y’all. (No, the other one.)Yep: I’m at the Libertine tonight as I am every first Monday of the month, and I’ll be spinning nothing but local jams (the latest and the greatest) for your listening pleasure from 10 p.m. till closing time. Y’know,…
If there was a contest to find the most tricked-up music festival in Dallas this summer, the winner, even on the season’s cluttered calender, might be the Rock This Town Music Festival, June 23 through June 27, at La Grange and The Belmont Hotel. Really: The whole thing sounds more…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 8, 2010…RZA wants to take Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers to broadway. Lil’ Jon has come back to get y’all crunked up!Apparently fans of Lady Gaga don’t really dig on cannibalism…
Well, we’ve got some good news and we’ve got some bad news. Bad news first: No DC9er Mixtape for you this week. Sorry ’bout that, folks.The good news, though? We might have something better. Last week, DC9er Mixtape alum DJ A1 and his frequent collaborator DJ Sober (who you can…
For the past decade, few artists have become as synonymous with their instrument as has Robert Randolph with his blazing steel guitar. And, given his place on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time list, Randolph had quite the luxury in choosing from an elite list when it…
The above, poorly-lit clip finds concert promoter Kevin Lyman (he of Warped Tour creation fame) apologizing to the music fans in Dallas, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix for the fact that, due to low ticket sales, scheduled stops from his new Country Throwdown tour, which features Montgomery Gentry, Jamey Johnson,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 4, 2010…TV on the Radio’s David Sitek is following in the footsteps of bandmate Kyp Malone and will release a solo record.Judging by the tepid response for new American Idol winner Lee DeWyze, maybe we’re all getting a little tired…
Like Sarah Jaffe before him, Doug Burr has been enlisted this morning by Magnet magazine to make a mixtape aims at helping the magazine’s online readers get a feel for the Denton folk hero’s music. Also: The site’s offering two free mp3’s from Burr’s great new disc, O Ye Devastator–two…
A huge thanks to the Friend of DC9 who emailed this morning to pass along a note he’d noticed while scoping the Pixies’ MySpace page today: This morning, the Pixies announced via a blog post on the social media site that they will be touring again come the fall, hitting…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 3, 2010…The Grand Ole Opry will be back on it’s feet in no time. Sir Paul seems to have a little trouble remembering his songs as he gets up in age. Let’s hope he doesn’t remember how to marry money-hungry…
