Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 18, 2009…Flava Flav (world’s greatest hype man) owes around $183,000 in back taxes. I wonder how much he could get for selling his viking hat?Jay-Z canceled the rest of his U.S. tour because of “unforeseen scheduling conflicts.” What’s unforeseen when…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 17, 2009…George Strait is set to star in the kinda-sequel to his movie Pure Country. I hope he’s taken some acting lessons since then, geez.Ken Ober has passed away. I spent many an afternoon as a young teen watching him…
Here’s a fun item to end the day on: You can thank a cast of local musicians for the above submission to this year’s Doritos Crash The Super Bowl competition. The clip was directed by History at Our Disposal frontman Jason Reimer and stars Dove Hunter’s Jayson Wortham as the…
A new video from Denton ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers has made its way online today, set to the lead single, “DissDissDissKissKissKiss” from the band’s catchy-as-hell, March-released album, Underneath The Owl. Give it a watch (and keep an eye out for a certain area bass player in there, too).Oh, and since…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 16, 2009…Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance has confirmed that his band’s new album will be “100 percent concept free.”Former super-duo The Judds will reunite in 2010. Dan Deacon and his glasses have canceled the rest of his tour because…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 13, 2009…Snoop Dogg, Diplo, DJ Quik, Soulja Boy and Mayer Hawthorne may be the world’s latest supergroup. But, aren’t Snoop and Quik on opposite ends of the the L.A. gang spectrum? I wonder how that will work out?Gucci Mane has…
I know, I know. You’ve had it with daily St. Vincent and Neon Indian updates. All that has to happen now is for St. Vincent to cover “Ice Cream Paint Job” and have Alan Palomo remix it, at which point DC9 would be thrown into a Boolean loop from which…
DFW’s own Titanmoon just arrived home from its first international tour–a whirlwind trip that took the band through Japan, Pakistan and Dubai and found the band being treated like heroes. And though a couple of bombings canceled a couple of shows, the indie rock outfit has nothing but great stories…
Local singer/songwriter Jessie Frye is in the studio recording a new EP with producer John Congleton at the helm. Seems like an odd pairing at first–especially since Frye’s debut EP, The Delve, was such a meticulously mellow affair. But Frye is adamant about expanding her musical horizons and claims the…
Careful readers of the print edition of DC9 will have already noticed this little announcement in Trees’ ad this week: In addition to headlining the venue’s New Year’s Eve show with support from Dove Hunter and The Boom Boom Box, the Toadies will now play a second show the night…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 11, 2009…At least Jay-Z has good, cross-genre taste when it comes to picking music for his new label: He’s signed the Ting Tings to Roc Nation.Looks like there are only two great bands left in the UK: Kasabian and The…
The Jigga Man is going to put Dallas in an Empire State of Mind when he comes to the American Airlines Center February 23 with no less than Young Jeezy in tow, and tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Then to co-sign the street cred that Jay-Z…
The early word from those who’ve heard the upcoming Midlake record is that the band’s found a new sound for The Courage of Others.According to a note from Pitchfork this morning, the disc is less a ’70s radio rock sound like the band’s last effort, The Trials of Van Occupanther,…
Sorry about the weak blogging day, but illness, vacations and deadline day for the print version of Dallas’ Only Alt-Weekly has slowed us down a bit today. Hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow.But we’re not too busy to pass this along: The Strange Boys PR folks sent word…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 10, 2009…Joe Perry says that Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith… “as far as he can tell.” So, um, did he or didn’t he?!!! drummer Jerry Fuchs jumped out of elevator and fell five-stories to his death. Eminem will star in…
Listen: I get that there are a lot of pressures and issues to deal with when launching a radio station. Really, I do. But I also get the importance of making a good first impression. And, c’mon, explain this to me: How does a station–one which names itself KXT as…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 9, 2009…Sure, it’s pretty awesome that Diplo has reteamed with M.I.A. for her new album–but Major Lazer may come to Adult Swim!Morrissey exited his show in Liverpool in the middle of a song after getting hit in the head with…
Caught up with Rhett Miller this morning over the phone–and overseas too, actually, as Miller’s currently in the UK, out on tour as the opening act for Steve Earle. The bulk of the conversation focused largely on Miller’s upcoming gig at the Grnada Theater on Saturday, November 14, as part…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 6, 2009…Even Jay-Z isn’t cool enough for indie bands: MGMT said thanks, but no-thanks to a collaboration. At least he still has 30-something white dudes to lean on.Even though it’s not even December yet, Amazon.com has named Neko Case’s Middle…
The Lounge on Elm Street finally–FINALLY–got back its liquor license this morning, just in time for tomorrow night’s Parade of Flesh-billed Fun Fun Fun warmup HEALTH/Times New Viking show and Saturday’s Sierra Bravo Productions-billed Off With Their Heads/Smalltown punk party. “Oh yeah, it’s been a long time coming,” said co-owner…
I guess I didn’t bring my ‘A’ game to this week’s column in the print edition this week. Not the writing so much–that’s still fantastic, of course. But I did make two factual errors that need correcting.For one, KXT-91.7 FM will not launch at 6 a.m. this coming Monday morning…
Because we can all use a palate cleanser now and then–and, also, because there’s never a wrong time to listen to RTB2–check out the clip above, featuring Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Sandlin performing their song “Whistle” in the still-under-reconstruction Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.And, since we’re on that subject,…
