A whole three months have passed since we first shared with you the above video for “Only In My Double Mind,” the awesome lead single off Centro-matic’s forthcoming release, Candidate Waltz. So, we’ll excuse you if you haven’t seen it yet, I guess. Some things have changed over that time,…
For about a year now, Leon’s house music blog, French Express, has been the best-kept secret in the local blogosphere — partially because he’s not from town (he moved here in 2010 from Toronto) and partially because he writes about so specific a niche in music that there’s little room…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard any new material out of Larry Gayao, former frontman for equally adored and despised Odis, which called it quits in April of lat year. We here at DC9 HQ had some fun at that band’s expense, sure, but our stance was never that…
This morning, we received a press release from the skateboarding folks at Vans Warped Tour headquarters. Turns out that this year, the 16th year of the tour’s existence, The Vans Warped Tour will launch right here in Dallas on Friday, June 24 at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Tickets will go on…
After a successful launch in May of 2010, the open-air, downtown Dallas-hosted Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will return again in 2011, this time taking place on May 14, and once again at Main Street Garden. And the festival, brought to you by the folks behind Club Dada and City…
There has already been an appalling amount of local musician deaths in the past year, but now we must add to that list one more — the death of former Pimpadelic member Brandon Kord Murphy, who, according to former Pimpadelic manager Scott Beggs, was found dead in a rehearsal space…
Speaking of new albums that are worth their substantial hype, allow us to point you in the direction of another big recent local release: A.Dd+’s When Pigs Fly. That album came out this weekend, with the duo of Slim Gravy and Paris Pershun’s a-couple-years-in-the-making masterpiece finally earning its release at…
Hate to say we told you so — in this case, that this new record from True Widow was going to be a big deal — except, well, that’s not true at all. We kind of revel in telling you so, actually.So, yes, we indeed felt that nice, warm and…
When we first caught wind of tomorrow night’s House of Pain reunion show at South Side Music Hall, we weren’t sure whether to be shocked or bemused. Let’s face it: The group hasn’t had anything close to a big radio hit in nearly 20 years now. And, last we’d heard…
Texas budget cuts have been looming over the heads of teachers and school boards alike in recent weeks, and Booker T. Washington High School, the DISD magnet for performing and visual arts, is no exception. But, with less money rolling in, the prestigious school has taken a proactive approach to…
I’m really torn with how we should be handling coverage of Spector 45 bassist Adam Carter’s recent suicide. Adam was a sweet guy, a great sound man, a heck of a musician (in addition to his role in Spector 45, he played in a number of other great bands, including…
A couple weeks back, you may recall, Eric Grubbs caught up with local “stonegaze” trio True Widow to talk shop and to talk a long, hard look at the band’s sophomore album, the obnoxiously titled As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the…
Don’t call it a comeback: Despite having been absent from performing in the hip-hop world for some time now, legendary rap originator LL Cool J has been around for years, rocking his peers and putting suckers in fear. And, at last night’s Red Bull Thre3style event at SXSW, after an…
Former Spector 45 bass player Adam Carter is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 27. Details are still trickling in, but those close to Carter confirm that he was found dead this evening, 77 days to the date after his bandmate, Frankie Campagna, also committed suicide.He’ll be remembered for…
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978. Within a couple of years, the duo had grown into a quartet and released “Messages,” the first of several hit singles that brought the band fame and critical kudos. Yet, after seven successful albums, Humphreys left the…
On Saturday, March 12, Lower Greenville dive The Winedale Tavern would have turned 26-years-old. But, just days before its birthday, the bar’s owners shuttered the doors and closed for business. In three weeks’ time, though, the doors will be open again — and this time it will be called The…
There’s little doubting Atlanta duo Outkast’s place in hip-hop history. The twosome of Andre 3000 and Big Boi practically invented the southern hip-hop sub-genre, developing a crazy style to call their own — and something all their own, too. Even some 17 years after their 1994 full-length debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, few…
If known only for his work with the legendary trio known as The Minutemen, bassist Mike Watt would still have his place in rock ‘n’ roll lore. But even after that band disintegrated following the death of singer/guitarist D. Boon, Watt pressed on and formed another acclaimed trio: Firehose. And,…
Chaz Bundick’s chill. But he’s not that chill. Or so the 24-year-old from Columbia, South Carolina, and the man behind the Toro y Moi moniker is hoping to prove with his latest “organic” effort, Underneath the Pines, which was recorded in the small recording studio at Chaz’ house on drums,…
Leading up to this year’s installment of 35 Conferette, after hearing some pretty salty rumors about bands not getting paid in full in 2010, we were curious as to how the festival would be able to afford to pay this year’s acts. After all, this was the biggest festival yet,…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the top record store in town has been affected by the phenomenon that is South By Southwest spillover. After all, now that The Cavern has gone from being a music venue to an English/Irish Bar (The Crown & Harp), Good Records pretty much…
Perhaps the most amusing thing of 35 Conferette 2011? The ubiquity of the performers — both scheduled to partake in the festivities and not — rolling around the festival’s venues and taking in the events as a whole.Almost every big name in local music, it seemed, was present — Jonathan…
