Billy BlairFor no apparent reason, not one, but two Dallas-based musicians made contributions to Robert Rodriguez’s latest film, Machete: 17-year-old Tiger Darrow, a burgeoning local pop artist and Rodriguez intern was afforded the opportunity to score three different scenes in the film, and local rocker Billy Blair, who has now…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 12, 2010…Insane Clown Posse is a Christian band? Gayngs apparently don’t like paying it’s bills…Justin Bieber is either a brilliant marketer or just really like nail polish…
Lissie, the Midwestern girl who is now one of the U.K.’s favorite adopted songwriters, understands the value of unpredictability. What many see as unpredictable, Lissie views as a natural need to adapt–at least when the situation, or her feelings, requires her to do so.When her EP, Why You Runnin’?, came…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 11, 2010…Solomon Burke has passed away. Sure, he was a soul legend, but it’s not as impressive as the number of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren he left behind.Natasha Bedingfield isn’t selling out, she’s buying in…Gene Simmons want to take your…
On Monday night, English post-punk act The Futureheads stop by for a gig at The Loft in support of their new, fourth studio full-length, The Chaos–and, for the first time in about a week or so, it’s a gig from a worthwhile band that isn’t just stopping through the region…
Earlier this week, in advance of the Morning Benders’s upcoming performance at the Kessler Theatre on Saturday night, we caught up with the Northern California-based band’s frontman Chris Chu. His band had just returned from the European leg of their tour, and was preparing to travel the US in support…
In this week’s print edition we featured The National’s Saturday show at the House of Blues. But the article–concentrating mostly on the band’s latest album, High Violet–offered only a glimpse into an interview with bassist Scott Devendorf. Here, we’re giving you the whole thing–complete with anecdotes about a spontaneous concert…
Very much getting ahead of himself, Rhett Miller posted the above clip of him talking about The Grand Theatre, Volume Two–remember, the Old 97’s new, return-to-form Volume One doesn’t come out until Tuesday–to YouTube earlier this week as part of his new video diary series.There’s still some interesting insight here,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 8, 2010…Got an earworm you just can’t seem to shake? I know, it’s a terrible affliction sweeping the nation. Now we all have a way to unhear the songs we can’t seem to shake.Staind’s Aaron Lewis went a natural direction…
Last week, True Widow’s Dan Phillips was taking a nap, only to be awoken from a text message from one Jim Heath, aka The Reverend Horton Heat. The text kind of took Phillips by surprise.”I think,” it read, “there’s a picture of you puking in InTouch magazine.”Yes, the Reverend reads…
For the past year, Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino of Brooklyn dance-punk duo Matt & Kim have been quietly making a case to replace Mates of States’ Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel for the title of indie rock’s reigning “It” couple. But don’t call them “cute.”With their songs “Good Ol’…
Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he’s riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack to the film Crazy Heart, he had…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 7, 2010…Apparently even the British government digs xx. A new online campaign has been set up urging Weezer to split up. That’ a little harsh, no? They could’ve at least gone after Nickelback. Lil’ Wayne was put in solitary confinement…
In just four years, Two Door Cinema Club have gone from a group of high school buddies to rocking thousands at festivals all over the world. That much isn’t necessarily surprising: The band’s sharp, dance-infused indie rock has drawn comparisons to Passion Pit and Hot Hot Heat. And, while they…
The punk rockin’ Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are no strangers to the folks at Spin–not, at least, since the music mag vaulted the band from small regional clubs and the pages of Alternative Press and into the limelight by naming the band one of the best live acts…
In tomorrow’s print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97’s eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we’ve been saying since we first heard the disc back in August, that it’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, October 6, 2010…Van Halen may be returning to the road next year. Or so Live Nation is telling their stockholders. Yeah, yeah, yeah: Rob Zombie has some albums he’s touring on, blah, blah blah… but, he has a new horror movie…
Los Angeles’ Local Natives have been shooting towards folk-rock stardom ever since an epic 2009 SXSW performance that set the band up for a big year, regardless of the critical acclaim its 2010 release Gorilla Manor has received. At its performance at Sons of Hermann Hall earlier this year the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, October 5, 2010… Do you want to do your part and help a legendary sound engineer/producer pay his bills? Now you can!Velvet Underground’s Moe Tucker supports the Tea Party?After his triumphant performance over the weekend on SNL, Kanye let us know…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 4, 2010…A new movie about The Beach Boys is in the works that’s not a biopic. I’m not exactly sure how that works, but, I’m sure it will be better than the VH1 movie about the band.Eminem is reportedly set…
Charles Manson 1969 Police PhotoSurprisingly, Charles Manson is still releasing songs while in solitary confinement. And, believe it or not, there’s a local tie-in: Dallas-turned-Austin-based Withdrawal Records just released an EP, Inner Earth Inferno, featuring two songs from Manson and two songs from Ancient VVisdom, a new Austin-based doom-folk band…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2010…If you were looking forward to a new Kanye song today via his “GOOD Friday” series… sorry, he’s scrapped it.Fans of Feist will be glad to know there is a documentary about the singer coming out…
