A few weeks ago, we gave you a head’s up about Superpages.com Center’s “$10 Tickets for the Last 10 Days of June” thing. Just to recap, here’s how it works: Superpages.com Center picks an upcoming concert, and offers lawn seats for that show for $10 at LiveNation.com for a 24-hour…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 30, 2010… Lauryn Hill is ready to get off the crazy mess that has been her life for the last decade and stage a comeback… maybe.Guided By Voices will reunite for the Matador birthday party.Mexican singer El Shaka was murdered…
We’ve linked to and posted video from Beck’s most recent Record Club venture (covering INXS’ Kick in its entirety) in the past, mostly because we think it’s awesome, but also because we could–the local tie-in with St. Vincent, a Dallas native, participating in this project (alongside Beck, Liars and Os…
Earlier today, Pitchfork announced that it would be launching a new site called Altered Zones on July 7, one that will aim to “focus on leftfield pop, experimental, and home-recorded sounds.” And, seeing that Pitchfork’s crowdsourcing this sucker out to the blogosphere, it makes perfect sense to hear that two…
Those already carrying a ticket for any of this summer’s three Texas Lilith Fair stops–including the Dallas show scheduled on Monday, August 16, at the Superpages.com Center–needn’t proceed to get terribly attached to the flowers you were planning on adorning your hair with. Seems the Dallas date of the Lilith…
Fort Worth’s punk/reggae/alt-rock trio Automorrow is busy finishing up the band’s debut full-length due out later this year. In the meantime, the band is offering the untitled album’s second single, “Martians,” for free to anyone who wants it. Go here to check out what the innovative threesome is up to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 29, 2010…It’s not Ollie Campesinos!, it’s the band.Vince Neil was arrested for DUI in Las Vegas… at least he didn’t kill a best friend this time.Method Man pleads guilty to tax evasion, not very gangsta sir…
Things still very much appear up in the air as far as the future of Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater is concerned. Last we checked, it seemed the venue was on the verge of becoming a Bank of America. Still could be, actually, but a Facebook page and various notes to…
Well, this kinda came out of nowhere: Next week–a week from tomorrow, in fact–the Old 97’s will release a four-song covers EP, called Mimeograph, via New West Records. The album, which comes before the band’s planned double-album release this fall, finds the old Dallas favorites covering The Rolling Stones, The…
Last night’s 2010 BET Awards kicked off with a band, featuring Kanye West standing atop a mountain set on stage, performing “Power,” the lead, already-leaked single off his much-anticipated fifth release, Good Ass Job, which is currently set for a September release. Not a bad performance either. Which is all…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 28, 2010…The Illinois Attorney General has launched and investigation into Lollapalooza because of it’s “radius clause” it enforces on it’s performers.Mannie Fresh releases his first project post-Cash Money.Even Alex Trebek can’t get away from auto-tune…
Denton favorite, blog favorite and DOMA-nominated Fergus & Geronimo, was just signed to Hardly Art for its upcoming release. Hardly Art is an imprint of the powerhouse indie Sub Pop label, and has had several notable bands, like The Postal Service, Fleet Foxes, and Beach House, under its umbrella over…
We’ve been pretty much dying here at DC9 HQ, sitting on this information, just waiting to put it out there for you. And now the higher-ups have given us the green light. You ready? Better be.On July 17, we’ll be hosting our the fourth annual showcase for our Dallas Observer…
As it turns out, there’s more to Mesquite than going to the rodeo and spending your weekend cruising up and down Galloway Avenue. Back in February, super- and ever-buzzing freak folker Ariel Pink decided to visit the East Dallas suburb to record a handful of songs at Klearlight Studio with…
ZYour daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 25, 2010…James Mercer must already be bored of Danger Mouse. He already has boatloads of material for The Shins he’s written on tour with Broken Bells.The battle of former mall-pop queens Tiffany and Debbie Gibson is finally coming. Thanks Syfy!What…
Andrew Chapman, drummer of Dallas-based trio The Simple Pages, thinks Dallas music is struggling. The general attitude towards local music , he feels, is apathetic. And he thinks there’s only so far a band can get on its own. So, in an effort to help out his fellow starving artists,…
Maybe it’s just been a while since I went trolling for honeys on the streets of East Dallas, but I’ve never heard of Memphis Blac or Smokahontas Jones, two female emcees who claim that part of town and are also pretty up front about their experiences as prostitutes in their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 24, 2010…Another hit to the family of Lil’ rappers, Lil’ Boosie has been charged with murder. Wait, who’s Lil’ Boosie!?This guy has waaaay to much time on his hands.Gregg Allman got himself a brand new liver! Now all he’s missing…
We’ve been following this story for over a year now, wondering when–if ever–that proposed venue at the old Club Envy spot was gonna open up. Hadn’t heard anything in some time, though. To be honest, we kinda thought the whole thing was kaput. Not so. This past weekend, in fact,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 23, 2010…Two tech giants are going head-to-head in the digital music realm.Jenny Lewis is boycotting an Arizona show like she boycotts meeting fans after shows at the Granada.The Game wants you to know that even though his career may be,…
From the “Ever wonder what happens when local musicians have too much time on their hands?” department today comes the clip above, the most recent promo for the variety show John Pedigo (The O’s, Boys Named Sue) and Chad Stockslager (The King Bucks, The Drams) and put on every now…
So, despite a virtual kick in the gut from Pitchfork, it seems that Denton’s Florene is unfazed. Sure, the above interview was filmed before the music media giant’s slogging, but that didn’t stop up-and-coming Denton bloggers WeDentonDoIt.com from posting the above well-done video to their site yesterday (and, for good…
