Surely, by now, you’ve tackled the Herculean task of reading my “sprawling profile” of Midlake in this week’s dead tree version of DC9, yeah? Good. Then you’ll no doubt remember this part of the piece, in which the band shares its meticulous–and, OK, somewhat curious–approach to promotion:Midlake, although game to…
Some pretty exciting news out of our New York flagship this early afternoon, as our sister paper up there, the Village Voice, has gone ahead and announced the lineup for this year’s Village Voice Media day-party at South by Southwest. And it’s a looker, too, featuring some classic indie and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 1, 2010…Keith Richards has allegedly given up his long love affair with the bottle. Notice he didn’t say he gave up snorting relatives ashes.Looks like Chilean Metallica fans have taken a page from GNR fans…My Morning Jacket get even more…
Remember back in October, when we were all like, “Hey, what the what is Jason Lee (of Mallrats and My Name is Earl) fame doing in Denton?” and then we realized that, oh, he was just in town helping out his pals in Midlake, shooting a video or something? Maybe?…
Erykah Badu fans looking forward to the Freaq’s upcoming follow-up to her 2008 smash New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War would do well to turn their Internet dials to ErykahBadu.com starting in, oh, about 10 minutes or so (or, more specifically, at 3:33 p.m.), as, at that exact moment,…
The New York Times this morning has the details on a new lawsuit filed by the Sly Stone against his longtime manager, which claims that the Denton-born funk legend is owed some $20 to $30 million in royalties and “unspecified financial damages,” whatever those are.The former manager’s lawyer doesn’t seem…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 29, 2010…Jessica Simpson did the super-classy thing anyone would do when in a business meeting… she farted.Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg while performing in Florida. At least nothing happened to the microphone he’s seems to enjoy placing in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 28, 2010…Katy Perry says she’d ditch her day job to be a full-time judge on American Idol. It’d be a lot cooler if she’d ditch the job and boyfriend and come over to my house.The Filipino dancing prisoners now have…
YES! King Khan And The Shrines, one of my favorite acts at last year’s SXSW, is coming to Dallas in April on what’s being billed as a “comeback tour.” The band is hitting 17 cities in late March and the first half of April, but perhaps wisely altogether avoiding Kentucky,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 27, 2010…Looks like Steven Tyler has moved on from singing at karaoke bars to Home Depots.AC/DC will be the sole artist on the Iron Man 2 soundtrack. Live Nation and Ticketmaster are now one big ass company! So, you can…
In yet another sign that the ’90s are back, or perhaps never really ended, Lilith Fair is returning this summer with a 33-city schedule (including Dallas) revealed so far. Even better news: the lineup is strong enough that you won’t have to promise your boyfriend a blowjob to convince him…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 26, 2010…The creator of the MP3 is working on a new music file called “MusicDNA.” Great, now I’m gonna have to get another iPod!Awwww… Nikki Sixx has dumped Kat von D.INsaNE CloWN POssE HavE MadE A weSTerN…
A pretty exciting e-mail just popped up from the folks at Kirtland Records: Specifically, the release is centered around the Toadies, announcing the third annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival, which, in 2010, will take place at White Water Rocks in New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin, Texas. This…
When this next week’s Observer is distributed around the Metroplex, our stand on the new disc from the Denton-based Midlake, The Courage of Others, which is due out statesdide on February 2, will be made known. But plenty of others have already made their positions on the new, darker disc…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 25, 2010…Looks like Prince’s “Purple And Gold” didn’t really help out the Vikings much.NOOOOOOO! The Scorpions are breaking up!Steven Tyler may not be able to join Aerosmith while he’s in rehab–but, on the plus side, he has plenty of time…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January22, 2010…Mystikal has been released from prison after six years. Finally, even unborn babies get to listen to the iPod! Conan O’Brien sticks it to NBC with the help of the Rolling Stones. Suck it, Leno…
Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy charities. And, as you’d expect, the Haiti earthquake catastrophe has prompted an outpouring of support from the local music scene. First…
Seems as good a time as any to pass along word that the folks at Spune Productions have a couple big shows looming on the horizon, both of which we here at DC9 are proud to say we’re co-sponsoring.The first up comes on Saturday, January 30, at Hailey’s Club in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 21, 2010…John Mayer compares breaking up with Jennifer Aniston to burning the American flag… a really needy American flag.Country fiddler Charlie Daniels suffered a stroke while snowmobiling. I think it’s Gods way of telling him he shouldn’t have made that…
Earlier this week, Sydney Confirm’s Redsean (aka Sean Humphrey) announced the release of a free-to-download remix EP called Sounds of Old. Only, turns out, the remix EP, which is pretty stellar collection of slightly vampy electro-dance cuts featuring Redsean’s track revisions from the past two years (listen to, download and…
The formal press announcement concerning Erykah Badu’s upcoming New Amerykah, Pt. II: Return of the Ankh release just came through the inbox and, well, some bad news: The disc, originally slated for a February 23 release, has had its date pushed back a month to a March 30 date. Those…
Yet another reunion show recalling Deep Ellum’s glory days is in the works as The Buck Pets, whose history Jeff Liles tackled in Echoes and Reverberations last year, will play Trees Saturday, April 10. We haven’t heard any kind of formal announcement yet, but the calendar on the Trees MySpace…
