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We’re not sayin’, Jay-Z. But the Internet sure is…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 8, 2009… Wanna sing like T-Pain? There’s an app for that! Now the other side of the story: Bret Michaels hair piece breaks it’s long silence. Johnny Lydon plans to reform a version of PiL to celebrate the 30th anniversary…

Hope you’re not yet sick of the smash summer single “Ice Cream Paint Job” from Dallas’ own Dorrough (that’s him in the above photo). Because, if you were, well, you’re out of luck, friend. In recent weeks, Dorrough’s breakthrough single has seen the man from Lancaster getting all sorts of attention–and…

In next week’s dead tree version of DC9, we’ll be running our review of the new Jay-Z disc, The Blueprint 3. (Spoiler alert: Meh.)Of course, we won’t be the first to wax poetic about the disc; early returns elsewhere see the disc as something of a failure, with reviews lambasting…

Since there was such a clamor yesterday over the early Amazon mp3 download figures for Danny Balis’ solo debut, Too Much Living, a quick update: Last night, the disc crack the site’s top five downloads in the folk genre (coming in at No. 4) the top 10 n the country genre…

Those looking forward to checking out Neon Indian’s live debut, at J&J’s Pizza in Denton on Thursday, are gonna have to change up their plans: Yesterday, local music blog WeShotJR announced that the show, which it is hosting and promoting, will be moved one day up, from Thursday to Wednesday. Fix…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Ice Cube is working on a documentary about the Raiders. Funny, I thought he quit giving juice to the Raiders, ‘cuz Al Davis never paid him? A girl attending the Leeds festival had to be helped out of a…

It’s still more than five months, but plans are already in motion for the weekend of February 12 through February 14–or, as we’ve already called it, the most important weekend in Dallas hip-hop history–when the 2010 NBA All-Star game rolls through town.So far, at least one hip-hop party plan is…

Back in the spring, the latest single from Norwegian electronica duo, Röyksopp, “This Must Be It” started making rounds within the dance blog circuit, thanks in part to the plenty-adored act’s clout, but also to the song’s heavy, danceable sound.Well, today comes news that the single still won’t see its…

Got an excited call last night from one Danny Balis. Mostly, Balis–he of The King Bucks and formerly of Sorta–was flabbergasted by what he was looking at on his computer, and he pass along to share some good news on a day in which he needed some.Checking in on how…

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 3, 2009… Charlie Watts is leaving The Rolling Stones?! Oh, wait… no he’s not. Music producer Matthew Herbert is making an album comprised of pig noises. Top that Radiohead! Muse’s PR company might want to look up what “secret show” really…

Indeed, Dallas native Annie Clark will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight performing, one would guess per the protocol of these things, to close out the show. Were I a betting man, I’d say the song we’re going to hear tonight is “Marrow,” the rousing song track Clark stunningly performed…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 2, 2009… Supergroup Them Crooked Vultures has announced a small US tour and an ACL Festival appearance. Catch ’em while you can… Portishead’s mastermind, Geoff Barrows, is set to release an album with side project Beak>.  Hey Geoff, howzabout you work on…

In fact, they filed the suit against the drug company that produces the stop-smoking drug Chantix yesterday, it turns out. Robert’s got all the details over on Unfair Park, including a quick discussion with Carter’s father, Ken, on why he waited two years to file the lawsuit.Just a warning before…

A week from today, the Beatles catalog will see a digitally remastered release, and to celebrate, starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Good Records will be throwing a party, complete with a “megamix” screening of Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Help, Hard Day’s Night, and Anthology, a Rock Band: Beatles…

Really can’t say I know too much about the Southern Entertainment Awards–well, not much other than that the site hasn’t updated its main page since 2007. But the site has updated its voting page more recently–today, in fact, since this marks the start of the voting process in its sixth…

According to this press release, Dallas-based company PlayApp is looking to replace the current process of publishing music in compact disc and mp3 form with doing so via individual program applications–y’know, as in, “There’s an app for that.” The idea? As opposed to even mp3s, the music applications the company…

More headaches for Kelly Clarkson today, as fans of the original American Idol are pretty pissed that the Burleson native canceled her Minnesota State Fair performance just two hours prior to her scheduled performance time, leaving fans who’d paid to enter the fair just to see her show feeling pretty…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 1, 2009… British police are going to re-examine the death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones.  In the ultimate attempt to recover from a floundering career, Michael Bolton has been writing songs for his new album with Lady Gaga. Publicity stunt…

Yep, that’s right: As of today, Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson has an iPhone app. Far as I can tell, it’s basically like Rock Band, but without the pretty integral “band” part; you sing into a mic and the application judges your rhythm and pitch. It’s just like Idol, only not…