The late-night tweets came fast and furious from area MCs and radio personalities alike, each relayed with a certain tone of shock.The surprising word was spreading fast: Earlier in the evening, at approximately 10 p.m., Dallas urban radio personality Nate Quick passed away, apparently due to liver complications. According to…
According to a press release that apparently went out to every media outlet in the world today, Dallas’ own Norah Jones has a new album coming out in November–her fourth overall, and first in two years. After the jump, the press release in full, since it features some Jones quotes…
Ticket re-sale web site StubHub announced its annual “Most Rockin’ City of the Summer” list this morning, and, according to its numbers, Dallas, is the No. 7 most rockin’ city in the U.S. of A. this season. Or, for those of you playing at home, three spots up from last…
Along with Les Savy Fav, Atlas Sound, GZA and (deep breath) The Jesus Lizard, The Fun Fun Fun Fest November 7 and 8 in Austin will include one local boy-turned-Austinite: former Ghosthustler Alan Palomo’s second-newest project, VEGA.Though the former Dentron dweller isn’t yet listed on the festival’s “lineup leaks” page,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 20, 2009…Pete Doherty is this close to getting The Libertines back together. All that’s left is the pesky business of convincing the front man you won’t steal his equipment (again) and sell them for drugs and to go along with…
Our ears were burning, so we went ahead and checked out what our counterparts at the Observer’s sister paper in Houston, the Press, was up to on its music blog lately. And, sure enough, it’s all Dallas all the time down in H-Town these days.(OK, not really, but two posts…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 19, 2009…The tracklist for Rock Band: Beatles has been revealed. However, one song not on that list will be in the game Care to guess which? Denton-born funk recluse Sly Stone is allegedly living off of social security benefits and…
John Iskander, grand marshal of Parade of Flesh, is offering passes good for all of his upcoming shows through the end of the year–an especially good deal when you factor in the extras. For $80 each, ten music lovers will receive passes good for the 15 shows he has listed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 18, 2009…Bob Dylan was picked up by police in New Jersey while looking at a house that was for sale. I know he’s old now but, geez, the officer couldn’t tell it was Dylan?Tommy Lee will step out from behind…
Surely, you recall back in April when we passed along news that the old Club Envy space could be re-opened at some point as 2826 (which, yes, as olds will recall, was the original name of the venue in that space).Well, as Robert alluded to earlier today on Unfair Park, that…
In case we haven’t beaten you over the head with this enough in recent weeks, let us remind you once again: The new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and The Current? It’s real good. And, hey, it comes out tomorrow. so, y’know, there’s that.And while we already gave you a…
People still can’t get enough of Neon Indian, the sun-drenched VEGA side-project that has still yet to make its live performance debut (that comes on Sunday, September 13, at the Monolith Festival in Morrison, Colorado), including the folks at Pitchfork, who not only approve of the band’s early singles from…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like the injuries sustained by Steven Tyler after falling off a stage in Sturgis weren’t so minor after all: The classic rock legends in Aerosmith have canceled the remainder of their summer tour. Marilyn Manson is throwing idle threats…
“All good things must come to an end…” or so says the title of a bulletin just posted on the Annex House’s MySpace page. We held back Good Friday a bit to bring you this breaking news. We haven’t heard back from anyone at the house yet, but the message…
The lineup for this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival is being set and worthy bands are being encouraged to sign up for something called The Sound and The Jury competition.Here’s the scoop that got sent to me via email this morning: “Round One is live now and bands can…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Guitar legend and inventor Les Paul has passed away.No one is immune: Kasabian’s lead singer has swine flu. Bat-shit-crazy right wing pundit Glenn Beck is a big fan of Muse. I wonder what he’d do if you told him they…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 13, 2009…Kanye West is slowly becoming the king of all media… sorry Howard. He blogs, sings, raps, produces and now he has his own short movie out this fall.Britpop one-hit-wonders The Verve have split for the third time. Those boys…
If your Rhett Miller alarm was sounding off all morning and you just couldn’t figure out why, North Of The Dial’er Daniel is here to help, pointing out that CNN’s Shannon Cook sat down with Miller to feature him in today’s installment of CNN’s interview series “Music & Conversation.” (Two…
Last October, North of the Dial featured a story about how The Heartstring Stranglers were dealing with losing one of the band’s founding members. Next week, the chamber-folk act’s frontman Freddie Schulze and cellist Emily Hertz leave Denton, bound for Budapest, where the pair will spend the next year. We’ve…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…It’s not really news that Morrissey seems to be a pretty self-loathing character. But now he doesn’t even want you to buy his box sets.Elton John guesting on the new Alice In Chains album?! First dueting with Eminem and…
Late yesterday we were fixing to end the day on a high note, and send two pair of DC9 readers to the Granada’s double-bill of hip-hop duos scheduled for tonight.But the good people at the Granada sent word instead that Clipse and Cool Kids had bowed out. Close followers will…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 11, 2009…Police shut down an all-night rave when fans of opening band Crystal Castles jumped from balconies onto the floor. Well, at least they played this show. Jay-Z is Oprah’s newest favorite thing? I smell a 50 Cent diss track…
