Speaking of new music videos, the Dallas contingent of Young Money Entertainment, Lil Twist, has a mew one for his Bow Wow-featuring song called “Lil’ Secret,” which pretty much follows the same formats as most of the old Bob Wow video’s before he dropped the “Lil” from his name. Which…
Rose’s Pawn Shop is an alt-country outfit hailing out of Los Angeles that boasts a couple of quality Americana albums, including the recently released Dancing on the Gallows. But there’s a local tie, too: Local singer/songwriter, and former Dallas Observer Music Award winner Kristy Kruger has toured with Rose’s Pawn…
School of Seven Bells’ sophomore effort, Disconnect from Desire, earned its release last month after the early leaking of two singles from the disc, “Babelonia” and “Windstorm.” It’s the latter of those two early leaks that’s earned the official single release treatment from band management, though, with the release of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 5, 2010…Kings of Leon aren’t messing around: They intend to capitalize on the success Only By The Night by releasing a new disc this fall.Sooooo… apparently Wyclef was serious about a Haitian Presidential bid. Aretha Franklin was forced to cancel…
When retailers and critics began singing the praises of digital media—namely the newly en vogue compact discs in the mid-1980s—vinyl began its slow descent into the background, fading into virtual obscurity around 1991. Or so mainstream labels and retailers would have you believe. Despite its dwindling availability, vinyl never stopped…
The Vermont trio Happy Birthday has been one of 2010’s bands to watch thanks to its fusion of lukewarm punk with raw, twee pop and the occasional ’60s harmony. Its ramshackle brand of lo-fi pop is less straightforward than it sounds, however, thanks to towering power chords and scorching drums…
Crowded House have been rushing about playing and promoting Intriguer, their follow-up to 2007’s Time on Earth. And rightfully so, because, well, Time may have been printed with the Crowded name, but it was—and bassist Nick Seymour concurs—truly a Neil Finn solo album that reunited the band in the studio,…
For any musician, trying to come up with a foolproof formula for success is folly. Pick up your guitar one day, and everything flows effortlessly. The following day, nothing sounds right, no matter what you do. One album might utterly capture your musical essence; the next might fall flat. You…
The recent hip-hop trend of paradigm-shifting MCs continues with the big-top arrival of B.o.B, whose The Adventures of Bobby Ray debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in April. There has been something preordained about his rise, but it’s been an intermittent ascent for Atlanta’s Bobby Ray Simmons…
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we’ve been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to…
We’ve made no secret of our approval of either Cleburne’s Fungi Girls or Vermont’s Sub Pop-approved Happy Birthday here at DC9. So, yeah, of course we’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s show at The Nightmare, which finds the two bands sharing what we’re thinking is the best-looking bill in an…
Tuscon’s metalcore heavyweights The Bled stop through town tonight for a gig at The Prophet Bar, and these guys incorporate just enough of the classic sludge/noise from the likes of Mudhoney and The Jesus Lizard to keep the indie folks interested.Also, seeing that our weather has taken a turn towards…
The folks who run Austin”s Fun Fun Fun Fest have made it clear: Heading into their fifth year of operation, they aren’t planning on slowing down their ever-growing momentum. Quite the opposite, actually: The fest is ramping up to seriously challenge ACL as Austin’s premiere fall fest.Seriously: Just a few…
Just a few weeks ago, Dallas native Brandon Curtis and his band The Secret Machines were playing at our Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase outdoor stage. The trio wore black as their psychedelic drones pretty much obliterated the audience. The heat from the afternoon sun took care of the rest…
The idea of having a band on a ship is nothing new, but whole rock ‘n’ roll cruise-ship thing has really started to take off in the past few years. Last year, we saw Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights join Lynard Skynard on a cruise-ship concert series, and now…
Lest there still remained any doubt about the cool factor backing up Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights and, specifically, it’s icy-cool, blues jam freak-out “Devil’s Basement,” some pretty solid arbiters of cool–among them HBO, Martin Scorsese and, uh, Al Capone–have given the band and song a fairly impressive stamp…
I always thought it would be kind of a great idea for a band to only play break-up or reunion shows. Think about it: You can get a lot of people to come to your last concert. And, likewise, when your band gets back together.But it won’t last long before…
Here We Go Magic, Beach FossilsThe LoftAugust 4, 2010Better than: Seeing these headliners open in a hot and crowded Granada, as was the case last time around. Last summer, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic opened for Grizzly Bear in what many considered to be one of the concert highlights of…
Two things were present at the show from “America’s Greatest Rock Band,” Aerosmith, at Superpages.com Center last night, with openers Blue October: phallic microphones and tattoos. See more of Steven Tyler’s big mouth yells in Rachel Parker’s slideshow, Aerosmith and Blue October Do it Live at Superpages, and make the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 4, 2010…Arcade Fire paid tribute to the late Jay Reatard at it’s Philidelphia show.So now bloggers can’t host an album that was given away?Hey, did you download that new Daft Punk song from the Tron soundtrack? Too bad it’s fake…
Seems Dorrough doesn’t think you have enough money–which is to say that you definitely don’t have as much as he has. Or, for that matter, as much as Mark Cuban has. The Dallas Mavericks owner–who just may soon own Your Texas Rangers, too–makes a quick appearance in an alternate take…
The Chicago-based techno jocks in Jump Smokers rolled on through to the Lizard Lounge on Friday night to celebrate the release of their modestly titled new album, Kings of the Dancefloor. I guess that’s what a collaboration with Pitbull gets you.Nonetheless, the so-called Kings’ court danced the night away in…
