Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 19, 2010…The Killers are going on an indefinite hiatus. I wonder what 80’s group they borrowed that idea from?Brits heavy metal fans are being urged to adopt the genre as their religion for the upcoming census. A Los Angeles man…
Sorry if you missed last night’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth native T Bone Burnett walked with the Hollywood Foreign Press’…
When he’s not serving as the lead guitarist for Dashboard Confessional, John Lefler settles down in his Dallas home and conjures up some pretty impressive power pop. His first solo effort, Better By Design, came out last summer. Produced by Salim Nourallah, the album’s sparkling mix of Beach Boys, Badfinger…
Ran into Spector 45’s Frankie 45 at his “day job” tending bar at the Amsterdam in Exposition Park over the weekend and was promised that, come Monday, there’d be a little present for DC9 readers in the ol’ inbox. Sure enough, here it is: The band’s first music video, far…
Ishi drew a well-inked crowd to Big J’s Friday night party at Plush Basement, for what Pete predicted would be the dance party of the weekend. From the looks of things, the show didn’t disappoint. Our photographer Mattie Stafford was there for the show, and you can check out more…
Friday night’s show at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Denton mightily lived up to its promising billing, featuring uplifting and tender sets from Denton-based talents Seryn, Robert Gomez and Sarah Jaffe. We’ll have a little more on this well-set show, thrown by Midlake’s Eric Pulido and The Hope Trust’s Andy…
There’s a nice little write-up in this morning’s Denton Record-Chronicle about last week’s NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan’s Silverleaf. But, if we’re being completely honest, it’s not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that’s got our attention. Why’s that? Ah: The piece includes a list of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 18, 2010…Carl Barat has confirmed that The Libertines will reunite next year… provided Pete Doherty isn’t in jail or dead.Apparently Susan Boyle either can’t handle her new found fame or she was always loony.These are 10 of the greatest albums…
No need to pussyfoot around the berrybush here, folks, let’s juts dive right in. As the great Dylan McKay was known for saying, “You know the drill.”First, the shows we’ve already discussed.Tonight’s got some heavy-hitters: The Paper Chase, True Widow and The Boom Boom Box share a crazy bill at…
That above clip right there just so happens to be the latest video from area mall punk kings Forever The Sickest Kids, featuring the song “What Do You Want From Me?” from the band’s recently released EP, The Weekend: Friday, part of the three-pronged EP attack the band will be…
This past weekend, at a benefit concert held in Orlando each year to fight suicide, addiction and self-cutting, Grapevine’s own Bryce Avary (aka The Rocket Summer) performed a cover of “Stand By Me” alongside the likes of Mat Kearney and members of Underoath, Anberlin and Copeland. Check it out in…
The new Texas Music magazine popped up in the snail mail yesterday, and in a joint celebration of both the end of the ’00s and start of the mag’s 10th year in existence, the magazine, like many others before it, went ahead and listed its favorite albums and artists of…
When you’ve released over 200 records over the span of a 60-year career, what’s one more? Well, plenty if you’re Willie Nelson. Today brings news that the Red Headed Stranger will release a new album in just a couple of months on April 13. And not just any record, either…
A couple days ago, we hipped you to the new, free-to-download compilation offered up by Sarcramento-based, Lefse Records offshoot Waaga Records, and its heavy focus on Denton. No surprise here, really, but yesterday, the comp scored a nice little nod from Pitchfork, and the write-up helped offer a little insight…
A couple of days ago, Jesse Hughey did a great job cluing you in on all the great concerts coming to our area in the coming weeks, but if I may take a moment to point you in the direction of one he missed: Avant-garde legends The Residents are playing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 15, 2010… Would you kill to get your old job back? Apparently Incubus’ old DJ would, even after 11 years. R&B heavyweight Teddy Pendergrass has passed away.Looks like the next LCD Soundsystem album may be it’s last… maybe?…
POTW captain/Dallas Observer art director is under the weather today, the day in which he was supposed to make his triumphant return to the ship after a couple weeks of much-needed vacation. So he’s out. And, with go-to replacement Jesse Hughey facing a few deadlines this afternoon, the duty of…
El Che, the forthcoming LP by Kanye co-writer Rhymefest, features four songs with beats by Strange Fruit Project producer/MC S1 (Symbolyc One), two of which Fest leaked today on Ruby Hornet to build momentum for the official release. Both leaked songs also feature Phonte of Little Brother, who S1 says…
Out on her very first nationwide tour, San Francisco’s Brittany Shane is innocence personified–and her recently released third effort, Have Heart Live Young, is as optimistic and peppy a collection of folk pop as one is ever likely to hear. But Shane’s music is only part of the story: The…
Should be quite the spiritual affair tomorrow night at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Denton, as Denton favorites Sarah Jaffe, Robert Gomez and Seryn join forces to make up a three-act bill at the downtown Denton church. Beyond simply offering up the chance to see three area favorites in a…
It wasn’t easy coming up with just one shot with which to tease this mid-week Night Moves set. If the photos from last night are any indication, it’s a wild scene down at Skye Bar’s monthly “Erotic Bash” parties, between the body art, the slow-dancing, the grinding up against mirrors…
Well, we told you this was coming yesterday, but here it is: This morning, Fair to Midland has released the video footage it captured in the aftermath of its blown tire and wreck in the Arizona desert, all set to a new song called “Loophole in Limbo.” It makes for…
