VEGA’s Well Known Pleasures EP–you know, the one that was “soon-to-be-released” back in January–is supposed to be available online today from Vogue College Records, though I’ll be damned if I can figure out where to download it. Maybe VEGA mastermind Alan Palomo spent too much time working on his Pre…
Nylon Magazine Summer Music Tour Featuring Patrick WolfGranada TheaterJune 30, 2009 Better than: Sitting at home reading Nylon. Maybe. Check out our slideshow from the show, too.London-born multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf definitely wasn’t shy last night at the Granada Theater, as he gallivanted around the stage playing a good mix of…
Can’t make it out to Neverland to see Michael Jackson’s body? Or perhaps you’d just prefer to appreciate Jackson in a less ghoulish way than looking at a corpse? Either way, The House of Dang is the place to be tonight.The boutique shop will screen the King of Pop’s 1988…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 1, 2009… Vibe is the latest victim of the recession. Michael Jackson’s body will be on public display at Neverland Ranch. Kanye debuted the only thing bigger than his ego: His new stage for his tour–now with gold plating! …
We owe you a nightlife slideshow here on DC9, after a quiet time at our nightlife crew’s favorite clubs two weeks ago. Luckily, last weekend was so chock full of Night Moves goodness, we’re making amends here with a two-fer Tuesday pair of photo sets from the Lek Brothers.In Friday…
Making my way back to Big D after a week spent camping in Utah and Arizona, I stumbled upon KWTS 91.1 FM out of Amarillo. Broadcasting from the West Texas A&M University campus, this little oasis of deep indie rock kept me locked in until the signal finally diminished just…
Dallas rapper Tum Tum, a.k.a. Tumzilla, doesn’t come off as a particularly romantic dude, but judging by this recent track, “Kush,” it seems the big guy is head-over-heels in love. That his love interest is O.G. Kush, a potent and deliciously fragrant (or so I’ve read) strain of medical-grade marijuana,…
Over on Wired.com, there’s a pretty cool story up, detailing the specs of the new stage set-up for U2’s impending world tour, which kicks off tonight in Barcelona. Probably right about now, in fact.Anyway, it’s a massive undertaking with huge screens and elaborate mechanisms. The idea, basically? To somehow turn…
Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler shot and edited the above footage for a five-minute, 32-second glimpse into the lives of the Toadies, their roadies and their tourmates The Willowz on the road. And, go figure, it’s pretty cool. Hell, I’d watch a feature-length cut of this, I think…
Modern-day glam-popper Patrick Wolf stops by the Granada Theater tonight as the headliner of a Nylon magazine-sponsored tour that also features Living Things, Jaguar Love and Plastiscines. Expect androgyny, over-the-top performance and maybe the feeling that you’re seeing half the Bowie for a quarter of the price. Or for free, as our…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 30, 2009… A hacker broke into Britney Spears Twitpic account and stated she had died. But, turns out, she’s alive and well and sure to bust out the crazy sometime soon. Eddie Van Halen married his girlfriend of three years, Janie…
We already mentioned the candlelight vigil for Michael Jackson in Duncanville Thursday night here on DC9. Later that night, though, Dallas DJs did their part to keep the pop legend on everyone’s mind, while plenty of folks turned up in their vintage MJ-wear.As Tyrone Smiley & DJ Niro spun old…
…to the tune of 844 words, no less. Justifying the ’cause? The fact that 12 Cowboy teammates apparently showed up to the band’s House of Blues gig on Saturday night to show their support, including Tony Romo–although, if we’re being honest, his taste in music is suspect, at best (saying…
Congratulations are in order for Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, whose work on Lil Wayne’s “Got Money” was honored, along with 12 other 2008 rap songs, as the tops in its genre at this year’s ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards on Friday night.Granted, it was just one of four songs…
We’ve gone a few weeks now without our (once) weekly Show Announcements posting about, go figure, upcoming shows that get announced each week. Sorry for the lapse there, folks–it’ll make its way back soon enough, promise. In the meantime, let me use this post as an excuse to spread the…
Paul van Dyk at Lizard Lounge on Thursday, June 25Although electronic music may have lost some ground in Dallas music scene since the 1990s, nearly 1,000 people made it out to Paul Van Dyk’s dance party set at the Lizard Lounge…
There’s no video to be found at the moment of Erykah Badu’s performance alongside The Roots on Friday night’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon anywhere we know of on the Internet, which sucks. (What gives NBC?) But there’s this: Over the weekend, Questlove, The Roots’ drummer, posted to his…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 29, 2009… In what shouldn’t surprise anyone, Michael Jackson could take the number one spot on the Billboard charts this week. Eminem, Flaming Lips and Jane’s Addiction have been added as headliners at Voodoo Festival. Apparently Art Brut isn’t big…
Weekend’s here and I’m sure we’re all eager to get it launched. So, without further ado, let’s get right into it. First, the shows we’ve already talked up…Tonight, Ben Kweller stops in for a homecoming gig of sorts at the Granada Theater, Cryptacize stops by Rubber Gloves for a set…
Maybe you’re like me, and maybe you’ve been listening to a lot of mall punk lately (by choice or not)? And maybe you remember last week when we posted that new video for They Were Stars’ new single, “Every Now and Then,” perhaps? Well, either way, I kinda dig the…
Last night in Duncanville, at the corner of Westmoreland and Wheatland, in the parking lot for a shuttered old Albertson’s grocery store, K104 DJ Cat Daddy and a slew of the station’s street team and promotions employees threw together a last-minute Michael Jackson memorial–or, more aptly, a candleight vigil–to commemorate…
…and it’s pretty revealing–about her relationship with Jackson, her relationship with her father and her general sentiments about fame and the celebrity spotlight. Just a real interesting read–and one just emailed to us that we haven’t really seen anywhere else. (Granted, we’ve been busy planning our own coverage for next…
