Great Lake Swimmers, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, Kate MakiHailey’s Club, DentonApril 8, 2009Better Than: Checking out the Lost recap on AV Club right after the show is over.When Tony Dekker and his fellow Great Lake Swimmers came out on stage at Hailey’s last night, there wasn’t a “Hello” or…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 9, 2009…Courtney Love is suing anyone she can think of because she says Kurt Cobain’s estate has been “looted.” I’m going to go out on a limb and say she spent all the the money on a bender and just…
Robert Gomez began writing the songs for his newest record, Pine Sticks and Phosphorus, in July of 2007, during the downtime between gigs as he toured with fellow Denton-based act and Bella Union signee, Midlake. Gomez, a musician since age 6, says creating the arrangements and the “music side” of…
It’s been five years since home recorder Ariel Pink (né Rosenburg) landed on Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks imprint, which released his years-in-the-can album The Doldrums and, later, a pair of reissues. His freaky, no-fi work initially played like outsider art, with its strange shrieks, primitive delivery and incidental noise. Dismissed…
In many ways, Stereo Total’s François Cactus and Brezel Goring are musical ambassadors with a potluck aesthetic: Their pop-addled eccentricity bubbles with playful goofiness and irony, riding an eclectic mix of girl-group pop, garage-surf, new wave fervor and burbling electro-pop grooves. Their pan-cultural approach is further infused with a childlike…
Steven Patrick Morrissey has, for the last several years, experienced something of a renaissance in his career. His last big radio hit, “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get,” was released in 1994. And then he seemed to fade away. For the next 10 years, while bands like…
When people think of Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band’s music isn’t necessarily the thing that immediately comes to mind. Which is quite unfortunate. But, alas, despite the fact that the band has its neo-hippie vibe down pat, the biggest draw to Brian Jonestown Massacre shows is the fact that frontman…
Smarty-pants Colin Meloy has yet once again topped his prior output, this time bringing his Portland group Decemberists to bear on a 17-song concept album. People will no doubt label this a “rock opera,” but Meloy is actually drawing more from the traditional folk world than anything. His words and…
While many established rappers are being downsized from major-label deals to “independent” contracts, Harlem MC Jim Jones is climbing the food chain. After sharing the limelight with Juelz Santana and friend-turned-foe Cam’ron in Harlem group Dipset, Jones has become the act’s most popular member thanks to his 2006 monster hit…
The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, Roky Erickson. Pick one to match your musical flavor, ’cause, no matter, there’s a Nervebreakers connection to each; the Dallas proto-punk outfit opened for every one of those legendary acts, as each made its first—and in some cases, only—travels into North…
The service charge. Is there any more ridiculous and utterly transparent lie in American commerce? It’s like telling us that a toaster is $20, but then, at the register, saying that the heating coils inside cost an extra $15. Why not follow the lead of every other non-seedy business in…
Ethan Kath and Alice Glass of the Toronto-based electronic duo Crystal Castles allegedly took their band’s name from She-Ra: Princess of Power’s castle. Which makes sense because, y’know, stealing their name from the 1983 Atari arcade game of the same title, well, that would be too obvious. And, actually, little…
If you’re into Lil Wil, Soulja Boy and cars with dollar signs for seats, well, you were probably also out at the Dallas Convention Center Sunday night, where the annual custom car show and concert hosted by 97.9 The Beat drew a crowd of around 20,000. If you missed it,…
We’ve already gone on record as saying that The Paper Chase’s Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 is one of our most anticipated records of the year here at DC9, and it’s not just because we’re aching for new material from John Congleton, Sean Kirkpatrick, Bobby Weaver and…
It was about a month ago that the upcoming Man Man show at The Lounge on Elm Street on Friday, April 24, was first announced and a lucky DC9 reader won a pair of tickets to the show. Well, today, the band has released a new video for its song…
Two quick follow-ups to yesterdays items on Jessica Simpson, then back to talking about things that actually matterFirst, according to MSNBC, a source close to Jessica said Simpson saw Eminem’s “We Made You” video yesterday and was none too pleased. Shocking, I know. “Of course Jess finds it annoying,” the…
Starting on Friday and running throughout the weekend is something called The Bloodapalooza Tattoo Art and Music Festival. A quick perusal of the event’s webpage offers a lengthy list of schedule bands. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of metal acts on the bill. But you know what is a surprise?…
For a few weeks now, we’ve pretty much known that U2 was coming to the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington at some point in the coming months. Now we have the date: Monday, October 12, 2009. Which, in case you don’t have a calendar handy, is Columbus Day. Go figure!Oh,…
Tonight you’ve got a chance to support not only local musicians (and a musician/Noted Regional Comic), but a local winery as well.According to an email from Dave Little, he and Don Cento (of Shibboleth and Little Jack Melody and his Young Turks fame) will open “Wine Down Wednesday” at 7:30…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 8, 2009… Good news if you’re a fan of iTunes: Apple launched a tiered pricing system yesterday and discontinued the DRM on all downloads. Which is great news for people who don’t read music blogs and get their songs for…
Besides possessing one hilarious moniker, The Dead Kenny G’s is one hell of a jazz/punk trio. Led by percussionist Mike Dillon, a veteran of the Dallas rock scene, this testy triumvirate revels in the long lost nonsense/overboard aesthetic of Frank Zappa. And like Zappa, these guys are top-notch players who…
Give it ten more years and you’ll forget why you hated the Backstreet Boys. Don’t believe it? The New Kids On the Block kick off its second North American tour in as many years tonight in Green Bay–with a Dallas show booked for July.Other notable upcoming shows include a 4/20…
