With her crackling samples and toothy snark, Lily Allen arrived in the middle of this decade as the antidote to Britney’s self-aggrandizement. She was the Gawker.com to Spears’ People. Now, with the saucy 2000s winding down, its signature decadence and celebrity lust are growing quainter with each property foreclosure. Attitudes…
All hail the shitty recording. Nearly everything counterculture has been pillaged and repackaged, but the shitty recording remains a floodwall against wider mainstream acceptance. With the new crop of in-the-red punkers, from Vivian Girls to Times New Viking and now Wavves, a harsher, more contemporary take on lo-fi has advanced…
Minnesota’s Jayhawks—co-led by singer-songwriters/guitarists Gary Louris and Mark Olson—were one of the finest bands to come out of the No Depression movement, carried aloft by the duo’s trademark rough-hewn high harmonies. So when Olson flew the coop in 1995 (mostly to collaborate with then-wife Victoria Williams), Louris soldiered on as…
It’s awfully tempting to make rash, inflammatory statements about Solange Knowles; to contend, for example, that while big sister Beyoncé has the dazzling singles, the scorched-earth howl and the megawatt tabloid royalty, the elder Knowles has never concocted a full hour of music as singularly and bizarrely mesmerizing as her…
When it comes to dance floor-filled DJ nights in Denton, Hailey’s Club has handily kept the market cornered for the last couple of years—especially after DJ Nature left his weekly at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, taking The Party further south down Interstate 35 to Dallas. But in the last month,…
OK, one last post for the day (for real this time): Dallas’ own Vanilla Ice has finally stepped up to the plate, by officially apologizing for “Ice Ice Baby”. No, seriously: Check it out in the clip above. Unfortunately, it appears to be part of some viral scheme with little…
Kinda a slow day round the way here at DC9. Not too too much going on. Actually, that’s not true. There’s a lot, but not necessarily enough to constitute entire blog posts. Also, our blogging system was down for a bit before. Oh well. On that note, let’s end the…
The Denton music scene certainly has its share of indie rock darlings, but not many would expect a prog metal band like Trebuchet to hail from the northern reaches of the Metroplex. Yet hail this quintet does–and best of all, they’re actually pretty good. And, this Friday at Hailey’s, Trebuchet–named…
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings, the Yeast By Sweet Beast festival features experimental/improvised music complemented by video art. YBSB precedes South By Southwest, March 14-16, at Salvage Vanguard Theatre and Plush in Austin.It also offers proof that the possibilities for spin-off festival names along SXSW’s lines are…
And this time, it’s with a feature on an artist that pretty much everyone–Fader, Connect magazine, the Billboard charts, us to a degree–agrees could be the Next Big Thing out of Dallas, Big Chief.In other news, “Dallas Week”, which I think is just slang for “whenever we finish up with…
Reaching way back to the beginning of last weekend, we direct your attention to Dem Southernfolkz, on a bill at Liquid Lounge Friday night with Headkrack and Picnic’s Diabolical Fancy.Gloria Levario was there shooting photos for us, and we’ve got her work up in a slideshow here…
Sons of Hermann Hall played host to the Lollipop Shoppe’s “Mad Hatter Tea Party” Friday night, in honor of the group’s five-year anniversary, and our nightlife crew of Ray and Peter Lek were on hand to document the fun. You can check out their shots in this slideshow.Later in the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 4, 2009… Somewhere, the seventh grade me is jumping up and down with glee: Motley Crue has announced that it will play Dr. Feelgood in its entirety on its upcoming Crue Fest 2: White Trash Circus tour. No word at this time…
Totally meant to post something about this earlier today. Unfortunately, I totally forgot.Which makes for a perfect transition, actually: Tonight at Good Records, every stoner’s favorite psych/folk/soul project, Brightblack Morning Light, stops by the Greenville Avenue record shop for an in-store performance. Also on the bill: BBML’s tourmates and fellow…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.People In…
In last week’s paper, I reviewed The Kül’s new release Soul 4 Gold, a disc that blends a whole mishmash of funk, psychedelic and even stoner rock influences into a disc that, at various points throughout its listen, recalls Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Prince, Gnarls Barkley, TV On The Radio…
Yep. An international songwriting competition quite cleverly named the International Songwriting Competition, in fact. Anyway, as the header implies, six locals made the cut to get a “finalist” nod from the ISC. Who? For what songs? In what categories? And, just for good measure, where are these people from? Funny…
Most of the time with guitar players, you either get the shredder or the songwriter. Either the guy (or gal) dances up the fretboard with little care for melody or he constructs perfect pop creations that are rarely technically dazzling. With Richard Thompson, you get both.The legendary British singer/songwriter/guitarist plays…
Over on Pitchfork today, you can read an interview the site has posted with Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), whose upcoming disc we’re quite excited about ’round here. And, actually, it’s quite the lovefest of a piece: Interviewer Ryan Dombel calls Clark a “disturbingly gifted new talent” without…
This week’s show announcements include the Let it Rock Tour (with headliner Kevin Rudolf, pictured above), Billy Joe Shaver and Aesop Rock. Complete listing after the jump…
Surely, I can’t be the only one who’s heard the latest Boogie song to take over local radio airwaves: T-Willz’ “Nature Walk”. In fact, I know I can’t be. Because, like I said, it’s all over the radio.But, man, c’mon, I can’t be the only one shaking his head, right?…
Rockwall’s Jason Castro, of American Idol fame, releases his debut single today. And, sure enough, that’s the song, “Love Uncompromised” in the video above, performed by Castro and friend during an Idol wrap-up show on the TV Guide channel. Rumor has it he could be performing this track on tonight’s…
