Giveaway: Two Pairs To Club Dada’s NYE Show With Cas Haley

Club Dada owner Ben Tapia called up DC9 HQ last night with a pretty sweet deal for readers still looking for something to do for New Year’s tomorrow night: There’s all sorts of stuff happening there (free Daddy Jack’s, champagne, etc.) and performances from Cas Haley and Scott McCurry and…

Could Big Chief Be The Superstar The D-Town Boogie Needs?

Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…

The Five Worst Album Covers of 2008

5. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs A cover that seems created to cause migraines. I suppose this shit’s supposed to be a comment on our modern condition or something. If so, spare me…

The Gourds’ Kevin Russell Doesn’t Understand Why People Like His Music Or Why He Has To Share The Spotlight With The Rest Of His Band. (Only He’s Not As Sensational About It.)

Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…

Picture Show: Unsilent Night 2 at the Plano Centre

Photographer Caity Colvard braved the Plano Centre yesterday for some quality time at the second Unsilent Night Festival, headlined by Forever the Sickest Kids and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and attended by a whole lot of actual kids, too.Shots of local acts Red Car Wire and Sky Eats Airplane (and…

Is New Amerykah Pt. 1 The ‘Token Urban Album’ Of ’08?

Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…

Weekend Roundup: The Dedringers…and not much else.

This above video of the Dedringers’ show at the Granada on Friday night is pretty much the sole clip on the Youtube this morning of this past weekend’s musical affairs. Other than that, there’s a whole lot of Dallas clips, pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page clips, and, of course, clips…

Good Friday: The Post-Xmas Hangover Edition

Kinda a slow weekend coming up around the D this time around. Maybe everyone’s just gearing up for Amateur Night New Year’s Eve? Dunno.I do know that we only hipped you to two weekend shows this week in print, though: Todd Snider’s two-night stay at the Granada Theater tonight and…

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don’t need a half-wit music critic to tell you it’s been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern…

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it’s time for the “I love you like a fat kid loves cake” memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with…

Hydrant Cafe is Denton’s Latest Great Venue

It’s no wonder that Denton got that nod from Paste Magazine for Best Music Scene of 2008 because, at the risk of making this column sound like a broken record, this space is going to yet again be devoted to another relatively new Denton venue that’s starting to book great…

Pop Quiz, Music Snobs!

OK, hotshot. Think you know your music? Think you followed the national headlines fairly diligently these past 12 months? Think you know the difference between your twee pop and tweeny bop? Well, hold on right there—and prove that you do, indeed, know your stuff. Take our quiz on the most…

Bleu Edmondson

The story behind Dallas native Edmondson’s first recording is something of a do-it-yourself legend. At age 21, Edmondson says he “looked on the back of a lot of records” to find a producer. It was ballsy: He saw where the hits were coming from, recorded seven or eight songs of…