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This week’s winner promotes 100 Damned Guns, Blackland River Devils and Whiskey Folk Ramblers Saturday at The Double-Wide. Clearly, the guys in 100 Damned Guns are in no need of an ego massage if they boast the “Heart of Hank Williams,” “Brain of Waylon Jennings” and “Muscles of Jimmie Dale…

Smile Smile, perhaps Dallas’ greatest pop duo that also happens to be an ex-couple, has a little treat over on its Myspace page for your listening please: A surprisingly touching and sweeping cover fo the famed Christmas class tune “Silent Night”–and you can download it, too, iff’n you feel so…

Sure, some other blogs have already beat me to the punch on this one today–shocking, but sometimes here at DC9 we’re not just sitting at our computer, refreshing our email inboxes over and over–but, whatever. Since you and I both know that this is the only music blog worth reading…

If you think the assembly-line music that Disney and MTV shove down the throats of tweens and teenagers is vile, consider what their younger siblings have to listen to: The spastic and plastic monsters behind such kiddie pop-culture touchstones such as the seizure-inducing Wiggles and the Kidz Bop series of…

There was a time, oh, about two and a half years ago, right around the release of the band’s debut album, Movements, when it was cool to like Black Tie Dynasty. And why not? Frontman Cory Watson, drummer Eddie Thomas, bass player Black McWhorter and synth man Brian McCorquodale had…

Despite his status as a happy, respected old-timer, Common has to rap about something, and his eighth album, Universal Mind Control, is a hodgepodge effort. It contains would-be club bangers full of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo and would-be seduction tracks more likely to cause snickers than arousal. Having established a place in…

What’s impressive about Eastwood’s sophomore release is the band’s total lack of interest in following any alt-country trend whatsoever. Not comfortable playing some punk/country hybrid (a la genre godfathers Uncle Tupelo) nor going hard-core Americana like so many folks who are content picking and grinning their way to marketplace irrelevance,…

It all makes for an entertaining show, but if you look past Eagles of Death Metal’s winking irony, goofy mustaches, smirks, aviator glasses, devil horns, super-rawk poses and Spinal Tap-worthy album and song titles (Death By Sexy, “I’m Your Torpedo,” “Prissy Prancin’,”etc.), you’ll find a band with some serious chops…

The son of original country bad boy Steve Earle and the quasi-namesake of the late Townes Van Zandt, Justin Townes Earle (appearing alongside fellow countrified acts Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis) has got smarts and sass in abundance. And yet he’s also blessed with a deep knowledge of musical forebears…

Serving as America’s answer to English acts like The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method—composed of Las Vegas natives Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland—managed to cash in on the already waning big-beat vibe before the public’s taste for it dissipated completely. And from there, the music evolved into…

There was a time when Ice Cube was known as one of the fiercest lyricists in music. And the NWA co-founder’s four-album solo run of AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator and Lethal Injection ranks with some of the best four-album runs in history. But then he traded in…

With all the baked goods made by area bands for the Decemberfest “Rock Concert AND Bake Sale,” one couldn’t help but wonder what concoction the gang from Rival Gang—or any of the other five bands on the bill—would whip up for the event. But despite the jokes on the Denton…

Spend your Wednesday night under Eugene Chadbourne’s gaze.With the fact that we’re just two weeks off from Christmas, and, well, it being Wednesday and all, you’d think this would be a slow night for good shows. Well, you’d be mistaken. There’s actually several acts playing about Metroplex tonight–and all of…

Check out the above video for Damaged Good$ and British rapper Xrabit’s new collaborative single (and first official video), “Follow The Leader”. Now, we know we might not be the first kids on the block to be posting this video, but screw it–we like DMG$ (been hyping them for a…