Dallas-based Deaf Pedestrians were played on prime time Tuesday night. The band’s song “Hail to the Geek” was featured in the new episode of the CW’s “Beauty and the Geek” (yeah that show with hot, but dumb women and socially awkward men). We’re happy for the Pedestrians. We’re scanning YouTube…
Fort Worth’s smartest, most animated, most illin’-est* hip-hop crew P.P.T. just sent out the video to its latest single, “Down South Girl,” from the group’s Idol Records release Tres Monos in Love. Waco hip-hop band Strange Fruit Project lent a huge hand to P.P.T. by producing the video and appearing…
Our much-loved locally-owned venue the Granada Theater just gave us even more reason to want to kiss owner Mike Schoder’s hemp shoes. The following is a MySpace bulletin sent via the Granada’s new MySpace page: How much do your friends care about you? Do you really know who your friends…
We weren’t able to take our cameras into Saturday night’s Timbaland show. Luckily, YouTube poster williamlanier uploaded footage of the better part of the show. Enjoy. — Chelsea Ide…
Strutting for the troops. (Travis Awalt)When Dallas band ChalkLign e-mailed us about the Operation Rock the Troops fashion show, we couldn’t resist. What can we say? We love benefit shows and fashion. Our photographer Travis Awalt hit up the Saturday night, Oct. 13, event at Firewater. He made sure to…
Scion hosted Timbaland in a free concert last night at the Palladium Ballroom, and the people came out in force. The floor was increasingly crowded throughout the night (although the place is so big, the back area was still an easy walk through). A surprising spectrum of people showed up…
As far as music goes this weekend, there are more sure things than you’d find backstage at a Kid Rock show. Let’s take a look at some of the best bets for the next few days: The Vibrators w/The Heart Attacks, Dead City Shakers and Last of the Interceptors Club…
Sigh. We here at DC-9 would feel remiss if we didn’t post the just-breaking info about Kelly Clarkson’s new tour. And, rather than try to slather a thick layer of sarcasm on what really is already a parody, we figured we just be straight about it. So, Clarkson, according to…
Radiohead In Rainbows (Self-distributed) Conventional in every sense, save for how it was released: over the Internet, pay what you will, gratuities graciously accepted. It’s been a week since Radiohead’s smash-and-grab sale, and aside from wrecking the music biz with a disco ball and gold chain, all’s right with the…
Wow. I just stumbled upon a video of Dallas underground — way underground — MC Jimbo Jenkens flexing his crazy free-style skills. Aside from the rap itself, my favorite part is the occasional flash of the rake on the garage wall. According to his MySpace page, Jenkens is a poet,…
The Bat Mastersons’ Byron Lord and David DiPietro are welcoming guitarist Darrin Robinson (The Mumbles) into the group. The trio is rehearsing new tunes and, we’re told, will start playing shows in the Dallas area in the next few months. The Bat’s format isn’t going to be changing, though. The…
Rhino Records, that label I love to hate because they keep reaping the benefits of nostalgia by releasing expensive, retrospective box sets of, like, every genre you could think of, has released the self-explanatory Heavy Metal Box. I haven’t heard it, and probably won’t, but over at PopMatters.com Adrien Begrand…
Because we made you wait all the way until Thursday for a steal of the week, we figured we better double-up. So, here are the two best shows of the week for those who only order from the dollar menu. Lions, Record Hop, Tah-Dahs Double Wide (3510 Commerce St.). 9…
Last year’s State Fair of Texas hosted a multitude of musical acts with sounds and styles as mottled as the food items subjected to deep-frying. Our absolute favorite was Cybertron Command Center: two dudes in shiny spandex bodysuits jumping around and playing synth pads and key-tars, creating the sonic equivalent…
Since his people turned down my interview request and firmly declared that there would be no complimentary tickets, I am left to only imagine what questions I might have put forth to the esteemed Lyle Lovett. The sophisticated country crooner (once referred to as the Thinking Man’s Cowboy) left me…
Holly Golightly has released 15 discs and too many singles and EPs to keep track of (2001’s double album, Singles Round Up, collects a bunch of them). What’s more, the Brit has collaborated with almost as many people as Willie Nelson, including the White Stripes on “It’s True That We…
Joan Jett is rockin’ and rollin’, or at least it sounds that way over her crackly cell phone. It sounds like she’s rockin’ and rollin’ all over the back of a car, as she’s headed out of Manhattan on a hurried, bumpy ride to the airport. But Jett’s pounded a…
Remember Cinder Calhoun? A feminist comedienne, she was the opening act for the Lilith Fair in the ’90s. She was fond of corduroys and vests. Her favorite joke was the “old classic” about the shaman stuck in a menstrual pit. She was fond of the ladies too, except for a…
Magic is being hyped as Springsteen’s rocking return to his classic period, and that’s understandable: The album contains lots of familiar musical totems, not to mention lyrics about driving a highway until the road turns black, and a diner on the edge of town (bet it’s dark there). But while…
Let’s hope that San Francisco new gaze/shoe wave is the next big thing, if only because we’ve trademarked both of those terms. Prattling screamo brats have held court for far too long. If you’re gonna mope, you may as well do so artfully with echoing melodies and tidal waves of…
Although the headliner, Rudder, is a highly regarded quartet from New York City, it’s the local boys who are the real stars of this triple bill. Both Oso Closo and Snarky Puppy are products of the University of North Texas’ prestigious music program, but they traverse areas far removed from…
If you’re gonna have an organ player in your group and call yourselves Oh My God, you could be mistaken for a Christian rock band. So indie trio OMG has this clarification on its MySpace page: “This Chicago rock band is not affiliated with God or Satan (though the band…
