Speaking of local hip-hop bigwigs trying to make the most of Super Bowl weekend, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas production duo Play-N-Skillz released to iTunes yesterday its new single, a song scheduled to come on the brothers Juan and Oscar Salinas’ upcoming EP release, Alter Egos. Here’s the thing, though: The song,…

We’ve already made a couple mentions of tonight’s impressive bill at The Loft, which finds two experimental acts on vastly different ends of the spectrum sharing a bill, simply due to the convenient fact that they both happen to be in town on the same night — this isn’t a…

A while back, we stumbled upon a news brief that, buried deep within its telling, made mention of the fact that soundscape provocateur Flying Lotus had been confirmed to direct an upcoming music video for Dallas’ own Erykah Badu. Can’t say for sure at this point if that much ist…

Last year, local hip-hop purveyors talked at length about the importance of having a big presence around town during the weekend of the Cowboys Stadium-hosted 2010 NBA All-Star Game. And, lest there was any doubt, these same artists are at it again this year.But, this time around, they appear to…

A nice little treat this morning, courtesy of the folks at Sleepover Shows, who, like so many others on the Internet today, film artists in intimate settings, playing their songs for the camera. But this assortment of clips, actually, is a bit different: In addition to performances of “Clementine” and…

George Quartz is no stranger to obscure, oddly alluring music videos made with odd ’70s and ’80s stock film footage — we’ve a number of such clips from the oddball pop performer here on DC9 in the past. No surprise then, that, for his most recent clip, which goes with…

All of seven days have passed since the announcement came that Christina Aguilera would be the one singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XLV, which, in case you forgot, will be taking place at Cowboys Stadium this Sunday evening in humble Arlington, Texas.And, a week after that news, comes…

There’s been a whole heckuva a lot of buzz lately for Denton’s Seryn of late — and especially from the folks at Paste, who in particular seem to have a raging hard-on for the chamber folk five-piece.Us? We’ve been following the band for some time now, impressed with their pleasing…

Before his death in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Frankie Campagna and his bandmates in Spector 45 had only gotten around to booking one single show for 2011 — a gig to take place this Saturday night at La Grange. Obviously, tomorrow night’s show won’t feature the late,…

As supergroups go, you really can’t do much better than Arson Anthem: The hardcore group, which has been around for, oh, four years or so now, features Pantera’s Phil Anselmo, Eyehategod’s Mike Williams and Hank Williams III — or, in other words, way more star power than most of the…

In this week’s print edition of ye olde DC9, North of the Dial scribe Rodrigo Diaz checks in with Denton’s Dale Jones, who’s known best around town as “That guy that wears dirty clothes and fake blood all over his face when he performs — and pretty much never on…

Not a bad bill tonight at Hailey’s — something that we haven’t really been able to say of late, to be honest — thanks to a couple of touring, up-and-coming acts out of Minnesota stopping through Denton for the night.Aside from the whole both being from the Land of a…

In her 18 years, Tiger Darrow’s already accomplished far more than most other high school seniors can dream. The Booker T. Washington High School senior’s already got a pretty substantial IMDB page thanks to her burgeoning acting career, and, last summer, Darrow, who also boasts some pretty fine indie-pop chops,…

We’ve already mentioned — more than a few times — the show happening tomorrow night in the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room. Did so earlier today, even.For decent reason, we think: Hey, it’s not every day that a side project featuring the most recognizable faces of two well-liked area bands…

A few weeks back, I ran down a list of the albums I’m most anticipating from the local set in ’11, and, included on that list, among many other expected releases, was Air Review’s forthcoming, as-yet-untitled EP — a release that’s still a ways off, even if the first single…

Now, listen: There is, in fact, a chance that the above image will not approved by the artists in time to serve as the official show poster for the very eclectic bill taking place at The Loft on Wednesday, February 2, with Deerhoof and Yann Tiersen. We’re not saying it…