We spent a good chunk of time this summer talking up Dallas’ own Symbolyc One and his production credits on Kanye West’s song “Power” off the rapper’s so-good-it’s-sickening My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. For good reason, too: The song was everywhere — all over the Internet, on Saturday Night…
With all the leftover turkey finally gone, I guess it’s about that time for some local musicians to get around to releasing their latest stabs at creating Christmas classics.And it seems that longtime DC9 favorite GalleryCat is the first this year to think that he’s up to the task –…
[At the end of each of the last two years, we spent the final few weeks of the year counting down the best music that the local scene has had to offer. This year’s no different — well, except that, this year, our original list of songs to be included…
Seems Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond have finally given up on the idea of releasing their Old 97’s side project efforts as the Ranchero Brothers in album form. Today, the original two 97’s gave way to anticipation and posted seven studio-recorded Ranchero Brothers tracks as free downloads on the Old…
The University of North Texas is having an auction — and, if you’re in the market for a crap load of old vinyl, well, you’re in luck! Same goes, I guess, if you’re looking for some new gear — like, say a sousaphone.Or a toilet. Or some TVs. Or, hey,…
A Facebook post this morning announced the end of the line for Denton’s Boiler Room, long a metal and hard rock staple in the music-loving college town. Well, sort of: Per the Facebook post, the venue, which exists below the Abbey Inn restaurant, will now be known as the Abbey…
During the Cowboys-Saints game on Thanksgiving day, after months of speculation, rumor, denial and, let’s face it, turmoil, the NFL went ahead and formally announced the Black Eyed Peas as the halftime entertainment for the Arlington-hosted Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. The NFL send out a press release…
After two weeks of construction delays blamed on “red tape” from city officials, Club Dada co-owner Josh Florence passes along word today that the club finally has all of the permits it needs to move ahead with construction. “We got ’em,” Florence says with a serious sense of relief evident…
It’s been a while since we heard anything from the half-Denton- and half-Boston-based electro-dance duo Roy G. and The Biv. Turns out, that’s because Max Townsley and Drew Erickson decided to put the band to rest. They’ve still been keeping busy, though — most recently, Townsley filled in as the…
In this week’s dead tree edition of DC9, Doug Davis wrote a little preview for tonight’s pretty phenomenal bill at City Tavern, featuring Kurt Vile & The Violators, Purling Hiss and Dallas’ own True Widow.It should be a great show, for sure, given the recent successes Vile has had. Writes…
Seems the NFL isn’t the only one choosing not to comment on yesterday’s Dallas Morning News piece that said that the Black Eyed Peas would indeed be the halftime performers at Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington in February. Today, in an interview with Billboard, the Black Eyed…
This much is becoming clearer and clearer: The folks at Magnificent Beard make some fine show posters…
Earlier today, the Dallas Morning News reported that a source has confirmed the long-standing rumors that the Black Eyed Peas would indeed be the halftime performers for the upcoming Super Bowl to take place at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, February 6. And it’s indeed quite the coup of…
We’ve already mentioned tonight’s Octopus Project show going on at the South Side Music Hall on the blog this week, but this show certainly merits a few reminders. See, it’s not just another concert — it’s part of the Austin-based band’s Hexadecagon tour, which, yes, comes in support of its…
Earlier this month, Community star Donald Glover posted this above gem to his Twitter feed. Yes, that’s Chevy Chase and his Community co-star Danny Pudi. Yes, they’re doing the stanky legg. Dallas hip-hop: Not just for animals any more…
A nice coup today for the folks at the recently re-branded 35 Conferette up in Denton: Today, the four-day early-March 2011 festival announced the addition of Mavis Staples to its lineup.Staples, renowned for her work through the ’60s and ’70swith her family band the Staples Sisters, recently popped back up…
New York Magazine, for reasons we’re not wholly aware of, went ahead and caught up with Erykah Badu this week, just to find out why she’s so goddamn funk — a fair question, always, I guess.In response, Badu created the magazine a playlist of her favorite funky jams — 14…
Speaking of promising local hip-hop upstarts who are taking their sweet time releasing their next album, in-house DC9 favorite A.Dd+ is in the throes of a fundraising effort so it can finally get around to releasing its long-anticipated Picnic-produced debut full-length, When Pigs Fly. And, like Green River Ordinance and…
We’ve been hip to local rapper Ty City for some time now, just waiting on something — anything — from the local rapper, who talks a big game about his promising future. But aside from the sole track posted to his MySpace page, we’ve yet to get anything of the…
In this week’s paper, Hannah Levin lays down some serious praise to Wolf Parade, placing the band’s 2005 release, Apologies to the Queen Mary, in the esteemed company of Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 opus, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, exclaiming that Wolf Parade’s work is likely as close as…
Just last week, we shared a new video focusing on Denton’s folk-loving five-piece Seryn and joked about the band’s long-anticipated debut release, which, a couple times now, has seen its release pushed back for who knows what reasons. But today comes news that, finally, the band has settled on a…
The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis’ mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to the…
