21-year-old area singer-songwriter Emily Elbert’s no stranger to local music fans, having performed her fair share of gigs at Opening Bell and the Kessler Theater in recent years since picking up the guitar at age 15. She’s no stranger to the Internet either: Her jazzy, acoustic take on Michael Jackson’s…
In this week’s paper, Doug Davis catches up with Autolux’s Greg Edwards to talk about the shoegaze-y Los Anegeles-based band’s return to the spotlight with the recently released Transit Transit, the band’s sophomore release and its first after six full years of absence. It’s a fine release, Davis explains. But,…
Hopefully our incessant bugging you about Dorrough, Dondria and Lil Twist this summer hasn’t fallen on deaf ears.Because, whether or not DC9 readers are paying attention, plenty of others are when it comes to these three. In fact, on Tuesday, the trio combined for the fifth time to pull of…
Speaking of Denton ranking highly on lists today, have you guys been watching VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time countdown this week? It’s a guilty pleasure, for sure, especially if you enjoy hearing people like Sebastian Bach and members of the Barenaked Ladies talk about their musical heroes. Whatever, we…
It started, just like so many of his ideas, in a moment of drug-induced inspiration. A staple in these parts since the release of his 2006 ode to not-quite-classic cars, “Caprice Muzik,” which put both him and, effectively, the entire Dallas hip-hop movement onto the national map, Tum Tum wanted…
More proof that the Toadies are bigger today than they’ve ever been: Kirtland Records just passed along word that, in addition to the just-released Feeler, the hugely successful Dia de Los Toadies Tres (called “the Willie’s Picnic of a new generation” by the Austin Chronicle) and another album of new…
There are, it seems, three roads to travel if you’re a hip-hop artist in North Texas trying to make it big and looking to shoot a music video. Got little-to-no budget? You hit up Kangbear. Got enough money to make something that looks good, but a little cheesy? Dr. Teeth…
Westlake’s Own Jonas Brothers just wrapped a big weekend, as their Disney Channel original movie, Camp Rock 2, which also features Colleyville’s Own Demi Lovato, made its television debut. But, go figure, the DFW Diz Kids weren’t the only musicians in the cast: Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook is in…
If you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve long known that Dallas’ own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West’s inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling “Power.” And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track–it’s currently being used in the as-seen-above-and-on-TV advertisement for…
Wasn’t necessarily planning on talking about Saturday night’s private Old 97’s show at the Barley House in this space–mostly because the affair, which was held in celebration of frontman Rhett Miller’s 40th birthday yesterday, was a private, invite-only one. But, while searching for something unrelated, I just now stumbled across…
The folks behind Denton’s NX35 Conferette are staying pretty mum in these very early times leading up to the third year of their fest, which, yes, we know for a fact, straight from organizer Chris Flemmons’ mouth in one of the few on-record discussions we’ve been able to procure, will…
Grand Prairie’s Own Selena Gomez has a new album called A Year Without Rain due out later this month, and, late last week, she debuted the new music video for that album’s lead single and title track. And, in case there was any doubt as to whether Disney was gonna…
The folks at YouPlusDallas, who you may recall from their incredibly well put-together re-cap of our DOMAXXII Awards Ceremony that we shared back in July, have done it again, this time releasing a clip re-visiting our DOMA Showcase festivities. The Showcase, you may recall, featured some 45 bands playing 10…
Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea is one of just two of the band’s four members that still calls Dallas home. But, beyond that, he’s also probably the straightest shooter of the bunch, never too willing to tout the party line and usually all-too-willing to discuss his band’s efforts with a…
On Saturday night at La Grange, local singer-songwriter Ashley Myrick, who performs under the stage name of lalagray, will celebrate the release of her debut solo album Devil’s Nest. And celebration, indeed, is in order: The piano-driven effort, which Myrick says is five years in the making, is a confident…
A big tip of the hat to the very underrated locally based music blog Douchebag Face, which earlier today posted the above clip of School of Seven Bells, who come to Denton for a gig at Hailey’s on October 8, performing an acoustic take of their Disconnect From Desire song…
In this week’s paper, Ben Westhoff chats up Dorrough, or as he calls himself, Mr. D-O-Double-R, in advance of the release of the Lancaster-based rapper’s sophomore effort, Get Big, which hits stores on Tuesday. Seems there are two roads before the 23-year-old born Dorwin Dorrough: Either he can capitalize on…
Trey Johnson released this morning a new music video for his song “Bombs,” the lead single off his new album, Where The East Ends, his second release in the wake of Sorta’s breakup. The video, directed by Michael Carter, is the first of Johnson’s solo career and, like the tone…
C’mon, this is an easy one. Some hints: It’s a she. She announced it on Twitter last night.She’s got her own line of accessories in the works.Her name rhymes with Schmerykah Schmadu…
Blah blah blah, Deep Ellum’s back, blah blah blah blah blah. Blah. Listen: We know you’ve heard it before. We know we’ve said it before. No apologies, though. Because—look out—we’re about to say it again. And maybe this time it’ll register. Consider this: Just over a year ago, back in…
Titus Andronicus, Soft Envirtonmental Collapse, Bizarro KidsSons of Hermann HallAugust 31, 2010Better than: sitting through Shakespeare, even at his goriest. Titus Andronicus may have been the headliners at Sons of Hermann Hall last night, but even that band admitted while on stage last night that the true heroes of the…
Gawker is reporting today that Paste magazine is about to close shop any minute now, further proving that combining two dying industries, music and journalism, indeed results in a double-negative and not a positive.It’s a sad day for sure, both for music journalism fans and for local music. Paste, let…
