…or so this here press release we just received from Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis says. We’d watch and see for ourselves but we generally try to avoid shows like 16 and Pregnant, which seem to imply the impending apocalypse and/or inspire things like teenage pregnancy pacts. If you can handle…
We here at DC9 are proud to announce that we’ll be sponsoring one of the many shows scheduled as part of this year’s NX35 conferette up in Denton from March 11-14. And how: We’ll be hosting the The Boiler Room’s Friday night showcase featuring Los Angeles’ HEALTH and Denton-based DC9…
Over at SXSW’s Web site, festival organizers have started posting the schedule of events for this year’s ordeal. And, though its still a few weeks off and many bands and showcases that we know are set to happen have yet to appear, it’s still a fun browse.Also, for what it’s…
Jesse already mentioned it in his review of Erykah Badu’s Saturday night performance at the Palladium, but what the heck–seeing is believing, you know. So, on that note, check out the above video for Badu’s new Web-only track off of New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. The clip…
Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam’s All-Star Weekend Finale PartyPM LoungeFebruary 14, 2009For Grammy-winning hip-hop producers Play-N-Skillz, Sunday night–the last night of a jam-packed, celebrity- and part-filled weekend–saw the brothers Salinas hosting not one, but two parties. Earlier in the evening, the brothers welcomed a number of Dallas Cowboys and Mavericks to…
Play-N-Skillz’s Welcome to All-Star AffairPlushSeemed it was a late-arriving crowd at Plush, for the first of Play-N-Skillz’s four nights of events at the downtown ultra-lounge: The party was scheduled to kick off at 10 p.m., but even after 11 o’clock, there just weren’t many people there–aside from the hosts and…
As promised, Neon Indian played Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to the above effect, playing a medley of sorts, blending its song “Terminally Chill” into a rather badass rendition of Psychic Chasms’ most badass track, the album-closing “Ephemeral Artery.” Kind of a brilliant performance, too.And the band received…
…or so some press release from Chipotle reminds us today. Just don’t tell that to the folks at the McKinney Avenue spot in Uptown, where the burrito–named for Oso Closo after it won a Chipotle-sponsored contest–was being advertised for sale as early as Tuesday this week. Was when I popped…
In this week’s Observer cover story, we take a look at the upcoming NBA All-Star Weekend coming through town and what it could mean for Dallas’ hip-hop future. In short: If nothing else, it should add some eyes to the burgeoning D-Town Boogie movement and help the scene get some…
Two years back, Kris Youmans took home a Dallas Observer Music Award that named him the best booking agent in town thanks to his work bringing in some of the bigger indie acts around to the Granada Theater. As of yesterday, though, Youmans is out at the Granada, having accepted…
No winner this week. Sorry, folks.I just got word from POTW Captain and Observer art director Alex Flores that this week’s submissions were rather… um, how can I put this lightly… meager. So, instead of simply picking a poster for the sake of announcing a winner, we’re gonna simply gonna…
…and for you relics still stuck on YouTube, here’s your link.Many thanks to Observer Web editor Patrick Michels for popping by a certain unnamed area high school gymnasium this past Saturday morning to join photographer Steven Visneau, art director Alex Flores and yours truly as we welcomed Play-N-Skillz, Treal Lee…
We’re admittedly a little D-Town Boogie-focused this weekend, what with the NBA All-Star Game in town and all the local hip-hop events planned around it in hopes of busting the scene out of its regional bubble. The way to do that–or so says every local hip-hop proprietor from Play-N-Skillz to…
Over at the NX35 blog, the March 11-14 festival’s organizers has started rolling out the nightly schedules and venue homes for each of its performers. Already, the site’s posted its schedules for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Gotta figure Sunday’s right around the corner, so keep checking back there for…
Cliff Wright from The Orbans passed along the above clip to DC9 HQ yesterday morning–and for good reason. It’s features new song from the promising Fort Worth country-rock outfit, one which will be included on the band’s as-yet-untitled new album due for release in late March, if all goes to…
A major tip of the cap to Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who always does a beyond-admirable job of reporting all things Fort Worth- and music-related for his paper’s music blog, for turning our eyes toward this mind-spinning note: A new Fort Worth “surpergroup” of sorts has formed,…
The latest greatest song from the D-Town Boogie movement? You’re looking at it, folks. Listeners of K104 or 97.9 The Beat will no doubt recognize the song immediately, as its played with regularity on both stations. And now the men behind “Flex,” the Party Boyz, have a flashy Dr. Teeth-directed…
All day yesterday, (via Twitter) Bonnaroo went ahead and announced its lineup for this year ordeal, which will take place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee, and it’s a pretty impressive lineup featuring the likes of Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Dave Matthew Band, Kings of Leon and the Flaming Lips, who, with…
In November, when we spoke last with Eisley’s Stacy Dupree, the singer implied that she and her family/bandmates weren’t necessarily all that stoked with their situation at Warner Bros. Records. But, she asked at the time, she said she’d rather not talk too openly about that situation on record. Rather,…
Today marks the first day in which audiences can head on out–or just sit in and click over to iTunes or your digital download store of choice, whatever–and purchase the new Smile Smile disc, Truth on Tape. And, in many ways, the title of the disc explains exactly what can…
Last week, Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent, duh) released the above video for the third single off her pretty darn awesome, May-released album, Actor, “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood.” And it’s pretty brilliant, too, enlisting the help of Thunderant, the comedy duo featuring SNL vet Fred Armisen…
Can’t imagine that Erykah Badu and Matthew Gray (of Matthew and The Arrogant Sea) really have all that much in common–well, aside from the fact that they’re both from the region, they’ve both more-likely-than-not dabbled in mind-altering substances and they’ve both had the dubious honor of meeting yours truly (surely…
