Watch: Drowning Pool — “Feel Like I Do”

The Dallas-based hard rock four-piece Drowning Pool has a new album due out in April. It’s the band’s fifth studio effort, and this one is called, quite simply, Drowning Pool. Yesterday, the lead single for the album, “Feel Like I Do,” earned its video release–and, sure enough, there it is,…

Born Again

Here we are, sitting in a church in Denton, watching Sarah Jaffe perform before a no-shit-Sherlock adoring audience—every single pew in the place completely full—and all I’m wondering is how no one ever figured out that a stunt like this would draw a crowd so big that people would be…

Rebel Yell

From first listen to his debut disc under the name of Analog Rebellion, it’s pretty clear: The 20-year-old, Aledo-based Daniel Hunter is well over his past as PlayRadioPlay!. Gone, after all, is the dream-pop aesthetic that’s drawn the older parts of Hunter’s catalog comparisons to recent Top 40 sensation Owl…

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 6: Analog Rebellion

…and for you all who still rock the YouTubes, here’s your link.In this week’s paper, I check in with the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!, Aledo’s Daniel Hunter, to talk about his set-to-be-released-next-week debut under the the moniker of Analog Rebellion. The new album, Ancient Electrons, is a big change…

Syndey Confirm Returns With Plans For New Music, A Label, And Maybe A Festival. But Definitely A New Remix EP For You To Download For Free.

Earlier this week, Sydney Confirm’s Redsean (aka Sean Humphrey) announced the release of a free-to-download remix EP called Sounds of Old. Only, turns out, the remix EP, which is pretty stellar collection of slightly vampy electro-dance cuts featuring Redsean’s track revisions from the past two years (listen to, download and…

NX35 Adds Neon Indian, Others to Lineup; Tickets Now On Sale

Originally, tickets for this year’s second go-’round of the NX35 Music Conferette were supposed to go on sale yesterday. A few software glitches go in the way, but more important point is this: Tickets are now on sale, so go get ’em. Four-day passes will set you back only $65;…

More Fair to Midland Benefit Shows Scheduled

Just got news that a couple more Fair to Midland benefit shows have been added to the two that were already announced in the wake of the band’s pretty gnarly crash out in the Arizona desert. The new shows include a second night in Dallas at the Curtain Club (on…

Download: Giggle Party — “Big Bang”

Looks like the often out-of-control Giggle Party has started to to throw a little more organization onto its plate: Today, the band debuted its new song “Big Bang” on its new site, partytodeath.com. It’s all part of a plan the group is calling the “Party to Death Project,” in which,…

T Bone Burnett Wins Golden Globe, Meryl Streep’s Admiration

Sorry if you missed last night’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth native T Bone Burnett walked with the Hollywood Foreign Press’…

Watch: Spector 45 — “Emulate”

Ran into Spector 45’s Frankie 45 at his “day job” tending bar at the Amsterdam in Exposition Park over the weekend and was promised that, come Monday, there’d be a little present for DC9 readers in the ol’ inbox. Sure enough, here it is: The band’s first music video, far…

NX35 Releases Preliminary List of Performers

There’s a nice little write-up in this morning’s Denton Record-Chronicle about last week’s NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan’s Silverleaf. But, if we’re being completely honest, it’s not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that’s got our attention. Why’s that? Ah: The piece includes a list of…

Good Friday: Descender, Dana Harper, RTB2, Red, Dust Congress, Telegraph Canyon, Ishi, Red Hot Poker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Wayne Hancock, Ugly Mus-tard, The Burning Hotels, The Happy Bullets and Teenage Cool Kids

No need to pussyfoot around the berrybush here, folks, let’s juts dive right in. As the great Dylan McKay was known for saying, “You know the drill.”First, the shows we’ve already discussed.Tonight’s got some heavy-hitters: The Paper Chase, True Widow and The Boom Boom Box share a crazy bill at…