When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah prayer as the…
Wake Up Jon by Friends of Jon BroomThis week, local musician Daniel Miller and fellow area musician/producer Salim Nourallah released their above co-written track, a song dedicated to their friend Jon Broom, who, on September 5 was in a motorcycle accident that caused severe brain injury and resulted in Broom…
The Lizard Lounge–which, it should be noted, will celebrate its very impressive 18th anniversary on Saturday night with a set from house DJ Robbie Rivera among others–played host to a freak show performance from the DFW-based touring sideshow Hellzapoppin last night. Among the not-for-the-weak-stomach sights seen: Fire-eating, walking on broken…
Exciting news for Seryn today: Spune has just announced via a press release that it has signed the band to a management/artist development deal and that it will release the band’s debut album in spring 2010. Not bad for a band born just this past March. Then again, we’ve already…
This morning, after late-breaking news from Denton last night that The Flaming Lips would be headlining this year’s NX35 Festival, we’ve received confirmation from both the folks at NX35 and with The Flaming Lips: It’s on.In fact, in an email just sent our way, NX35 publicist Lyndsay Knecht Milne even…
Last night, at a listening party for his band’s upcoming The Courage of Others disc in Denton, Midlake’s Eric Pulido announced to a crowd of about 50 people that Midlake would be playing the North by 35 conferette. No news there necessarily–except that four sources who were there say Pulido…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 15 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
David Ponder, guitarist for the local alt-country combo Somebody’s Darling, just sent word that his band and The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton’s band, which just played The Loft earlier this week) will both play the Screen Actor Guild’s Holiday Party tonight at Gilley’s.Although Gilley’s website doesn’t mention the gig, SAG…
Friend of the program Nico Martini, who hosts “American Highway” every Monday afternoon on the Indie-verse, put together the above short clip on Dallas’ own The King Bucks, who started off as “just a bunch rock guys that were doing country music” and have grown into one of the top…
Well, it’s officially list-making season again. Everyone’s doing it, listing their top songs and albums of the year and/or decade and whatnot. So, too, are we. Online, on our DC-9 at Night blog, we’re counting down our favorite local songs of the year, one a day, till we get to…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 16 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
Last week, just after a potential upcoming single from Erykah Badu leaked to the Internet, the Dallas-based neo-soul queen formally announced the release date for her upcoming album, New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. The disc, reported Billboard late on Friday afternoon, will see its official release on…
Well, we expected to see either of the DFW-bred acts that popped up earlier this week in Pitchfork’s countdown of the top 100 tracks of 2009 to make another appearance in the countdown as it progressed. But, honestly? We were kind of expecting it to be St. Vincent. Instead, it’s…
Yesterday saw the formal release of Midlake’s two lead The Courage of Others singles in the form of a two-track, 12”, vinyl, limted edition, collector’s piece–a must have, we imagine, for any serious local music collector. But, even for the wannabes, there’s something of a consolation: Yesterday, in tandem with…
It was a month ago to the day that Denton ex-pat punks The Riverboat Gamblers released its latest music video, this one for “DissDissDissKissKissKiss,” the latest single off the band;s March-released album Underneath the Owl. Well, last week, the song also got something of a makeover in the form of…
This morning, Denton-based prog-rock outfit The Raven Charter passed along its new music video to DC9 HQ. And it’s not too tough to see why the band might be proud of it: It’s a high-tech, science-fiction affair, paired with the group’s “new single” called “Thousand Worlds.”Says one of the band’s…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 17 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
It was back in September when the news broke that local, Grammy-winning hip-hop production duo Play-N-Skillz was launching its own label, G4 Muzik, and getting things started by signing fast-rapping local Inertia (pictured right).Well, it seems things are moving swimmingly along in Play-N-Skillz and Inertia’s plans. Last week, Inertia released…
Midlake’s new,two-song, 12”, 45 rpm release, Acts of Man, which features two songs off the bands upcoming full-length release The Courage of Others (“Acts of Man” and “Rulers, Ruling All Things”), earned its release today.And though the release is available for online purchase–via insound.com, recordstore.co.uk and boomkat.com–it’s only available at…
Amidst all the year-end coverage bombarding music fans’ ears and eyes at the moment, it’d be easy to miss something like this–but that doesn’t mean it’s any less notable. Earlier today, Spin magazine released the tracklist and download link for a free 10-track compilation it’s releasing of artists to watch…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 18 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
The Crash That Took Me at Art Conspiracy 5 on Saturday, December 12:A pretty high quality, well-edited video here featuring the emcee stylings of Paul Slavens, the auctioneering prowess of Happy Bullet/cycling advocate/Oak Cliff activist Jason Roberts, the art of Art Conspiracy 5 and the stage presence of The Crash…
