Brand names popping up in hip-hop is hardly a new trend — see, for instance, “Pass The Courvoisier” or countless other tracks. And songs in hip-hop about shoes — and, specifically, Nike shoes — isn’t new, either.So maybe it’s not exactly a surprise that Dallas rapper Dorrough has jumped in…
Good news and bad news, True Widow fans. First, the bad news: A family matter is taking bass playing Nicole Estill out of town this weekend, thus forcing the band off of the bill for tomorrow’s Record Store Day and 11th anniversary celebration at Good Records. They’ve been replaced on…
Lanky and perhaps too good-looking for his own good, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn was both blessed and cursed by having a successful debut album. Back in 2001, when he released Musicforthemorningafter, Yorn became an instant success story. Here was this charismatic and handsome guy, who wrote music that sounded as if…
Three years have passed since British Sea Power toured the states in support of their 2008 release, Do You Like Rock Music? That’s longer than the life of a lot of bands. The time away wasn’t for naught, though: The band regrouped and worked on the follow-up to the best…
After the jump, the Avett Brothers’ Scott Avett explains that, due to the impending birth of his second child, he and the rest of the band will be canceling their swing through Texas this weekend — meaning that Dallas, along with Austin and Houston, will get no Avett show this…
Not sure when it started being specifically “KXT 91.7’s annual summer concert series,” as the National Public Radio-backed music-centric station KKXT-91.7 is so proudly calling it today on its website, but, hey, here we are, heading into another summer, and, as has been the case for a few years now,…
Back in early March, you may recall, we pointed your attention toward this oh-so-incredible acoustic performance by the Toadies of their song “Tyler,” filmed and recorded on location at last year’s Dia de Los Toadies festival. Greatness. Meanwhile, in another world, LCD Soundsystem performed its last show ever about a…
Last week, the Morning News’ Rangers beat writer/columnist Evan Grant shared the music being used at the start of this baseball season by most of your Texas Rangers players — either at-bat music or welcome-to-the-mound stuff, naturally.The best news that wasn’t? Grant reported that catcher Mike Napoli was using “Teach…
Right around the turn of the calendar year, Billboard reached out to 17 bands across the country — bands that had little to no prior contact with the trade magazine, no less — and asked them to compete for a chance to perform at this year’s Billboard Music Awards in…
The last couple of years have followed an interesting path for British singer-songwriter Bobby Long. Both geographically and musically. After learning cello and guitar by the time he was 18, when he started writing his own songs, the young and dashing Long began to set his sights on open mic…
In 2008, Los Angeles noise pop quartet Warpaint released their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse, an effort that earned the band massive amounts of attention — enough so that the band was asked to open for several high-profile acts, including Akron/Family and the nationally sold-out tour from The xx. Now, after…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s new, ambitious project, Masters of Film Music, aims to showcase some of the most talented film scorers in Hollywood, and, as part of its offerings in the series, the DSO has been inviting these composers to come to Dallas and have a collection of their film…
During South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin a few weeks ago, I ran into Josh T. Pearson’s manager Peter Sasala at one of Pearson’s many performances. We spoke briefly about all the rave reviews that Pearson’s new album Last Of The Country Gentlemen had received, including one we recently…
There was no doubting that it would happen eventually, but late last month, it finally did: Kanye West’s brilliant 2010 release, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, went platinum.And, OK, while that’s maybe not a huge deal for West, whose entire catalog has already gone platinum multiple times over at this…
On Thursday, April 21, we here at DC9 will be launching something that we’re pretty darn excited about — a new, monthly concert series with our favorite local bands, fittingly called DC9 at Night’s Locals Only. Working in tandem with the folks at the Gilley’s complex (Palladium Ballroom, South Side…
Do you “dig music?” Do you believe that “one great rock show can change the world?” Do you like web sites?Fine coincidence this is, then, because we’re currently accepting applications for summer internships! And maybe we’ll even hire you!Hey, we said maybe.Some requirements: You need to be enrolled in college;…
When The Books released their first album, Thought for Food, in 2002, critics raved about the duo’s unique sound, which stemmed from the fact that Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong took found sounds (mostly from various cassettes the pair had purchased from The Salvation Army) and surrounded these fragments…
That first step into Midlake’s new studio is a tricky one — especially at night. The entry way is actually a sectioned-off sitting room, and it’s pitch black, forcing one to step lightly to avoid knocking over anything of value. The blackness is fitting, representing the blank slate a new…
Almost four years into its existence as one of the longest-running and most revered DJ nights in Dallas, Cool Out Mondays, long a staple in the upstairs portion of Lower Greenville’s recently departed The Cavern, started a new phase last night, moving into its new home in the upscale digs…
Back in November, the Sulphur Springs-sprung progressive hard rock act Fair to Midland announced a new label home and promised its fourth full-length come springtime. Well, clearly, they really meant summertime. A new press released issued late yesterday announces a new release date of June 14 for the disc, as…
We’ve now been waiting, oh, four months or so, for news of the upcoming collaborative, Spaghetti Western-themed album called Rome from Danger Mouse, Danielle Luppi, Jack White and Dallas’ Own Norah Jones. And, finally, some traction on that front: Danger Mouse recently released a trailer, featuring interviews with all of…
Everybody loves a good prank on April Fools’ Day. Everybody, that is, except the person on the receiving end of said prank. Which is to say the people like us here at DC9 HQ, who spend our days looking for pertinent local music news and information to pass along to…
