A pretty exciting e-mail just popped up from the folks at Kirtland Records: Specifically, the release is centered around the Toadies, announcing the third annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival, which, in 2010, will take place at White Water Rocks in New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin, Texas. This…
When this next week’s Observer is distributed around the Metroplex, our stand on the new disc from the Denton-based Midlake, The Courage of Others, which is due out statesdide on February 2, will be made known. But plenty of others have already made their positions on the new, darker disc…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 25, 2010…Looks like Prince’s “Purple And Gold” didn’t really help out the Vikings much.NOOOOOOO! The Scorpions are breaking up!Steven Tyler may not be able to join Aerosmith while he’s in rehab–but, on the plus side, he has plenty of time…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January22, 2010…Mystikal has been released from prison after six years. Finally, even unborn babies get to listen to the iPod! Conan O’Brien sticks it to NBC with the help of the Rolling Stones. Suck it, Leno…
Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy charities. And, as you’d expect, the Haiti earthquake catastrophe has prompted an outpouring of support from the local music scene. First…
Seems as good a time as any to pass along word that the folks at Spune Productions have a couple big shows looming on the horizon, both of which we here at DC9 are proud to say we’re co-sponsoring.The first up comes on Saturday, January 30, at Hailey’s Club in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 21, 2010…John Mayer compares breaking up with Jennifer Aniston to burning the American flag… a really needy American flag.Country fiddler Charlie Daniels suffered a stroke while snowmobiling. I think it’s Gods way of telling him he shouldn’t have made that…
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…
The formal press announcement concerning Erykah Badu’s upcoming New Amerykah, Pt. II: Return of the Ankh release just came through the inbox and, well, some bad news: The disc, originally slated for a February 23 release, has had its date pushed back a month to a March 30 date. Those…
Yet another reunion show recalling Deep Ellum’s glory days is in the works as The Buck Pets, whose history Jeff Liles tackled in Echoes and Reverberations last year, will play Trees Saturday, April 10. We haven’t heard any kind of formal announcement yet, but the calendar on the Trees MySpace…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 20, 2010…Hipsters unite in indie magnificence! The Coachella line-up for this year has been released and it’s way awesomer than last year.Was Wayne Coyne captured by Google Streetview? You decide…Awesome quiz: Megadeth Song or Lifetime Movie?…
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…
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,…
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago when Lucero and Telegraph Canyon were added to the bill, the lineup for the MusInk Tattoo & Music Festival April 9 through 11 looked like it would stick with the roots-, folk- and country-influenced rock favored in these parts. But today’s announcement…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 19, 2010…The Killers are going on an indefinite hiatus. I wonder what 80’s group they borrowed that idea from?Brits heavy metal fans are being urged to adopt the genre as their religion for the upcoming census. A Los Angeles man…
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’…
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…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 18, 2010…Carl Barat has confirmed that The Libertines will reunite next year… provided Pete Doherty isn’t in jail or dead.Apparently Susan Boyle either can’t handle her new found fame or she was always loony.These are 10 of the greatest albums…
That above clip right there just so happens to be the latest video from area mall punk kings Forever The Sickest Kids, featuring the song “What Do You Want From Me?” from the band’s recently released EP, The Weekend: Friday, part of the three-pronged EP attack the band will be…
This past weekend, at a benefit concert held in Orlando each year to fight suicide, addiction and self-cutting, Grapevine’s own Bryce Avary (aka The Rocket Summer) performed a cover of “Stand By Me” alongside the likes of Mat Kearney and members of Underoath, Anberlin and Copeland. Check it out in…
The new Texas Music magazine popped up in the snail mail yesterday, and in a joint celebration of both the end of the ’00s and start of the mag’s 10th year in existence, the magazine, like many others before it, went ahead and listed its favorite albums and artists of…
When you’ve released over 200 records over the span of a 60-year career, what’s one more? Well, plenty if you’re Willie Nelson. Today brings news that the Red Headed Stranger will release a new album in just a couple of months on April 13. And not just any record, either…
