A couple days ago, we hipped you to the new, free-to-download compilation offered up by Sarcramento-based, Lefse Records offshoot Waaga Records, and its heavy focus on Denton. No surprise here, really, but yesterday, the comp scored a nice little nod from Pitchfork, and the write-up helped offer a little insight…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 15, 2010… Would you kill to get your old job back? Apparently Incubus’ old DJ would, even after 11 years. R&B heavyweight Teddy Pendergrass has passed away.Looks like the next LCD Soundsystem album may be it’s last… maybe?…
El Che, the forthcoming LP by Kanye co-writer Rhymefest, features four songs with beats by Strange Fruit Project producer/MC S1 (Symbolyc One), two of which Fest leaked today on Ruby Hornet to build momentum for the official release. Both leaked songs also feature Phonte of Little Brother, who S1 says…
Well, we told you this was coming yesterday, but here it is: This morning, Fair to Midland has released the video footage it captured in the aftermath of its blown tire and wreck in the Arizona desert, all set to a new song called “Loophole in Limbo.” It makes for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 14, 2010…Heidi Montag’s new album is better than Thriller. Right, and chicken pox are worse than herpes.First Rob Zombie, then Fred Durst. Now Omar Rodriguez-Lopez his directorial debut. LaDainian Tomlinson is trying his best to keep up with Dallas Cowboys…
The details behind it, at this point, are pretty vague but, after spreading like wildfire throughout the Internet this afternoon, it’s been confirmed: Fast-rising indie garage rock hero Jay Reatard was found dead at 3:30 a.m. today in his Memphis home. Long-troubled, the musician’s recent Dallas stops were plagued with…
Fair to Midland’s bus may not have rolled nine times as has been previously reported elsewhere–but it did roll one-and-a-quarter times on Saturday afternoon, eventually landing on its side, after a tire on the band’s trailer blew out when the band was driving from Los Angeles to Phoenix for a…
Don’t burn your entire stash on 4/20, because just two days later George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will touch down at House of Blues in Dallas.Bandleader Clinton, as if you needed an introduction, is a true legend of funk. His original group The Parliaments, the subsequent Funkadelic and various combinations…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 13, 2010…Slash claims to have turned down a “seven or eight figure” pay day to reunite with Guns N Roses…to work with Scott Weiland?G-Unit’s Lloyd Banks was released from a Canadian jail after allegedly assaulting and robbing a concert promoter. …
Pardon us for following the progress of Sacramento-based record label Waaga Records so closely–but, hey, they started it by first signing the DC9-approved FUR and then inking Florene, all based on the recommendations of the Sleep Whale fellas. Anyway, the early returns on that front seem to be pretty good:…
…y’know, what with all the drama and all, then you might as well turn in to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. Why? Well, ’cause you might spot a familiar face or two: Justin Pate, keyboardist for Fort Worth’s The Orbans, will be among the the backing players performing in…
Wilonsky swears Roky Erickson was born in Dallas, and, hey, that’s enough of an excuse for me to pass along this fine little bit of news this morning: For the first time in 14 years, the Father of Psychedelic Rock will release an album of new material. The album, called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 12, 2010…Raekwon, Ghostface and Method Man have started a side project… but, need a little help with the name. Maybe, Wu Lite?Somewhere today, Thom Yorke has to be incredibly upset that a member of a boy band is incredibly pissed…
Kinda been an all-over-the-map day here at DC9. Not sure exactly what we’re supposed to make of it, either. All this D-Town Boogie and mall punk news? Plus high schoolers and Willie Nelson? Hey, I guess we had some sort of hand in making this bed. Might as well lie in…
Dallas Cowboys offensive linemen Leonard Davis, Marc Columbo and Marc Proctor’s band, Free Reign (which pairs the trio with guitarist Justin Chapman), has announced the released date for its debut EP. The five-song disc from the nu-metal footballers, called (fittingly?) Tragedy, will be released on January 26, via the Australian-based…
If there’s one regret we have, looking back on our list of the 40 best songs of 2009, it’s that, somehow, we completely forgot about Robert Gomez’s rather brilliant 2009 release Pine Sticks and Phosphorus and, specifically, “The Hunting Song.” How? Because, well, sometimes, we’re idiots. And by “we,” I…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 11, 2010…M.I.A. found a unique way to make sure her Internet and cable connection stayed up… let Verizon workers sing on your album.Lady Gaga is the new Chief Creative Officer at Polaroid. Why?Looks like Michael Jackson’s cardiologist is will face…
Once upon a time, she was just Carmen. Then, after realizing that the single-name thing wasn’t her style, she extended it out to her full name: Carmen Rodgers. And, on her 2004 release Free, Rodgers showcased a surgary-sweet indie soul coo and rightfully earned her a couple DOMA nominations in…
British-based Fact Magazine recently released it’s best albums of the decade list (everyone’s doing it!) and here’s an interesting inclusion of note: Coming in at No. 21 on the taste-making mag’s list is Dallas-based electro artist Gerard Hanson, who scores with the 2006, self-titled album he release under his Convextion…
Last year’s performances at Lola’s Sixth in Fort Worth marked the first time the improv/experimental music No Idea Festival came to the North Texas area. This year the event will be held in Dallas at a far grittier venue, the home base of the non-profit art- and music DIY collective…
Up to this point, we really haven’t heard too much from 16-year-old Dallas rapper Lil Twist. We knew a few things, of course: Namely, that he’s a member of Lil Wayne’s Young Money crew and stopped by to join the man on stage at Wayne’s American Airlines Center performance back…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 8, 2010…The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan says he doesn’t sleep for seven days while he goes on booze benders. That still doesn’t explain his teeth.When recording an album about the downfall of America, there is really no one better to “get”…
