It’s been, um, a couple weeks since we’ve podcasted here at DC9. Sorry if you’ve been eagerly anticipating the next installment (stop lying), but we’ve been busy on some other fronts, like with the print edition. And this here blog. What, two mediums aren’t enough for you? Thanks, guys. It’s…
No? Weird, ’cause MTV apparently is. Yesterday, the music network checked in with some of the area’s hip-hop heavyweights–or, possibly, just the ones it still had email addresses for in its “Dallas Week” Rolodex–to hear their thoughts. Play-N-Skillz seem OK with it…”I think the Cowboys will be good with or…
I think it was two weeks back now that the above song, “Song I Hate”, was announced as the second single to be released from the Toadies’ No Deliverance record (the first single, remember, was the title track). So that’s not new news, necessarily. But this is kinda new (assuming…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 6, 2009… The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores on 9/9/09, at which point it will become the most overrated game ever. Yeah, yeah. Chris Brown got charged with felony assault. Marshall Mathers is making up for lost time by releasing two…
Last week, in a blog post about my favorite band from Cowtown, The Cut*Off, I mentioned how the band would be part of this Saturday’s Texas Showcase Showdown at the House of Blues. Well, Cut*Off guitarist Jayson Hamilton just sent me an emailing detailing the line-up and schedule for this…
Over at NX35.com, which is, fittingly, the home page for the inaugural Denton debut of the former North by 35 South by Southwest day party–but on a much larger scale–the festival’s organizers have released the performance and speaker schedules for its four-day jaunt around the Denton Square. Nothing scheduled for…
Stumbled upon this press release about local music instructor Mike Ellis this morning, and figured it might raise a few eyebrows. Ellis, whose been teaching music in the Dallas area for 35 years (he’s supposedly tutored worked with well-respected artists like Chuck Rainey, Greg Bissonette and Christopher McGuire and once…
It’s been a little over a year now since Dallas rapper Tum Tum released Eat or Get Ate, the breakout album that saw the man who also calls himself Tumzilla (or sometimes just Zilla) score a moderate national hit with the song “Caprice Muzik”, and though we still haven’t seen…
I’ll be honest. I was somewhat underwhelemed by THe BAcksliders’ 2008 release, You’re Welcome. It was weird, I thought. Here’s this raucous, straight up rock ‘n’ roll band–one that’s pretty darn great live, and here’s this disc that just shimmers in crisp, clean, shiny production. Something didn’t really jive.But today,…
Per a House of Blues press release: Katy Perry’s Dallas performance has been moved back from March 21 to May 11. Tickets purchased to the original date will be honored at the new one. Per an EMI press release that showed up seconds later: The entirety of Perry’s 50-city world…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 5, 2009…Phish Heads around the country have reason to rejoice this weekend: The band is finally getting back together for a full weekend of music. But, if you can’t go, well, you also have reason to rejoice: Free downloads of…
OK, one last post for the day (for real this time): Dallas’ own Vanilla Ice has finally stepped up to the plate, by officially apologizing for “Ice Ice Baby”. No, seriously: Check it out in the clip above. Unfortunately, it appears to be part of some viral scheme with little…
Kinda a slow day round the way here at DC9. Not too too much going on. Actually, that’s not true. There’s a lot, but not necessarily enough to constitute entire blog posts. Also, our blogging system was down for a bit before. Oh well. On that note, let’s end the…
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings, the Yeast By Sweet Beast festival features experimental/improvised music complemented by video art. YBSB precedes South By Southwest, March 14-16, at Salvage Vanguard Theatre and Plush in Austin.It also offers proof that the possibilities for spin-off festival names along SXSW’s lines are…
And this time, it’s with a feature on an artist that pretty much everyone–Fader, Connect magazine, the Billboard charts, us to a degree–agrees could be the Next Big Thing out of Dallas, Big Chief.In other news, “Dallas Week”, which I think is just slang for “whenever we finish up with…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 4, 2009… Somewhere, the seventh grade me is jumping up and down with glee: Motley Crue has announced that it will play Dr. Feelgood in its entirety on its upcoming Crue Fest 2: White Trash Circus tour. No word at this time…
Yep. An international songwriting competition quite cleverly named the International Songwriting Competition, in fact. Anyway, as the header implies, six locals made the cut to get a “finalist” nod from the ISC. Who? For what songs? In what categories? And, just for good measure, where are these people from? Funny…
Over on Pitchfork today, you can read an interview the site has posted with Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), whose upcoming disc we’re quite excited about ’round here. And, actually, it’s quite the lovefest of a piece: Interviewer Ryan Dombel calls Clark a “disturbingly gifted new talent” without…
Surely, I can’t be the only one who’s heard the latest Boogie song to take over local radio airwaves: T-Willz’ “Nature Walk”. In fact, I know I can’t be. Because, like I said, it’s all over the radio.But, man, c’mon, I can’t be the only one shaking his head, right?…
Rockwall’s Jason Castro, of American Idol fame, releases his debut single today. And, sure enough, that’s the song, “Love Uncompromised” in the video above, performed by Castro and friend during an Idol wrap-up show on the TV Guide channel. Rumor has it he could be performing this track on tonight’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009… All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business! Too bad he didn’t take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official state song…
A real treat today, courtesy Paul Slavens, Doug Burr and the fine folks at KERA. Slavens, the longtime area musician and KERA radio host has launched a brand new podcast hosted on KERA’s web site called “Track By Track” in which he interviews area musicians about their albums, one song…
