Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like the injuries sustained by Steven Tyler after falling off a stage in Sturgis weren’t so minor after all: The classic rock legends in Aerosmith have canceled the remainder of their summer tour. Marilyn Manson is throwing idle threats…
“All good things must come to an end…” or so says the title of a bulletin just posted on the Annex House’s MySpace page. We held back Good Friday a bit to bring you this breaking news. We haven’t heard back from anyone at the house yet, but the message…
The lineup for this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival is being set and worthy bands are being encouraged to sign up for something called The Sound and The Jury competition.Here’s the scoop that got sent to me via email this morning: “Round One is live now and bands can…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Guitar legend and inventor Les Paul has passed away.No one is immune: Kasabian’s lead singer has swine flu. Bat-shit-crazy right wing pundit Glenn Beck is a big fan of Muse. I wonder what he’d do if you told him they…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 13, 2009…Kanye West is slowly becoming the king of all media… sorry Howard. He blogs, sings, raps, produces and now he has his own short movie out this fall.Britpop one-hit-wonders The Verve have split for the third time. Those boys…
If your Rhett Miller alarm was sounding off all morning and you just couldn’t figure out why, North Of The Dial’er Daniel is here to help, pointing out that CNN’s Shannon Cook sat down with Miller to feature him in today’s installment of CNN’s interview series “Music & Conversation.” (Two…
Last October, North of the Dial featured a story about how The Heartstring Stranglers were dealing with losing one of the band’s founding members. Next week, the chamber-folk act’s frontman Freddie Schulze and cellist Emily Hertz leave Denton, bound for Budapest, where the pair will spend the next year. We’ve…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…It’s not really news that Morrissey seems to be a pretty self-loathing character. But now he doesn’t even want you to buy his box sets.Elton John guesting on the new Alice In Chains album?! First dueting with Eminem and…
Late yesterday we were fixing to end the day on a high note, and send two pair of DC9 readers to the Granada’s double-bill of hip-hop duos scheduled for tonight.But the good people at the Granada sent word instead that Clipse and Cool Kids had bowed out. Close followers will…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 11, 2009…Police shut down an all-night rave when fans of opening band Crystal Castles jumped from balconies onto the floor. Well, at least they played this show. Jay-Z is Oprah’s newest favorite thing? I smell a 50 Cent diss track…
This morning, Fergus & Geronimo’s 7-inch for “Tell It (In My Ear)” was made available for pre-order from London-based blog/record label Transparent. But if you want to secure yourself a copy, you’d better start reaching for your credit card because Transparent is only having 300 copies of the vinyl single…
Well, Pitchfork once again reached its thick red prongs all the way to our fair metro area this morning, by featuring two tracks by the Denton-based experimental act Abacus. “What’s in the water in Denton, Texas?” the Pitchfork author jokes in the write up — this is after all the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 10, 2009…The “Big Four” music companies are taking on Apple with a new form of digital music. Maybe they should ask Bill Gates what happened to the Zune. It seems like Kings of Leon are starting to figure out they’ve…
Perhaps you’ve seen the above ad in the past couple issues of our dead tree publication about a new monthly happening down in Deep Ellum, brought to you by seven of the neighborhood’s venue’s, one of its art galleries and us here at DC9? Yeah? Well, as the above image…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert has the details on what looks to be the final nail in the coffin for the building 508 Park Ave.Which would be no big deal, except that some dude named Robert Johnson apparently recorded some music there or something? Or so Robert’s told…
In case you haven’t noticed, we, and everyone else (including Subway) have been kinda inundated with ticket offers and discounts from Live Nation all summer long.Well, this week, the folks at the national booking/promotions superpower have put a few more worth-mentioning doozies into the pot.First, there’s this “Ultimate Access” deal,…
We hadn’t heard anything in some time about investigation that followed the murders of two Christian music producers, Matthew Butler and Stephen Swan, as the two were leaving Butler’s Zion Gate studio late one night last June. Well, not since James Broadnax and Demarius Cummings were arrested in connection with…
I admit, this is about as tangential as local music coverage can get, but it’s still kinda funny: Last night, in an ABC News story about the issues Twitter and Facebook faced yesterday as a result of cyber attacks that may or may not be related to the ongoing conflict…
Yesterday, charming Tyler-based family rock (and DOMA-winning, mind you) outfit Eisley posted the above clip to Youtube, updating its fans on what’s to come. Kinda a good news/bad news deal. The good news: The band’s third full-length album is on the way. The bad news: It won’t be coming out…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like Michael Jackson’s estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac’s. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs–new and old–were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most logical replacement for the Beastie…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… If a tree falls in the woods, who cares? Case in point: Paula Abdul has left American Idol. Tommy Lee said he’s still “baffled” why anyone watched his notorious sex tape with Pam Anderson Hint: Because it showed…
Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic ’80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had its…
