Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 17, 2009…You remember the song “Hungry Eyes,” right? Well the guy who crooned it out, Eric Carmen, is headed to jail for a DUI arrest.Apparently Eminem’s five-year hiatus from rapping was due to a drug problem.Up-and-coming rapper Kid Cudi has…
Dust Congress just announced the details on how the band will follow up 2007’s Egg Tooth EP. In true Denton style, the band will hold a house-party record release barbecue for Regurgitate Sunshine State at Fra House, along with Tre Orsi, The Make Believers and Drink To Victory, on the…
Over on EW.com’s music blog today, Dallas mall pop hero The Secret Handshake (aka Luis Dubuc) gets a whole lotta love for “TGIF” the second track (and arguably the best cut) from his upcoming My Name Up In Lights record, which will earn release on Tuesday.No real surprise that a…
If your name is B-Hamp, you went down to South Padre Island and performed ‘Do The Ricky Bobby’ at various Girls Gone Wild parties. Kinda puts a whole new spin on the “Stop! Pose for the frame!” lyric, huh?…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 16, 2009…Jamie Foxx got himself wrapped up in a big ol’ case of open-mouth-insert-foot. He said on his satellite radio show that Miley Cyrus should do some drugs and make a sex tape. Well, now he’s sorry he said such…
Maybe you caught the story in yesterday’s DMN about the demolition of Reunion Arena that starts up this week? Looks like that old warhorse of an entertainment venue should be completely gone by the end of September. I still have a lot of fond memories of the place, including The…
A little over a month ago now, Merritt Martin offered up her praise for Shiny Around The Edge’s latest release, Holy Roller. This week, All Music Guide does the same, saying that the married Denton duo’s disc “might be the best ambivalently fierce album of its kind since Low’s underrated…
OK, so it’s not Good Records’ National Record Store Day party lineup–not even close, really–but Alrington’s Forever Young Records, a personal favorite of our own Noah W. Bailey’s, has announced its own little celebration for the two-year-old holiday, and it includes, among others, Austin’s Asleep at the Wheel.For the complete…
Happy Birthday, Bill!…
Yes, the Crystal Castles show at the Granada Theater last night–or lack thereof, actually–turned out to be something of a shit show. Between opening band VEGA being on the bill (then not on the bill) and the doors still not being open at 10:15 p.m. (and soon thereafter the show…
Like Erykah Badu? Alright, then! What about good causes–like the helping the blind? OK! We’re getting somewhere! Like art? Yeah, I know, I know–who doesn’t!?!?! Now, the easy part: Got a spare grand? Maybe more?(Crickets.)Oh, come on! Watch the above video and tell me that those Steven Lopez prints aren’t…
…and, as a result, about 1,200 fans were left out in the lurch. What gives? We’re gonna makes some calls and try to find out what happened, from all angles. But, in the meantime, I’m guessing this story from WeShotJr doesn’t do the Canadian duo any favors. (Or is it favours?)…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 15, 2009… Eminem is back, and he felt like hip-hop was going downhill during his absence like music was “lacking substance.” Yeah, substance like jokes about Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Jessica Simpson. That’s substance. If you have an extra…
As promised, the Fort Worthians in Calhoun saw their song “The Earth Has Lost Its Hold” pop up in last night’s episode of NBC’s Chuck–twice, in fact. (Suck on that, The Bright!) Above, you can watch the whole danged episode. Or you can just skip right ahead to around the…
As if hot suburban soccer moms weren’t reason enough to hang out at Warren Sports Complex in Frisco this summer, the park will have free live music at 7:30 every Friday night in June. And one of the acts playing—OMG!– will be Joe Jonas. Yep, you read that right, 13-year-olds!…
O! M! F! G! Guys! Because three times isn’t enough, really, the local musicians in The Bright got served another helping of being placed into an episode of The Hills last week, or so says a press release we here at DC9 received late yesterday evening. Turns out, the band’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 14, 2009…In what should be a surprise to no one, Phil Spector was found guilty in his re-trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. He could spend at least the next 18 years in prison.Billy Bob Thornton’s band The Boxmasters…
Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records art-pop imprint, is almost ready to go with its first release, Little Black Dress’ Snow In June, which is set for a May 5 release.You may recognize a few members of Little Black Dress’ lineup–namely frontman Toby Pipes, also of Deep Blue Something,…
A friend of DC9 passed along a link to this news story this morning, which, within it, mentions that a Rockwall man purchased the plaster impressions of Tiny Tim’s top and bottom teeth on eBay earlier this week from a seller in Methuen, Massachusetts. Even more odd? He paid the…
A longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill — Dusty’s big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as “The Anti-Clapton” — died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I’ve found online is his obituary…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 13, 2009…Regardless on where you fall on the like/dislike scale of Chris Cornell’s new album, I think this song is something anyone can appreciate. The free download is a song written by a cancer-stricken Cornell fan from Texas, who lost…
Yesterday, we mentioned an item we came across that said that the members of the New Hampshire-based Wild Light were robbed in Dallas when the band stopped through to play Club Dada. Today, Wild Light multi-instrumentalist Seth Pitman checks in to explain what happened.”Getting robbed in Dallas capped off about…
