Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 17, 2009…Kelly Clarkson is busy fighting off rumors that she’s a lesbian.Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd are going on a joint tour again this summer.M.I.A’s former producer, Diplo, is joining forces with her current producer, Switch, to become Major Lazer…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 16, 2009… The former Dentonites in The Riverboat Gamblers were named in Rolling Stone writer David Fricke’s “Fricke’s Picks” this week. Modest Mouse will soon release the Heath Ledger-directed video for their b-side, “King Rat”. Alan W. Livingston, the man who signed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 13, 2009…Sweet! A good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll feud with 21st century technology! Trent Reznor has taken to his Twitter account to blast Chris Cornell’s new Timbaland-produced album. Of course, if you heard any of the songs on Cornell’s…
Some quick news hits…According to Billboard, the fourth full-length record from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted, which was released just two days ago, will reach No. 1 on the trade magazine’s album charts next week, with an estimated 200,000 records moved in its first week. It helps,…
As the above teaser South Park clip shows, last night’s episode touched on maybe the most pertinent topics ever: (Westlake’s own) Jonas Brothers and purity rings. I haven’t yet seen it, but Idolator’s already lauded the episode for mocking the Jonas’ use of blatant sexual overtones in light of their…
It’s been pretty widely reported already this morning, but it’s definitely worth pointing out again, in case some of you might’ve missed it: Seminal shoegaze act My Bloody Valentine is coming to town for a Palladium Ballroom performance just over a month from now, on Wednesday, April 22. It’s one…
Friend of DC9, local radio traffic reporter and emo scholar Eric Grubbs, checks in today with some encouraging news: Turns out, per his day job reporting on all the traffic goings-on in the Metroplex for 1080 KRLD-AM, Grubbs has learned that the construction that we warned you about yesterday isn’t…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 12, 2009… Remember Ashley Dupree, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s former call girl? Looks like she’s found a new mentor in hip-hop icon Russell Simmons. It seems he’s been “reaching out” to her in their yoga class. You know what position she…
Robert Wilonksy just directed my attention to this little blog entry by former Dallas Morning News music critic and current Austin American-Statesman scribe, Michael Corcoran, on Dallas’ own Floyd Dakil, who, despite retiring from music in 1984, will be heading down to Austin for a SXSW performance sponsored by the…
Gutterth Productions just put up its second podcast, this time turning its focus to the NX35 festival–perhaps you’ve heard of it? Along with songs from Gutterth-affiliated bands performing at the festival (New Science Projects, Sleep Whale, Record Hop, The Heartstring Stranglers, RTB2, Shiny Around The Edges, The Timeline Post, Doug…
Uh-oh.According to this state-run transportation site, all northbound traffic on I-35E between 9 p.m. on Thursday and 6 a.m. on Friday will be diverted off the highway, as construction workers will be working through the night to make repairs to the Corinth St. bridge. So what’s this mean? Well, if…
On Saturday at the Plano Centre, Mike Ziemer’s Third String Productions will throw its annual South by So What!? event–a deal that’s become something of a tradition. But it’s not the only show Ziemer puts on every year. At just 23 years of age, he’s booked thousands of bands on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 11, 2009… Looks like you won’t be able to use a fake name to get 12 CD’s for the price of one anymore: The mail-in BMG Music Service is done. Washed up rapper-turned-reality star, Coolio, was charged with possession of crack…
Speaking of the 97’s, news comes today via Billboard that Rhett Miller’s fourth solo record will see release on June 9. The self-titled affair, which Miller recorded over the past two months at Salim Nourallah’s Pleasantry Lane studios, also features a whole bunch of familiar names backing the 97’s’ frontman:…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 10, 2009…It looks like biopics with hip-hop icons are now officially in fashion in Hollywood. N.W.A. is the latest hip-hop group to have a biopic based on its story. And it looks like Big Daddy Kane could be next.Former Richardson…
It says on iTunes that Carter Albrecht’s solo album Jesus is alive … and living in London has been available since February 9. Carter’s father, Ken, and Robert Jenkins, whose Summer Break label is co-releasing the disc in conjunction with the Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, say that’s wrong, and that…
There’s really nothing for me to add to the story about Atlanta rapper Gorilla Zoe’s trip last week to Dallas’ Pearl C. Anderson Junior High School that hasn’t already been said. Except, I dunno, that maybe instead of parents and teachers getting annoyed by the fact that the rapper passed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 9, 2009…Miley Cyrus, is like, sooooo mad at being snubbed by Radiohead at the Grammys that she’s going to “ruin” them. Right. I’m sure Thom Yorke and Co. not wanting to meet Miley has nothing to do with her being…
Cut Copy, Matt & KimGranada TheaterMarch 7, 2009 Better than: anything that someone who originally found Matt and Kim’s cheeriness to be a little annoying could ever expect their stage show to be. Matt and Kim Yesterday was Kim Shifino’s happiest day ever. Or, rather, it sure seemed that way…
Giggle Party’s Jason Reichl and Katrina Michie plan to open the doors to their home, at 824 Exposition Suite 8 near the Amsterdam Bar, as a DIY venue. Writes Reichl in an e-mail: Not only will we be having shows but also special events. As you know Denton has a…
Maybe you’re like me (God help you). Maybe you heard some of PlayRadioPlay’s stuff in the past and thought, “Hey, this is interesting stuff, especially condsidering it’s coming from some kid from Aledo. If only he turned down some of that vocoder…” Well, over on his Myspace page, a couple new…
Didn’t take Pitchfork too long to follow up on the interview it ran with St. Vincent earlier this week. Today, the influential music site offers up a free mp3 of the first single from Actor, her upcoming release. We’ve already heard “The Strangers” performed live, but this, my friends, is…
