Local alt-country rocker Darryl Lee Rush’s latest album, Live from the River Road Icehouse, is one of the top 100 Americana CDs of the year as determined by the Americana Music Association.Rush’s CD was spun enough times by Americana stations to warrant this honor–glad to know that there are radio…
Fact: The Polyphonic Spree has more members than your band. And, as such, it has more siblings of band members than your band does. And, as such, the Spree is much more likely to have a band member whose sibling is a writer. And, as such, the Spree is far…
Your top national music stories for Monday, December 22, 2008: It’s never too early to start talking about the ’09 festival season: It looks like a reunited Phish may headline two nights at Bonnarroo this year. So you’d better start letting that beard grow out now. But, you still have…
And, no, I’m not making this up. –Pete Freedman…
…is a metal band made up of 14-year-old high school freshmen called Crooked X. They’ve toured as openers for Ted Nugent. Were featured on CBS’ The Early Show. Even had a song in Rock Band. All nice accomplishments.But, c’mon. Seriously? –Pete Freedman…
Hotel guests across the country will see Dallas’ own Erykah Badu named among the artists in USA Today’s critic’s picks for top albums of 2008. Edna Gunderson named New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War as the No. 5 album of the year, describing it as “Gutsy, inventive, deeply felt…
I stumbled across this the other day on Youtube, and, yep, that’s right; it’s the Portland Trailblazers’ rookies, earlier this year, being hazed somewhat by the veteran players on the team and being forced to dance to Them GSpot Boyz’s “Stanky Legg” at a preseason scrimmage. I kid you not.Perhaps…
Jason Upshaw I guess maybe I should’ve posted this on Monday morning, as I knew the news then, but for whatever reason, it slipped my mind: Congrats are in order for Airline, who, on Saturday night at Club Dada, beat out Sunward and Hendrick in an audience vote to determine…
Jason Janik Denton electro-dance act (by way of Boston) Roy G. and The Biv–which, in terms of abundant coverage and love, has pretty much been Quick’s answer to our Mount Righteous–has offered up its choices of the top ten albums of 2008 to the Stark Magazine blog (the same blog…
Listen: We’ve done our fair share of Forever The Sickest Kids dogging here at DC9 over the past 12 months or so–sometimes for good reason, and sometimes because, well, we were just bored.But, fact of the matter is, these guys had themselves a hell of a year: They released their…
In the print edition of the Observer this week, I previewed Saturday’s top notch bill of local acts at Double Wide who are playing to benefit the Fort Worth adoption agency The Gladney Center. Well, Danny Balis, co-host of The Orphanage, the weekend radio show on 1310 KTCK-AM The Ticket,…
Over at The Secret Machines’ web site this morning, you can listen to Brandon Curtis’ pretty haunting (and borderline disturbing) take on “Silent Night”. It’s worth a listen, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s a different from most interpretations. And who knows? You might like it…
Just spoke with Lisa Endicott, who runs press for The Granada Theater, and she verified that the Billy Joe Shaver/Jesse Dayton concert that was to take place this Friday is canceled. Endicott told me the reason for the cancellation off the record, which means that I am bound by the…
Stumbled across a couple sites this afternoon that name drop Fight Bite’s Emerald Eyes as one of the year’s tops–including this blog from Stark Magazine which drops the disc in at the No. 43 slot on its year-end Top 50. And, in other good news, Jeff Louis and Leanne Macomber’s…
Ah, the joys of year-end lists: Reading up on your own personal favorite records of the year, seeing where they rank on others’ lists, finding out what others’ thoughts on those discs are…Well, OK, sometimes it’s not that easy.Today, a blog called Secretly Belgian checks in to name Centro-matic/South San…
Chat Room Pub barkeep Ben Rogers (on the left in the inserted picture, with owner Brad Hensarling) just updated the schedule for the bar and occasional music venue. Booked so far for 2009 are headliners History at Our Disposal, Musee Mecanique, Mount Righteous, “Danny Doyle” (I’d guess that means Daniel…
Considering that I’ve only seen eight of the 25 artists mentioned in MTV’s year-end best albums list (Kanye West, Lil Wayne, No Age, Death Cab, Vampire Weekend, Panic At The Disco, MGMT, Coldplay) actually have their viddeos played on MTV or sister network VH1, you’ve gotta imagine that, for 17…
We’ve been privy to the Lil’ Wayne concert for a while now, but only recently did I start hearing radio drops for it that announce who else would be sharing the stage with him: Keyshia Cole (OK), T-Pain (I can see that), and Gym Class Heroes (WTF)? Not taking anything…
Former Tripping Daisy member, Secret Machine and Dallasite Ben Curtis and his new bandmates in School of Seven Bells are at the receiving end of some fine love today from the folks at Stereogum, who are featuring SVIIB in the debut of a new video performance feature called Decomposed, in…
More proof that Brave Combo’s nothing to polk fun at (sorry): The band has been nominated for an “Annie” award, which claims to be the highest honor in animation, for the use of its “William Tell Overture” take as the theme for the PBS animated series As The Wrench Turns. In…
More proof that Centro-matic/South San Gabriel’s Dual Hawks is, truly, among the year’s best releases (as has already been implied elsewhere): The influential I Am Fuel, You Are Friends blog has included the disc in its write-up on the site’s favorite albums of the year. Sayeth IAF,YAF: “This album was…
MTV News this morning has a delightful little feature looking back on the year that was 2008–in Jonas Brothers romances. Seems Westlake’s own abstinence-pledging JoBros have had themselves quite the year in love, having been seen about town with tween music starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, among…
