Oops! Not only did I report last month that the U.S. Air Guitar Championship was skipping Dallas, I praised Allah that this assemblage of freaks and geeks weren’t coming to our area. Well, now Shelley Wright of the U.S. Air Guitar Corporation (!) tells me that the regional finals of…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…at Dada? (Tessa Angus) Looks like Dada’s keeping up on its promise to “create an A-plus venue, a kickass place for live music”–at least on the booking side of things. If you head on over to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Myspace page, you’ll see something of interest…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Label Idol Records Kirtland Records Good Records Gutterth Records TXMF Records An interesting competition, as one seems on here just because of name recognition and…
…so says this here somewhat-NSFW video: And since I clearly wasn’t around when Red Jacket and its Ruby Room were still rocking the shit, hosting secret shows and generally being awesome (or so I’m told), I’ll just let the press release do the talking for me. Check it after the…
We’ve been keeping you up to date on Fat Pimp, the Warner Bros.-signed local hip-hop product who’s been scorching the airwaves of K104 (104.5 KKDA-FM) all summer long with his song “Rack Daddy,” which implores you to dance along with him and, well, “do the Rack Daddy.” Sure, but how?…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Record Store CD World Recycled Books Strawberry Fields Bill’s Records Good Records The good news: No Best Buys, Walmarts, iTunes or Amazons here, thank God…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. Some are left over from previous music editors, others fell by the wayside because they were trumped week after week by albums that…
‘Cause Tom Petty’s a good boy, loves his mama, loves Jesus, and America, too, he and the rest o’ the Heartbreakers are launching a ticket auction for the front row seats at shows in their upcoming tour (which includes a stop at Superpages.com Center on August 27). And the proceeds…
[Finally, an excuse to post a clip from Boogie Nights…] Earlier this summer we had Boston/Styx. The Journey/Cheap Trick/Heart trio is coming in a few weeks. And squeezed in between is Night Ranger, a band that tortured me so much in the early ’80s that I think the song “Sister…
And, uh, they sure look happy to be there, eh guys? Um… The seven-and-2/3-page piece is basically a primer of the Old 97’s’ history leading up to this point in its career, with Blame It On Gravity, which also happens to be the band’s best-charting release (its currently sitting at…
Just to clarify: Jesse Hughey didn’t hate Cleburne hip-hop artist Scott Johnson’s new disc, Clutch. The last line in his review, “He just needs a ‘delete’ button,” was meant to explain that Johnson should cut down his 25-track effort to its best efforts only in order for this disc to…
Better than fireworks? Maybe. (N. Zinner) Kids, barbecue and fireworks displays kept me at home this Independence Day, but if I hadn’t been such a dedicated homebody, I would have gotten my ass up to Denton and checked out Imaad Wasif at Hailey’s. Wasif is a Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter best known…
Well, if we’re talking about the music scene last weekend then we’re talking about the Vans Warped Tour. So, instead of trying to scrounge up a bunch of cover bands and also-rans, we here at Weekend Roundup thought we’d give you a taste of what was going on over at…
Something of a programming note first: For the most part, we’ll be taking the day off here at DC9 tomorrow–but, if all goes to plan, we should have some fun Warped Tour slideshows up to share for your viewing pleasure. Lesson learned: Never assume things to go as planned. Sorry,…
We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians work together,…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Cover/Tribute Act – Hard Night’s Day – The King Bucks – Holy Diver – Black and Blue – Boys Named Sue Like the Best Song…
Interesting stuff, if only as an eyebrow-raiser, since I’m fairly certain that no one who reads this blog is actually interested in listening to these songs, but it should be noted that Dallas’ own Jessica Simpson and Demi Lovato are respectively sitting at Nos. 65 and 9 on this week’s…
So maybe this is coming a little bit late in the game since the Warped Tour events over at Superpages.com Center are already well underway, but it’s gonna be going on all day anyway, so whatever: We’ve got two pairs of passes to the shindig to give away. Email me…
Local experimental/neo-classical ensemble Quintet for the End of Time has just come out of the studio with a bevy of Zappa-esque compositions nearly ready for public consumption. “Our new material should be mixed next week,” says Kevin Hanlon, leader of the group. The 55-year-old SMU music professor is excited about…
There’s a reason Centro-matic has such a rock-solid reputation ’round these parts, and the Denton-based rock band proudly showcased that reason on Saturday night. Playing before an enthusiastic crowd packed onto the Granada Theater’s floor, the lauded area four-piece act blitzed through an 80-minute set that was being taped for…
Early last year, Doug Burr finished a suite of Psalms arrangements and decided to record them in a building that had intrigued him for years. The 130-year old, five-story structure was the original site of Trinity University and has a vaulting auditorium with rough limestone walls that give off a…
It’s hard to believe that 2008 is already more than halfway over. No need to lament about the New Year’s resolutions that you thought you’d keep; six months from now we’ll all be holiday shopping (again) and reading year-end top-10 lists about the best albums of the year. And since…
