Put Stumptone on your list of things to do. I’m gonna go ahead and assume, again, that, if you’re reading this, you’ve read our print edition. And that means’ you know about tonight’s Mount Righteous, The Cure, Helio Sequence, Dax Riggs/John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death shows. Oh, and tomorrow’s…
Here’s what you might’ve missed this week on DC9 as you celebrated the democratic party finally getting around to a maybe, sorta, kinda nomination… – We heard 22 seconds off the new Toadies record and shrugged apathetically. – We busted out our camera phones to help History At Our Disposal…
It helps that Daniel Folmer’s a pretty funny guy–he signs all his emails to our offices “Love, Daniel”–but his quirky pop tunes are just up our alley this time of year. You know what I mean, right? How it’s almost, kinda summer and you’re antsy about it, and your mind’s…
There’s power in numbers. (Brian Harkin) This is it–I swear. I’m not gonna bore you with any more incessant Mount Righteous love…well, OK, after this one last post. See, the band just gave me permission to post another track of their on this here blog. (I wanted one to coincide…
Lil Stevie. (NBC Photo/ Heidi Gutman) Steven Van Zandt just called to chat about his syndicated Underground Garage radio show, which can once again be heard on 92.5 KZPS-FM at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights. Now in its seventh year, the show can be heard on more than 140 stations…
You may be familiar with some of the names who’ll be in town tomorrow night at Booker T. Washington High School as the Arts Magnate celebrates the reopening and the completion of its two-year, $55 million renovation. Erykah Badu? Norah Jones? Edie Brickell? Roy Hargrove? Lost actress Elizabeth Mitchell? Hmm…well,…
Slow Roosevelt. From about nine years ago? (Denny Doran) Jeff Liles has had his hand in the Dallas music scene for the better part of 20 years now, and we can thank the fairly impressive catalog he’s amassed over at his History of Dallas Music Myspace page for this slideshow…
Click and Clack, the Boston brothers Magliozzi behind the NPR show Car Talk (aired weekly on 90.1 KERA-FM), are the subjects of As The Wrench Turns, PBS’ first-ever animated prime-time series, which is set to premiere on July 9. Sure. Why not? That’s kind of cool. But, um, the local…
Austin’s The Gougers go the Radiohead route. (Traci Gourdie) Just a few weeks before the band hits the stage at the Granada, alt-country combo The Gougers is making its nifty latest release, A Long Day for the Weathervane, available for free via the Web site feegougers.com. The Austin quartet released…
Maybe PPT’s break-up wasn’t as dramatic as we thought. Or maybe Pikahsso’s just a machine. Somehow, in the wake of the local hip-hop act PPT’s split, at least one member of the trio, Pikahsso, has refused to slow down. He’s already penned a track called “Vote For Obama (Yes We…
Ten days left. The people behind Red Blood Club have made it official: The Deep Ellum venue will close its doors for good on June 15. In a blog post put up today on the club’s Myspace page, co-owners Brad Garrett and April Collmar explain that they just couldn’t afford…
You’ll see Darryl Smyers’ review of I Love Math’s new disc, Getting to the Point Is Beside It in this week’s print edition of DC9. And in it, you’ll see how Darryl can’t resist bringing up Philip Peeples’ tie-in as the drummer for both I Love Math and for the…
That’s Robert on the left, standing next to Leif Edling. Prior to 2007, Robert Lowe was just another local working stiff. After a day in his cubicle working for an insurance company in Addison, Lowe would sometimes go practice with one of the metal bands he fronts around the region…
Airline uses its powers for good. Usually. (Jason Upshaw) – Remember when we told you about Airline getting some college radio love? Well, now the band’s getting more: Airline’s album, Farewell Republica, ranks #171 in the most recent CMJ 200 chart and has earned airplay on 50 more college radio…
We caught up with Tahiti, the “T” in the recently split Dallas hip-hop group PPT, to get his version of the events that led to the breakup and to talk about his future as a musician. His take on the cause of the breakup isn’t significantly different than Pikahsso’s and…
Blame It On Gravity art by Jayme Nourallah. In a blatant move to one-up Dust Congress, the Old 97’s guys scored an in-studio performance (which you can download by following that link) at the NPR affiliate at St. Paul, Minnesota, where they talked New West Records, admitted to rarely rehearsing…
The 2008 United States Air Guitar Championships Tour has announced which cities will host its competitions this year and, thankfully, Dallas is not on the list. The tour kicked off yesterday in New York and the closest this geek fest will get to Dallas is Austin in July. The finals…
In a bizarro world, in the Dallas of an alternate, and perhaps better, universe, The Lash Outs’ “The Kids Don’t Wanna Dance” is the city’s breakout hit of the summer. A bouncy track that’s catchy enough to latch on in its own right and through its own merit, the song…
George Neal likes the characters in his songs to suffer. Chalk it up to a streak of aesthetic sadism if you will, but for the better part of the last two decades, it’s a tendency that has allowed Neal to produce some of Denton’s most compelling and underappreciated song craft…
There are 11 of them. Well, not right now, actually. At this very moment, only nine of Mount Righteous’ members have gathered in the driveway of bass drum player Joey Kendall’s house in Grapevine. (That, in and of itself, is something of an accomplishment.) The two missing members of the…
When Helio Sequence performs live, it’s hard to believe sometimes that it’s only two people making all that noise. Especially now. Now, vocalist/guitarist Brandon Summers’ vocals, solid and strong, bear no sign of the fact that, for a long stretch during the four years between 2004’s Love and Distance and…
Being married to your bandmate isn’t easy. Just ask Jason Hammel, half of the twosome that makes up indie pop act Mates of State. “I honestly don’t know how people avoid getting sick of each other,” says Hammel, who has been hitched to singer/keyboardist Kori Gardner for almost a decade…
