Atlanta’s The Coathangers are a confrontational quartet of ladies who play old-school punk with a modern vigor. This is one band where the limited instrumental skill of each member actually adds to the quality of the music. The Coathangers’ most recent effort, Larceny & Old Lace, came out in June…
Americans are understandably wary of sites that offer free music. For the past decade, we’ve seen site after site go in and out of favor, sometimes quickly. We got excited about Napster back in 2001, but after all the foolishness that ensued in the wake of its demise, we’re quick…
Kasey Chambers has certainly been an artist on the go as of late. Until earlier this week, that is. On Wednesday afternoon, while on tour with her family in tow, the Australian star’s bus was on the verge of breaking down on the road somewhere between Nashville and Austin. In…
We’re big fans of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ — and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival’s a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the…
Last time we spoke with This Will Destroy You — back in May, as the band was preparing the release of its newest full-length, Tunnel Blanket — the cinematic post-rock band admitted to us its very clear aspirations. After having helped score the film Where Soldiers Come From, the band…
Google, that seemingly all-encompassing entity, has its fingerprints all over just about every digital realm of our lives. And, in 2011, in addition to entering the social networking fray, the technology giant is also using the fast-evolving concept of cloud computing — storing data on external servers rather than locally…
We knew that Nicki Minaj was involved in an altercation on Monday night at the Hotel Palomar in Dallas. We just didn’t really know the specifics of what went down with the buzzing rapper and Britney Spears tour opener. This afternoon, however, we do; The Dallas Police Department has made…
Back in early June, we passed along the word that Dallas native Annie Clark, known to most by her stage name of St. Vincent, had set a September 13 release date for her highly anticipated third LP, the locally recorded, John Congleton-produced Strange Mercy. Today comes more news in regards…
Just a couple months after celebrating 17 years on the air as the host of KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge’s Sunday night staple, “The Adventure Club,” Josh Venable can now add another notch to his belt: This morning, he was named program director of the station. It appears for now as…
Late-breaking news this early evening as rap femme fatale Nicki Minaj prepares to take the stage at the American Airlines Center as the opening act for tonight’s Britney Spears concert: TMZ is reporting that Minaj was “‘struck’ in the lower lip by a man” last night during a confrontation of…
Today marks the 20th anniversary of John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood, the film that, in many ways, put the tragic world of Los Angeles street culture into our nation’s collective consciousness. Really, it’s a point relative to nothing other than the fact that it might make a few of…
Many congratulations this week to the folks at KHYI-95.3 FM The Range, who, over the weekend, earned themselves some hardware to hang up around the office, courtesy of the people behind the Academy of Texas Music.The academy announced the winners for its annual Texas Music Awards on Saturday, and, in…
Denton folk five-piece Seryn truly has had a remarkable year, earning praise left and right, and everywhere else for that matter, on the strength of their actually pretty great, uplifting full-length debut, the January-released This Is Where We Are.What’s most impressive, though, is that the positive words about the band…
Back in June, we got word that an interactive-app-as-music-video for the Polyphonic Spree’s first single in four years, “Bullseye,” was en route. And, indeed, said app comes today, the first single on frontman Tim Delaughter’s recently relaunched Good Records Recordings label via Louisiana’s Moonbot Studios.It’s a charming little app, too,…
Still no word from the folks either at the American Airlines Center or concert promotion conglomerate Live Nation about what, if any, accommodations will be made for the Rihanna fans upset that their Friday night concert experience was cut shot after a fire broke out above the performer’s stage. Update…
Last Thursday, we caught wind of a publicity stunt being pulled by Drowning Pool member Stevie Benton. And, of course, we took the bait. He announced via Facebook that he and fellow Drowning Pool member, drummer Mike Luce, would be tending bar at his newly purchased and reopened club The…
When it comes to the ups and downs of Dallas’ electronic music scene, DJ Cyberina Flux, host of KNON-89.3 FM’s “Rocket Radio,” has seen it all. Her industrial/gothic/electronica show has graced the KNON airwaves every Friday from midnight until 4 a.m. for a decade now. And, hey, 10 years on…
Vinyl records are an interesting phenomenon. Those who are into collecting vinyl are especially passionate about it. And Bill’s Records, now in its fifth year on South Side on Lamar, is one of the few places in Dallas where vinyl-philes can find rare recordings. “[Bill]’s got almost a million pieces…
It appears that Drowning Pool bassist Stevie Benton is fully committed to his new post as owner of The Boiler Room in Deep Ellum.When we spoke to him a few weeks ago, just after he had reopened the Deep Ellum bar, he told us he’d basically opened for business the…
…says Billboard, at least. This week, the Disney starlet, from straight outta Grand Prairie, took over the No. 1 slot on the trade magazine’s launched-in-December “Social 50” chart, which combines all sorts of web-centric information — Twitter followers, Myspace listens, YouTube views, etc. — into some sort of tangible thing…
In case you haven’t heard, Google is trying to take down the Facebook empire with its new Google+ social networking site. (Seriously, though, if you haven’t heard, it’s really time to get out from under that rock). Because social networking sites have become an integral part of music promotion, we’ve…
For the third time in its four-year history, Denton’s four-day, pre-South by Southwest music festival will have a new name in 2012.A press release sent out this morning confirms that, after changing its name from “North by 35” to “35 Conferette” in advance of its 2011 edition, the festival will…
