We’ve seen our share of bands that have little going for them aside from a gimmick meant to widen their fan base. But Austin’s Foot Patrol might have one of the most unique ones that we’ve ever encountered — an unabashed focus on human feet. Lead singer and keyboard player…
In the wake of their recent split with Jive Records, the record label home to such artists as Usher, Justin Timberlake, Cage The Elephant, and Britney Spears, Bowling For Soup could have very easily slipped into a tumultuous time of uncertainty. Instead, the band maintains that they’re actually in quite…
Last night, we had the chance to sit down with Dallas’ Own ’90s pop sensation Lisa Loeb for a few minutes before she played to a packed outdoor crowd at Jack’s Backyard in Oak Cliff. And, literally, we really do mean that we only had “a few minutes.” Loeb was…
It’d be easy to pigeonhole Oklahoma music as solely focused on red dirt country (see: Cross Canadian Ragweed) or dust-bowl folk (see: Woody Guthrie) were it not for the contributions made by the likes of the Flaming Lips, Evangelicals, Starlight Mints and Stardeath & White Dwarfs in recent years. Another…
When White Rabbits headlines The Loft this Saturday, the band won’t be doing so as part of a big national tour. Rather, the group, which has been holed up in Austin for the past few weeks working on their upcoming third long player, is treating its brief swing of Texas…
Just last night, the great Willie Nelson was in town to perform a gig at the Morton H. Meyerson Center and raise funds for LaunchAbility, a Dallas-based organization that provides services to assist both children and adults with developmental disabilities. Good guy, that Willie, doing some good here in the…
Back in August of 2009, the uptown ultralounge known as Suite closed down its operations — and rather suddenly, you may recall. But the club’s Travis Street location wasn’t vacated for too long: Back in February of this year, the space was up and running once more during Super Bowl…
At least one good thing came out of Dallas garage punk duo Leg Sweeper’s appearance at Good Records’ Record Store Day party a few weekends back — the fact that Parade of Flesh’s John Iskander was able to use the performance for the bulk of the above live performance music…
Well, that secret Foo Fighters show? We tried like the dickens to find out where it was. No luck. Band’s publicist said she had no idea herself — just that it’s somewhere in Dallas.And, if Twitter is to be believed, we got started kind of late in our inquiries –…
Atlanta’s The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started touring. And they’ve never really looked back. Seemingly more comfortable on the road than at home, the band’s pretty much…
Two weeks ago today, the Foo Fighters released their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, a disc that has fans going bonkers and critics continuing to hail the band as one of the great rocks acts of its generation.Deservedly so: Recorded in Foo leader Dave Grohl’s garage — despite the band…
[Editor’s Note: On Thursday night, Ben Westhoff, a frequent contributor to our print edition and a sometime contributor here on DC9, will be stopping by Cliff Notes in Oak Cliff for a reading and signing session to promote his new book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the…
Back in 2009, Hey Dillon (The Last Great DJ), a documentary produced by the McKinney-based The Good Fight Motion Pictures and focused on KHYI-95.3 FM The Range disc jockey Brett Dillon, premiered and made its way around the region. The narrative — independent radio’s David facing off against corporate radio’s…
Some news to pass along this morning on the fast-approaching HomeGrown Music and Art Festival front: After including The Riverboat Gamblers in its initial lineup announcement back in March, the band is now officially off the bill, having backed out due to a scheduling conflict. No matter: Local music obsessives…
There wasn’t a more offensive punk band in the early ’80s than The Meatmen. Even in a market cluttered by hardcore bands popping up in droves in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the Lansing, Michigan, band, led by Tesco Vee (a third grade teacher born Robert Vermeulen), distinguished itself with…
For about 10 years now, Arkansas native Joe Purdy has steadily released album after album of solid — and at times, spectacular — folk music. Most recently, though, with his two 2010 releases, 4th of July and This American, Purdy has adopted inventive ways to get his music heard.Case in…
As we reported yesterday, Wayne Coyne made a last-minute appearance at Good Records at 2 p.m. to hand deliver a few copies of The Flaming Lips’ newest release — four songs on USB drives located on the inside of a life-sized human Gummy Skull. Very, very strange stuff, indeed. It…
It seems like it was only yesterday that Demi Lovato burst out of Colleyville and onto the national scene — or, to be more precise, the Disney scene. But it wasn’t yesterday: It was three years ago that Demi Lovato entered the forever-rotating Disney star machine to become primped, prodded…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, it turns out, is a man of his word. At the start of the calendar year, Coyne, in a sit-down with Rolling Stone, said that his band, in part inspired by Kanye West, would be releasing music on a monthly basis in 2011, be it…
Dallas’ Lisa Loeb is known for a few things — talking “so” all the time, only hearing what she wants to, thinking that she can leave and later realizing that she was wrong, thinking that what she feels is simple — but, most of all, she’s probably known for her…
For over a decade now, Alain Macklovitch has been a prominent name in the DJ world. But winning the Disco Mix Club’s Wold DJ Championship in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy was just the start of what was to come from the guy who performs under the name of A-Trak…
Since posting our call for interns a few weeks back (and, before you ask, yes, we’re still accepting applications), more than a few members of the DC9 faithful have reached out, noting that, though they are not a college student qualified to be our intern this summer, they too would…
