Last week, True Widow’s Dan Phillips was taking a nap, only to be awoken from a text message from one Jim Heath, aka The Reverend Horton Heat. The text kind of took Phillips by surprise.”I think,” it read, “there’s a picture of you puking in InTouch magazine.”Yes, the Reverend reads…
For the past year, Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino of Brooklyn dance-punk duo Matt & Kim have been quietly making a case to replace Mates of States’ Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel for the title of indie rock’s reigning “It” couple. But don’t call them “cute.”With their songs “Good Ol’…
Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he’s riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack to the film Crazy Heart, he had…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 7, 2010…Apparently even the British government digs xx. A new online campaign has been set up urging Weezer to split up. That’ a little harsh, no? They could’ve at least gone after Nickelback. Lil’ Wayne was put in solitary confinement…
In just four years, Two Door Cinema Club have gone from a group of high school buddies to rocking thousands at festivals all over the world. That much isn’t necessarily surprising: The band’s sharp, dance-infused indie rock has drawn comparisons to Passion Pit and Hot Hot Heat. And, while they…
The punk rockin’ Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are no strangers to the folks at Spin–not, at least, since the music mag vaulted the band from small regional clubs and the pages of Alternative Press and into the limelight by naming the band one of the best live acts…
In tomorrow’s print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97’s eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we’ve been saying since we first heard the disc back in August, that it’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, October 6, 2010…Van Halen may be returning to the road next year. Or so Live Nation is telling their stockholders. Yeah, yeah, yeah: Rob Zombie has some albums he’s touring on, blah, blah blah… but, he has a new horror movie…
Los Angeles’ Local Natives have been shooting towards folk-rock stardom ever since an epic 2009 SXSW performance that set the band up for a big year, regardless of the critical acclaim its 2010 release Gorilla Manor has received. At its performance at Sons of Hermann Hall earlier this year the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, October 5, 2010… Do you want to do your part and help a legendary sound engineer/producer pay his bills? Now you can!Velvet Underground’s Moe Tucker supports the Tea Party?After his triumphant performance over the weekend on SNL, Kanye let us know…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 4, 2010…A new movie about The Beach Boys is in the works that’s not a biopic. I’m not exactly sure how that works, but, I’m sure it will be better than the VH1 movie about the band.Eminem is reportedly set…
Charles Manson 1969 Police PhotoSurprisingly, Charles Manson is still releasing songs while in solitary confinement. And, believe it or not, there’s a local tie-in: Dallas-turned-Austin-based Withdrawal Records just released an EP, Inner Earth Inferno, featuring two songs from Manson and two songs from Ancient VVisdom, a new Austin-based doom-folk band…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2010…If you were looking forward to a new Kanye song today via his “GOOD Friday” series… sorry, he’s scrapped it.Fans of Feist will be glad to know there is a documentary about the singer coming out…
Fun fact about last night’s Guided by Voices show at the Palladium Showroom: Not only was it the tour kick-off for that classic lineup, but it’s also the last time we’ll ever see a show in the Showroom.Well, under that name, at least.Effective immediately, the room will now be known…
Maybe you remember back in September of last year when Red Bull hosted its first Soundclash event in Dallas, with guests Erykah Badu and Shiny Toy Guns competing for the attendees’ attention out at their free show in Victory Plaza? Yeah? Maybe? It was a good time, to be sure,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 30, 2010…I can’t say that I know any man that would actually cry to a song on the top 10 list of “Songs That Make Men Cry.” The guys who sang on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? are…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 29, 2010…A mini-series based on Nine Inch Nails Year Zero album is in the works.Bruce Springsteen proved he’s a just like you and me by posing in a couple’s engagement pictures.I’m not sure what is more impressive: DJing for 60…
Once upon a time–a whole 14 months ago–if you were in the suburbs and listening to music, chances were you were listening to mall punk.These days, though, that’s a little different, thanks to the efforts of the folks in Frisco, Carrollton and Grand Prairie.But lest you thought that spelled the…
I was lucky enough to spend some QT with Dallas hip-hop super-producers (not to mention two-time Grammy winners) Play-N-Skillz last week on the set of Tum Tum’s new music video for his Salinas brothers-produced track “Smoke Something” off his excellent new Purp Kobain mixtape. Tum Tum wanted me there, apparently,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 28, 2010…Apparently MC Hammer doesn’t like the fact that Jay-Z commented on how the has-been dancer/rapper at one point lost all of his money. Too bad… Max Weinberg won’t be joining Conan as the comic heads to TBS.Caleb Followill telling…
OK, now this is getting ridiculous. Seriously: We like the suburbs just fine (The Suburbs, too, actually), but, c’mon, we’re past that part of our lives, and we really don’t want to be dragged back out there every weekend. Doesn’t seem like we’re being given much choice in the matter,…
Brooklyn-based Ratatat has been on a steady ascent ever since the 2004 release of their self-titled debut. And the instrumental electro duo’s rise seems primed to continue along, thanks to recent collaborations with the likes of Kid Cudi and MGMT, as well as their work on the soundtracks for a…
