On Sunday, October 10, two months to the day after the Dallas music community lost Ace McNeely, a benefit concert will take place at Sons of Hermann Hall with the aim of raising funds to back a newly created charity in McNeely’s name. Featuring performances from the Boys Named Sue,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 14, 2010…John Mayer pulls the plug on his Twitter account.Florida indie-rockers Surfer Blood declare the end of the “cool to be indie” movement as they sign to Warner Bros. These are either the worst songs of all-time, or they are…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 13, 2010…Jay-Z is helping out Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith as they seek total entertainment domination. Is the world ready for a Klingon opera?Phil Collins revealed he has to tape his drumsticks into his hands to be able to actually…
It’s only taken seven months, but Midlake finally went ahead and released a music video for a song off of its The Courage of Others LP. Over on Stereogum this afternoon, the band premiered the above video for “Ruler, Ruling All Things,” a clip directed and shot by frontman Tim…
Well, this week, we weren’t able to occupy our usual spot at the judges table for last night’s eighth and final week of the first round for the Shiner Rising Star contest. This was an unfortunate absence, too, as this week’s event took place at the Southern Junction in Rockwall,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 10, 2010…The fact that Marilyn Manson likes to play dress up isn’t a surprise. But the fact that he like to dress up like Kenny Powers from HBO’s Eastbound & Down, well, that is. Wouldn’t have figured him for a…
Well, we’re just swelling with pride and joy this afternoon–and for good reason. It looks like we could be on the verge of finally seeing the long-discussed Stevie Ray Vaughan statue finding a place in Dallas, which (despite Austin’s claim on him and SRV statue of their own) is indeed…
21-year-old area singer-songwriter Emily Elbert’s no stranger to local music fans, having performed her fair share of gigs at Opening Bell and the Kessler Theater in recent years since picking up the guitar at age 15. She’s no stranger to the Internet either: Her jazzy, acoustic take on Michael Jackson’s…
Hopefully our incessant bugging you about Dorrough, Dondria and Lil Twist this summer hasn’t fallen on deaf ears.Because, whether or not DC9 readers are paying attention, plenty of others are when it comes to these three. In fact, on Tuesday, the trio combined for the fifth time to pull of…
Speaking of Denton ranking highly on lists today, have you guys been watching VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time countdown this week? It’s a guilty pleasure, for sure, especially if you enjoy hearing people like Sebastian Bach and members of the Barenaked Ladies talk about their musical heroes. Whatever, we…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 9, 2010…Sometimes when you love someone, you propose marriage to them at a Band of Horses show. And then sometimes when you’re really lucky, Band of Horses become your actual wedding band.If you are fortunate enough to see Britney Spears…
More proof that the Toadies are bigger today than they’ve ever been: Kirtland Records just passed along word that, in addition to the just-released Feeler, the hugely successful Dia de Los Toadies Tres (called “the Willie’s Picnic of a new generation” by the Austin Chronicle) and another album of new…
There are, it seems, three roads to travel if you’re a hip-hop artist in North Texas trying to make it big and looking to shoot a music video. Got little-to-no budget? You hit up Kangbear. Got enough money to make something that looks good, but a little cheesy? Dr. Teeth…
If you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve long known that Dallas’ own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West’s inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling “Power.” And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track–it’s currently being used in the as-seen-above-and-on-TV advertisement for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 8, 2010…Wyclef did the only thing he could think of after being denied a run for the Haitian presidency: accuse Sean Penn of being a coke head. The son of drum and bass icon, Goldie, has been sent to prison…
Wasn’t necessarily planning on talking about Saturday night’s private Old 97’s show at the Barley House in this space–mostly because the affair, which was held in celebration of frontman Rhett Miller’s 40th birthday yesterday, was a private, invite-only one. But, while searching for something unrelated, I just now stumbled across…
The folks behind Denton’s NX35 Conferette are staying pretty mum in these very early times leading up to the third year of their fest, which, yes, we know for a fact, straight from organizer Chris Flemmons’ mouth in one of the few on-record discussions we’ve been able to procure, will…
The venerable San Francisco-based trash metal act Exodus has been around for nearly 30 years at this point. And they haven’t all been easy: Over this time, guitarist and founding member Gary Holt has seen the deaths of two former members and, twice, he’s put the band on extended hiatus…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 7, 2010…T.I. may have to return to prison if he’s found to have violated his parole.Duff McKagan has left the latest incarnation of Jane’s Addiction.Morrissey thinks the Chinese are a sub-species. Wow…
It hasn’t even been six months since Nervous Curtains released their sophomore album, Out Of Sync With Time, and they’ve already got a new offering for us. Well, OK, it’s sort of new.See, the free album download the band just announced a few hours ago isn’t new material; rather, it’s…
Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea is one of just two of the band’s four members that still calls Dallas home. But, beyond that, he’s also probably the straightest shooter of the bunch, never too willing to tout the party line and usually all-too-willing to discuss his band’s efforts with a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 3, 2010…You would think a prison stint and probation would be enough to keep T.I. on the straight and narrow. Think again.No one rocks a party like Jazzy Jeff. But, apparently that wasn’t good enough for him not to get…
