You may or may not remember all the way back to last March, when NX35 music festival single-handedly overtook DC9 for about a week. One of the top headliners, The Walkmen, who played a stunning set at Hailey’s Club, were one of the many reasons that the festival was such…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 17, 2010…The Dr. Dre/Jay-Z “collabo” has leaked to the interwebs. From the sounds of it Dre has been listening to a lot of Paul van Dyk lately.Is Drake really “riot worthy?” Apparently some people think so…Thurston Moore is working with…
This morning, the folks over at Pitchfork posted scribe Larry Fitzmaurice’s take on Homemade Extacy, the debut full-length from Denton-based, Waaga-signed Florene, onto its page. And, uh, well, Fitzmaurice isn’t a fan. He gives the disc a 5.4 out of 10. Writes the reviewer: Despite the small bits of potential…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 16, 2010…Miley Cyrus and her tiny teeth say she’s not trying to look like a slut with her slutty looking stage outfits. I guess some things come naturally to us and we really don’t have to try, right?Cambridge researchers want…
Wreckless Eric (aka Eric Golden Goulden) is best known as one of the initial new wave acts that came out of England back in 1977. Along with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, Eric helped expose the world to the greatness that was Stiff Records. Eric’s first single, “Whole Wide World,”…
In hometown-boy-done-good news, we just received a press release announcing School Of Seven Bells Fall headlining tour in support of their forthcoming album, Disconnect From Desire, which drops on July 13. Ben Curtis (formerly of local bands Captain Audio and Secret Machines) and identical twins Ally and Claudia Deheza will…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 15, 2010…It takes all kinds to make the hip-hop world go round: nerds, hustlers, gansters… but, does it really have room for a heart-broken crybaby?Country legend/breakfast sausage magnate Jimmy Dean dead at 81.What’s the deal with European fans trying to…
Last we heard, QueFest was a festival happening in Rowlett on July 4 weekend, featuring performances from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the reunited-for-this-one-show Black Tie Dynasty. That much hasn’t changed, but turns out the festival, which will take place at Elgin B. Robertson Park on Lake Ray Hubbard…
About two months ago, we told you about Responsible Johnny frontman Rob Michaud’s plans to release a Deep Ellum compilation called Wish You Were Here…Love, Deep Ellum. When the local punk singer informed us of his whole-hearted effort to revitalize the music scene in Deep Ellum, we said “kudos”–and basically…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 14, 2010…Hopefully Weezer’s World Cup anthem will help boost the US team. But maybe they should just rely on good play.Sometimes you gotta get 70,000 people to serenade a girl with “Happy Birthday,” ya know?Sometimes all it takes to end…
The past year or so has seen a tremendous upswing in the quality and skill in the Dallas area underground hip-hop scene. But one of the brightest gems in that group, Sore Losers, is now taking its show on the road. The duo plans to move to Los Angeles next…
Bad news, fans of things that are fun: Giggle Party is bailing on Dallas-Fort Worth for the greener pastures of San Francisco. Right after this weekend, in fact. Turns out bassist Jason Reichl is headed that way for real-life, not-at-all-music-related career reasons–and GP keyboardist Kat Michie (aka Mrs. Jason Reichl)…
In many ways, the Toadies’ announcement about the impending re-release and in-process re-recording of its “lost” 1997 album, Feeler, yesterday afternoon wasn’t very surprising. Hell, we guessed as much back in January. We also postulated that there’d be another disc from the Toadies in 2010 as well–this one comprised of…
MOJO, the UK-based, self-proclaimed “world’s best music magazine,” announced yesterday the musicians who took home the top prizes in their 2010 Honors List (finalists were announced back in early May). And look at this: Denton’s own Midlake took home “Best Live Act” honor.The Honors List, which can be found in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 11, 2010… Is it really fair to call a supergroup a combination of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin when there isn’t a real Zeppelin member in the band?I realize the members of Pearl Jam and their team aren’t from the…
One need not dig too far on the Internet to find copies of Feeler, which was intended to be the Toadies’ second album for Interscope Records till the label ultimately scuttled its release. But those versions aren’t quite the real thing; they are, instead, unmixed and unmastered iterations — and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 10, 2010…Can you really “out” a song and peg it as gay when most of the songs on the list are by gay artists? It’s like shooting fish in a fabulous barrel, right?Good thing Lady Gaga knows to dress appropriately…
Some drop-boxes in and around Dallas may already have the dead tree versions DC9 loaded with our latest edition. Most of you, though, will have to wait until tomorrow, the issue’s official run date, to see the paper.Shame you’d have to wait, though. After all, isn’t it in this week’s…
If you didn’t already know by now, Kara Howell of Darktown Strutters has become quite the local booking maven. But, in case you haven’t heard about the recent kefuffle, Howell’s no longer booking for Tradewinds Social Club. Many of the bands Howell had booked for the Oak Cliff dive bar…
Quietly, over the course of the past few weeks, The Lounge On Elm Street has undergone an ownership change. And, in the next few weeks, it’ll undergo a name change, too.According to new owner Victor Villalobos, the venue will soon be called The Nightmare. (Get it?)Over the past few years,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 9, 2010…Soccer moms and tender hearted dudes have something to look forward to next year… Snow Patrol will release their album!The best way to piss off a real DJ? Nominate Jersey Shore’s Pauly D as one of “America’s Best DJ’s”.Either…
South by Southwest was quite good to Dallas ex-pats Neon Indian this year–and, turns out, it was even better than the on-the-street buzz the band was getting that week in Austin may have originally implied. Today, Billboard reports that Neon Indian has signed a new record deal–the result of “speculation…
