To end the day here on DC9, allow us to point you in the direction of our sister blog, Unfair Park, where Big Bad Bobbo has just tackled a subject pretty near and dear to his heart: the city’s recent efforts to re-vamp the Dallas Convention Center’s Memorial Auditorium into…
DJ A1 (born Arnold Velasco) has eight years of fond memories from spinning and mixing records at Mick’s Bar, one the four establishments on the Lower Greenville block that burned down on March 2. In particular, he counts the nights at the location between 2001 and 2002–when he and a…
Feargal McKinney and his partners at Old Monk, BlackFriar and Idle Rich quietly opened a new restaurant and pub in Uptown over the weekend, and with the help of booking agent Chelsea Callahan will bring a welcome breath of fresh air to the area in the form of music that…
Folks really are crushing on Bryce Isbell’s FUR as of late. And, this morning, the Dentonite has once again landed on Pitchfork–only, this time, his experimental electronic project garnered a full-on track review for “Clears Throat.” And, the track from FUR’s split EP with Detroit’s Coyote Clean Up did pretty…
Speaking of radio station-hosted events, KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat’s been rolling the lineup for its 6th Annual Custom Car Show & Concert, which takes place at Fair Park on Sunday, March 21. There’s still some more names to come, the radio station, promises, but, so far it too is actually…
On May 1, at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge will hold its 20th Edgefest concert since 1992. And, believe me, it feels a little weird saying this, but, unlike the disappointing lineups of recent years past, the lineup the station announced yesterday evening ain’t looking all…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 9, 2010…The man behind Garbage helms Foo Fighters “heaviest album yet.”It’s official: Paul Simon and that other guy are set to tour again.Aziz Ansari starts a beef with the only person he can possibly beat up: Justin Bieber…
The folks at NPR have gone and done everyone a solid, listening to all the bands playing the official parties at SXSW so you don’t have to and–better yet–trimming down that list to a much more palatable list of 100 bands you should check out in Austin (if you have…
Listen: I get that there’s a buzz around the term “chillwave” (nee GorillaVsBearcore). Really, I do. It’s fun. It’s hip. It’s the coolest of cool.But there’s pretty much nothing about FUR’s instrumental songs that evokes the term. Not to us here at DC9 HQ, at least. It’s not especially dance-y…
Falling may feel like flying, but surely this must, too: At last night’s 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, Fort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett and Austin’s Ryan Bingham, as expected, took home the Oscar for Best Song for their work on the song “The Weary Kind” as part of the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 8, 2010…Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous has committed suicide.My Chemical Romance has told its drummer to hit the bricks.Gene Simmons thinks the greatest part of U.K. music is the Gallagher Brothers. Maybe it’s because they say things like this…
Earlier this week, Arlington’s Man Factory released for digital download Street Fight!!! Round Two, the second installment in its planned power-pop opera trilogy based on the popular Street Fighter video game series. Fans of Round One had been waiting patiently for the past two years to find out how the…
For over 12 years, Sound Tribe Sector Nine (or STS9 as the band is commonly referred to by fans) has been criss-crossing the country, dispensing its technically impressive, instrumental blend of funk, jazz, hip-hop and psychedelic rock. While building a strong fan base, the band has also involved itself in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 5, 2010…You gotta love it when a rocker shoots down rumors he’s gotten sober.James Murphy tells LCD Soundsystem fans it’s not you, it’s us… maybe.Who has an ego bigger than Kanye? Billy Corgan…
To end the day, how about a couple of treats from Brandon Curtis, Josh Garza and Phil Karnats, the three Dallas ex-pats living in New York who, together, make up The Secret Machines? Turns out, in late January, in lieu of any planes to release an album anytime soon, the…
After the jump, check a couple scans from both XXL and The Source, the two leading hip-hop magazines around these days. In this month’s issues, both magazines featured Q&A’s with Lancaster’s own Mr. Ice Cream Paint Job himself, Dorrough. The Source’s Q&A is more of a standard session in which…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 4, 2010…EMI and DangerMouse have come to terms on the release of Dark Night of The Soul.Band of Horses announce the release of it’s first album. Wait, what?!KISS had to cut short it’s London show because of breathing problems caused…
Just a quick reminder that, tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, your queen and mine, Erykah Badu, will be performing the lead single off of her upcoming New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh, “Window Seat,” with some help from the song’s co-producer (James Poyser), the song’s co-writer…
I swear I’m posting the above video embed from Revlover magazine’s Golden Gods Awards press conference for reasons beyond Vinnie Paul’s epic sideburns (although, between you and me, they’re reason enough). And those reasons have nothing to do, even, with Abbott’s belief that the Golden Gods Awards are “really cool,”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 3, 2010…The Black Keys reveal details for it’s new album and the awesomest album cover ever.Dave Grohl thinks Shelley Duvall should play him in the Kurt Cobain biopic. And I think he may be on to something…Is there anything Johnny…
Well, since I’ve made a habit of posting the tracklists to my once-a-month all-local music lovefest on the first Monday of every month at The Libertine, I guess I’ll go ahead and post the one from last night, too.Many thanks to everyone who came out. As always, it was quite…
Many thanks to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Preston Jones for reading Rolling Stone news items about Evanescence so we don’t have to, because, as Jones notes today, the band is currently recording a new album in New York and the bulk of the songs it’s laying down today came from…
