Live Nation Opens Up Shop In Dallas, Tags Danny Eaton As Senior VP

Yesterday afternoon, via a press release, major concert booking/promotions conglomerate Live Nation announced the opening of a new Dallas office to handle all the company’s business in the region, which will be led by longtime area concert promoter Danny Eaton (of 462 Productions and, more recently, Live Nation competitive AEG…

Stream Smile Smile’s Truth on Tape In Full

The folks at Kirtland Records/Sonar Management sure are busy these days, what with today’s release of the new Eleven Hundred Springs album today (be sure to check our story on the new EHS disc in this upcoming Thursday’s of the Observer) and all those announcements its been making about the…

Tracklist: The Local Hang with Playlister P, Vol. 5

Many thanks to those who stopped on by The Libertine last night for the fifth installment of The Local Hang. Yep, that’s right, our fifth, which, if nothing else, proves that if you and Libertine owner Simon McDonald reach a drunken agreement, he will hold you to it for no…

Download: Five Free Acoustic Midlake Takes

Surely, by now, you’ve tackled the Herculean task of reading my “sprawling profile” of Midlake in this week’s dead tree version of DC9, yeah? Good. Then you’ll no doubt remember this part of the piece, in which the band shares its meticulous–and, OK, somewhat curious–approach to promotion:Midlake, although game to…