Although it’s been out a month or so, I’m just now getting around to the killer new EP from local punks Warcola. Parlaying punk of the old school hardcore variety (Minor Threat, Bad Brains), Matt, Oscar (no last names = real punks) and the rest of Warcola have been spitting…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Have you ever sat around thinking “Man, it would be great to be Daft Punk!”? Well, if you play DJ Hero you’ll have your chance! Artists are pulling out of the Michael Jackson tribute left-and-right. Mary J. Blige, Natalie…
Just how dedicated are local Beatles fans? Well, at least one has already agreed to pay $500 for a rare copy of The Beatles In Mono–about $200 more than the set’s $299.99 list price. The mono set is part of the big 9-9-09 marketing blitzkrieg, which also included the release…
In a press release sent out Thursday night, Bowling for Soup revealed the details of its upcoming album, Sorry For Partyin’. Oh, and it unveiled more details about its crotch-shot of a music video, “My Wena”… Far as the album’s concerned, the pop-punk band’s tenth release will see the light…
We knew a new album was coming in November, but, this week, UNT and Booker T. Washington alum Norah Jones released a few more details pertaining to her upcoming fourth studio record.The album will be released on November 17, and will be called The Fall. And, furthermore, common sense would indicate that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 11, 2009… Sooooo, Courtney Love didn’t authorize the use of Kurt’s likeness for Guitar Hero 5? But Activision has a agreement signed by her? Huh. Maybe she just forgot she signed it? Who’s the logical choice to replace Paula Abdul…
Looks like Telegraph Canyon’s not the only Fort Worth-based act garnering some serious praise from a respected out-of-town outlet today: This morning, the UK-based daily The Guardian honored Bosque Brown as its “New Band of the Day.” Perhaps the nod comes somewhat in preview of the band’s upcoming gig in…
Yesterday, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas hip-hop production duo Play-N-Skillz announced a deal it has signed with Universal Music Group urban imprint SRC/Universal to launch its own imprint, which will be called G4 Muzik. After the jump, the full press release announcing the deal. But, in short, it’s a pretty sweet one…
Over on its Rock & Roll Daily blog today, Rolling Stone writer J. Edward Keyes gives Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon some serious praise in a feature called Hype Monitor, where the band gets mentioned alongside longtime bubbling-under acts Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears and HEALTH.The band’s songs, Keyes writes,…
Over on his Sportatorium blog this morning, Observer sports columnist Richie Whitt checks in with the head of the Texas Rangers’ in-game entertainment, Chuck Morgan. Uh, why care? Well, ’cause of this: Morgan’s the guy who runs the music at the Ballpark, and he helps the players decide what songs they’re…
Last month, Denton’s Oso Closo entered a Chipotle-sponsored competition in which they were asked to design their favorite burrito, create a film about it, and put it up for voting on Chipotle’s MyChipolte site. Check out the band’s creative submission above. With a win, the band would earn $10,000 and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 9, 2009… Not a lot of people are happy about turning 30. However, Pete Doherty took it to the extreme and tried to throw himself off the top of a hotel. Apparently Lady GaGa doesn’t like being questioned about her…
Well, it’s that time of year again, I guess, where (mostly) unknown acts take to the Internet in competition to try and snag the final spot at this year’s ACL Fest in the annual battle known as The Sound and The Jury. By my count, three locals have made it…
We’re not sayin’, Jay-Z. But the Internet sure is…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 8, 2009… Wanna sing like T-Pain? There’s an app for that! Now the other side of the story: Bret Michaels hair piece breaks it’s long silence. Johnny Lydon plans to reform a version of PiL to celebrate the 30th anniversary…
Hope you’re not yet sick of the smash summer single “Ice Cream Paint Job” from Dallas’ own Dorrough (that’s him in the above photo). Because, if you were, well, you’re out of luck, friend. In recent weeks, Dorrough’s breakthrough single has seen the man from Lancaster getting all sorts of attention–and…
In next week’s dead tree version of DC9, we’ll be running our review of the new Jay-Z disc, The Blueprint 3. (Spoiler alert: Meh.)Of course, we won’t be the first to wax poetic about the disc; early returns elsewhere see the disc as something of a failure, with reviews lambasting…
Since there was such a clamor yesterday over the early Amazon mp3 download figures for Danny Balis’ solo debut, Too Much Living, a quick update: Last night, the disc crack the site’s top five downloads in the folk genre (coming in at No. 4) the top 10 n the country genre…
Those looking forward to checking out Neon Indian’s live debut, at J&J’s Pizza in Denton on Thursday, are gonna have to change up their plans: Yesterday, local music blog WeShotJR announced that the show, which it is hosting and promoting, will be moved one day up, from Thursday to Wednesday. Fix…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Ice Cube is working on a documentary about the Raiders. Funny, I thought he quit giving juice to the Raiders, ‘cuz Al Davis never paid him? A girl attending the Leeds festival had to be helped out of a…
It’s still more than five months, but plans are already in motion for the weekend of February 12 through February 14–or, as we’ve already called it, the most important weekend in Dallas hip-hop history–when the 2010 NBA All-Star game rolls through town.So far, at least one hip-hop party plan is…
