At last year’s 20th Anniversary Dallas Observer Music Awards, we brought back an old tradition from previous DOMAs: a compilation disc featuring tracks from some of the year’s nominees. This year, the compilation’s back once again–and it’s a pretty sweet little compilation, too, if I may so so myself. Check…
On September 1, Danny Balis–he of The King Bucks, Sorta, The Ticket’s The Hardline and whiskey dives across the Metroplex–will release his debut solo record, Too Much Living. And it’s a long time coming: Balis has long been revered as one of the area’s better vocalists, offering up a deep,…
Not to keep harping on mall punk all day long, but this is worth pointing out, if only because it’s hilarious: Earlier this week, noted area mall punk rivals PlayRadioPlay and The Secret Handshake announced that they’d be hitting the road together under the banner of “The Frienemies Tour.”Why frienemies?…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 9, 2009… Mastodon is getting its very own premium lager! Too bad it’s only a limited run of 200 bottles. Mariah Carey is worried that she let people down with her horrible rendition of “I’ll Be There” at Michael Jackson’s long and over-the-top…
Yup: On Saturday, July 18, we’ll be taking over Lowest Greenville yet again–for the third year in a row, I believe–to offer up a lineup of 39 Dallas Observer Music Award-nominated acts performing six different venues, all for the low, low cost of five dollars. Check the entire DOMA Showcase…
Myspace has been running a free concert series called The List–a pretty interesting deal in that, if you befriend The List’s Myspace page on the networking site, you can get into certain free performances when the company decides to put them on in your city. And it’s not just slouches…
Drove by Trees this morning on the way into the office–and, gotta say, the place looks pretty great. The building’s been painted a dark gray color and the outdoor trim on the windows and garage door now boast a bright green. Needless to say, it catches the eye. But owner…
Another coup for that spaceship out in Arlington: It’s the Beatle’s first Dallas show since 2005, and his sole Texas stop on his current North American tour. Perhaps most impresively, though, the press release announcing the show indicates that the concert should last a solid 2.5 hours. Tickets go on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 8, 2009… Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney has started a band with four other drummers. The act is called… wait for it… Drummer. Trent Reznor has already gone back on his word regarding his claims that NIN’s last show was Bonnaroo…
We’ve had the date of August 14 circled on our calendars for some time now–and with good reason; that’s when the revered Deep Ellum rock club Trees is set to re-open its doors after after a three-and-a-half year hiatus. And while we’ve heard rumors of what’s to come from Clint…
Granted, this is hardly a local story–but it’s kinda interesting, and it’s happening tomorrow night at the Meyeson Symphony Center so cha-ching!Anyway: At tomorrow night’s Brian McKnight show at the Meyerson, McKnight will present his tour support, Matt Cusson, with the Maxell Song of the Year prize from the 12th…
Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms isn’t the only record anticipated from the Alan Palomo camp. July 1 came and went without the promised release of the now-still-forthcoming VEGA EP, Well Known Pleasures. But it’s not without good reason: Palomo let us know that, while he isn’t ready to publicly divulge the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 6, 2009… Is the idea of getting a t-shirt, a 7″ single and a 12″ LP enough for you to spend $60 for a three-month subscription? Jack White certainly hopes so–his label Third Man launched a subscription service. Apparently teenage…
Dallas’ new Hard Rock Cafe is a week away from its opening at Victory Park’s southern end–forming, along with the nearby House of Blues and Hooters, a mecca in three parts for a particular sort of music fan.With a soft opening set for next Wednesday–and a much grander August 20…
Because I’m a huge loser and clearly a major sucker for pop culture slop, yes, I still watch The Real World–even this so-far atrocious Cancun season. (Don’t judge me. Please.)And, in last week’s episode, I thought I noticed a few familiar notes–oh, and you may recognize them, too–playing in the…
1. God damn, Texas is hot in July.Even with cloud cover and a bit of a sprinkle, walking around Superpages.com Center on Sunday was like strolling with Dante through Hell. Outdoor festivals in the middle of summer just don’t seem like the brightest of ideas.2. Bikini tops should only be…
At least in the confines of my office, where the above song gets played, on average, twice a day (a low estimate), this comes as pretty exciting news: Dorrough’s debut abum, Dorrough Music, will see its official release on July 28.More reasons why you should consider this something of a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 6, 2009… Americans can sleep easier tonight: President Obama still has Michael Jackson songs on his iPod. Now, how about that universal health care, sir? Kanye West now has something else he’s the best in the world at: being a…
Like a poorly played game of Telephone in elementary school, there’s been a lot of erroneous information passed along about Club Dada in the past few days–a lot of it generating from a story we ran here on DC9 that has somehow become mangled up by a few other organizations…
There’s gonna be a whole lot of barbecuing and pool-hopping this weekend, if common sense is any indicator for what we should expect to go down on this Fourth of July weekend. Course, there needs to be a soundtrack to it all…So, on that note, here are a couple DC9-approved…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Looks like Rihanna is looking for a second career as a tattoo artist. You know, in case the whole international pop star thing doesn’t work out. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry is letting his fans decide the title of his…
Maybe you’ve seen some of the to-do surrounding Neon Indian? Perhaps on another Dallas-based blog? They’ve got a pretty cool sun-drenched sound–kinda like the audio equivalent of the visuals in Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” video, only not as nightmarish and much poppier than that description would imply.Anyway, the “secretive” group’s…
