A longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill — Dusty’s big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as “The Anti-Clapton” — died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I’ve found online is his obituary…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 13, 2009…Regardless on where you fall on the like/dislike scale of Chris Cornell’s new album, I think this song is something anyone can appreciate. The free download is a song written by a cancer-stricken Cornell fan from Texas, who lost…
Yesterday, we mentioned an item we came across that said that the members of the New Hampshire-based Wild Light were robbed in Dallas when the band stopped through to play Club Dada. Today, Wild Light multi-instrumentalist Seth Pitman checks in to explain what happened.”Getting robbed in Dallas capped off about…
Los Angeles’ El Ten Eleven is headed back to Dallas for a gig at the Double Wide on Saturday, May 16, and the band is looking for your help. To design a poster, that is, for the gig.Interested? OK, then. First, email the band, and you’ll, in turn, be sent…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 10, 2009…What does it take to deflate Kanye West’s ego? Or at least to put it in check? South Park, apparently. After being skewered on the iconic cartoon on Wednesday night, Ye has decided it’s time to back off the…
At the beginning of the month, when Good Records announced its lineup for its day-long party in celebration of both the record store’s 9th birthday and National Record Store Day, people no doubt noticed the Cannabinoids’ presence on the bill and wondered–giddily, I’m sure–if Erykah Badu would be joining her…
Well, the image pretty much sums it up, I think…
Back in late January, the Arcade Fire cred-boasting, New Hampshire-based rockers in Wild Light stopped through town to play an opening slot for Tapes ‘N Tapes at Club Dada. It was a pretty good set from the band, even if its high point came quite obviously during the performance of…
Baltimore-based soundsmith Dan Deacon’s got himself a reputation for putting on one hell of a crazy live show, as the above photo certainly more than indicates. And his music’s got a fine reputation, too–especially his most recent disc, Bromst, which is earning adoring reviews all across the land. But, turns…
The folks at Life In Deep Ellum are pretty deep into the throes of preparing its second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase–or M2S2 for short. This year’s free event, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, will feature 12 local acts, a performance from the students of Zound…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 9, 2009…Courtney Love is suing anyone she can think of because she says Kurt Cobain’s estate has been “looted.” I’m going to go out on a limb and say she spent all the the money on a bender and just…
We’ve already gone on record as saying that The Paper Chase’s Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 is one of our most anticipated records of the year here at DC9, and it’s not just because we’re aching for new material from John Congleton, Sean Kirkpatrick, Bobby Weaver and…
Two quick follow-ups to yesterdays items on Jessica Simpson, then back to talking about things that actually matterFirst, according to MSNBC, a source close to Jessica said Simpson saw Eminem’s “We Made You” video yesterday and was none too pleased. Shocking, I know. “Of course Jess finds it annoying,” the…
Starting on Friday and running throughout the weekend is something called The Bloodapalooza Tattoo Art and Music Festival. A quick perusal of the event’s webpage offers a lengthy list of schedule bands. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of metal acts on the bill. But you know what is a surprise?…
For a few weeks now, we’ve pretty much known that U2 was coming to the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington at some point in the coming months. Now we have the date: Monday, October 12, 2009. Which, in case you don’t have a calendar handy, is Columbus Day. Go figure!Oh,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 8, 2009… Good news if you’re a fan of iTunes: Apple launched a tiered pricing system yesterday and discontinued the DRM on all downloads. Which is great news for people who don’t read music blogs and get their songs for…
First, she gets slammed by Eminem. Now it looks like she’s getting cut from her label. These things usually come in threes, though… so, uh, Tony, the floor is yours?[Tip o’ the cap.]…
According to Minc Lounge’s myspace page, the city has forced the club to repave its parking lot. That will shutter the club through April 25, according to the site. Which seems like an awfully long time to shut down for a repaving job. Does it really take three weeks to…
If, say, you are a high schooler in Burleson–and that’s clearly our target demographic here on DC9, I think–and you’re about to, say, bring a flare gun to school and get yourself slapped with a Saturday detention, may I suggest you do so on the week of April 27?’Cause, on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 7, 2009… Eminem stars in a video pick-me-up for his beloved Detroit. Kanye West has his own Nike shoe: Air Yeezy I shit you not, that is what they are called. It’s the first time a major musical artist has…
Nothing like the announcement of a slow news day to jumpstart the late afternoon news items, I guess. For instance? This fun bit o’ news for Simon McDonald, owner of The Libertine, the best damn bar in town…With the bar’s weekly Monday night “Local Yokel” event (where DJ Deez spins…
Got more than $2,500 to spend on a big, big surprise for yourself? The University of North Texas is selling an unsorted collection of more than 11,900 vinyl records. The only thing the listing fails to describe is just what kind of records these are, though classical and/or jazz would…
