Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 15, 2009… Eminem is back, and he felt like hip-hop was going downhill during his absence like music was “lacking substance.” Yeah, substance like jokes about Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Jessica Simpson. That’s substance. If you have an extra…
As promised, the Fort Worthians in Calhoun saw their song “The Earth Has Lost Its Hold” pop up in last night’s episode of NBC’s Chuck–twice, in fact. (Suck on that, The Bright!) Above, you can watch the whole danged episode. Or you can just skip right ahead to around the…
As if hot suburban soccer moms weren’t reason enough to hang out at Warren Sports Complex in Frisco this summer, the park will have free live music at 7:30 every Friday night in June. And one of the acts playing—OMG!– will be Joe Jonas. Yep, you read that right, 13-year-olds!…
O! M! F! G! Guys! Because three times isn’t enough, really, the local musicians in The Bright got served another helping of being placed into an episode of The Hills last week, or so says a press release we here at DC9 received late yesterday evening. Turns out, the band’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 14, 2009…In what should be a surprise to no one, Phil Spector was found guilty in his re-trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. He could spend at least the next 18 years in prison.Billy Bob Thornton’s band The Boxmasters…
Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records art-pop imprint, is almost ready to go with its first release, Little Black Dress’ Snow In June, which is set for a May 5 release.You may recognize a few members of Little Black Dress’ lineup–namely frontman Toby Pipes, also of Deep Blue Something,…
A friend of DC9 passed along a link to this news story this morning, which, within it, mentions that a Rockwall man purchased the plaster impressions of Tiny Tim’s top and bottom teeth on eBay earlier this week from a seller in Methuen, Massachusetts. Even more odd? He paid the…
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,…
