A new book called A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy was released this month. And, according to the inside cover, it’s “the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’–and America’s–greatest songwriters.” How serious is it? Well, Hardy…
In case you were just dying to see the full line-up for Richardson’s 16th Annual Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival, well, we’ve got the goods for you. And, by “goods,” we clearly mean early 2000s flashbacks, celebreality stars and jokes from Saturday Night Live:…
Dude-rockin’ to the Stanley Cup? With the NHL playoffs officially underway, sports commentary site BleacherReport.com has decided to offer up its theme song choices for each team’s run for the Stanley Cup. Bleacher Report’s pick for the Stars? The Rasmus’ “In The Shadows.” Um, OK. Why, exactly? “Marty Turco’s a…
Nothing’s Shocking by Jane’s AddictionWe were a little surprised yesterday when we (a handful of DC-9 writers) realized just how many albums we owned with topless women on the covers. As we were finishing up the list of favorites for our slideshow featuring 18 of the best topless album covers…
Power to Badu’s people. Someone at Idolator has been reading Soulbounce, apparently, as both outlets are currently ga-ga over the prints that poster artist Emek has created for Eykah Badu’s world tour. We’re not all that surprised–we told you not once, but twice, how cool these posters were–but we’ve got…
James Dante Kings was 17 years old. It looks like it’s going to be some time before anyone really knows what happened to James Dante Kings in the early morning hours of Friday, March 28. Austin officials have yet to determine who it was that struck Kings on I-35; they…
Looks like local eccentric Wanz Dover’s latest music project, The Frenz, has submitted an entry to the Radiohead Remix project. Anyone can enter the competition. Here’s how it works: Contestants purchase components of the track “Nude” (from the band’s In Rainbows), add or delete various elements as desired, and then…
So, the latest in the Punk Goes… series just came out, and it includes a track by The Secret Handshake. What did Luis do for Punk Goes Crunk? A cover of Skee-Lo’s “I Wish.” You read that right. It’s up on The Secret Handshake’s MySpace, iTunes (99 cents and it’s…
Admittedly, this flew under my radar until this afternoon, but it looks like Lil Wil isn’t the only local rapper making national waves. Dallas-based rapper Fat Pimp has been getting his share of national love, too–and he has been for at least seven weeks or so according to this Billboard…
Ft. Worth garage rock wonders The Cut*Off are finally coming home after a couple of months spent touring places far beyond their normal haunts. Out supporting the impressive new effort Packaged Up For Beginners, the Cut*Off headed to Chicago after SXSW and even ventured across the border for the first…
It’s nothing unusual for The Door to host a battle of the bands event. The club seems to have at least one a month whether here (May 16) or in Fort Worth (this Saturday). But come April 26, The Door’s battle takes a different angle. Bands wanting to become almost…
Austin blues musician Black Joe Lewis came to town over the weekend. Those who didn’t make the show — myself included — should check out the video the Granada posted to YouTube of Black Joe Lewis keeping things lively at the April 5 show. — Chelsea Ide…
We just signed up for an account at last.fm, which is a pretty cool site if you’re, like, into music and stuff. Basically, last.fm reads your computer’s music player in live time and uploads it to the Internet so others can see what you’re listening to. Here’s what we’ve been…
The Angelus ain’t dead just yet. Emil Rapstine just let us know that his band The Angelus has returned a changed band after a six-month hiatus and the loss of its bassist and keyboardist. Matt Chaney takes over on bass, but the band hasn’t yet replaced the keyboardist–and Rapstine isn’t…
It might never be too early to start making plans for Austin City Limits, but its Web site is offering some early enticement. ACL has released a pretty sweet mash-up by Car Stereo (Wars) with songs by some of the bands expected to play the fest. Now you just have…
I just got some new word on the big UltraViolet compilation CD being put together by bands Lovie and El Gato. We mentioned the disc before, listing the slew of local bands slated to be on it, but Lovie front woman Rebecca Dixon revealed all the bands debuting previously unreleased…
For those of you in need of a Dallas music edumication, every couple of weeks the old fart stinkin’ up the Unfair Park offices will scour his dusty collection of 78s and eight-tracks and upload a hopefully not too random collection of songs made by or in Our Fair City…
Friday night we went the art route and hit up AFI Live Wire and Hal Samples’ gallery opening, but come Saturday we were all about live music. Also, the Mars Volta ticket winner is named after the jump. Collin Herring at The Cavern We caught Fort Worth’s Collin Herring and…
The pretty awesome-looking cover of Josh Alan Friedman’s book. We haven’t picked up a copy yet, but Dallas writer/musician/renaissance man Josh Alan Friedman’s latest book sounds like a must-read for anyone interested in the forgotten heroes of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B and blues. Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming…
Not coming to town just yet. On the off-chance that my write-up in this week’s paper on Cross Canadian Ragweed got you all riled up for the band’s Fort Worth performance tonight, well, I’ve got some bad news for ya. The show’s been postponed two months or so until May…
Erykah Badu…still gettin’ love. “On a Monday evening in August of 1996, I went to see The Roots perform at the Knitting Factory, in downtown Manhattan. The band had come from Philadelphia for a three-night stand in support of their “illadelph halflife” album. At one point during the set, I…
We’ve told you about Holy Diver before, but with its mini instruments and party band attitude, we thought the group might be more of a whimsical fun band instead of actual rock ‘n’ roll rebels. According to a posting the band members put out, they were “fired from a gig…
