The Allen Event Center opened just last month–and, no offense to Reba McEntire, who (just as she had at Cowboys Stadium) opened the joint, or to Charlie Daniels, who’ll play there with his band on December 19–but we haven’t exactly felt all that compelled to go to the new venue…
As if making year-end lists wasn’t hard enough already, Thursday will herald the release of the second Gutterth Productions compilation, featuring 34 tracks from 34 Gutterth-affiliated acts. It’s an excellent showcase of the quality music the Denton label and promotion company champions. But Compilation Two is also, with the partial…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 8, 2009…Billboard has named Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” as the one-hit-wonder song of the decade. It’s stuck in your head now isn’t it?Cat Power is back to writing her ol’ sad songs. The Washington Post: idiots or just not rap…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 7, 2009…Members of Weezer were injured in an accident after its bus skid on ice across several lanes of traffic.Looks like Fleet Foxes is moving into a different, “less upbeat” direction on it’s new album.It looks like there are shows…
The Bone may not have been as revered as, say, Club Dada, but the venue deserves some credit for staying open as long as it did. Note the past tense, though: Earlier this month, the long-running blues venue located on the corner of Elm and Crowdus Streets, which, in recent…
If so, Midlake’s Tim Smith has got you covered. The Denton-based band’s frontman just-releaed this Lala playlist of songs that the band says inspired its upcoming album’s “obscure” and “British folk” influence. And, uh, it’s obscure alright. Can’t say we here at DC9 are all that familiar with the names…
It was bound to happen sooner or later, I guess. So don’t act too surprised by this news: This morning saw the release of Neon Indian’s Daytrotter Session. These sessions, you’ll recall, are live performances at the Rock Island production studio of the same name–and they’re available as free downloads…
Credit where it’s due, FADER: Your D-Town Boogie coverage? It’s really been phenomenal. Seriously! You lack the benefit of being in the thick of it all–like, say, us, for better or worse—watching these artists on a day-to-day basis. And yet, unlike so many other national media outlets, you’re not ignoring…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, December 4, 2009…Wanna see something weird for New Year’s? Then check out the Flaming Lips play its version of Dark Side Of The Moon in entirety.Caleb Followill says he didn’t mean for Kings of Leon get so popular. Then why did…
One of the best–but least heralded–area singer/songwriters, Annie Benjamin, is playing as part of a cool triple-bill at CD Source this Saturday. Also appearing will be local soul singer Montrose and something called Acoustic Distortion.Benjamin is a middle-class, middle-aged mother of two who somehow finds time for a solo career…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, December 3, 2009…Of Montreal may get its chance to break out of the indie world and into the diva world: Beyonce would like to work with the band. Arcade Fire is near the completion of its newest album, which will be…
I’m not quite as undersold on Norah Jones’ The Fall as, say, Wilonsky is. But, hey, to each their own, I guess. I can, however, say that the first two leaks from Miss Jones’ forthcoming Chasing Pirates Remix EP aren’t wowing me. Shame, too, as there’s some big names involved…
Denton’s own Grammy-winning, Simpsons-appearing, Bob Dylan-inspiring, nuclear polka-creating Brave Combo will brave the elements 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, December 12, for an outdoor poolside performance at the Belmont Hotel. But the real star of the Belmont and Smoke Family Christmas Bash will appear an hour earlier, when Santa…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, December 2, 2009…John Mellencamp’s son has started a Facebook group to get his dad to stop smoking. See, technology does bring families together!Does your GPS not have enough street cred? If so, Snoop Dogg is here to help you out. Trent…
Not that our friends over at the ridiculously popular, highly influential Dallas-based music blog Gorilla Vs. Bear exactly need our help in drawing attention to their site, but today certainly merits a visit over to their confines today, as the site has released its year-end list of top albums. No…
Seems Aledo’s own Daniel Hunter just can’t let go of his PlayRadioPlay! moniker–or maybe it’s that his fans won’t let him? Either way, last week, via a blog post to his MySpace page, Hunter announced that in January, alongside with the release of his debut album (Ancient Electrons) under his…
Ran into George Quartz not too long ago and came away from our brief conversation knowing two things: 1) Faux Fox, Quartz’ beloved, grimy, electro-dance outfit is pretty much completely done, and 2) He’s really getting into the work he’s doing in his new outfit called Personal Victories with George…
Speaking of movie trailers, check the above one for Crazy Heart, which will earn its release on Wednesday, December 16. The movie, which stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell, features Bridges in the starring role as Bad Blake, a down-and-out country singer looking for a new…
Pop on over to DallasBoogie.net, or visit this YouTube link, and you’ll see the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Dallas Don’t Dance, We Boogie, which focuses on the local hip-hop movement, the D-Town Boogie, and the love and hate it inspires amongst rap fans both local and otherwise. It’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 1, 2009…Yea! She & Him is coming out with a new album! It’s nice when an actress who wants to sing actually has some talent.You know what popular music has been missing lately? Barry Gibb. Thank you, Gorillaz.The Strokes will…
Since the shitstorm that was the entire month of July for Club Dada–a month so brutal, in fact, that the lights in the revered Deep Ellum venue went dark and haven’t been turned back on since–I’ve been working on-again and off-again about a story about the venue’s demise. And that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 30, 2009…It’s amazing how established artists sell 200,000 units in their first week on the charts and contest winners move twice that.Beth Ditto should understand there is such a thing as too much information.Ian Anderson said his band Jethro Tull…
