Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 10, 2009…The “Big Four” music companies are taking on Apple with a new form of digital music. Maybe they should ask Bill Gates what happened to the Zune. It seems like Kings of Leon are starting to figure out they’ve…
Perhaps you’ve seen the above ad in the past couple issues of our dead tree publication about a new monthly happening down in Deep Ellum, brought to you by seven of the neighborhood’s venue’s, one of its art galleries and us here at DC9? Yeah? Well, as the above image…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert has the details on what looks to be the final nail in the coffin for the building 508 Park Ave.Which would be no big deal, except that some dude named Robert Johnson apparently recorded some music there or something? Or so Robert’s told…
In case you haven’t noticed, we, and everyone else (including Subway) have been kinda inundated with ticket offers and discounts from Live Nation all summer long.Well, this week, the folks at the national booking/promotions superpower have put a few more worth-mentioning doozies into the pot.First, there’s this “Ultimate Access” deal,…
We hadn’t heard anything in some time about investigation that followed the murders of two Christian music producers, Matthew Butler and Stephen Swan, as the two were leaving Butler’s Zion Gate studio late one night last June. Well, not since James Broadnax and Demarius Cummings were arrested in connection with…
I admit, this is about as tangential as local music coverage can get, but it’s still kinda funny: Last night, in an ABC News story about the issues Twitter and Facebook faced yesterday as a result of cyber attacks that may or may not be related to the ongoing conflict…
Yesterday, charming Tyler-based family rock (and DOMA-winning, mind you) outfit Eisley posted the above clip to Youtube, updating its fans on what’s to come. Kinda a good news/bad news deal. The good news: The band’s third full-length album is on the way. The bad news: It won’t be coming out…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like Michael Jackson’s estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac’s. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs–new and old–were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most logical replacement for the Beastie…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… If a tree falls in the woods, who cares? Case in point: Paula Abdul has left American Idol. Tommy Lee said he’s still “baffled” why anyone watched his notorious sex tape with Pam Anderson Hint: Because it showed…
Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic ’80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had its…
Like with yesterday’s announcement that, upon the completion of production details, more tickets were being released to the upcoming U2 show at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, today comes news that–again, upon the completion of “production details,” whatever those are–more tickets are being released to Paul McCartney’s Wednesday, August 19, gig…
Lest there was ever any doubt, in this Internet-driven modern music age, that tastemakers pretty much just blatantly steal finds from other tastemakers and that it’s all one big circle, basically, check the case of Denton’s Paul North, aka Sunnybrook. The little brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North, Sunnybrook’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 5, 2009… Looks like we have another supergroup to contend with (and it’s not Damnocracy.) Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones have joined to form Them Crooked Vultures. Looks like Snoop Dogg has a new label mate–The Pope! I…
Get ready to have another “Psychobilly Freakout,” folks: Laughin’ & Cryin’, the Reverend Horton Heat’s first non-holiday album since 2004’s Revival, is due out Tuesday, September 1. Actually, the album isn’t so much a psychobilly freakout as it is a countrified detour from the punk-tinged rockabilly that the Rev has…
…and real soon, too. See, now that the complicated production details have been completed on the band’s upcoming, October 12 show with Muse at Arlington’s Cowboys Stadium, the promoters are releasing more tickets, at all price levels, for sale to the public, starting in, oh, 50 minutes or so, at…
For a while there, it appeared as if this morning could be something of a judgment day for Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater. Today, after all, was the day that the venue was set to face foreclosure, after the loan that the owners had received from a Dallas lender last year…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 4, 2009… I would’ve thought the guys of Kiss would’ve thought of this one a lot sooner: Limited edition Kiss M&M’s. Tom DeLonge may be touring with his old band Blink-182 this summer, but he still has his other band…
In this past week’s print edition, Observer contributor Chris Parker chatted up rebel rocker Michael Franti, talking about his new reggae infused sound in Spearhead in anticipation of his show tomorrow night at Grand Prairie’s Nokia Theatre alongside Counting Crows and Augustana.Well, turns out Franti won’t be making the gig,…
Yet one more thing to add to the list of things that Dorrough has now done that his fellow rappers in the DFW scene haven’t: Right there in the Sunday edition of the paper, Dorrough’s debut album, Dorrough Music, received the review treatment from the New York Times. And while…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 3, 2009… Dave Grohl will had an alley named after him in the city of his birth Warren, OH. Turns out Kanye doesn’t think he’s the next “King of Pop.” But it’s easy to see why it’s believable; it just sounds…
She waltzed into the room’s back entrance, quickly set a trail to the checkout counter and excitedly showed the few employees crowded around her the customizations she’d made to the mini-Munny she’d purchased after stumbling upon the new Mockingbird Station store on Wednesday afternoon–a quick drawing on the doll’s face…
I don’t really have too much to say about long-running country music duo Montgomery Gentry–other than that there was a time back in 2003 when the band was almost unavoidable on CMT, thanks in no small part to the above video. Don’t really watch too much CMT anymore, though, so…
