Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records’ annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and…
A bunch of luminaries, local and otherwise, celebrated the 32nd birthday of R.C. Williams at the downtown ultralounge Plush last night, including Erykah Badu, Devin the Dude and area rapper/goofball Pikahsso, who shot the above clip of Badu singing “Happy Birthday” to the man she employs as her touring keyboardist.In…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 18, 2009… Coldplay knows that most of us without millions of dollars and superstar wives have it bad because of this recession thing. So, to help out the people who want to see them live, but can’t, the band is giving away…
Earlier this month, local DJ/producer LehtMoJoe entered a Passion Pit-sponsored contest to remix the band’s song “Little Secrets” in anticipation of the band’s debut LP release, Manners, due out on Tuesday. And he’s had some success with it: Two days ago, his remix of the track, which had already been…
A couple Friends of DC9 have checked in with us over the course of the day today wondering if there’s some sort of conspiracy afoot with the Tool show coming up on July 25 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. Well, far as David Ireland, marketing manager for the…
Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com’s “Track Reviews” feature. Not a bad precedent, I’d say. So how’d it go? Well, let’s break it down…Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from “No Reasons”–a song we’ve already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily–from VEGA’s…
And so it’s all come full circle for The Polyphonic Spree: A year after its label, TVT Records, went bankrupt, Tim DeLaughter, the band’s frontman and mastermind, has announced that the band has purchased back its rights and is returning to its own Good Records label, where the band launched…
Kenny Chesney already scheduled a make-up date of sorts for his rain-soaked concert at Pizza Hut Park from a couple weeks back. Actually, it’s this Sunday, to be exact. Hope you remembered!But now comes this (which, really, maybe isn’t that much of a surprise, considering Chesney’s got a song called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009… Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it’s not to promote a greatest hit collection…
Over on Unfair Park today, Robert’s got some great, unbeatable news: Anvil, the best-reviewed documentary of the year, which tells the story of a real-life band of the same name that never made it (but is still trying, some 25 years later), is coming to Dallas–finally–at the Magnolia Theatre starting…
An interesting item of potential note in this interview with noted UNT alum and North Texas native Don Henley in the Tulsa World today: Seems the Eagle/Boy of Summer/Dirty Laundrist is considering opening up a studio in Dallas. No, really–he says so himself. Might happen this year even. Check it:…
Curious as to what Rhett Miller’s appearance on 30 Rock will entail? Well, this two-minute preview of tonight’s show should shed some light on what to expect: Basically, Alec Baldwin’s character blackmails every musician he can think of into performing at a benefit concert for his newfound father, far as…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009… Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing…
According to the press release that just popped up in my inbox, St. Vincent’s Actor had quite the nice debut last week, assuming Billboard numbers are still a fair way to judge release successes. In its first week on the charts, the album debuted at No. 90 on the Top…
The GS Boyz and their still-huge “Stanky Legg” song got some major love on last night’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon not only talked about the song before delving into a segment called the “Late Night Dance Challenge,” but also ended the segment by doing the…
You hear the Play-N-Skillz name dropped at the start of the Lil Wayne song “Got Money,” sure–which makes sense, as the local products produced the beat for the song–but word today is that, despite all the talk we heard in the past year about how much producing the track would…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 13, 2009… When you go to a karaoke bar to belt out drunken tunes, most people don’t expect to get one upped by Rick Astley. The Flaming Lips will release a double album follow-up to At War With The Mystics…
“I Do Not Hook Up,” the second single from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson’s latest album, All I Ever Wanted album, is indeed a catchy little gem (written by Katy Perry, who stopped through town last night, dontchaknow). But unlike the first single, “My Life Would Suck Without You” which, along…
Talking Heads mastermind David Byrne has created a sound installation at the Roundhouse arts venue in London called Playing The Building which is exactly what the name implies. Visitors can use a modified pump organ that uses wind, vibration and striking against the 160-year-old building’s structure to create tones. Using…
(Post updated at 4:34 p.m…see after jump)There’s a lot of interesting things you can learn while following Rhett Miller on his Twitter account. For instance, a few weeks back, Miller said it was likely that the summer’s upcoming Old 97’s tour is going to be an “An Evening With…” kind…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 12, 2009… NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams can now add indie music video blogger to his resume. Seems some, uh, very private images of Rihanna have leaked onto the Internet. They’re just “alleged” to be Rihanna at this point, but…
If there’s one–and, I think, justifiable–problem that I have with local NPR affiliate 90.1 KERA-FM, it’s that there isn’t enough music on the station’s regular programming schedule (Paul Slavens aside). As stands, only two of the station’s weekly 168 programmed hours are regularly about music (big ups to Terry Gross…
