The folks in attendance last night at “Scaraoke”, the weekly Thursday night karaoke event hosted at the Libertine, got to bear witness to something of a treat: Rhett Miller joining in on the festivities.Or so the reputable Simon McDonald, the bar’s owner, tells DC9 via an email: “The very gracious…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009… If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should’ve joined the high school A.V. Club when I…
Kristina Hunken A few years back, a great little EP of demos by a Denton band called Cordelane came across my desk. Poetic but unpretentious (a little like Liz Phair covering Nick Drake), the five songs were written by Taylor Reed, a Seattle resident who came to our area to…
OK, so there’s a clause at the bottom of the press release we just received–y’know “The list is subject to change” blah, blah blah–but lo and behold, here it is: The first round of announced performers for the 23rd SXSW festival, schedule to take place this year March 18-22. After…
First: Yes, the above trailer for The Minis is, indeed, quite real.Second: Yes, that is The Polyphonic Spree’s “Soldier Girl” setting the inspirational mood at the end of the trailer. Insert your own joke, I guess. –Pete Freedman…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 8, 2009… The alleged final version of Eminem’s Dr. Dre-produced, “Crack a Bottle” has hit the world wide interweb. It features Fitty and Dre, each contributing a verse. The reclusive rapper even takes a jab at himself in reference to the…
The good news just keeps rolling in for Airline: After recently earning a spot to play in the upcoming RedGorilla Fest, the band has just now announced that has also inked a licensing deal with MTV, The Oxygen Network and E! to have their music used on several shows for…
…which is to say that The New Year is still receiving plenty of love for its great self-titled 2008 release (and from people other than us!). Today, Stereogum returns to The New Year well to offer up a free mp3 of the song “MMV” from the band’s recent disc. Furthermore,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 7, 2009… Finally, a music feud we can all get behind: Lily Allen is still mad at Katy Perry for referring to herself as “the skinny Lily Allen.” So Lily said that if Perry says one more thing about her…
Since 2005, NX35 events have showcased Denton bands at the massive South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Not this year, though. Chris Flemmons’ brainchild is staying squarely in the 940 this March, with four days of music planned for 12 venues in the four-block area surrounding the Courthouse Square…
Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label…
…that we mentioned just one post ago. There’s something very interesting about this list: It’s based on a pretty loose definition of “faith-inspired”. Like very loose. Like, enough so that bands like Delta Spirit, Bodies of Water, The Mae Shi, Cloud Cult and Cold War Kids make the Top 50…
Please, please, please do yourself a favor and watch the beautiful, incredible, Josh Pearson-starring, Jon Todd Collins-directed video for Doug Burr’s “Should’ve Known”, off 2007’s On Promenade. Amazing stuff–if, OK, a little curious in terms of its release.Why release a song off Burr’s 2007 disc when another disc, his new,…
Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen hits the streets in a couple of weeks, and the double disk set features a handful of talented local artists, including Max Stalling, one of the area’s best country singer/songwriters (who takes on “No Kinda Dancer,” quite possibly Keen’s most renowned number,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 6, 2009… Someone hacked into Britney Spears’ Twitter account to let the world know that her cooter is four feet wide and has teeth. Yikes! TMI, Brit! 50 Cent has been signed by a liquor company to help market their cognac. I guess…
Sorry for the slow blog day, folks. As one commenter already put it, things have been quite slow around town of late. Oh well. Things get better soon, though. Like, say, tonight, at the Cavern, for instance, where Chris Cantalini of the Dallas-based tastemaking blog Gorilla Vs. Bear, will be…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 5, 2009… A coroner found that Dr. Dre’s son died of an overdose of heroin and morphine. Brian Warner Marilyn Manson wants Trent Reznor and ex-wife Dita Von Teese to testify on his behalf. Manson is being sued by his former drummer…
Your national music news for Friday, January 2, 2009… Prince said he plans on releasing three albums this year. The first will be an electro-pop record tenitively titled MPLSOUND and Lotus Flower. He also said he didn’t vote this year because of his religion. Right, Prince. Right. Jerry Cantrell recently spoke about Alice…
Your daily music news for the first day of 2009… Don’t get your hopes up for a two year Guns N’ Roses tour. It looks like Tommy Stinson was misquoted. Doesn’t it always happen that way? Scientists are mad at Mariah Carey for “misreading” algebra with her album title E=MC2. You would…
Your daily dose of national music news for the last day of 2008… It seems that all it takes to ruin Kanye West’s vacation is to write something untrue about him. There was talk of him chanting to “improve his singing voice” and he read it…and it ruined his va-cay. Usually it…
Barn sides are the new brick walls. (Trevor Paulhus)Nope, we’re definitely not the only ones digging MATAS’ Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian disc. Just spotted this little bit o’ love today: AWMusic, the Toronto-based blog that gave Forever the Sickest Kids some love in its year-end lists, has…
The title of this post is ripped right from an email that popped up in the inbox yesterday afternoon in the wake of this post–and, lo and behold, yep it’s from Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram, sharing the links to his favorite concerts and albums of the year, as well…
