Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008… My life is over. Yes, it’s over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christmas. The most wonderful…
Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…
Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…
The pop music coverage over at the Dallas Morning News after its most recent round of layoffs and buyouts (which saw longtime critics Mike Daniel take a buyout and Thor Christensen laid off) has been, well, a tad underwhelming of late, to put it mildly. It certainly doesn’t doesn’t help…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 29, 2008…DJ AM got into the Christmas spirit a little early this year. On Christmas Eve, he not only sued Goodyear, Learjet and the charter company he used for the flight that crashed and left him and drummer Travis Barker…
Today, over at MadeLoud.com–a site that claims to “serve the bands”, but probably not in a sexual way, I’m guessing–someone’s decided that, sure, the bands in DFWd could use a little help in trying to figure out where to play around town.OK. We’re fine with that. And the fact that…
Your top national music stories for Wednesday, December 24, 2008: Remember back in ’89 when no one knew we were in the midst of Hip-Hop’s “golden age” and KRS-One schooled us on why non-violence is good with the ditty “Self Destruction?” Well, now the young pups of today can have their…
Your top national music stories for Tuesday, December 23, 2008: Jeff Tweedy’s 13- year-old son Spencer has a blog. There, you can read a 13-year-old tell you about the newest technology, politics and music. Because, if 13 year old’s know anything, it’s politics. Kelly Clarkson and her tiny nose ring…
Local alt-country rocker Darryl Lee Rush’s latest album, Live from the River Road Icehouse, is one of the top 100 Americana CDs of the year as determined by the Americana Music Association.Rush’s CD was spun enough times by Americana stations to warrant this honor–glad to know that there are radio…
Fact: The Polyphonic Spree has more members than your band. And, as such, it has more siblings of band members than your band does. And, as such, the Spree is much more likely to have a band member whose sibling is a writer. And, as such, the Spree is far…
Your top national music stories for Monday, December 22, 2008: It’s never too early to start talking about the ’09 festival season: It looks like a reunited Phish may headline two nights at Bonnarroo this year. So you’d better start letting that beard grow out now. But, you still have…
And, no, I’m not making this up. –Pete Freedman…
…is a metal band made up of 14-year-old high school freshmen called Crooked X. They’ve toured as openers for Ted Nugent. Were featured on CBS’ The Early Show. Even had a song in Rock Band. All nice accomplishments.But, c’mon. Seriously? –Pete Freedman…
Hotel guests across the country will see Dallas’ own Erykah Badu named among the artists in USA Today’s critic’s picks for top albums of 2008. Edna Gunderson named New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War as the No. 5 album of the year, describing it as “Gutsy, inventive, deeply felt…
I stumbled across this the other day on Youtube, and, yep, that’s right; it’s the Portland Trailblazers’ rookies, earlier this year, being hazed somewhat by the veteran players on the team and being forced to dance to Them GSpot Boyz’s “Stanky Legg” at a preseason scrimmage. I kid you not.Perhaps…
Jason Upshaw I guess maybe I should’ve posted this on Monday morning, as I knew the news then, but for whatever reason, it slipped my mind: Congrats are in order for Airline, who, on Saturday night at Club Dada, beat out Sunward and Hendrick in an audience vote to determine…
Jason Janik Denton electro-dance act (by way of Boston) Roy G. and The Biv–which, in terms of abundant coverage and love, has pretty much been Quick’s answer to our Mount Righteous–has offered up its choices of the top ten albums of 2008 to the Stark Magazine blog (the same blog…
Listen: We’ve done our fair share of Forever The Sickest Kids dogging here at DC9 over the past 12 months or so–sometimes for good reason, and sometimes because, well, we were just bored.But, fact of the matter is, these guys had themselves a hell of a year: They released their…
In the print edition of the Observer this week, I previewed Saturday’s top notch bill of local acts at Double Wide who are playing to benefit the Fort Worth adoption agency The Gladney Center. Well, Danny Balis, co-host of The Orphanage, the weekend radio show on 1310 KTCK-AM The Ticket,…
Over at The Secret Machines’ web site this morning, you can listen to Brandon Curtis’ pretty haunting (and borderline disturbing) take on “Silent Night”. It’s worth a listen, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s a different from most interpretations. And who knows? You might like it…
Just spoke with Lisa Endicott, who runs press for The Granada Theater, and she verified that the Billy Joe Shaver/Jesse Dayton concert that was to take place this Friday is canceled. Endicott told me the reason for the cancellation off the record, which means that I am bound by the…
