Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009…Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I’m looking in your direction.Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along with the city-flubbers in The…
Not sure exactly what the holdup is, but over on Blabbermouth today–your source, apparently, for all things wrong with the fact that former Observer music editor Zac Crain is writing a book about the late, great Dimebag Darrell–comes the news that Crain’s 288-page Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 23, 2009…Eminem and Flea are among the presenters for this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Em will induct Run-DMC; Flea will induct Metallica.It’s funny how 50 Cent likes to take jabs at easy targets like Rick Ross,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 20, 2009… Lil Wayne and Scott Weiland are just two of the upcoming subjects on VH1’s relaunched Behind The Music. Looks like Courtney Love is the only one who made any money from a publishing deal to license Nirvana’s music. The company…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 19, 2009… Kelly Clarkson made a triumphant return to the charts as she grabbed the top Billboard spot from U2 and Bono’s guyliner. It seems everyone is turning to Twitter these days–even President Obama has an account! But Madonna has turned…
Your daily dose of national music for Wednesday, March 18, 2009…50 Cent is releasing not one, but two albums this year–and he’s joining Fall Out Boy on tour for selected dates. Who woulda thunk it? Hopefully he’ll be able to find time to take unnecessary jabs at Rick Ross…Jessica Simpson…
Just a warning that things might fall about out of uniformity over the next couple of days as not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (!) DC9 staff members head southward tomorrow morning to cover SXSW and all that it entails.(And you thought the economy was going to stop…
We’ve got a couple items regarding local music and cinema to share this afternoon. First, local country innovators Whiskey Folk Ramblers, a Dallas Observer favorite, will be featured in The Other Side Of Paradise. According to bassist Jack Daw Russell, the band was filmed for an important country-dancing bar scene…
To those of you who think we only post about the Jonas Brothers on here: Boy, are you misinformed! For instance, we also post items about Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato, who, you might have already noticed, has her new video plastered all over Myspace today under the guise that she’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 17, 2009…Kelly Clarkson is busy fighting off rumors that she’s a lesbian.Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd are going on a joint tour again this summer.M.I.A’s former producer, Diplo, is joining forces with her current producer, Switch, to become Major Lazer…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 16, 2009… The former Dentonites in The Riverboat Gamblers were named in Rolling Stone writer David Fricke’s “Fricke’s Picks” this week. Modest Mouse will soon release the Heath Ledger-directed video for their b-side, “King Rat”. Alan W. Livingston, the man who signed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 13, 2009…Sweet! A good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll feud with 21st century technology! Trent Reznor has taken to his Twitter account to blast Chris Cornell’s new Timbaland-produced album. Of course, if you heard any of the songs on Cornell’s…
Some quick news hits…According to Billboard, the fourth full-length record from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted, which was released just two days ago, will reach No. 1 on the trade magazine’s album charts next week, with an estimated 200,000 records moved in its first week. It helps,…
As the above teaser South Park clip shows, last night’s episode touched on maybe the most pertinent topics ever: (Westlake’s own) Jonas Brothers and purity rings. I haven’t yet seen it, but Idolator’s already lauded the episode for mocking the Jonas’ use of blatant sexual overtones in light of their…
It’s been pretty widely reported already this morning, but it’s definitely worth pointing out again, in case some of you might’ve missed it: Seminal shoegaze act My Bloody Valentine is coming to town for a Palladium Ballroom performance just over a month from now, on Wednesday, April 22. It’s one…
Friend of DC9, local radio traffic reporter and emo scholar Eric Grubbs, checks in today with some encouraging news: Turns out, per his day job reporting on all the traffic goings-on in the Metroplex for 1080 KRLD-AM, Grubbs has learned that the construction that we warned you about yesterday isn’t…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 12, 2009… Remember Ashley Dupree, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s former call girl? Looks like she’s found a new mentor in hip-hop icon Russell Simmons. It seems he’s been “reaching out” to her in their yoga class. You know what position she…
Robert Wilonksy just directed my attention to this little blog entry by former Dallas Morning News music critic and current Austin American-Statesman scribe, Michael Corcoran, on Dallas’ own Floyd Dakil, who, despite retiring from music in 1984, will be heading down to Austin for a SXSW performance sponsored by the…
Gutterth Productions just put up its second podcast, this time turning its focus to the NX35 festival–perhaps you’ve heard of it? Along with songs from Gutterth-affiliated bands performing at the festival (New Science Projects, Sleep Whale, Record Hop, The Heartstring Stranglers, RTB2, Shiny Around The Edges, The Timeline Post, Doug…
Uh-oh.According to this state-run transportation site, all northbound traffic on I-35E between 9 p.m. on Thursday and 6 a.m. on Friday will be diverted off the highway, as construction workers will be working through the night to make repairs to the Corinth St. bridge. So what’s this mean? Well, if…
On Saturday at the Plano Centre, Mike Ziemer’s Third String Productions will throw its annual South by So What!? event–a deal that’s become something of a tradition. But it’s not the only show Ziemer puts on every year. At just 23 years of age, he’s booked thousands of bands on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 11, 2009… Looks like you won’t be able to use a fake name to get 12 CD’s for the price of one anymore: The mail-in BMG Music Service is done. Washed up rapper-turned-reality star, Coolio, was charged with possession of crack…
