Category: Music
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My review of Rihanna’s Loud Tour performance at AA Center, July 8 2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOuSDv6A4g] Last Night: Rihanna, J.Cole, a Fire at American Airlines Center – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. Rihanna’s performance is the largest show and Ri the most popular artist I have reviewed to date. Despite an abrupt end and the missed oppertunity to interview Rihanna, I enjoyed the night. The bright visuals, […]
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The Problem With… Taylor Swift’s “The Story of Us” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2011/06/the_problem_with_taylor_swifts_1.php
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The Problem With… Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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The Problem With… Beyonce’s “Run the World Girls” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. Journo confession: In the copy I sent in, I referred to Beyonce as “Mrs. Aaron Carter” instead of “Mrs. Sean Carter”. For those who don’t know, Aaron Carter is a young white pop star while Sean Carter is hip-hop superstar […]
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The Problem With… Jessie J’s “Price Tag” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Jessie J’s “Price Tag” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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The Problem With… Lady Gaga’s “Judas” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Lady Gaga’s “Judas” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. Just when I though I would have to quash a months-old single,Lady GaGa comes out from her egg. To think, I only heard the single last Saturday. The subsequent brain hurricane and the “Thiswaygate” that followed really motivated me to get something […]
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Exotic, not foreign. Gang Gang Dance’s “Mindkilla”
New York-based group Gang Gang Dance recently released a video for a single called “Mindkilla”. With the Dune-inspired name, African beat, synthesizers and colorful images, I may adopt it as the theme song for my blog.
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The Problem With… Ke$ha’s “Blow” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Ke$ha's "Blow" – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. In order to make this column more fun for me, I decided to appropriate comic hero references. I developed a rogues gallery of modern pop artists. Rihanna can be Catwoman, a villain with on-off erotic tension with my Batman persona. Nicki Minaj can […]
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SF writer Alastair Reynolds gives props to Denton band Midlake
Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Midlake – Roscoe.
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The Problem With… Rihanna’s “S&M” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Rihanna’s “S&M” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. It getting harder to love Rihanna “like a hot pie”. I hope she’ll continue to release good music, since she’s keeping up that British Commonwealth razor-girl theme I mentioned when I first reviewed a Rihanna single.