Even compared to the grandeur and rapture that normally accompanies well-executed symphonies inside the Meyerson Symphony Center, Friday night felt exceptional. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's program was divided into two portions — one a contempo...

Dallas rapper Jui$e Leroy saunters through the corridors of Arlington’s Ben Thanh Plaza and Asian Market, backed by dusty piano keys and crunchy snares, and draped in a royal blue tunic suit and shimmering chains. This is the setting of Leroy’s la...

Dallas-based artist Myloh Remora dropped something special last week: a 27-minute hip-hop track containing an astonishing 776 bars of rapping. “Strictly 4 My Loved Ones” is a statement that introduces listeners to one of the city’s great unknown t...

Kendrick Lamar with Travis Scott and D.R.A.M. American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 14, 2017 Rap’s in a good place in 2017, animated by a series of intensely fascinating figures. Young Thug is the moment’s experimentalist; the fiercely hea...

It’s November 2012 and John Stewart has just uploaded a remastered version of Danger Mouse’s legendary The Grey Album to SoundCloud. In a matter of hours it’s gone viral; glowing receptions litter the internet, from blogs to top shelf music public...

Consider Dracula––really consider him. Despite what commerce and fandom suggest, the story of Dracula (any vampire, really) is hinged on emotional intelligence and moral complexity. To put a finer point on it, the reader or viewer is forced to con...