Critic's Notebook

The vintage car trade is seeing a boost in sales thanks to another vintage artifact: North Texas’ own rap-superstar-turned-TV-host Vanilla Ice.

From Mozart’s Requiem to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,  there’s a myth-like quality to artists’ final works – the one last masterpiece before departing.

The internet would like you to know that we are living in a golden age of destigmatizing mental illness. It’s OK to not be OK and the world is a safer place to talk about your personal struggles.

The last two years have been busy for Dallas rapper Jovaun. In June 2020, he lost his brother, rapper Uncle Skitz, shortly before dropping his debut album, 1PLAYAWAY.

Most bands dream of commanding an audience’s attention at places like the Hollywood Bowl or Madison Square Garden.

It’s early on a Tuesday afternoon, and Toadies singer Todd Lewis is wiping down a new table in the entrance of his The Loop Artist Rehearsal Complex in South Fort Worth.

Jonathan Tyler is back with a new album, and you might’ve heard some of it.

Guitar World has dubbed Lamb of God “the most important contemporary metal band in the world,” hailed the group as the architects behind the “new wave of American heavy metal” as torchbearers of the heavy metal that Megadeth

Everyone has a dream concert for which they’d be willing to risk life and limb for some seats. Maybe you want to see Paul McCartney while he’s still touring, or perhaps you’d be first in line to see Childish Gambino or Adele

Happy Halloween, Dallas! While we generally have festive Christmas tunes to celebrate the beginning of the winter season, choosing a soundtrack for the spookiest time of the year can be a bit of a challenge. It’s not like “Halloween music” is a label you’ll find on Spotify, unless you’re thinking…

Deep Ellum may be changing with each passing day, but there’s one tradition that’s still going strong in the city’s historic live music district.

What in the world could Josey Records, The Ben and Skin Show and a young career jazz musician living in Los Angeles possibly have in common?

Most of us can probably name more Kanye West controversies than songs. In the past few years alone, the artist now legally named “Ye” has called slavery “a choice,” spent ample time criticizing his ex-wife Kim Kardashian

It’s been two years since producer DirtBeats and a small team relaunched Dallas’ live band concert series, DTXUnplugged.

The Deep Ellum neighborhood is about to reach its 150th year of providing a place for countless new musical artists to share their sound

In the wake of COVID, climate change crisis, inflation, and the general glum of everything sucking that’s dominated the past couple of years, Van Damme wants to change things up.

This is a happy story, with a happy ending. Let’s back up a bit. Our protagonists are John Dufilho and his daughter June, who just turned 12.

A popular East Dallas rapper, BFG Straap, was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in South Dallas. He was 22 years old.

We have to steal a line from The Smiths when Morrissey sings, “Stop me if you think you’ve hear this one before,” before bringing up that the pandemic, despite its many horrors, has shown itself to have been a fruitful time for artists

Jackie Faye’s newest album, Cuntry, is an EP that can, in a word, be described as original. It’s very much a product of its enigmatic and almost obsessively peculiar creator.

Musicians, it seems, aren’t like other people. Take the guy who started out in landscaping, then became an accountant and finally ended up opening a brewpub.

On Monday morning, a private Instagram Live video surfaced on social media with platinum-selling recording artist Erica Banks sharing her preference for the type of “look” among her entourage when going to nightclubs.