Critic's Notebook

The latest estimate on Music Street Frisco’s completion is sometime in September 2023.

Four straight shows in Deep Ellum, at four different venues, just in one weekend. It’s an idea that’s so outrageous, so bodacious, so dangerous and frankly so ridiculous.

The calendar for live shows in Dallas is going to look a lot busier and different in the coming month. Live Nation Entertainment and Broadway Dallas (formerly Dallas Summer Musicals) announced a new partnership

It’s safe to say that the pandemic has been hard on just about everyone, regardless of their line of work. But the sudden way in which COVID-19

On December 2012, the world was supposed to end – at least according to those following the 5,000+ year Mayan Long Count calendar.

Deep into the month of July, Dallas is in the mist of a heat wave that won’t go away. The grass is brown, the creeks are dry and the asphalt melting.

The window of opportunity to hear jazz on terrestrial radio just got a little smaller in DFW. KNTU 88.1 FM, a student-run station owned by the University of North Texas in Denton.

Post-hardcore outfit Dance Gavin Dance slowly gained a following since first forming in 2005 and signing to Rise Records just one year later.

It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that’s it’s been almost 30 years since the world said goodbye to the undisputed queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla-Perez.

National treasure St. Vincent has made Texas proud with her talent, career and voice. The artist, born Annie Clark

A favorite pastime of audiophiles is digging for new music, and one of the most obscure vaults to be explored lies in the musical catalogs of acts known as one-hit wonders.

Fort Worth’s Latin and hip-hop music festival, Centro Popular, will make its return on Aug. 6. Lorenzo Zenteno, the festival’s founder, promises that the second iteration will be bigger and better than ever.

We’re about to start another round of political campaigning, and no doubt that means we’ll be treated to many unfortunate appropriations of pop songs.

Many bands have been formed after would-be members started toying around with the idea of what they might call themselves.

Blóthar the Berserker looked upon the Civil War soldiers crawling from their graves around Richmond, Virginia, where the band GWAR originally formed in 1984.

Dallas’ music contributions run just as deep and long as those of destinations such as Bourbon Street in New Orleans or the Honky Tonk Highway in Nashville.

Jack White celebrated his 47th birthday on July 9, and we can’t be the only ones feeling like he should be older.

On Wednesday, a Billboard headlined announced: “Pantera to Tour in 2023 for First Time in Over 20 Years.”

Dallas music producer Dagoberto Estrada, known as DagoBeats in the music scene, wants to bring North Texas back to it musical heyday.

From major label success to a slow burning out, the Flickerstick story is one of the wildest in Dallas’ rock history, and one that’s entirely emblematic of the early aughts: It involves 9/11, Incubus, reality competition shows and the onset of social media.

Dallas artists may soon be able to skip the flights, expenses and the begging for a chance to speak with music bigwigs in Los Angeles: Jeff Blue is bringing them to you.

For a brief moment, Plano metalcore outfit A Dozen Furies were destined to be the next big thing. The band won the MTV reality competition Battle for Ozzfest in 2004,