Critic's Notebook

The past two years have been rough, even rougher than the sound of some us attempting to hit the high note in the final chorus of Prince’s “Kiss.”

Here is the definition of what you would call a “fun fact”: Michael Nesmith’s mother invented Wite-Out. While Bette Nesmith Graham was toiling away to perfect and market what would eventually be trademarked as Liquid Paper, her son Michael was on the precipice of becoming one of the biggest musical stars of the 1960s as a part of the breakout TV show and pop group The Monkees.

Every musician who’s ever slung an axe over their shoulder dreams about rocking out with one of their idols.

Since they first formed in 2006, indie pop duo She & Him has been a hipster sonic wet-dream of a pairing. The “she” is Zooey Deschanel and “he,” is critic-favorite, soft-rasp singer-songwriter Matt “M” Ward.

Trevor Gray has Down syndrome and Type-1 diabetes. He says he wants to “be able to be on my own and have fun” but sometimes it can be hard to manage with his diabetic condition.

In 1976, Joni Mitchell ran away. She ran away from everything – her home, her occupation, her partner, her lover, even her identity.

While everyone was busy trying to figure out what NFTs were, Post Malone became one of the few Dallas artists to make the Billboard year-end charts for 2021.

Joining the ranks of Dallas’ legendary music industry contributors is an audio engineer by the name of Ryan Prieur.

When you watch the video for Dixie D’Amelio’s “One Whole Day,” the YouTube algorithm does something really funny.

There’s an eternal debate about whether musicians perform better under the influence.

QAnoners are STILL gathering at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza, hanging on to their last strand of hope by trying to move hearts and minds through song. The only thing they’ve been able to mine so far is laughs.

The owners of some of Denton’s most popular music venues started a partnership to build up each others’ places to enhance the city’s live music community.

If you do a Google search for Brianna Ruelas, the autocomplete features the subtitle “singer.” Ruelas just released her first single, “Thieves,” and though she’s technically just “starting” her singing career now at age 42, she’s been a singer her whole life and a force in the music industry for the last decade.

A lot of bands were born out of the pandemic. One of them was Doomscroll, a solo heavy metal concept created by Dustin Mitchell.

To suggest that country singer-songwriter Waylon Payne’s life story seems perfect for a book isn’t a stretch. In fact, it’s a bit surprising that a book hasn’t been written about him yet.

Sitting outside on a chilly November day, Kazunori Tanaka sits with his trumpet case and a shot of liquor having just played a set of jazz with his band, Texas Sloth Loincloth.

North Texas musician Jonathan Tyler is ready to rock again with a new single and accompanying video for “Moon & Stars” from his as-of-yet unannounced upcoming album. The video for “Moon & Stars” is an elaborate affair, with Tyler and model/actress Zoe Prewitt in a Corvette driving around scenes resembling…

It’s generally hard to know what’s real in this world, but it’s especially hard in the age of social media.

An assignment you’ll often get when you take a photography class is to take a photo emulating your favorite photographer.

Since she first made headlines for defying lockdown orders for Texas businesses, Shelley Luther has become a multi-hyphenate household name as a salon owner-turned-political-martyr/aspiring musician.

Over the course of the past (almost) two years, many have chosen to reflect and take into consideration what brings us fulfillment. For some, that means making more time for those already close to us. For others, it means distancing ourselves from those who no longer bring us joy. For…

Brother Moses drummer Corey Dill is out of the hospital, but he’s still got a long way to go to make a full recovery.