Some artists and musicians are born businessmen. One of them is local rapper and business manager Greezy516, who’s built his brand from the ground up into a small but growing empire.
The last time Denton-born indie-folk outfit Seryn came to Dallas, it was April 14, 2019, breaking a nearly three-year hiatus.
Friends and family will celebrate Darren Eubank’s life on June 12 at Oaks Church in Red Oak. The service will be livestreamed for anyone unable to attend.
Wade Wadlington, the owner of Division Brewing and GROWL Records in Arlington, isn’t exactly a fan of death metal. He’s partial to stoner rock.
The delusapalooza known as For God & Country Patriot Roundup, which went down in Dallas this Memorial Day weekend, didn’t only feature political circus acts like pardoned Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, election conspiracy attorney Sidney Powell and a doctor who doesn’t believe in medical science, Dr. Judy Mikovits, on it schedule. Guests were also treated to live music — because even people who take the spittle shooting rants of Rudy Giuliani seriously need a mental palette cleanser.
When Denton’s Freaks and Geeks closed its storefront, the duo behind one of the college town’s favorite coffee shops, Golden Boy Coffee Co., took over the recently vacated shop next door and transformed the space into an extension of the coffee shop — by day, that is.
Growing up, Vanalika Shan lived in many parts of the world. The Indian singer-songwriter is passionate about world cultures and contemporary issues and wants to use her platform to make the world a more conscious place for the generations ahead.
If you think Olivia Rodrigo is just the voice of millennials, zillennials and/or xennials or whatever comes after Gen Z, think again, you ageist jerk. OK, You’re probably not ageist, you just don’t know my grandma.
It’s impossible to make a list of Bob Dylan’s best songs. There is so much discussion around Dylan’s seemingly endless body of work, that condensing his 60-year career into a single article of highlights is as reductive as it is pointless.
The members of It Hurts To Be Dead must’ve felt exactly what their band name suggests when the group went through a death of sorts.
On a Friday night in Deep Ellum, xbValentine plays for a packed house at Trees. With a baseball cap, black t-shirt and torn jeans, she’s keeping her masculine and feminine energies at a divine balance.
Mask mandates are starting to die, but the controversy around mask wearing is still very much alive. As public performers, musicians can get caught in the middle.
Despite all the clichés that say otherwise, country music consists of a wide variety of moods. From Patsy Cline to Sierra Ferrell, Charley Crockett to Charley Pride, and Loretta Lynn to Mojo Nixon; all fall under country’s wide umbrella.
When rapper Patrick “Peej Capeesh” Jackson found himself in an unlikely position to pursue his music, he made a new path for himself.
Diya Craft fronts Denton band Mutha-Falcon, a punk-fusion outfit that mixes funk and hip-hop while keeping a solid foundation in punk rock music. The band’s frontwoman is just as multifaceted.
Becoming a 1 percenter wasn’t exactly what Jerry Warden had in mind when he threw his hat into the ring for Arlington mayor. Warden, 60, a well-known metalhead from the band Warlock, collected just over 1 percent of the vote during the May 1 mayoral election after he was thrown…
The events of the past year no doubt stung more deeply without the joy of live music, and this past weekend we got a concrete reminder of what we’d been missing when two of Dallas’ prodigious natives came together at The Kessler.
Madukwu Chinwah’s career started out like that of many musicians, by playing in a high school garage band. It was called Krystal Klear, and while the band didn’t quite make it, Chinwah would become one of the main originators of the neo-soul genre.
As events begin to pick up again, downtown Cowtown will be booming with the sounds of New Orleans. The Roots of Music series, at Downtown Cowtown the Isis at the Fort Worth Stockyards, has an upcoming program highlighting Black music, packed with jazz, blues, R&B and hip-hop.
The Weeknd isn’t the only one who’s been blinded by the lights of the Grammy nomination process. After he was snubbed by the Grammys for the 2021 season, the singer spoke out about how unfair the secret nomination process can be to top-performing artists. After dropping a chart-topping album with…
It was right after churches let out Sunday afternoon. An older couple was driving down Hickory Street toward the Denton Square, possibly discussing their lunch options. The woman turns her head away from her husband as they approach Fry Street, looks to her right and sees Richard Haskins, the big-boned…
Dallas-based singer-songwriter Kevin Hawkins had an emotional transformation that started well before the pandemic. Over the course of five years, he wrote and recorded his debut album Mixed Emotions, which was released last fall. Through the 15 tracks, the musician walks through his past and makes sense of his old…
