Critic's Notebook

We’re entering a new Taylor Swift era: The Matty Healy era.

The Willie Nelson Picnic is coming up on its 50th edition, just in time to celebrate the music legend’s 90th birthday. A series at UNT in Denton examines the legend.

Rapper Trapboy Freddy has made a deal with prosecutors over a federal gun trafficking charge that he’s been fighting since last August.

Two Dallas mainstay artists (one who is known to strip down to his skivvies onstage), are coming together for a cool new project.

Record Store Day may already have passed on this year’s calendar but Denton’s KUZU 92.9 FM is planning a record swapping convention that will make it look like the $1 CD bin at Wal-Mart.

Fort Worth has a hot export: musicians. Hear Fort Worth, a program under the Visit Fort Worth umbrella, hopes to make Cowtown a music mecca. And its strategy is simple: build the infrastructure for a music scene to thrive, then let those musicians be the city’s ambassadors. This transition isn’t…

Texas travel blogger Jessica Serna isn’t a stripper, but she was ecstatic when Dolly Parton, at a stop in Frisco, asked her if she were.

The Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth is being accused of allowing security to interrupt a show. The venue says rowdy fans are the reason they are no longer booking hardcore shows. Other metal acts are boycotting the place.

Spike Chester might sing, but he’s a Dallas-proud rapper.

Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn’t much older than the South Park gang when he first appeared on stage with his older brother Jimmie at the Cockrell Hill Jubilee. The 1965 celebration took place at the Hill Theater in Cockrell Hill, a small community surrounded by Oak Cliff and just down the road…

Two new pop-up experiences featuring the works of Ed Sheeran and Dolly Parton are opening soon but which one is for you? We’ve come up with a handy dandy guide to help you decide.

North Texas hip-hop artist Enchanting has us under her spell.

Aside from tackling the nation’s opioid crisis, Melissa Etheridge’s Summer Tour ’23 comes to Dallas’ Majestic Theatre Wednesday night.

Jason Isbell is ready to shoot Bud Lights, so that the company gets the money. Jason Isbell is on the side of Bud Light.

We talked to Dallas musicians about whether SXSW is worth playing anymore.

Dallas artist Uh Oh Tre Five is makes beats for video games. And he’s not playing around.

The Denton folk-rock group has fans in the U.K., so it makes perfect sense that one of their band shirts would pop up in the Apple+ TV series about us Yanks trying to coexist with the Brits.

North Texas rock gods the Toadies are back and they’re bringing edibles with them.

Finally, a music festival that doesn’t suck. Austin’s Oblivion Access has curated the best lineup.

Josh “Tigerhead Guy” Musgrove puts on a giant tiger head and plays classical piano tunes on the square in Denton because he enjoys “making people happy.”

Dallas has a music scene with venues of all sizes, seasoned players, excellent music schools and local publications covering it. The stage is set, the mic has been checked. Are fans listening?

Posty loves Raising Cane’s chicken so much that he got together with the company to design the look of a brand new location right in his backyard.