Critic's Notebook

Going to a show these days is a very expensive and involved process, especially if you’re going to a place like Arlington’s AT&T Stadium.

After moving from Texas to the Bay Area and quitting music altogether, Amore XO is back with a more spiritual and purposeful perspective on his music career.

Since he first broke out in 2016, Bad Bunny has hardly lived up to his name, proving to be about as bad as the Easter Bunny.

The boys of the Dallas street party rock group The Late Night Call Band are busier than they’ve ever been, and things are bound to get even busier now that going outdoors doesn’t require a bucket of sunscreen.

Behind all the astroturf walls and the neon light fixtures, the Dallas nightlife has a varied, and intriguing, Instagram presence.

We’ve examined some of the best and worst experimental departures from some highly revered musicians over the past several decades, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that sometimes you have to piss off, or at least confuse, a few people to stay true to yourself.

The Dallas Cowboys are back in the hunt for their sixth championship as the 2022-23 NFL season begins this weekend,

The Deep Ellum Foundation announced on Instagram that it’s renting a two-story space on Elm Street to turn into “a multi-functional community and cultural center” in honor of the neighborhood’s 150th anniversary.

Just as genres and fashions come in and out of style in music, so do those conventions that come into play when naming a band.

Lamar Adot Thomas is 10 albums in, and he’s still maintaining momentum. In the weeks leading up to his 10th effort, Sade Flow, the 33-year-old artist is feeling more confident than ever.

If you go east on Elm Street toward the former home of Wits End, you might be a little alarmed to find another Deep Ellum staple covered in boards.

A feud that broke out last week among country music stars who are on opposite camps on the subject of trans rights has now escalated into a full-blown Twitter war, and it’s starting to feel a bit 1861.

Now that nu metal is in vogue again and it’s becoming acceptable to admit to having a deep-seated affinity for the long-stigmatized genre, it’s worth pondering what it was about nu metal that was so hated in the first place.

Talking to Keith Morris feels like hearing your war veteran grandfather tell cool stories about giving a fascist a swirly shortly before he stormed the beaches of Normandy with the grace of a GigaChad.

This Saturday, Aug. 27, the Kessler and Good Records are throwing a worldwide release party for the documentary film (and soundtrack album) Live from the Astroturf.

Dallas-raised artist Demi Lovato came out swinging this week with the Friday release of her eighth studio album, Holy Fvck.

Country music has always been in Jaret Ray Reddick’s blood. The Bowling For Soup frontman has portraits of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings tattooed on his bicep

For the past four summers, producer Julian Mason has had radio in a chokehold. He’s better known as LilJuMadeDaBeat

We are no doubt living in a reality written by novelist Isaac Asimov. First, robots began taking the place of cashiers and telemarketers (making it that much easier to hang up on them)

Chastity “Chaz” Marie was fresh out of high school when she and her sister Stephanie got hired as background singers on country superstar LeAnn Rimes’ album Sittin’ On Top of the World.

On June 24, Steve Jackson walked into Opening Bell Coffee in his usual uniform of jeans, shirt and gray golfer hat, lugging his encased acoustic guitar.

About a year ago, Dentonpalooza grew from a social media joke to a celebrated, day-long variety show featuring some of Denton’s most beloved citizens, oddities and musicians. This year, Dentonpalooza Twoza is back with an all-new cast of characters, proving that some jokes don’t get old.