Music

The sounds of Texas and Mexico collide in singer Rafa’s music. Having grown up along the Mexican border, the artist spent his childhood dividing his time between both worlds.

R&B fusionist Jake Quillin is relaxing in his new home in Texas and talking about his old job as a pizza maker in Tennessee.

Album release parties are normally joyous events for a band, but for D and Chi, the event is bittersweet. The party will honor a bandmember who died during the pandemic, but whose music celebrates life.

Traditional radio is alive and well, even if streaming is overtaking the way we consume music.

For about a decade, Ashley Leer lead the experimental post-punk group Def Rain. For about three years, she’s also lead the indie-pop group Abbreviations — at times abbreviated as ABBV.

Local hip-hop group Greyspot Syndicate has a growing reputation in the Dallas music scene.

Bars are a pillar upon which a city’s culture is built. They provide stages and meditative spaces for writers and artists and propel careers for entertainers and entire art movements.

On Tuesday, a video surfaced on Twitter of rapper Auntie AJ performing at The Haltom Theater in Haltom City, and some white people really didn’t like it.

The pandemic and political climate have forced us to evolve over the past year. Musician Alton Blake welcomes that chance for change. On his debut single, the cozy, piano-driven “Lately,” the singer-songwriter seeks redemption for his old ways. Blake, 24, began writing the song “about a year ago, when the…

For the last year or so, Andrew Holmes has been working on a van. So far, the singer-songwriter has added an AC unit, some nice shelving, a bed and a kitchenette, among many other things that make his soon-to-be home quite homey.

Many people only survived the last 15 months thanks to mutual aid efforts by social justice communities and organizations. One of those groups is the United Peoples Coalition, which was created last summer by Dallas music veteran Patrick Averhart.

This past Saturday afternoon, hip-hop artist Raekwon hosted an exclusive pop-up shop inside Mockingbird Station streetwear apparel store Centre.

It’s been a long week for Victor Rimach. The founder and owner of Chasquis, a local independent music booking agency, had brought Colombian DJ Ynfynyt Scroll to perform at the Arcade Bar at Bowlski’s Lakewood Theater on Wednesday, June 9, where Rimach also performed as Sudaka. He then played alongside…