Pentatonix! Are! Excited! First of all, it’s Christmas, and no one loves Christmas more than Pentatonix. Second of all, they’re home. Not Japan (where they’ve been more than 10 times) or Europe or Brazil, but Grand Prairie. OK, technically band members Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi and Kirstin Maldonado are from…
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, the members of SouthFM met via Facebook Live to announce the re-release of their 2003 album Drama Kids, which will be available for the first time on vinyl on May 7. But that’s not the story. This is. One of those members, former guitarist G.I. Sanders,…
“First thing’s first, rest in peace to my mom,” begins rapper Justin King’s opening track, “THINGS,” on the debut album Dreams and Things. The album was recorded in part as a tribute to his parents, who shaped King as an artist and musician, he says. “For almost my whole childhood,…
It’s been a long seven years since we’ve heard anything new from Denton band Midlake. After 2013’s Antiphon, its subsequent single releases and vinyl rerelease of the 2006 classic The Trials of Van Occupanther, it was unclear whether we’d actually get any new music. Late last year, the band announced…
On Dec. 23, Dallas police found 65-year-old Timothy Paul Allen dead in the passenger seat of his car. The medical examiner ruled Allen’s death was caused by “homicidal violence.” On Monday, Dallas police announced they’d arrested Tristin Devon Howard, 17, and Qaulin Dajuan Curlin, 18, in connection to Allen’s death. The…
While she may be fairly new to the hip-hop scene, rapper DeeVine has built an impressive resume throughout her 26 years of life. The artist finds creative ways outside of making music to get in touch with her spirit and womanhood. On her new single “Remind Yah,” she shouts out…
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit…
How does a UT Arlington and Eastfield journalism dropout find a way to express his love for the city and the teams that represent it? He might as well rap, he figured. Garland native Kevin Cusingberry told his friend, an aspiring recording artist, that they should work on a mixtape…
What started as a “casual encounter” on Craigslist turned into a lasting friendship for Denton band The Infamists. The Dallas Observer Music Award-nominated three-piece formed in 2012 while attending University of North Texas. Now, they are one of North Texas’ quickly rising rock bands. Guitarist/vocalist Riley Rogers and bass guitarist/vocalist…
House Parties is the latest woman-fronted punk band to emerge alongside acts like penny bored, Matchstick Ghost and Velvet Skyline. Their first, high-energy single “Hindsight” is available now on Spotify. A reflection on moving on from bad situations and bad people, the uplifting track is bolstered by emocore harmonies and…
Evan Rachel Wood, star of HBO’s Westworld, made headlines this week by pulling back the veil on one of the entertainment industry’s biggest open secrets. After four years of refusing to do so, Wood officially disclosed who exactly was responsible for the brutal intimate partner violence she described suffering through…
When Yella Beezy released his latest single and music video in January, “Is You Fuckin,” he also announced another single to be released at the end of the month, with hip-hop force — and fellow North Texan — Erica Banks. “Star,” was released Jan. 29, and there’s more to come…
We know you don’t need an excuse to headbang to “Walk” or “Cowboys from Hell,” but Texas Ale Project has graced us with the perfect way to partake in our favorite Pantera songs. The Dallas-based brewery is releasing Pantera Golden Ale on March 1, which they created in collaboration with…
As a young bluesman, Tommy Katona journeyed to Dallas to learn more about the genre. Last year, things got a whole lot bluer. Katona, now 36, hails from Hungary and styled himself after the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. He’d connected with Vaughan’s music at the tender age of 5, he…
Whether you buy into the schmaltzy notion that punk rock is an “attitude” or ascribe to the more pragmatic conclusion that it is nothing more than just a music genre and subculture, the fact remains that progressive politics have predominantly been at its helm since its ascension in the 1970s…
Electropop duo Secrecies dropped their new single “Far Away So Close” along with an accompanying video on Friday, Jan. 29. The dreamy song, available on all streaming platforms, was recorded before the pandemic lockdowns yet has taken on a new meaning for the band in the days of social distancing…
Katie Scott has not let a matter as small as a global pandemic get in the way of her dreams. Last July, the teacher-turned-business-owner opened Red Zeppelin Records in downtown McKinney, a punk-grunge haven for crate diggers. Soon after she opened the shop, Scott began to receive music submissions from…
This was always going to be a bittersweet story. A story about four friends, bound together by the act of creation and love for one another, whose creative exploits are a part of Dallas-Fort Worth music history and who had rediscovered their artistic bond in time to mount a potential…
Through art, creators were able to navigate a pandemic and process the many tragedies that took place in 2020. With his new single “Move On,” which premiered last month, singer-songwriter Dezmond Walker shines a light on local artists as they share their stories. Walker wrote “Move On” about a four-year…
In some households, every day is Selena day. But thanks to a bill reintroduced Thursday by state Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos, April 16 might officially be designated as “Selena Day,” honoring the late Texan music star Selena Quintanilla. Quintanilla was killed by her employee Yolanda Saldívar on March 31, 1995. Even…
Dallas lost a pillar in its music community when Tim Daniels, co-owner of Club Dada, Off the Record, and other venues, passed away from COVID-19 complications on Saturday, Jan. 15. Daniels is remembered in the community as someone who was always there to support musicians and even patrons who needed…
If 2021 wasn’t looking brighter already, the news that previously unseen Beatles content is coming soon is certainly a welcome sign that there are better days ahead. Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson has restored over 55 hours of previously unrestored footage of the Fab Four during the recording…
