Music

In the ancient period of two months ago, there was a tacit social contract between artists/businesses and fans/customers wherein the latter bought branded merchandise from the former to help keep them afloat. This ran like clockwork — artists bought Gildan T-shirts in bulk, printed some cool design on them and…

After teasing their collaboration for months on social media, Leon Bridges finally released his new song featuring John Mayer at midnight this Friday. The slow-simmering R&B track is called “Inside Friend,” and like the name suggests, makes a choice soundtrack to a national mood: quarantine and chill. In the single,…

Perhaps you’ve settled comfortably into “the new normal” stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, or perhaps you’re still coming to grips with the daily news developments. Either way, it’s safe to assume you have some extra time on your hands. Simply working from home instead of your usual workplace likely means…

Alas, “The man, the meth, the legend,” Joe Exotic, a former Oklahoma zookeeper, now federal inmate, isn’t the country music star we were led to believe. Like Toby Keith, he’s hoisted as Oklahoma’s next great country music sensation, but he can’t sing or play the guitar whatsoever. He lip-syncs in…

This is a time when we need constant reminders of the miracle implicit in simply being alive, and that’s exactly what happens when you hear Regina Debilio’s voice. Our woman crush this week is a Dallas singer-songwriter, who makes up half of the duo Honey Folk. Debilio studied opera, and her range…

On Sunday, journalist Julie Bindel took to Twitter to ask a question that generated thousands of polarizing responses: “Does anyone else think the ‘Karen’ slur is woman hating and based on class prejudice?” For those unaware, the term “Karen” is used as a derogatory remark toward women who are perceived…

If there’s one universal truth to parenting, it’s that whatever songs your kid listens to will end up on repeat in your head at 3 a.m. Most of the time we’re fighting off tunes about frogs or balloons or shapes from Little Baby Bum, or we’re reluctantly humming a particularly…

This isn’t the first time that Deep Ellum has been knocked down, and it will rise again, like it has, cyclically, across a century. There’s no telling, though, how the neighborhood’s culture will change when the pandemic is over. The future of many Deep Ellum venues hangs by a thread…

The concert industry has truly taken a fatal hit due to the coronavirus, but to add insult to the massive economic injury, some musicians have been infected with it. It’s hard — and tiring — to keep up with individual artists who test positive, so we thought we’d streamline it for…

As you continue to go through your live music withdrawals, you can ease the pain with some of these livestreamed performances this week. Acts like The Molly Ringwalds, Remy Reilly and the Revelers Hall Band have all started performing online regularly. Venues like House of Blues have even hopped on…

As we enter uncharted territory with no actual live music venues yet allowed to open, we again turn to the internet. These are just a sampling of the many artists who are hitting the web to perform. You’d likely be witnessing many of them here in the area live and…

Remy Reilly is used to pouring her soul into subjects that she hasn’t experienced directly. Her first EP, released in 2018, was heavy on love songs about imagined relationships. Her newest release, the single “Just Stop,” also touches on a theme that she hasn’t lived firsthand. While Reilly’s family is…

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is Netflix’s No. 1 hit, and has become the go-to distraction this pandemic season. It stars a self-described broke-as-shit, gun-toting, gay polygamist, tiger breeder-zookeeper named Joe Exotic at the now-defunct G.W. Zoo in Oklahoma. Even by Okie standards, Joe Exotic’s white tiger mullet is flamboyant;…

We may be quarantined, but people are still finding ways to get creative from home. One popular trend on the video-sharing app TikTok has users participating in a series of dance challenges, in which one TikToker creates a dance routine, which may or may not go viral, and other TikTok…

There are two reasons we’re celebrating Bayleigh Cheek today: First, we are eternally crushing on the musician’s sophisticated brand of psych indie rock and deeply wounding vocals, and it also happened to be her birthday yesterday. Cheek is on the path to becoming just as iconic as the same powerhouse singers that…

Lesser bands might have been overwhelmed by the success of a single like “Creep.” Radiohead exploded into the public eye with its 1993 LP Pablo Honey and the ubiquitous, slow-burning ballad, which spent weeks lodged in the charts. To this day, “Creep” remains the band’s most successful single — and one the…

Say you wake up to find yourself in an early-1970s Pontiac GTO convertible, driving down an empty, boundless highway toward wherever your favorite band is playing. You have now entered the world of Nick Snyder & The Real Deal. The band’s self-titled debut EP is painted with shades of late…

Remember Matt Colvin? That guy from Tennessee who saw an increased demand for hand sanitizer, surgical masks and disinfectant wipes, and decided to stockpile them and flip them for a profit? Remember how he was initially without shame at having taken on such an endeavor, so much that he agreed…

Bob Dylan is a music superstar and pop culture icon, a symbol of intellectual progress and a counterculture hero. But, above all, he’s a Nobel Prize-winning wordsmith. His message of civil rights activism and philosophical poetry have been essential to American culture since he first emerged as a Woody Guthrie-…