Critic's Notebook

The ugly head of COVID-19 has surfaced once again in North Texas and just like the first go-around, it’s starting to get scary.

Former Sweet Chaos bassist Sydney Hefley has opted to leave her former project behind to pursue a solo-ish career in the spotlight, with a new backing band and a cool new rock name

Donald Trump Jr. is no stranger to backlash, but he really angered twitterfolk this week when he tried to come after music royalty.

David Berman died two years ago on Saturday, and there are still not enough platelets in our bodies to heal the wounds that have surfaced since.

For over 30 years, the Burundi region of central Africa is said to have been terrorized by a man-eating crocodile named Gustave.

Allison Ponthier is a Texan cowboy in Brooklyn.

It’s been well over two months since comedian Bo Burnham’s musical comedy special “Inside” debuted on HBO. But if you’re like me – and watched it about a dozen times – you still find yourself at 2 a.m. humming songs about Jeff Bezos and FaceTiming with your mom.

When EB Rebel left Dallas for Brooklyn in 2016, she carried her hometown with her, at least in her heart.

OneSelf Salaam, a renowned Dallas-based hip-hop producer and promoter, died Saturday in Dallas.

Last month, Austin-based duo Black Pistol Fire played Trees in one of their first shows since the pandemic began.

Few bands have one album that stands the test of time and resonates with fans decades later.

The tectonic house beats of “Apollo 11” by Cody Currie or “Good People – Director’s Cut Signature Mix” by Marko Militano shake the wooden dance floor and leather booths. Fluorescent lights timed to the music reflect from disco balls. The packed crowd bobs and bounces and dances to the enveloping,…

Cure for Paranoia just released its first EP. Kind of. The collective put the eight-track By Any Means Necessary on Soundcloud in April 2020, but it was accessible only via a private link: You donated some money and Cameron McCloud (Cure for Paranoia’s frontman) sent you the link. But the…

Spanish author Benjamin Villegas had never traveled to El Paso, but he figured it would be the perfect spot to set his punk rock novel. Out now in a new English translation from Deep Vellum Publishing and with a foreword by El Paso punk rocker Beto O’Rourke, ELPASO: A Punk Story is…

“It leaks, it squeaks, it creaks” is how regulars describe a longtime cherished Denton venue, beneath a pizza joint in a basement, its musical history memorialized in the graffiti on its walls by local and touring bands and concertgoers over the years.

The world’s greatest rock and roll band is returning to Dallas

Oddly, the year 2021 is seeing a resurgence of Beatlemania, with Peter Jackson’s docuseries Beatles: Get Back headed to Disney+ this Thanksgiving.

The most common images that come to mind when we think of prog rock are probably those of lavishly dressed Englishmen: Keith Emerson adorned in full chainmail regalia, making violent love to his keyboards in

 front of a sold-out stadium; Chris Squire in a lavender jumpsuit and accompanying magenta cape, attacking his bass with such fury that one wrong note may cause a rip in the space-time continuum; Peter Gabriel fully immersed in his onstage roles as a fox, a flower, an alien overlord, or whatever this is.

The thing about being a musician in a band is that their mastery is constantly developing as they refer back to old material.

It’s been a head-spinning year-and-a-half and it’s time for our bodies to follow suit, so dust off your old skates and channel your inner Roller Girl, because DJs Blake Ward and Sober are having a party.

Jason Mraz wrote his seventh studio album back in 2019. Although it didn’t receive rave reviews from music critics upon its release in June 2020, Look For The Good turned out to be 12 tracks of pure, wholesome reggae sunshine that served up the feel-good vibes we desperately needed during…

It’s been two years since Dallas-based Luna Luna last released an album.