Blame it all on my roots, but I’ll be damned if there isn’t something special about the “second golden age” of country music, the neotraditional wave of line dancin’, hat tippin’ and boot scootin’ hillbilly music of the late 1980s to mid ’90s.
There are only two instances that rapper Auntie AJ can recall when someone had a problem with a live performance of his song “Fuck White People,” a ditty he’s performed “literally over 100 times” in shows and concerts.
America has a long tradition of challenging its culture through the use of public transportation. A recent ad spotted on a Dallas bus is no Rosa Parks moment, but a curious one nonetheless.
It’s open mic night at the Free Man in Deep Ellum. For Dallas-based rock-and-roll band King Clam, it’s an adopted practice spot away from rehearsal space
Two of the biggest and most iconic music venues in Deep Ellum will reopen under the banner of a new name.
As a teenager, Zeke Forever’s biggest source of inspiration was his older self.
As music journalists, our email inboxes receive oodles of announcements, invitations to concerts and offers for exclusives on new songs and albums every day.
Bill Hutchinson, a wealthy Dallas developer who appeared on the reality show Marrying Millions, was arrested in Highland Park on Tuesday.
Over the course of the last year, the R&B artist known as Tears followed her own trail, making her way to Dallas from Miami.
If you’ve listened to an album by any musician from Dallas in the last decade, you should know it probably wouldn’t exist without Jeff Saenz.
As business owners began getting warnings from code enforcement about noise, it seemed to them that the rules had changed. They didn’t, but the people enforcing them did.
If you’re looking for a long overdue escape from landlocked claustrophobia, bust out your Hawaiian shirts and swim trunks because Dead Words’ new EP, Patron Saints of Paradise Vibes, bodes well with the sounds of summer.
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.
Last year, Drake Livingston was an average teenager chasing a dream and trying to find his place in the world
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…
