Music

The last nearly-two-years spurred a great deal of losses of all kinds in the music industry, from shuttered venues to billions in revenue and tours and albums postponed.

The shadow of the pandemic seems to keep returning like a champion eater with a buffet pass. A lot has changed since it all started in March 2020, but any changes in Deep Ellum started long before a global catastrophe transformed our way of life as we know it.

After over a year off, the North Texas music scene came roaring back this year to make up for lost time. From the acts we saw this year, it’s clear that many artists used their extra time to build up their musicianship,

For the last three years, former President and national tastemaker Barack Obama has released his annual summer and year-end playlists on Spotify.

It’s been a big year for singer David Archuleta. Over the past 12 months, the American Idol runner up has gained a large following on TikTok, where he answers fan questions and stitches in videos of himself harmonizing with other singers

Here is the definition of what you would call a “fun fact”: Michael Nesmith’s mother invented Wite-Out. While Bette Nesmith Graham was toiling away to perfect and market what would eventually be trademarked as Liquid Paper, her son Michael was on the precipice of becoming one of the biggest musical stars of the 1960s as a part of the breakout TV show and pop group The Monkees.

Every musician who’s ever slung an axe over their shoulder dreams about rocking out with one of their idols.

Since they first formed in 2006, indie pop duo She & Him has been a hipster sonic wet-dream of a pairing. The “she” is Zooey Deschanel and “he,” is critic-favorite, soft-rasp singer-songwriter Matt “M” Ward.

Trevor Gray has Down syndrome and Type-1 diabetes. He says he wants to “be able to be on my own and have fun” but sometimes it can be hard to manage with his diabetic condition.

In 1976, Joni Mitchell ran away. She ran away from everything – her home, her occupation, her partner, her lover, even her identity.

While everyone was busy trying to figure out what NFTs were, Post Malone became one of the few Dallas artists to make the Billboard year-end charts for 2021.