Critic's Notebook

Another Turkey Day, another chance to count our blessings: Here are the things we love most about the music scene this year.

Kidz Bop makes music by kids, for kids. By those self-imposed standards, they aren’t so bad.

Zound Sounds is a family-owned music school ready to make real musicians out of students.

The show must go on. Unless the artist doesn’t feel like it.

Trapboy Freddy was sentenced to federal prison on a weapon charge.

The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter learned the hard way that you can’t hold a pop-up event in a meteor crater.

John Buffalo has been around a good while, though you might not recognize his name now.

Arlington singer Carly Waddell has revealed that Lady Gaga’s NYU classmates didn’t like her. It’s hardly the juicy gossip she thinks it is.

Talk about Deep Ellum blues. Jason Elmore is back and showing a harder rocking side.

You might just find the next Bad Bunny at this event.

Had this Rangers season been a movie, it would have some pretty eclectic needle drops.

For David Lunsford, songs are souvenirs of his life’s journey.

Dallas band Overshare are looking for venues to let them rock.

For nine years, The Nines has kept the freaky soul of Deep Ellum alive.

Mr. Swift was spotted in Arlington happily singing along to not one but two Taylor Swift songs.

The K-Pop group STAYC and Sen. Ted Cruz congratulated the wrong teams following the Texas Rangers’ ALCS win.

The psych-rock band is still psyched about the future of technology.

The Dallas arts community comes together every year for an auction benefitting future artists.

The Wee-Beasties singer Richard Haskins battled prison time, alcoholism and health issues. He’s still got enough fight in him to try to obtain a pardon.

This year’s Thanksgiving Day game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Commanders will have at least one upside if the Cowboys don’t come away with a win.

The Puerto Rican superstar viene pa’ Dallas.

There are some great advantages to suburban entertainment complexes – endless free parking is just one of them.