Critic's Notebook

Post-hardcore outfit Dance Gavin Dance slowly gained a following since first forming in 2005 and signing to Rise Records just one year later.

It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that’s it’s been almost 30 years since the world said goodbye to the undisputed queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla-Perez.

National treasure St. Vincent has made Texas proud with her talent, career and voice. The artist, born Annie Clark

A favorite pastime of audiophiles is digging for new music, and one of the most obscure vaults to be explored lies in the musical catalogs of acts known as one-hit wonders.

Fort Worth’s Latin and hip-hop music festival, Centro Popular, will make its return on Aug. 6. Lorenzo Zenteno, the festival’s founder, promises that the second iteration will be bigger and better than ever.

We’re about to start another round of political campaigning, and no doubt that means we’ll be treated to many unfortunate appropriations of pop songs.

Many bands have been formed after would-be members started toying around with the idea of what they might call themselves.

Blóthar the Berserker looked upon the Civil War soldiers crawling from their graves around Richmond, Virginia, where the band GWAR originally formed in 1984.

Dallas’ music contributions run just as deep and long as those of destinations such as Bourbon Street in New Orleans or the Honky Tonk Highway in Nashville.

Jack White celebrated his 47th birthday on July 9, and we can’t be the only ones feeling like he should be older.

On Wednesday, a Billboard headlined announced: “Pantera to Tour in 2023 for First Time in Over 20 Years.”

Dallas music producer Dagoberto Estrada, known as DagoBeats in the music scene, wants to bring North Texas back to it musical heyday.

From major label success to a slow burning out, the Flickerstick story is one of the wildest in Dallas’ rock history, and one that’s entirely emblematic of the early aughts: It involves 9/11, Incubus, reality competition shows and the onset of social media.

Dallas artists may soon be able to skip the flights, expenses and the begging for a chance to speak with music bigwigs in Los Angeles: Jeff Blue is bringing them to you.

For a brief moment, Plano metalcore outfit A Dozen Furies were destined to be the next big thing. The band won the MTV reality competition Battle for Ozzfest in 2004,

It has been 16 years since Nuwamba’s first studio album, Above the Water, drew instant international attention.

It’s crawling toward midnight on a steamy Monday evening in Deep Ellum. Elm Street is just about empty, except for a small crowd standing outside the big garage door windows of Three Links.

Just think about this: Humanity has gone from the Age of Reason to the Era of the Celebrity Meal. You would think that after coming to be enlightened a few centuries ago, we would’ve ended up in a better spot, but no

As an artist and producer, LeRoyce has always chosen to put the quality of his music above anything else.

Many artists like to call themselves a “jack of all trades” but in the case of Nychelle, the cliché fits. As a mother, tattoo artist, business owner and a rapper

Texas’ metal scene is as punishing as they come, and now, it’s got a new supergroup to contend with: Fugitive.

Steve Jones would probaby rather listen to the sound of nails on a chalkboard, on a loop, than to the Sex Pistols. He’s heard them plenty, since before anyone else.