Supposedly, Elton John was responsible for 2% of all music sold on Earth in the mid ’70s. Frankly, that claim doesn’t seem that too far-fetched, given the absurdly large and consistently great body of work John had accumulated up to that point.
Today is the last day of voting for the 2022 Grammy Awards, but it turns out we won’t see the results as soon as we thought.
Joshua Ray Walker had us at “howdy.” Dallas’ own future country icon has kept us peeled to his unavoidable ascent since he first caught our ear with his signature honky-rock guitar with his band Ottoman Turks.
Just like clockwork, a new year ushers in a fresh batch of promising new North Texas recording artists poised to be the next big thing.
Let’s be honest – 2021 didn’t end on a cute note. Hopefully, in the new year those who are responsibly vaccinated and boosted will be able to enjoy life’s simple pleasures again,
It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and Sur Duda’s lead singer Cameron Smith takes a break from helping a group of friends hanging out at The Boiled Owl Tavern.
Is Marc Rebillet more contagious than the omicron variant? It’s a fair question, or at least it was for a few hours on Friday night at the Factory in Deep Ellum.
This week, three Jeopardy! contestants were stumped by the clue, “The stage name of this rapper and actor gets shortened to MGK,” given by host Ken Jennings.
Casie Farrell remembers the moment she decided she’d make a living by chasing the high of music. She was fitted in all-black – from her signature bangs to her sleek leather pants – and found herself among more than a thousand people entranced by the high-tempo, pulsating rhythm of techno on the basement floor of Berlin’s underground club Tresor.
Austin likes to think it’s the music capital of Texas, but we beg to differ. While Austin may be the home of famed music festivals, Dallas is the foundation that molded music icons of likes of Erykah Badu, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Usher and Blind Lemon Jefferson, who all found their musical footing in Dallas – a fact many tend to overlook.
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
The past two years have been rough, even rougher than the sound of some us attempting to hit the high note in the final chorus of Prince’s “Kiss.”
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.
