Critic's Notebook

Joining the ranks of Dallas’ legendary music industry contributors is an audio engineer by the name of Ryan Prieur.

When you watch the video for Dixie D’Amelio’s “One Whole Day,” the YouTube algorithm does something really funny.

There’s an eternal debate about whether musicians perform better under the influence.

QAnoners are STILL gathering at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza, hanging on to their last strand of hope by trying to move hearts and minds through song. The only thing they’ve been able to mine so far is laughs.

The owners of some of Denton’s most popular music venues started a partnership to build up each others’ places to enhance the city’s live music community.

If you do a Google search for Brianna Ruelas, the autocomplete features the subtitle “singer.” Ruelas just released her first single, “Thieves,” and though she’s technically just “starting” her singing career now at age 42, she’s been a singer her whole life and a force in the music industry for the last decade.

A lot of bands were born out of the pandemic. One of them was Doomscroll, a solo heavy metal concept created by Dustin Mitchell.

To suggest that country singer-songwriter Waylon Payne’s life story seems perfect for a book isn’t a stretch. In fact, it’s a bit surprising that a book hasn’t been written about him yet.

Sitting outside on a chilly November day, Kazunori Tanaka sits with his trumpet case and a shot of liquor having just played a set of jazz with his band, Texas Sloth Loincloth.

North Texas musician Jonathan Tyler is ready to rock again with a new single and accompanying video for “Moon & Stars” from his as-of-yet unannounced upcoming album. The video for “Moon & Stars” is an elaborate affair, with Tyler and model/actress Zoe Prewitt in a Corvette driving around scenes resembling…

It’s generally hard to know what’s real in this world, but it’s especially hard in the age of social media.

An assignment you’ll often get when you take a photography class is to take a photo emulating your favorite photographer.

Since she first made headlines for defying lockdown orders for Texas businesses, Shelley Luther has become a multi-hyphenate household name as a salon owner-turned-political-martyr/aspiring musician.

Over the course of the past (almost) two years, many have chosen to reflect and take into consideration what brings us fulfillment. For some, that means making more time for those already close to us. For others, it means distancing ourselves from those who no longer bring us joy. For…

Brother Moses drummer Corey Dill is out of the hospital, but he’s still got a long way to go to make a full recovery.

Rapper Yella Beezy Facing Sexual Assault, Weapon and Child Endangerment Charges

Stay calm, Thanksgiving crusaders, the Stoneleigh P has your back. Now that Halloween is behind us, holly jolly die-harders can rejoice.

Adam Melchor can’t help but smile. As he opens the camera on his end of our Zoom interview, Melchor’s smile is cutting through a cloudy and rainy backdrop reminiscent of the chilling final scene in the movie Cloverfield.

As his name suggests, Dali Voodoo values a good visual experience. Music is the medium by which Voodoo expresses his emotions, and through his videos and photo sets, he presents the most colorful parts of his life.

One of the indirect casualties of the coronavirus shutdown was the Gas Monkey Garage Grill & Bar on Dallas’ Technology Boulevard.

As far as band timelines go, Northlake is still very much in its infancy. Forming just 10 months ago in the midst of the pandemic, Northlake releases its third single “Capo” along with a brand new video.

For everyone who has a playlist in their Spotify library called “Songs that awaken my inner stripper” (I mean, this writer can’t be the only one), the art of stripping is one that, like all others, is layered and multifaceted.