Critic's Notebook

This past Saturday afternoon, hip-hop artist Raekwon hosted an exclusive pop-up shop inside Mockingbird Station streetwear apparel store Centre.

It’s been a long week for Victor Rimach. The founder and owner of Chasquis, a local independent music booking agency, had brought Colombian DJ Ynfynyt Scroll to perform at the Arcade Bar at Bowlski’s Lakewood Theater on Wednesday, June 9, where Rimach also performed as Sudaka. He then played alongside…

Get that Atticus clothing ready and start brushing up on each state’s age of consent laws, because if TikTok trends are an accurate litmus test (and they often are), pop-punk is back!

FIT began as a conversation between two Hunters. For some time, Hunter Moehring had been wanting to do a project aside from his work with Sealion to do something with his friend Hunter Cannon of Coywolfe, The Birds of Night and Strokes tribute band Different Strokes. “Hunter and I had…

In 1969, as the free love-obsessed hippie movement was giving way to a more spacy 1970s, author Philip K. Dick wrote a short story, “The Electric Ant, ” a cerebral sci-fi piece about a person stuck between being a robot or a man.

When the killing of George Floyd inspired protests across the world last summer, Dallas marched for the cause.

In 2016, Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions earned a Dallas Observer Music Award nomination for Best Album for LOA (Law of Attraction), which contains an image of a Grammy on the cover along with phrases such as “Manifest everything” and “What you think, you become.

On a fateful day in June three years ago, rapper Frank Rashad received the wake up call of his life. After a terrifying car accident, in which his car flipped over, Rashad decided life was too short for him to spend his days working for someone other than himself.

What is a perfect band? Is it one like The Beatles, whose universal influence is nearly matched by their timeless popularity and maintained by their four distinct, iconic and deified personas?

Now that concerts are resuming in 3D, Dallas is once again a primo tour spot destination for music’s biggest artists.

On Sept. 24, the State Fair is returning after a brief interruption in its 135-year run. And Big Tex is back with all the fixins.

Some artists and musicians are born businessmen. One of them is local rapper and business manager Greezy516, who’s built his brand from the ground up into a small but growing empire.

The last time Denton-born indie-folk outfit Seryn came to Dallas, it was April 14, 2019, breaking a nearly three-year hiatus.

Friends and family will celebrate Darren Eubank’s life on June 12 at Oaks Church in Red Oak. The service will be livestreamed for anyone unable to attend.

Wade Wadlington, the owner of Division Brewing and GROWL Records in Arlington, isn’t exactly a fan of death metal. He’s partial to stoner rock.

The delusapalooza known as For God & Country Patriot Roundup, which went down in Dallas this Memorial Day weekend, didn’t only feature political circus acts like pardoned Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, election conspiracy attorney Sidney Powell and a doctor who doesn’t believe in medical science, Dr. Judy Mikovits, on it schedule. Guests were also treated to live music — because even people who take the spittle shooting rants of Rudy Giuliani seriously need a mental palette cleanser.

When Denton’s Freaks and Geeks closed its storefront, the duo behind one of the college town’s favorite coffee shops, Golden Boy Coffee Co., took over the recently vacated shop next door and transformed the space into an extension of the coffee shop — by day, that is.

Growing up, Vanalika Shan lived in many parts of the world. The Indian singer-songwriter is passionate about world cultures and contemporary issues and wants to use her platform to make the world a more conscious place for the generations ahead.

If you think Olivia Rodrigo is just the voice of millennials, zillennials and/or xennials or whatever comes after Gen Z, think again, you ageist jerk. OK, You’re probably not ageist, you just don’t know my grandma.

It’s impossible to make a list of Bob Dylan’s best songs. There is so much discussion around Dylan’s seemingly endless body of work, that condensing his 60-year career into a single article of highlights is as reductive as it is pointless.

The members of It Hurts To Be Dead must’ve felt exactly what their band name suggests when the group went through a death of sorts.

On a Friday night in Deep Ellum, xbValentine plays for a packed house at Trees. With a baseball cap, black t-shirt and torn jeans, she’s keeping her masculine and feminine energies at a divine balance.