Author: Preston Jones

More than 35 North Texas-tied artists are heading down to Austin for this year’s installment of SXSW. Here are five to keep an ear on.

There is a sense, as you listen to Cryptolog’s latest single, “Strange Holiday,” of being slightly unmoored in time. That dislocation — of living in the now, and hearing sounds reminiscent of then — is intentional, according to the Dallas-based band’s co-founder Brian McKay, and partially inspired by the Minnesota indie rock act the Cactus… Read more »

The world of Erykah Badu is many things, but it is never boring. As the Dallas icon prepares to mark her 52nd birthday on February 26, she is as visible and active as she’s ever been. All her recent appearances will culminate in what has become one of the city’s great traditions: Her birthday concert,… Read more »

For you – and your valentine – Csorba and band will perform his songs, and country love tune classics, Tuesday at the Kessler.