Meat Loaf, Lisa Loeb, Jack Ingram and Tripping Daisy are among the acts with albums turning 30 in 2025.
Tripping Daisy and 12 other Texas acts with albums turning 30 this year
February 19, 2025 by Preston Jones
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Pantera’s “Cowboys from Hell” and nine more Texas-tied albums turning 35 this year
February 17, 2025 by Preston Jones
Vanilla Ice, George Strait and MC 900 Ft. Jesus are just some of the artists celebrating 35th anniversaries in 2025.
KXT’s second annual Anti-Love Song Bracket has a shattering winner
February 14, 2025 by Lesley James, Preston Jones, Kaitlyn Matthews, Benji Mcphail and Jessica Waffles
We have a winner in our second annual Anti-Love Song Bracket.
Willie Nelson’s ‘Red Headed Stranger’ turns 50 this year. Garland, its birthplace, plans to celebrate.
February 14, 2025 by Preston Jones
Willie’s landmark outlaw country album was recorded in Garland. Get ready for a two-day party.
Who loves ya? Dallas’s Silver Skylarks to drop funky new tracks on Valentine’s Day
February 13, 2025 by Preston Jones
The new songs follow last year’s debut LP The Number One Set and Sound.
Deep Ellum club Trees makes an appearance on new Jack White live EP
February 12, 2025 by Preston Jones
The just-released EP features a song performed at White’s 2024 stop in Deep Ellum.
KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket is down to its final two. Help us decide who wins it all
February 10, 2025 by Lesley James, Preston Jones, Kaitlyn Matthews, Benji Mcphail and Jessica Waffles
Cast your vote!
Abraham Alexander, fresh from his late night TV debut, to host Q&A at Texas Theatre
February 10, 2025 by Preston Jones
The Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter is contending for an Oscar at this year’s ceremony, set for March 2.
ZZ Top’s “Afterburner,” and four other Texas-tied albums turning 40 this year
February 7, 2025 by Preston Jones
Five Texas-tied albums turn the big 4-0 this year — everything from bluesy rock to thrashing metal.
The anti-love song bracket’s final four has arrived. Cast your votes to decide the last two standing
February 3, 2025 by Lesley James, Preston Jones, Kaitlyn Matthews, Benji Mcphail and Jessica Waffles
Who needs love? Not us — and not our listeners, either — as KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket enters its third week, and we zero in on our final four of broken-hearted misery. Interestingly, three of the final four contenders are either bands fronted by women or female singer-songwriters: Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” shattered the chances… Read more »
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