Author: Preston Jones

The historic venue turns 75 in 2025, and plans a year-long concert series to celebrate.

Denton folk-rock band Midlake is reaching back into its past as 2025 dawns. The sextet — Eric Pulido, McKenzie Smith, Eric Nichelson, Jesse Chandler, Joey McClellan and Scott Lee — is readying a new 180-gram vinyl pressing of its 2006 sophomore album The Trials of Van Occupanther for release on Jan. 17 via its own… Read more »

The past 12 months have seen all manner of musical act pass through North Texas on stages large and small. Even though we’re in the thick of the holiday season, it appears that steady pace won’t slacken — the days before and after Christmas are stuffed with noteworthy concerts to be enjoyed by yourself or… Read more »

For his latest project, Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter Court Hoang found inspiration in an unlikely place — the calendar. In crafting the follow-up to 2022’s extraordinary Get Right, the Dallas-born Hoang understood the simple fact that the music business now is driven by an unrelenting amount of content dispensed at an equally merciless pace, but decided… Read more »

KXT music journalist Preston Jones considers all the musicians he’s interviewed this year, and chooses his highlights.

Eight sets featuring 20 artists hailing from 10 different cities will unfold at Rubber Gloves in Denton.