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Year in Review
I asked our esteemed group of music writers to comment on events and developments — significant, happy, sad, or just plain entertaining — this...
Smile Smile
Intentionally simple, the Dallas duo Smile Smile spotlights each discrete element of a song, enabling the plainspoken emotion of harmony to speak for itself....
Sufjan Stevens
Indie songsmith Sufjan Stevens may be known more for ambition than follow-through.
The 31-year-old plays about 20 different instruments, holds a masters degree in...
Bleeding Hearts, Possibly Noses
Local rockers are generally good about helping one another out. When in serious need, I mean. Not when one of them needs a Tuaca...
Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham
On For the Living of These Days, Kate Campbell sings slow, contemplative songs of hope in troubled times and of a sort of populist...
Still Going Apey
Everyone knows Baboon. The local rockers have been around for nearly 16 years, and they’ve toured with The Toadies, experienced some national success, and,...
Kelly
If you want to listen to middle-of-the-road music with nice production values that seldom really takes you anywhere, it’s OK to stop by the...
Eisley
Eisley’s second, as-of-yet-unnamed album, the follow-up to their 2005 major label debut, Room Noises, should be out this spring.
The family band of three...
Michelle Mayfield
The title of Michelle Mayfield’s most recent c.d. comes from a Ralph Waldo Emerson line: “What lies behind us and what lies before us...
The Village Voice
For the past 15 years, the voice of local music for Star-Telegram readers has been Malcolm Mayhew. He was here when The Toadies and...
