Alex Gonzalez

Both Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar kicked off the year on a high note.
At long last, Bey won the coveted album of the year award at the 67th annual Grammy Awards in February. That same night, Lamar won song of the year and record of the year for his Drake diss track, "Not Like Us." Though these two artists have long put in work and delivered quality albums, these wins proved they are still in their prime. As Bey's Cowboy Carter tour and Lamar's Grand National Tour—which he's coheadlini...

Tina Knowles has long been the brains behind her daughters’ musical endeavors, having raised both Beyoncé and Solange and instilling in her girls a strength that she has been carrying since her days as Celestine Beyoncé, Tina’s birth name. In her newly published book Matriarch: A Memoir, Tina finally shares her own story.
Matriarch traces back Tina’s family lineage across centuries, detailing memories of growing up in Galveston, Texas, as well as her Louisiana roots.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA filled the AT&T Stadium on Saturday, April 26th on the third stop of their joint “Grand National Tour.” One of the year’s most anticipated concerts, the tour served as both act’s first ever stadium tour. As both Lamar and SZA are known to tell vivid stories through their respective poetic bars and painfully relatable song lyrics, the “Grand National Tour” offers fans the full picture, combining their music with cinematic visuals and theatrical storytelling.

Mickey Guyton knows the rules of the game all too well. For years, the Arlington native has put her heart and soul into her musical craft while opening the doors for a new generation of artists. But her groundbreaking musical journey didn’t come without its setbacks.
Guyton, 41, signed a deal with Capitol Records Nashville in 2011, but it took 10 years for her debut album — 2021’s Remember Her Name — to come to fruition. She lays the story out on the record, detailing the ...

The stars were out in full force at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, May 8, as the biggest names in country music were seen at Ford Center in Frisco.
In the days leading up to the ceremony, several stars were in town performing shows at The Star and speaking to fans and press — one of our favorites being Arlington’s own Mickey Guyton, who received the Charley Pride: I’m Just Me honor on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, this writer got an early taste of the red carpet during ...

Over the course of five decades, Reba McEntire has done it all. From blessing the airwaves with her several country hits to gracing our homes with her presence on television, McEntire has long been part of our lives. And throughout the journey, she’s brought the people she calls family with her. Earlier this month, McEntire hosted the 60th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco, Texas. When speaking with the press, the singer and actress recalled her various projects, including her ...

Since the dawn of hip-hop in the ‘70s, beef has been an integral part of the game. We’ve heard it play out between the likes of Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee, Ice Cube and NWA, and The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. But as the music landscape has evolved and platforms have rapidly changed, rappers are able to get their disses and responses out so much more quickly than before. Over the course of the past year, we saw tensions play out in real-time between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
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St. Vincent is a great example of why some phrases stick around long after they’ve graduated to a cliché: In this case, “You can take the girl out of Texas but you can’t take Texas out of the girl” seems freakishly fitting.

When Mike Jones, Slim Thug and Paul Wall first cut “Still Tippin,’” they weren’t seeking superstardom, just a bonafide street hit. But with the classic track, the three Houston MCs — and the people behind them — propelled Houston into a hip-hop hub.

The word “demure” has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of the Year, largely due to the creativity of TikToker Jools Lebron.

There's no doubt Charli XCX had one of the biggest albums of the year — and with her sixth studio album, Brat, she launched not only a prominent music era, but also a cultural movement.
The Collins Dictionary, which selected the word "brat" as 2024's Word of the Year, defines the term as "a child, especially an impudent, unruly child," and is typically used as a "scornful or playful term," but shared that the word has evolved to also describe a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude....

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was a cinematic anomaly from its inception. Filmed over the course of 11 years, the narrative told as its actors aged, Boyhood didn’t have the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. But upon its premiere 10 years ago this month, the film proved to be an undeniable hit. It earned three Golden Globe wins and six Oscar nominations. A decade after its premiere, the journey behind Boyhood—both onscreen and off—makes the movie both defiant of Hollywood expectations and a ge...

Hispanic queer actors and characters are a prominent force in today’s television landscape — and the representation is more nuanced than ever before. As streaming and television networks are quickly becoming saturated with TV programs, the representation of newer characters has told funnier, messier, and more relatable and vital stories. But will these stories continue to unfold?