“We’re 5,800-square-feet all said and done, including the coffee shop,” Andy Cunningham, Golden Boy s co-owner, says sitting in the new office space inside the Gold Room. “What should be one of the biggest indoor music venues in town.”
From the curbside, the Gold Room looks a bit like a vacant strip-shopping storefront with a Golden Boy logo in the window as the only tip-off to what’s now in the space, which allows for more seating for regulars sipping coffee, working or studying in the already popular hangout.
The space is deep and wide with high ceilings, bringing to mind Hailey’s Club, with the addition of reserved tables for certain shows and events. The Gold Room keeps the theme from Golden Boy next door with black walls and yellow and gold accents, large gold-framed mirrors and more glitter-filled gold Lava Lamps.
Growing up, Vanalika Shan lived in many parts of the world. The Indian singer-songwriter is passionate about world cultures and contemporary issues and wants to use her platform to make the world a more conscious place for the generations ahead.
The members of It Hurts To Be Dead must ve felt exactly what their band name suggests when the group went through a death of sorts. After calling it quits for a short time last year, they ve decided to kick things back to life. The Wichita Falls band has emerged from the brief hiatus that began in 2019 with a renewed focus on mental health and on the friendships between them, now tempered in fire. Today they have a unifying bond that s stronger than ever.
“It’s interesting,” says IHTBD singer/guitarist Sean Snyder over an after-work phone call. “Kevin [Gilmore, the band s drummer] and I had drifted apart as far as our friendship was concerned, but once the band broke up and we started doing other things, Kevin and I started talking about more serious things than we ever had.”
The artist has lived in Dallas for about four weeks but has spent the past few years traveling back and forth from her hometown of Georgetown to Dallas for recording sessions and performances. She grew up on the sounds of 112, Ginuwine and Jagged Edge, and music has always been a part of xbValentine’s life. But she didn’t start writing or producing music until she was about 15 years old.
“I had friends that made music when we were in high school,” she says. “I dabbled in it a little bit with them, and it slowly kind of led into finally getting into the studio and making music of my own.”