Denton, TX

Music connected to Denton

About Denton

• Pat Boone, famous singer and actor, called Denton home during his college years.
• The popular music genre, 'Bubblegrunge', emerged from Denton's indie music scene.
• Becoming the county seat secured Denton's place as a regional hub in 1857.
• Legend claims a phantom black dog haunts the historic courthouse square.
• A devastating fire in 1860 nearly destroyed the town's original wooden buildings.
• It's named for John B. Denton, a preacher and lawyer, and incorporated in 1866.
• Home to over 148,000 residents, the population is bigger than Waco's.
• Sitting 662 feet above sea level, the air is drier than down near the coast.
• Education and healthcare are major employers, thanks to the universities.
• Denton feels like a creative, quirky haven where art and music thrive.
• The area's rock formations are primarily Cretaceous-era limestone and shale.
• The Elm Fork of the Trinity River flows through Denton County.
• The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a common bird species seen in the area.
• Post Oak Savannah is a prominent plant ecosystem in the area.
• The Caddo people inhabited the area before European settlement.
• Denton was established in 1857 as the seat of Denton County.
• The Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square was built in 1896.
• US Route 380 connects Denton to Greenville and Decatur.
• The area's geology is characterized by Cretaceous-era limestone and shale formations.
• Denton is part of the Trinity River watershed.
• White-tailed deer are commonly observed in wooded areas around Denton.
• The Blackland Prairie ecosystem, featuring native grasses, once covered much of the area.
• Caddoan-speaking peoples inhabited the area before European contact.
• Denton was officially established in 1857 as the county seat.
• The Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square was completed in 1897.
• Audrey Hall at TWU is rumored to be haunted by a former music student.
• I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W just north of Denton.

Artists From Denton

Adam's Farm Ann Sheridan Antigua Atcitdio Atomic Rainbow Atomic Tanlines Baboon Bad Sports Baptist Generals Beef Jerky Billy Goat Bog Bone Leech Bosque Brown Brave Combo Brutal Juice Buffalo Ruckus Camp Annawanna Cancerian Moon Caulk Centro-matic Charlie Shafter Chomsky Claire Morales Corn Mo Creeping Death CURL Deep Blue Something Dillon Myers Dust Congress El Gato Faceless Werewolves Fergus & Geronimo Flesh Born Flesh Narc Flickerstick Heavy Baby Sea Slugs Hen and the Cocks Herschel Evans Hogpig I Promised The World Idler International Spark Dome Jessie Frye Jetscreamer Jim Fielder Julia Smith Kody West Kombat Laszlo Laughing Matter Lift to Experience Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks Madaline Mandarin Mazinga Phaser Meat Loaf memoria Memphis May Fire Midlake Mind Spiders Mossy Mugzu My Point of You Neon Indian nexttojackiekennedy Oso Closo Pinebox Serenade Pops Carter Python Potions Ralph Kirshbaum Ray Peterson Record Hop Riverboat Gamblers Robert Gomez Rosasharin RTB2 Ruby Terrill Lomax Sad Cops Sarah Jaffe Scott H. Biram Seryn Shiny Around the Edges Sid King Siren City Sleazus Fist and the Latter Day Taints Slobberbone Sly Stone Snarky Puppy Sons of Perdition South San Gabriel Spitfire Tumbleweeds Stumptone Sub Oslo Sundress Super Love Attack Tea Leigh Ten Hands Texas Boys Choir The Allmost Brothers The Baptist Generals The Briks The Chessmen The Drams The Fabulous Badasses The Felicity The Holophonics The Infamists The Marked Men The Reds The Wee Beasties Tommy Taylor Tonya and the Hardings Treatment Tristan Thorndyke and the Rock and Roll Cannibals Uncle Lucious Under the Gallows Veil of Tears We Drowned in Pompeii Will Johnson Wrought of Obsidian Xander Mobus

Songs About Denton

Beautiful Lies (Live at The Panhandle House) by

Hometown Badboy by

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton by

walkin' man's mindset by

trinity river by

the interstate 35 waltz by

from the day you were born by

Internet Going Nutz by

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton by

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