There was nothing like the Polyphonic Spree when the group formed in 2000 at the height of nu metal-dom. The Dallas-based band was the welcome opposite of nu metal’s dour and doomed view. The sunny ...

I'm struggling to compare this 24-piece band to anything I've ever seen. The band calls itself "choral symphonic rock," and if I didn't know better, I'd call it borderline cultish in nature. When my ...

Currently, Dallas band the Polyphonic Spree employs 17 musicians, led by former Tripping Daisy frontman Tim DeLaughter and including players of horns, strings, percussion, a harp, as well as ...

Chris Penn, Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree hosted their annual pre-Christmas extravaganza and variety show on Saturday. Now in its 19th year, the event is filled with music, Christmas ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

It would be an exaggeration to say there were more people on stage than in the audience Tuesday night at the Grove of Anaheim. But there were times during Polyphonic Spree’s short set that sure made ...

Remember back in the wake of 9/11, when a number of pundits pronounced the end of irony? The last 2½ years have made those decrees seem a tad, shall we say, premature. Irony has returned with a ...

At its holiday show in Dallas, the Polyphonic Spree - the 20-plus person choral symphonic rock band - operated as it is wont to do, making use of light and dark, quiet and loud to steer its ...

Despite the supposedly perpetual sunny disposition of the guy who leads a robe-laden choir through soaring, psychedelic, symphonic pop music with messianic enthusiasm, The Polyphonic Spree bandleader ...

Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree visited Boston as their latest tour was wrapping up in August. The band, which hails from Dallas, was out in support of a new remix LP, “Psychphonic, “ which ...

Few bands can rival The Polyphonic Spree's stage presence — not to mention its size: The group boasts a whopping two dozen members, who combine to make a sound that can be euphoric, cathartic and ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary for The Polyphonic Spree's annual holiday music show — an extravaganza the group has held in Dallas each December — and it's celebrating with a live tour and a new ...