Dallas Band’s New Video
Dallas-area station KXT premiered a new music video from local band Remain that reimagines classic Denton landmarks as empty streets, and noted frontman Coonrod learned guitar chords from his mother and began writing songs at 16. (kxt.org) The piece situates the video inside a thriving regional scene rather than national spectacle. (kxt.org)
Remain’s new video for “The Last Light” turns familiar Denton landmarks into near-empty nighttime backdrops, shifting the city from busy college town to quiet stage. (keranews.org) KERA News published the story on April 17, 2026, after Dallas-area public radio station KXT highlighted the release. The band is led by singer and guitarist Caleb Coonrod, who moved to Denton in 2012 and started playing local open mics soon after. (keranews.org) (kxt.org) Coonrod met drummer Perry Hill in 2014, Remain released its first EP in 2015, and the band’s first full album followed in 2021. Coonrod told KERA News his mother first showed him a few guitar chords, and he began writing songs at 16. (keranews.org) The video was shot by Ryan McAdams and Brianna Flores of Dallas production company Slate It. Its route runs through Driftwood Trail, Bowling Green Street, Hercules Lane, alleys off Sam Bass Boulevard and Ame Drive, plus the University of North Texas Highland Street parking garage and North and South Lakes parks. (keranews.org) That setting lands in a city where local music still has dense infrastructure even after venue losses. KXT reported in March 2025 that Andy’s Bar had closed after 30 years, while venues including Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios and Dan’s Silverleaf were still anchoring regular shows in Denton. (kxt.org) The spring 2026 calendar was still crowded. KXT said Thin Line Fest returned to Denton on March 18-22, 2026 as a free five-day documentary festival with more than 50 music performances across the city. (kxt.org) KXT’s role in that ecosystem is unusually local for a radio outlet of its size. The station says it launched in 2009, is member-supported under KERA, and produces much of its lineup in North Texas, including shows built around local artists. (kxt.org) So the video arrives less as a bid for national mythmaking than as another document from inside Denton’s own circuit: a band formed in local rooms, filming local streets, and releasing work through local media that still covers the scene block by block. (keranews.org) (kxt.org)
