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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It should be a no-brainer that live music fans would come out to see a sixteen-piece white-robed bright pop ensemble, simply for the spectacle. I guessed the crowd would be a gathering of Bonnaroo- ...

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 ...

Before I say anything about this album, I need you to join me in an exercise. Try to remember the first time you even heard about The Polyphonic Spree. Then, try to remember the very first time you ...

The Polyphonic Spree members walk everywhere among us. Most are unrecognizable at a glance, but one could sense a jubilant energy just waiting to jump out. They’re behind you in the checkout line, ...

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 ...

UPDATE: The Polyphonic Spree have now released a video of the band performing their Rush cover of "The Spirit of Radio" in the studio prior to the 2020 lockdown. The performance-based clip also has an ...

DENTON - Inside the planetarium at the University of North Texas, the skies have grown flowers, the trees have turned purple and the soggy kingdom under the sea wriggles with day-glo creatures.

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 ...

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 ...