I was on the fence about seeing Polyphonic Spree, the pysch pop, one-time MTV 2 darlings, this week at Crescent Ballroom, so I sat myself down to watch some videos in preparation. The band is entirely ...

Touring in support of its first album, The Beginning Stages of… , the Polyphonic Spree seemed likely to fall into a novelty-act trap, what with all the people up onstage with their flowing white robes ...

It is believed that this tradition developed independently from other European polyphonic traditions. The earliest records ...

The robe-wearing, good-time promoting, pop-rock orchestra that is Dallas’ Polyphonic Spree will release their third album, The Fragile Army, this summer. The twenty-plus-member band have become known ...

This segment originally aired on Dec. 25, 2012. Every Christmas season is accompanied by an abundance of holiday album releases, but few of the artists who make them bother to take the Christmas show ...

With the unveiling of Tim DeLaughter’s new act Preteen Zenith upon us this weekend, it seems more than fitting that we opened up a copy of The Observer from this week in 2000 and found that The ...

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 ...

The Polyphonic Spree will take the torch from The Passion this summer in the Year of the Robe, as the twenty-five-piece choral pop ensemble releases its second album, Together We’re Heavy (nearly as ...

With a choir, a horn section, a Theremin player and a harpist, the Polyphonic Spree is a singular act, bedecked in flowing white robes and singing songs about reaching for the sun and celebrating the ...