This new music video from a local band captures Denton from a different perspective.<\/p>\n
In their music video for \u201cThe Last Light,\u201d Denton indie rock band Remain captures a restless search for connection through the city\u2019s secluded streets, back alleys and empty parks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like tipping a hat to the city,\u201d Remain\u2019s singer and guitarist Caleb Coonrod said.<\/p>\n
Coonrod moved to Denton in 2012 and quickly began playing open mics as a solo act. He met drummer Perry Hill in 2014 and formed a band \u2014 Remain released their first EP in 2015 and their first album in 2021.<\/p>\n
Coonrod said that his mom taught him to play a few chords on the guitar, but he became more actively interested in music when he began writing songs at 16 years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t someone who was a really great, awesome singer and I wasn\u2019t someone who was an insane, awesome guitar player, but songwriting was where I spent all my time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s recently been writing a new batch of songs, including \u201cThe Last Light.\u201d He said that part of the inspiration for this song came from watching some of his family members struggle with addiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been some family members that are very close to me that \u2026 go out at night [and] you don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to come back,\u201d Coonrod said.<\/p>\n
He said that as he got older, he began to understand their feelings of restlessness and their search for something they were missing. He also said he began to feel frustrated at seeing many people consistently choose to stay in instead of going out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand sometimes you need to stay home, but there is life out there and if you go out, it feels pretty good to experience it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
To capture this feeling in the music video, Coonrod went out one night to look for locations that fit the song. However, he didn\u2019t want to go too far from his home, where his wife and daughters were sleeping, so he stuck to nearby locations in Denton.<\/p>\n
The video was filmed by Ryan McAdams and Brianna Flores of Dallas-based video production company Slate It.<\/p>\n
It was filmed along quiet neighborhood streets like Driftwood Trail, Bowling Green Street and Hercules Lane and the back alleys on Sam Bass Boulevard and Ame Drive. It also features one of the The Local Shoppe locations, a national convenience store chain that originated in Denton in 1985.<\/p>\n
A few recognizable locations include UNT\u2019s Highland Street parking garage and North and South Lakes parks, but even these familiar locations may look different when they are completely empty at night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city is your setting,\u201d Coonrod said.<\/p>\n
He said that he wanted the video to be a sort of love letter to Denton that showed the city from a new perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to do the Morrison\u2019s Corn-Kits [sign] in the background or the Courthouse or a UNT sign or something,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted it to be something that was universal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coonrod said the band is currently working toward funding their next album and that they will be releasing more music soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, the focus is to consistently release music, consistently build a world, kind of like we did with the music video, and try to just consistently find the people that [our music connects] with,\u201d Coonrod said.<\/p>\n
CAMILA GONZALEZ can be reached at 940-566-6830<\/a> and cgonzalez@dentonrc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more than 120 years, the Denton Record-Chronicle has been Denton County\u2019s source for locally produced, fact-based journalism. Your support through a tax-deductible donation or low-cost subscription is vital to our ability to deliver credible, relevant, unique coverage of our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This new music video from a local band captures Denton from a different perspective. In their music video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-397456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}