Check your favorites – and discover a few new ones – with David Okamoto’s top 10 best Texas music artists for 2011.

Continuing our series on North Texas artists worth watching in the New Year. Adam Adolfo brought Latino theater back to Fort Worth’s Artes de la Rosa. And this year that Latino theater is going to include a goblin, surrealism and some Argentine flair.

Today in the roundup: Looking back at the year in visual arts and local music, plus a Fort Worth-based talk show things big. Very big.

Flaming Lips covering “I Am the Walrus?” Don’t mind if I do.

Yee haw. This Big Deal promises one lucky winner a hootenany with The Gourds at the Kessler.

Two lucky Big Deal winners will spend an evening with Fred Eaglesmith at The Granada Theater.

Today in the roundup: Television brings big bucks to town, the year in local music and the importance of conducting.

DJ Earworm takes the year’s biggest hits and mashes them up into one extended track. If you didn’t get enough of Nicki, Katy, Rhianna, et. al., here’s a little bit more.

Today in the roundup: The year in classical music, Texas’ female arts patrons and Fort Worth’s rockabilly royalty.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember a talented musician who traded in the nightclubs for the classroom.