Music
Whiskey Girl Saloon Opening Soon
ANTHONY MARIANIMake room, Lola. There’s a new girl in town. Joining Shipping & Receiving on the Southside and Arnetic on Race Street is Whiskey Girl Saloon (2413 Ellis Av), another new venue specializing in local, original music....
UPDATE Fort Worth Bands Shine on Chevy Series on Kimmel
ANTHONY MARIANIQuaker City Night Hawks, The Hanna Barbarians, Holy Moly, Tejas Brothers, and KatsuK bassist D. Anson Brody will represent the Fort in the North Texas Chevy Music Showcase, a mini-documentary that will air every Wednesday and T...
Live Oak to Work With Spune?
ANTHONY MARIANIMore changes are afoot at The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge, the plush venue/bar/restaurant that recently opened on the Near Southside. A month ago, Live Oak owner Bill Smith hired Jamie Kinser, co-owner and co-founder of Bl...
Local Artist Scores River Phoenix’s Last Movie
ANTHONY MARIANIJames Michael Taylor is not “going Hollywood,” as the old saying goes –– he’s much too cantankerous and outspoken for anyplace other than Fort Worth –– but his music might be. A movie for which the blue-col...
Guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ready To Rock On Saturday
Jeff PrinceThe bluesy teen-aged guitarist who stormed out of Shreveport two decades ago, got dubbed “the next Stevie Ray Vaughan,” scored a big hit with “Blue On Black” in 1997, and managed to stay relevant all the...
Ted Nugent Talks Obama, Guns At Billy Bob’s
Jeff PrinceThe president, “big” women, and machine guns were a few of the topics that redneck philosopher and rock guitarist Ted Nugent touched on during Saturday night’s performance at Billy Bob’s Texas. The Dalla...
I Want To Party With Randy Travis
Jeff PrinceI’m diggin’ up bones / I’m diggin’ up bones Exhuming things that’s better left alone Country songbird Randy Travis dug up more bones last night. That makes at least three run-ins with area police t...
Cliburn Video Contest Winner Announced
Kristian LinI got so caught up in the Olympics that the Van Cliburn’s Amateur Piano Video Competition slipped under my radar. Rather than make weak excuses, I’ll just note that the contest was won by Kristin Anderson, an organi...
Live Oak Re-branding
Anthony MarianiHiring Kinser and Knight, Live Oak owner Bill Smith said, is part of an overall re-branding of his venue/restaurant/bar. Blake Barker, former general manager of Scat Jazz Lounge, has been hired as the new manager of oper...
UPDATE Blackbox Booking Live Oak
ANTHONY MARIANIEasily the biggest deal in the local music scene since Lola’s Saloon came along in 2006 was the opening several months ago of Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge. Hailed as a sort of Kessler West, the intimate and finely appoint...