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HearsayOur 14th or 15th Annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards are right around the corner. The ballot will be published online and in print on May 25, and voting will end on the day of the free 50-band festival, Sun., Jun. 26. As usua...
Lola’spalooza-time, Missile Men
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As always there are a lot of shows this weekend. However, all of the cool kids, and many not-so-cool non-kids (ahem, me and my friends), will probably be spending the weekend at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W. 6th St., 817-877-0666), ...
Jody Jones and HIO
HearsayJody Jones is back. Or at least he’s about to be. The rootsy Fort Worth singer-songwriter had been living as an actor in L.A. until the late summer of 2008, when he returned home and recorded Tragedies, Broken Hearts, and Lia...
Keys, JJ, Music Awards
HearsayKeys Lounge (5677 Westcreek Dr., 817-292-8627) has a lot of interesting stuff going on this weekend. In addition to a Friday show by veteran Dallas bluesmen Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, the Keys will host a benefit conc...
BTD, Top Hat Drac, 100 Secs
HearsayBlack Tie Dynasty is returning to Fort Worth, playing a show on Thursday with Denton’s The Demigs at 8.0 Restaurant & Bar (111 E. 3rd St., downtown, 817-336-0880). “Returning” because the band is from here originally,...
TT&Q, Calhoun, JATSDFM
HearsayOne of the most popular, progressive, and critically acclaimed 817 indie-rock bands of the past decade, Tame … Tame and Quiet never really broke up, according to frontman/guitarist Aaron Bartz. Rather, the band went into “h...
From Lola’s Juke to First Friday
HearsayEvery year in our Best Of issue, we have a category for best jukebox. Let’s just say that from 2011 on, the critic’s choice had better be the juke at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W. 6th St., West 7th Street corridor, 817-877-0666)...
Sivad, Theater Fire, Ciardetti
HearsayItinerant North Texas trumpeter Karl Poetschke has finally settled down, in Flagstaff, Ariz., but he’ll be back in town over the next few weeks and has organized reunion shows with his two main former North Texas jazz bands: ...
Get Ready for SXFW
HearsayI don’t know if SXSW has added more bands or what, but as I’ve noted before (perhaps ad nauseum), the number of 817 artists scheduled to play sanctioned showcases this year –– “sanctioned” means “hand-picked by SX...
817’ers @ 35 Conferette
HearsayThis weekend, North Texas music lovers of a certain age (and perhaps a little older) will be obsessed with one thing: 35 Conferette, the annual four-day indie-rock festival in Denton. Arriving just a couple of days before the a...