Music Feature
Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards 2013
That Low-End RumbleANTHONY MARIANI, Photos by Vishal Malhotra
First, thank you for supporting local music. As you’ve probably learned by now, the best stuff doesn’t always come from someplace else. Like, say, Brooklyn or Portland. Or Boise. Sometimes your backyard is as fertile an art...
What a Bastard
Southern Train Gypsy’s got a great outlook and a killer new metallic CD.ANTHONY MARIANI
Full disclosure: These guys bought me beers. We met a couple of days ago at a local restaurant around happy hour for an interview. I had three or four (five?) drafts. The guys had beers and burgers. When time came to say our go...
Patriot: Fire, Brimstone
There are two sides to singer-songwriter Jake Paleschic.JIMMY FOWLER
Shortly after singer-songwriter Jake Paleschic graduated high school in spring 2009, he packed his bags and moved from Fort Worth to Nashville. Some friends and fellow musos he’d hung out with at a coffee shop in Burleson, wh...
Man for All Seasons
Joey Carter doesn’t care what instrument he’s playing — the music’s all that matters.EDWARD BROWN
Depending on which night you’re fortunate enough to catch local jazzbo Joey Carter, he could be playing anything. He’s been known to wail on the organ with local fusion pioneers Bertha Coolidge, tickle the vibraphone in str...
Ice Eater: Cold Comfort
Though the band has been around for a while, it’s only now surging.ANTHONY MARIANI
Ice Eater is not a very Fort Worth-ish band. The guys can party with the best of ’em, but their music sounds like it came from outer space in the future. Though it’s definitely rock, it features elements of early disco, pun...
Killer or Filler?
A new, shiny one from some non-scenesters and a blast from the past are comin’ atcha from the great 817.FORT WORTH WEEKLY MUSIC STAFF
Titanmoon’s Bang Bang Titanmoon doesn’t do anything small. After a three-year hiatus, the Fort Worth synth-rock quartet has returned not just with a new album, Bang Bang, but also with a feature-length documentary about the...
Killer or Filler?
Rock ’n’ blues, C&W, and a lost gem are coming at you from the Fort.FORT WORTH WEEKLY MUSIC STAFF
The Frisky Disco’s The Frisky Disco One of the pleasures of being a longtime music fan is hearing young musicians rediscover a particular genre or style as if no one had ever heard it before. The self-titled debut album from ...
We’reWolves: Fang-tastic
These swampy young rockers have just put out an intriguing new album.ANTHONY MARIANI
For We’reWolves, the time was right for a proper recording. All that frontman Riley Knight, guitarist Rob Hine, drummer Austin Adams, and keyboardist Colin Cashman had to their name was a nine-song demo recorded last summer, ...
Swedish Message
A DJ travels across the Atlantic to experience his passion: Texas Music.JEFF PRINCE
A radio DJ giving airplay to some of the state’s most overlooked artists seems particularly fond of pickers in the Fort Worth area, meaning under-the-radar kind of guys like Austin Allsup and James Michael Taylor get heard re...
Ramblin’ Men
The Lonesome Underground ain’t your father’s Whiskey Folk Ramblers.JIMMY FOWLER
Although it’s been three years since Whiskey Folk Ramblers’ last long-player, … And There Are Devils, the North Texas quintet’s patented John Steinbeck-meets-Tom Waits atmospherics are fully intact on the alt-Americana ...