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The sky’s the limit for Grapevine native Bryce Avary, a.k.a. The Rocket Summer.Jimmy Fowler
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bryce Avary, a 24-year-old Grapevine native who performs as The Rocket Summer, is walking in and out of a sound-check for a sold-out headlining show in Orlando, trying to make himself...
Piano Man
Progressive-jazzbo Daymond Callahan may play as if he has a dozen fingers, but he’s still got only two hands.CAROLINE COLLIER
Life is a constant balancing act for progressive jazz, funk, and gospel pianist Daymond Callahan.
2007 Music Awards Winners
Here they are ...ANTHONY MARIANI
Quarter score and a couple-a years ago, Fort Worth Weekly brought forth on this great town of cow a new major award, conceived in music and dedicated to the proposition that all bands are not created equal.
Black Francis
Listen UpBlack Francis is an old stage name for Frank Black, an old stage name for Charles Thompson, lead singer of The Pixies. Bluefinger, Black Francis’ debut, could be a kissin’ cousin to the defunct punk legends’ classic Dooli...
Ryan Adams
Listen UpAfter Ryan Adams’ startling debut, Gold, in 2001, he seemed to start spitting out a record every six months or so. By the time he released Cold Roses in 2005, he had apparently run out of steam. Naturally, folks wondered if t...
Small Star
Hillsboro is tiny, but as a location for a museum of Texas music, the town south of Fort Worth may be ideal.Jeff Prince
Opening an official Texas music museum isn’t easy, particularly the part about getting legislators behind you and trying to stir up incentives and funding from governmental bodies.
Magical Misery Tour
You better have had a good time at last weekend’s 10th Annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards ...ANTHONY MARIANI
Jed tried to help.“How ’bout I tell everyone here to ask you why you’re in a bad mood,” he said. “I bet that’ll make you feel better.”
The Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards 2007
They’re playing. All of them. Everywhere. All of the time.FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFF
They’re playing. All of them. Everywhere. All of the time.
Moonlight Drive — and Ambition
Taking it seriously but easy, gypsy chanteuse Sierra wrestles with herself and her guitar.CAROLINE COLLIER
The 22-year-old singer-songwriter who prefers to be known only as Sierra (or, better yet, Sierra Lives on the Moon) feels very old.
Wayyy Back Home
Thanks to a solid work ethic and catchy tunes, Green River Ordinance creeps, one mile at a time, ever closer toward rock stardom.Jimmy Fowler
The five members of the Fort’s hyper-melodic and grooving Green River Ordinance are all in their early 20s, and three of them dropped out of college (at TCU, UTA, and TCC) last year.