Music Feature
Killer or Filler?
Instrumental guitarwork, hip-hop, and proto-punk albums are coming at you from the Fort.Fort Worth Weekly Staff and Contributors
Darrin Kobetich’s The Longest Winter The title of guitarist Darrin Kobetich’s latest self-released album, The Longest Winter, suggests the musician might be applying his considerable powers of fretwork to the subject of des...
Gone Rogue
Turnover in JJ & The Rogues has closed some doors while opening others.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
The two “Rogues” in JJ & The Rogues have, um, gone rogue. Just in the past few weeks, the Fort Worth pop-rock quartet lost a bassist and then, completely out of the blue, a drummer, leaving the group’s main duo in the...
Killer or Filler?
Fort Worth produces garage, triple-A, punk, and post-rock for review.Fort Worth Weekly Staff and Contributors
Here’s a split EP released on cassette (!) and digital download that features six tracks of raging, lo-fi punk rock thrills, with a virulence that I haven’t heard in these parts for quite awhile. Between these two bands, Do...
Rock Explosion
Jefferson Colby is doing something novel: rocking ’n’ rolling.Anthony Mariani
Fort Worth has a lot of rock bands. Indie-rock, hard-rock, stoner-rock, punk-rock. But good ol’ fashioned, straight-ahead, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll? Eh. But Fort Worth, you could argue, isn’t the only city feeling the...
Calhoun Conquers SXSW
Fort Worth WeeklyAt South by Southwest this year, I was reminded of an old theory that applies to festivals: The average festivalgoer only hears broad strokes, meaning that either loud or soft sounds manage to corral his or her short attention ...
SXFW
Headed to Austin this week? See some Fort Worth music. Or else.Hearsay
Since the late 1990s, when I first started attending South by Southwest, I’ve complained so much about the annual music festival and conference that you’d think I was talking about some family reunion I’d been forced to g...
Spinning Mind Spiders
With a new album and major internet buzz, Mind Spiders have got legs.ZACK SHLACHTER
The funny thing about buzz in the internet age is that the attention a band gets is seemingly disconnected from a sense of place. Chances are you haven’t heard of Mind Spiders –– heck, this fine publication has mentioned ...
The Glow of Mon Julien
Ex-Black Tie Dynasty duo finds new life — and new sounds.ANTHONY MARIANI
For reasons that will become obvious later, one of the best songs off Mon Julien’s recently released eponymous album is also one of the first songs the band ever wrote. The ethereal yet driving track “The Inventor” has a ...
Killer or Filler?
Newish discs from Fort Worth jazzbos, indie rockers, punks, and rappers abound.FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFF
Like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, bassist Paul Unger does exactly what he wants when he wants (or at least when he isn’t holding down his regular gig with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra) –– whether it’s explorin...
Killin’ ’em Softly
Killa MC hopes to help Fort Worth find its rhyme footing.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
Killa MC and about a half-dozen other Fort Worth rappers huddled around a table at a local coffee shop about a year and a half ago and staged a plan to jumpstart their hometown’s anemic hip-hop scene.