Music Feature
Blonde Ambition
With Nashvegas behind her, Texas Music chanteuse Charla Corn is just hitting her stride.JIMMY FOWLER
When Texas Music singer-songwriter Charla Corn turned 19, the Panhandle native moved to Nashville to make it big. The young, fit, attractive blonde achieved some success, landing a gig as a part-time on-air personality for CMT,...
Upward to Madràs
The brothers behind Fou tackle an adventurous side project.ZACK SHLACHTER
Started by brothers Jeevan and Mathew Antony, Madràs –– everything about it –– was created out of a series of seeming disconnects, fitting for a couple of transnational transients who have found their way to Fort Worth...
Breaking Badcreek
Hard-partying ex-punks are jonesin’ for a little alt-country.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
Tell Badcreek’s five members they’re in a Southern rock band, and they won’t grouse much about it. It’s when you classify these Fort Worthians’ music as “Texas Music” that they cringe.
All That Is Beautiful
Fort Worth singer-songwriter Tim Platt is in bloom.JIMMY FOWLER
By his own admission, singer-songwriter Tim Platt, 25, is an introverted guy –– soft-spoken, modest, and not inclined to draw attention to himself. So when a bartender friend at Esoterica Salon & Lounge in the West 7th ...
Killer or Filler?
Our critics take a crack at some new local-ish (and partytastic) CDs.JEFF PRINCE AND ZACK SHLACHTER
Texas Music artists who celebrate redneckness via cliché-ridden novelty songs typically represent the worst of the genre. Fake cowboys glorifying the mundane make me want to listen to something else –– Paraguayan polka, in...
Cleanup on Aisle 11
The Fort Worth indie-prog quartet is busy in the studio and onstage.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
A strange woman approached Brad Cannon not long ago after his band, The Cleanup, finished a set at a venue in Fort Worth. The woman, old enough to be the 21-year-old’s mother, nudged her way through a crowd to find him, deter...
Killer or Filler?
New discs from Darstar and Flatworld fall under the microscope.ANTHONY MARIANI
Perhaps as a testament to Darstar’s exceptionalness, Dallas-based Idol Records (Calhoun, Little Black Dress, The O’s) signed frontwoman Lisa Hardaway and her four bandmates before they ever recorded anything properly....
Burning Hotels Check In
The Fort Worth duo’s new album teems with ’80s glories but in only the best ways.ANTHONY MARIANI
Burning Hotels, the electro-pop duo of Matt Mooty and Chance Morgan, are stuck in the middle. Hahaha. “Stuck in the Middle” is their most popular song. (What.) Well, it was their most popular song –– not that it’s no ...
In Gonzo City
With fun on their minds, this Fort Worth sextet rocks a rebirth.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
Five high school bandmates graduate, grow apart, marry, have children, divorce, hop jobs, bounce around mostly dead-end musical projects, and, on the eve of their 30s, get back together with a Venezuelan transplant in a windowl...
Copeland’s Time
The 41-year-old Fort Worthian’s excellent new album could be a national debut.ANTHONY MARIANI
The singer-songwriters were battling it out onstage. At stake was the chance to play a big show at 8.0 Restaurant & Bar downtown. Fort Worth’s Scott Copeland got up and launched right into “Lighthouse Keeper,” a song ...