Music Feature
Killer or Filler?
New albums by Sarah Jaffe and A-Roy lead the hit parade.ZACK SHLACHTER
Sarah Jaffe, The Way Sound Leaves a Room. For her third release, Sarah Jaffe has issued an EP containing five demos, an alternate version of her most identifiable song, and two covers. The Way Sound Leaves a Room also contains ...
Pumping Ronnie Heart
Ex-Neon Indian guitarist Ronald Gierhart delves into e-music.ZACK SHLACHTER
Earlier this year, Ronald Gierhart left his gig as guitarist in Neon Indian, one of the country’s hottest indie acts, to stay home in Fort Worth, pursuing his own music and art and generally enjoying a slower pace. The 26-yea...
Kennard the Troubadour
A new TV show gives local country-bluesman and star Guthrie Kennard reason to smile.JEFF PRINCE
Who’d a thunk a 60-year-old acoustic bluesman with a basset-hound face, myriad health problems, and a growling, raspy voice would emerge as the most intriguing and watchable character on the new docu-reality TV series Troubad...
Best Of 2011
On The TownFort Worth Weekly Staff
Cheap Buzz Being an alcohol connoisseur is a lot of fun — you get to be a blowhard about who makes the best Manhattan in town, fulminate over whether specialty martinis are gimmicky, and dive into the latest and greatest cock...
Pimpadelic … Seriously
Though these guys have been around forever, they can still hurl a hook.ANTHONY MARIANI
Like last night’s Whataburger, they’re back. Rocking their Confederate flags, boasting about amounts of rot-gut consumed and numbers of women bedded, avoiding showers, the boys from Pimpadelic never really went away, though...
Killer or Filler?
Indie-rock suits Fungi Girls and St. Vincent just fine.ZACK SHLACHTER
In a few short years, Fungi Girls have released two 7-inch singles, a demo EP (Psilo), and a 12-inch LP (2009’s Seafaring Pyramids), and they’ve toured the country. Much has been made of the fact that the band is composed o...
The Moon Ridglea
The beloved TCU-area Moon is relocating next to the historic Ridglea Theater.ANTHONY MARIANI
The Moon, the longstanding indie-music venue near TCU, is relocating next to the historic Ridglea Theater on Camp Bowie Boulevard. The new Moon’s grand opening is set for early November.
In the Drift Era
This post-rock trio crafts soundtracks for wild imaginings.JIMMY FOWLER
The three musicians in the post-rock instrumental project Drift Era love writing, performing, and recording original music, but their fantasy is to score films for some of their favorite directors like Wes Anderson and Terry Gi...
Readying for Live Oak
A lot is riding on the success of the forthcoming Live Oak Music Hall.ZACK SHLACHTER
Opening a large live-music venue is a natural career transition for Bill Smith, the developer behind the forthcoming Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge on the Near South Side in the Fairmount District. He’s done construction si...
Killer or Filler?
CDs by Constant Seas, Maren Morris, and We the Sea Lions go under our musical microscope.ZACK SHLACHTER
Live Wire, Maren Morris: Maren Morris’ third album, Live Wire, is a mature effort from a singer who’s practically grown up on record. Her first release dropped when she was 14, and a loyal fan-base sprang up around her in n...