Music
Cool Mother Hunchers
HearsayThough Mother’s Day has come and gone, frequent collaborators Hentai Improvising Orchestra and Denton’s Big Rig Dance Collective have begun work on a new project, the matriarch-praising Beyond Words: For Our Mothers. Two HI...
Fort Nox: Golden Years
Fort Worth rapping trio challenges you youngsters to battleMATTHEW MCGOWAN
The three rappers in Fort Worth’s Fort Nox have always had timing on their side. They might be older cats, compared to some of the young MCs now just coming into the Fort’s oh-so-fragile rapping scene, but Desmond Anderson,...
Ogle South Side
HearsayPart of my generous, loving, cool alter-ego Anthony Mariani’s recent cover story (“Fort Rock,” May 9) was occupied by chatter –– verging on Pollyannish –– about the Near South Side, specifically of the forthcomi...
Killer or Filler?
The 817 welcomes auspicious debuts from local doom giants, veteran Americana songwriters, and poppy newbies.Fort Worth Weekly Staff and Contributors
By the time you reach the end of Pinkish Black’s self-titled LP, your brain feels like it’s been forced to take a journey perilously close to the event horizon of a black hole, as if skirting its edge is the only way to mak...
Save the Cool Clubs
HearsayIf you haven’t done so already, check out this week’s cover story by my evil alter-ego, associate editor Anthony Mariani, about the Fort Worth music scene. That handsome devil writes about the discrepancy between the vast n...
Proper Husbandry
Singer-songwriter Brenna Manzare keeps it low-key but spellbinding.ZACK SHLACHTER
For the past few months, there’s been buzz in Fort Worth about Brenna Manzare and her band, The Proper Husbands. Neither on her own nor with her trio has Manzare formally released any material yet. There are only a handful of...
Quaker City Live
HearsayI’ve been chatting with a lot of local musicians recently, because I am boundlessly fascinated by people who (unlike me) have talent and fun-ass jobs. When the discussion inevitably turns to “Which local bands make your pan...
Rotten Roots Jam
This Fort Worth quartet of reformed punks is a case study in maturation.MATTHEW MCGOWAN
Angsty, punk-rocking Texas teenagers with caches of bluesy Lone Star country records are bound to mellow out with age, and Rotten Roots, somewhat of a newcomer to the Fort’s music scene, are an example of what it looks and so...
Doc’s Orders: Fungi Girls
HearsaySo National Record Store Day is another one of those non-holiday holidays created by The Illuminati to inspire rampant commercialism. BFD. There are a lot worse things to dedicate a day to. (Jelly beans?!) And as pretty much th...
Killer or Filler?
New CDs from some local artists run the gamut.Fort Worth Weekly Staff and Contributors
Singer-songwriter Taylor Craig Mills’ debut album, Don’t Ever Look Back Twice, has been a long time coming, and it’s a shiny little gem of melancholy pop rock that showcases the main man’s often- extraordinary voice. Mi...