Music
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...
Rotten Roots: The Fort Work Sound
HearsayA potentially noteworthy debut will happen on Friday, Apr. 27, at The Grotto (517 University Dr., 817-882-9331), when Rotten Roots will open for Dallas’ Southern-fried Roomsounds and Fort Worthian alt-country rockers Badcreek...
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...
“Pete ‘n’ Keely” at Theatre Arlington
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s “Stage” page features an interview with Todd Hart, executive producer at Theatre Arlington. Hart directs and co-stars with Jenny Thurman in the theater’s current show Pete ‘n Keely, a barbed musical comedy...
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...
1919 Fight Tragic But Not Shocking
Anthony MarianiThere’s no doubt that the Near South Side is in flux. As the neighborhood continues its transformation from an urban wasteland into a bona fide cultural district, the attendant growing pains will become more intense. Seemingl...
Hip Tips: Music Notes
Anthony MarianiDallas-based Hand Drawn Records will release its debut compilation CD on Saturday, Apr. 14, with a celebratory concert featuring three HDR artists –– Fort Worth/Dallas’ Exit 380, Fort Worth’s Secret Ghost Champion, and ...
Shea Seger in “We Bought a Zoo” (Sort Of)
Kristian LinCameron Crowe’s comedy We Bought a Zoo is out on DVD this week, and even though I didn’t care for the movie when it hit theaters last December, I was intrigued by a minor mystery about it involving Fort Worth singer...
Perdition Debut Out Tomorrow
Anthony MarianiTomorrow (Saturday) is the day to get your grubby mitts on an album of pure, unbridled, unapologetic pop-punkery, Hispanola, the debut full-length by Perdition, the Fort Worth quartet whose song “Race for the Rabid” made He...