Music
“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...
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...
For Phuss Sake
Fort Worth WeeklyWhen The Phuss frontman Joshua Fleming says his trio is a “North Texas” band as opposed to a merely Fort Worth one, he means no disrespect. He’s merely telling the truth. A Keller native, the 23-year-old guitarist/singer/...
A Fab New Edition
Jimmy FowlerI’ve never been the rabid Beatles fan that some people are, but I can still recognize this as a bad idea of epic proportions: James McCartney (Paul’s son) is seriously considering forming a band with Sean Lennon, Dhani Ha...
O.J. Simpson: Zero To Hero?
Jeff PrincePrivate investigator William Dear wrote a book that claims O.J. Simpson’s son, Jason, is the real murderer. O.J. took the blame and became the country’s most despised laughing stock just to protect his son. Or so De...