Music
Garage Rock
Everybody knows Fred’s Texas Café has great food, but live music? Believe it.CAROLINE COLLIER
About a year ago, when Terry Chandler and his wife, Jennifer, bought Fred’s Texas Café from Terry’s parents, the gourmet greasy spoon was known simply as a great, interesting place to get a home-cooked or fusion meal. Fred...
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Listen UpSomewhere amid the musical handiwork of Elliott Smith, Weezer, and The Shins, you’ll find a similarly inspired, indie-ish-for-life, guitar-based Missouri quartet sporting a cheeky moniker in tribute to the first president of ...
Norma Jean
The ShowIt’s not All Hallow’s Eve just yet, but Norma Jean still might frighten the bejesus outta you. First, there’s the name, that of the dead movie starlet commonly known as Marilyn Monroe, who’s arguably more famous in deat...
Darling New Neighbors
Listen UpListening to music is usually a subjective experience, but certain rules and boundaries apply to performing it. Songwriting is not for the weak of heart, but as with Darling New Neighbors’ singer Elizabeth Jackson, the craft ...
Getting Older, Cooler, and Hotter
HearsayFor some folks, the big 5-0 is tragic. (Don’t they know that 50 is the new, um, 45?!)
Pepper
Listen UpThere’s this scene in Blue Crush where surfer girl Anne-Marie Chadwick goes to rescue lil’ sis Penny from a house party on Oahu’s North Shore. Penny, naturally, is pissed, being yanked by her big sister out of what appear...
Why the Hell Not?
As two new c.d.’s indicate, Kinky Friedman’s music may prove too complicated for our simple-minded voting blocs.ANTHONY MARIANI
Although he’s made his name as a novelist and humorist, and may soon be known as Mistuh Guv’ner, Kinky Friedman, as many of y’all may be unaware, is a musician at heart — and a helluva innovative one at that. During his...
Broken Social Scene
The ShowBroken Social Scene creates propulsive, dreamy, raw experimental rock, and just happens to have 10 band members. The Canadian collective’s most recent, eponymous full-length could have been pulled off by three musicians, a cr...
Teen Scene, TTF, Ornette
HearsayA few years ago, retro indie label Norton Records released a three-volume c.d. called Fort Worth Teen Scene.
Howl
With its Sheep Amidst the Wolves project almost finished, Addnerim concentrates on developing its signature experimental, heavy, poetic sound.CAROLINE COLLIER
Growing up on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Addnerim singer/guitarist Tyrel Choat imagined his life as a movie. Now in his mid-20s, he’s confident he can direct that film. “Especially in music, we like to carve our own niche...