Posts Tagged ‘calhoun’
FOTG: Indie Disco
HEARSAYI got to hear some of Paperweights, the forthcoming fifth album by Fort Worth/Dallas indie-rockers Calhoun. Dude. Wow. It’s like Nine Inch Nails meets Yoshimi-era Flaming Lips. Or maybe Burning Hotels with Funkadelic’s rhyt...
Calhoun Coming
HEARSAYCalhoun is back. The dream-pop quartet fronted by co-songwriter Tim Locke expects to release its fifth studio album in May or early June. Recorded with producer Will Hunt (Burning Hotels, The Hanna Barbarians, Holy Moly) at his...
Songs of the Year
Another year, another batch of solid local tuneage.ANTHONY MARIANI
True, recording technology has become cheaper over the past decade, and even the most antisocial or horrible local singer-songwriter can put out a record. But that ease of access just explains the numbers of records coming out ...
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...
Fort Rock
This town is brimming with indie talent — and everyone wants a piece.Anthony Mariani
In the late ’00s, an independent label based in New York City, Norton Records, put out a three-volume set of songs from Fort Worth’s “teen scene,” a short period in the mid-to-late 1960s when teenage boys picked up musi...
UPDATE The Ticket’s Danny Balis Joins Calhoun
Anthony MarianiAs a P1, I’m happy to report that Danny Balis, producer for The Hardline, probably the longest-running radio sports-talk show in North Texas, on Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket, will be joining Fort Worth indie-pop rockers Calho...
Brewfest Was Awesome
Anthony MarianiMore than 5,000 folks, according to Fort Worth police, showed up last Saturday in the West 7th development for Brewfest on Crockett, an annual celebration of live (mostly local) music and craft beer. Some mighty fine Fort Worth...
Calhoun Conquers SXSW
Fort Worth WeeklyAt South by Southwest this year, I was reminded of an old theory that applies to festivals: The average festivalgoer only hears broad strokes, meaning that either loud or soft sounds manage to corral his or her short attention ...
SXFW
Headed to Austin this week? See some Fort Worth music. Or else.Hearsay
Since the late 1990s, when I first started attending South by Southwest, I’ve complained so much about the annual music festival and conference that you’d think I was talking about some family reunion I’d been forced to g...
SXSW Parties w/FW Bands
Anthony MarianiEven though Burning Hotels and Calhoun are performing on the first night of the annual music festival and conference South-By-Southwest, Tue, Mar 13, both Fort Worth indie-rock bands will be staying (partying?) in Austin throug...