Posts Tagged ‘frontman’
2012 Forecast? Awesome
HearsayLast year was a great one for Fort Worth music. All of those amazing albums. All of those amazing tunes. All of those pants-tightening shows. But before you go thinking that last year was some sort of fluke, slow your roll: 201...
Nervebreakers, Fort Worth Cats Are Back
Ken ShimamotoBack in the post-bicentennial ’70s, pioneering Dallas punk-rock kingpins The Nervebreakers opened for The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash, but their performance that’s most indelibly etched in my shaky memory took p...
The Slack
The Deep End (Idol Records)Caroline Collier
On The Deep End, The Slack offers a little something for every pop-rock fan. No matter what your favorite band is, it’s probably sonically quoted somewhere here. At least Dallasite frontman Chris Holt and his three bandmates ...
A Light in the Field
ANTHONY MARIANIMost of us who go to local shows probably spend a lot of time paying polite attention, maybe nodding along to the beat a little. Rarely do we have an experience. But a couple of years ago at a show at Lola’s Saloon-Sixth,...
The Show: Drowning Pool
The ShowA funny thing happened to Drowning Pool on the way to the forum: The wheels fell off the chariot.
Chatterton
Listen UpWhatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Chatterton’s first commercial release, a self-titled e.p., is testimony to that old adage right out the gate. The first track, “A Good Place to Start,” is exactly what it sa...