Posts Tagged ‘released’
2011 The Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards
Fort Worth Weekly Music StaffFort Worth may never be a “music town” in the way that, say, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville, Seattle, and New York City are, with multiple venues, several destination studios, a couple of big labels, and a lot of famous res...
Gas Pipe and the Ridglea
HearsayAs first reported on Blotch, Jerry Shults, owner of The Gas Pipe, a Southwestern regional chain of smoke shops, is about to close a deal on the Ridglea Theater building and is currently making interior repairs. Shults also is s...
Tommy Atkins (1974-2010)
KEN SHIMAMOTOTommy Wayne Atkins, bassist for the Fort Worth experimental hard-rock trio The Great Tyrant, was found dead at home last Thursday afternoon. His two longtime friends and bandmates, Jon Teague and Daron Beck, worried when he did...
No Reservations
KEN SHIMAMOTOThe economic downturn has not been kind to the folks from Indian Casino Records, the plucky little Seattle-based indie record label that we’ve profiled (“South by Northwest,” Feb. 11, 2009) and that has releas...
Tasers: Homicide Vehicles
StaticA well-earned tip of the hat to Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani, whose long-awaited decision on the April 18 cause of death of 24-year-old Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr. – who died shortly after being jolted tw...
Cowboy Junkies
Listen UpAcknowledging that The Trinity Session was their defining album and that 20 years have passed since it was released, the Cowboy Junkies re-recorded the entire album and have just released it as Trinity Revisited.
Spacey
Flights of sonic fancy twirl across Stumptone’s new LP, Gravity Suddenly Released.Jimmy Fowler
Most musicians go through little rituals when songwriting, and most of them can’t explain the madness to their methods.
Five Times August
Listen UpBrad Skistimas, the 24-year-old Dallasite who operates under the sweeping moniker Five Times August, recently released his second full-length effort, Brighter Side.
James Hunter
Listen UpWhen sung by white folks, old-school soul and R&B is often called “blue-eyed soul,” especially in reference to a pasty Englishman like James Hunter who digs that sound. It’s easy to listen to … Believe What I S...
The Blonde Girls
The ShowThe best thing about the relatively new trio The Blonde Girls is that they’re noisy but in a good, Sonic Youth-y, Pavementian, Moby Grapesque way.