Posts Tagged ‘rock’
Fort Worth’s Rock Roots
A new photobook details Cowtown’s mighty rockin’ lineage.ANTHONY MARIANI
In a recent story on DC9 at Night, the Dallas Observer’s music blog, several local media types, including this writer, were asked to assess the North Texas music scene. Everyone seemed to agree that Fort Worth is the hottest ...
Exit 380 to Bugs’ Benefit
HearsayIf you’re like me, you spend your nights before bed wringing your hands over all of the stupid things said/done to and by you throughout the day. On occasion, though, you might be able to look back and think, “Well, that wa...
Counting Down New Year’s Eve
Famous actors squeeze into this flat comedy.KRISTIAN LIN
The financial success of last year’s Valentine’s Day inspired director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Katherine Fugate to team up for yet another star-packed omnibus comedy themed around a holiday. New Year’s Eve takes p...
Hanna Barbarians at the Gate
Energy and talent fuel the rise of this Fort Worth sextet.ANTHONY MARIANI
There’s rock ’n’ roll. And then there’s rawk ’n’ rolllll!, a peculiar species of music-centric living that fills parents’ rapidly graying heads with nightmares of drug-and-booze-fueled orgies presided over by the ...
Killer or Filler?
CDs by Constant Seas, Maren Morris, and We the Sea Lions go under our musical microscope.ZACK SHLACHTER
Live Wire, Maren Morris: Maren Morris’ third album, Live Wire, is a mature effort from a singer who’s practically grown up on record. Her first release dropped when she was 14, and a loyal fan-base sprang up around her in n...
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...
Music Awards, Pandora, FWRA
HearsayAllow me to apologize in advance for the overdose of Music Awards mumbo-jumbo that commenced last week, but we want you to be well aware of the free nearly-50-band festival on Sun., Jun. 26, in eight venues in the West 7th corr...
Lola’spalooza-time, Missile Men
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As always there are a lot of shows this weekend. However, all of the cool kids, and many not-so-cool non-kids (ahem, me and my friends), will probably be spending the weekend at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W. 6th St., 817-877-0666), ...
Kid Rock
Big TicketThis Christmas week, it’s a good time to get down with the kids. Nearly 44,000 local schoolchildren contributed artworks to the Slant 45 project at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, and now notable examples of those w...
Rock Bottom’s Up
A new TCU-area bar and grill rocks the no-frills fare.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
On Bluebonnet Circle in the space formerly occupied by Ocean Rock, a popular seafood restaurant, comes Rock Bottom Bar and Grill. The menu is heavy on fish (mostly shrimp, catfish, and tilapia) but has enough other stuff (salad...