Posts Tagged ‘sound’
The Fellow Americans
Listen UpFrom the opening riff on Search for Numb, it’s obvious that The Fellow Americans aren’t interested in fancy production tricks or endless sonic nuances. The Fort Worth band simply rocks.
Aimee Mann
Listen UpWhen an interminably melancholic and arty rock singer-songwriter like Aimee Mann releases an album of yuletide tunes, you have to wonder: Whatever happened to Christmas?
Present Tense
Don’t call Ornette Coleman’s Sound Grammar a comeback.BRENT BURTON
Many folks will no doubt mistake Ornette Coleman’s new Sound Grammar for a comeback — and with good reason. For starters, its creator — the alto saxophonist who, in the ’50s, more or less invented free jazz — is now 7...
Ray LaMontagne
Listen UpRay LaMontagne was a critic’s favorite two years ago upon the release of his debut album, Trouble, a largely acoustic, bucolic paean to desperation and love. The singer-songwriter was aptly likened to a wide slew of ’60s an...
No Moz-aleum
StageIf Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya had led an all-Mozart Festival six years ago when he first came to town, it would have been a cautious, tentative journey. His youthful forays into 18th-century mus...
Valient Thorr
Listen UpRemember nü metal, that genre of suck-ass Jock Jam bands like Korn and Godsmack? When they weren’t busy making huge, multi-zippered, idiot-pants fashionable, they were supposedly breathing life into the tired, leathery lungs...
Reds, Black, and Blue
From Russia with love comes a prodigal son, while local filmmakers take on MySpace.Kultur
George Gershwin got an unusual run through at the Fort Worth Symphony Concerts in the Garden last week.