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Focus on 1919 Hemphill
It’s difficult to overstate the impact of 1919 Hemphill. The long-gone, all-ages, DIY community space on the Near Southside lasted from 2002 to 2019,...
Keep Duane Tyree Rockin’
Of all the arbitrary cruelties in the world, cancer is easily the most insidious. This May, Platinum Music Complex owner Duane Tyree learned that the...
After School Music Academy
Nate Krieger talks a lot with his hands, and when the subject is music education, he gets into it. Clearing off a space on...
Schools that Rawk!
Fun fact: I’ve been playing bass for nearly 30 years, and in all that time, I’ve taken only two lessons. The only way I...
Cowgirl Culture
Kristyn Harris, award-winning Burleson singer, trick rider, and rancher, grew up giving concerts under the Texas sky to her family’s animals. The accolades from...
Notes and News
Como La Flor’s “Haunted” Is Exactly That
The third week of July is the part of the summer where the heat and humidity start to...
‘Little Kid Heart’
It’s not often a new album makes me tear up a little, but by the time I got to “So Far from Alone,” the...
Notes and News
New Horsepowers Album Soon … -ish
Horsepowers is wrapping up their debut album with an aim to have it out at the end of summer....
R.I.P. Johnny Mack
Longtime Fort Worth bluesman Johnny Mack died Sunday from heart failure. He was 67.
Friendly and outgoing, and seemingly always onstage, Mack is perhaps best known...
Charley Crockett’s Satanic Watusi
Former Irving resident Charley Crockett, who’s thrived as a superb vintage-Outlaw country singer-songwriter now based in Austin, basically said he’s OK with going back...
