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Streaming Goodness This Week

The hearts and thumbs just kept bubbling upward. Brandin Lea, with just his guitar and Katie Robertson on piano, was performing to an empty...

Red Herrings, Kerrang

When they started out about a year ago, the Red Herrings were three guys with some moderately respectable indie cred - bassist Coby Queen,...

Eaton Lake Tonics Breaks Up

Unfortunately, the four guys in Fort Worth-Denton’s Eaton Lake Tonics have decided to break up after six years. The band’s most recent album, Rancho...

Luthier Takes Chili Pepper Guitar To Larry Joe Taylor Festival

Most local guitar pickers go to Mark Cigainero when they need work done on their six-string babies.  Cigainero and his brother, Mitchell, have been...

Paying Dues

The life of a studio musician, in the right market and with the right connections, can offer financial stability that can be hard find...

The Great Tyrant

The ominous mood is established by the cover art: a sepia-toned ’20s photo, which seems haphazardly attached to a piece of stained cardboard, depicting...

Reagan James: Unique, Unfortunately

This is not a knock on our rock, country, rap, folk, or jazz. Fort Worth is incredibly lucky that so many of its talented...

Lola’s Relocating to TCU-land

Lola’s combined Trailer Park and Saloon that have been West 7th-area staples since 2008 will mosey on into 2000 W. Berry St., the former home of the...

Merkin

It might not matter to anyone else, but it does to me: Merkin was the last band I watched grow up onstage at The...

Stars and Bars (and Product Endorsements)

Ax-man extraordinaire “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott may be gone, but don’t think for a second that he hasn’t left behind a treasure trove of music. He...