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Slayer
Since forming the early 1980s, Slayer has always been a big black cloud hovering over the music industry. Brutal and agile, precise and cold,...
Meg & Dia
In today's saturated music market, formula means everything. A flim-flam here or a stop-time there might be the difference between fame and obscurity. Most...
Almost Infamous
I don’t know how much content you’ve consumed about the growing threat of artificial intelligence, but I am of the mind that we, as...
Vital Signs
Non-classical, non-jazz music — or pop — is too easy to make, and non-classical, non-jazz music is also too easy to consume.
This is why music keeps “getting...
EPIC RUINS Soar
Lots of bands put out CDs. Few bands put out an album, in the sense of a seminal recording (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...
Fort Worth Opera’s Porgy and Bess Is a Multisensory Treat
There’s merit to the idea that music is a universal language. Cultural references and dialogue weigh heavily on a work’s immediacy and ease of...
Ghostcar
Blending some of the finest players from some of North Texas’ most formidable — and departed — bands, Ghostcar is an achievement of out-of-the-box...
Killer or Filler?
Jetta in the Ghost Tree’s Clandestine, Vol. 1
It’s been almost nine years since former Flickerstick frontman Brandin Lea put out an album. You would...
South-by’s Complete Only When …
OK, South by Southwest. You’ve made your point. We get it. I’m an ass. I never should have ragged on you in the mid-aughts...
The Top 5 (Non-Local-ish) #FWMF Shows
Fort Worth Music Festival is tonight (Friday) and tomorrow at Panther Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St., near downtown), and in addition to all the...
