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Manute Bol: Personal Musings
When I heard that Manute Bol had died the other day, I felt a certain twang of remorse. I had gotten to know Manute...
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Randy Rogers Band’s Nothing Shines Like Neon
Some of the best country and western songs feature Texas cities: “Abilene,” “Amarillo by Morning,” “Galveston,” “El Paso,”...
Working-man Blues
Many people who spent their early twenties unemployed, drinking beer, crashing overnight on friends' couches, and practicing guitar consider those as "lost years," a...
Best Local Songs of ’16
There were so many good songs this year, there’s no way I could have kept up with all of them, but I managed to...
The Right Way
Newbie Texas Music act Braker Lane is a culmination of musical stops and starts.
By CAROLINE COLLIER
Country singer-songwriter Matthew Lane grew up in rural Kentucky,...
Movies About Maids
The Help looks poised to be a huge hit this weekend, and everyone is healthily chewing over the book and the film’s racial politics....
Watch This: The Burning Hotels on KXT
No doubt because drummer Wyatt Adams would have blown the lid off the place, the madman is absent for The Burning Hotels' recent, pared-down...
Little Big Fire
It's been four years since singer-songwriter April Geesbreght released her last CD, the introspective, folk-inflected In Other Words.
In that relatively short period of time,...
Black Tie Dynasty
In the mid-aughts, Fort Worth’s Black Tie Dynasty was one of the most popular North Texas bands around. Their blend of pulsing rhythms, slinky...
Sober Bands? Quelle Horreur!
Wow. Just wow. Apparently now in Seattle, one of the hippest cradles of indie music on our fair planet, performing musicians can't drink onstage....
