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A Tame … Tame Christmas
With all the hustle and bustle of modern-day holiday commercialism and parental guilt trips, the real reason we still practice the tradition of Christmas...
It’s Time to Party
Several years ago, a solo singer-songwriter with long, greasy hair, a five o’clock shadow — and a body frame that otherwise would have qualified...
Jacob Furr’s Sierra Madre
Jacob Furr
Sierra Madre
(Self-released)
On 2014’s Trials and Traces, Jacob Furr delivered a heartbreaking work of staggering darkness in the wake of losing his wife...
Get Your Kicks with Royal Sons, Polydogs, Brandin Lea, Grant Morrison
Almost as if by divine intervention, Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, allowing families to double-mask up and go door to door to select...
Killer or Filler?
Tornup’s Impossible Dreams
There’s something poetic about the fact that Fort Worth rapper Tornup and D.J. Berto G. met while both were working at a...
New Vid by American Idol’s Tim Halperin
Fort Worth American Idol semifinalist Tim Halperin has just released the video for his most recent song, “The Last Song.” A tune he actually...
Top Local Albums, EPs of ’11
For some unknown reason –– increased access to recording technology, YouTube music lessons, whatever –– 2011 was full of pretty-damn-good-to-great albums....
Cliburn Finalists Announced
We all stayed up until 11:30 on a Tuesday night to find out the six pianists who have gone through to the next round,...
Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...
Hang 10
In early 2012, Ryan Coplen and Hank Tosh of the Fort Worth surf-rock quartet The Ape Hangars decided it was time to record their...
