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Lindby’s BARDcast
In the wake of the Texas Gentlemen’s newly released first album, the self-titled debut of Secret Ghost Champion-successors Earthchild Imperius, and upcoming records from...
Deep Cuts
Among the many matter-of-fact statements that accompany the imagery on display in Van Halen’s “Right Now” video, the one that has stuck in my...
R.I.P., Whitney Houston
I met Whitney Houston in 1996 at a press junket for The Preacher's Wife. She would later admit that she was doing drugs on...
Living from Check to Check
Four years ago, accordionist Abel Casillas had an idea to reinvent his Tejano-style of music. Combining basic Tejano polka, honkytonk, and zydeco with a...
Dia de los Toadies: A Proper Fest
No doubt inspired by the relatively recent explosion of music festivals in North Texas, a lot has been written, cheekily but also surprisingly seriously,...
No Mom Like a Hot Mom
This makes me giggle: Online voting has just begun for the 2012 Hottest Moms Under 34 and Over 35 contest, sponsored by the Fort...
Welcome, Tulips FTW and More Big Shoes, Really Big Shoes
I missed Caravan of Dreams. The downtown venue had closed before I landed on yon sunny shores. All I know is that in the...
Top 5 Shows
1.) After a few relatively quiet years, Bosque Brown, the relatively quiet Fort Worth/Seattle duo of frontwoman Mara Lee Miller and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Grant...
SXSW ’15
Well, my bank account is empty, my shoes are caked in mud, and my knees feel like a dying old man’s. Another South-by in...
Gunslingers
When this debut disc by a trio from the unlikely birthplace of San Pedro, France, arrived in a blaze of hype from muso-rockcrit-historian Julian...
