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Van Cliburn Screening Recital Notes (Day 3)
Edward Neeman (USA/Australia) started the last day of screening auditions with an excellent Bach Partita in G major, doing particularly well in the slow...
Music Awards 2019 Recap
Apparently, overwhelming positivity is the new “fuck.” Just a few years ago, almost every acceptance speech at the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards was...
Not Trap’d
Seth Reeves does a near-flawless impersonation of former President George W. Bush. The secret to the imitation, said the frontman to Fort Worth alt-country...
Killer or Filler?
Texas Music artists who celebrate redneckness via cliché-ridden novelty songs typically represent the worst of the genre. Fake cowboys glorifying the mundane make me...
Joseph Wayne Miller Rolls Along
From Cat Power to Smog to the Microphones, earnest and confessional solo musicians seemed intent to cloud their emotional exhibitionism behind alter egos. Although...
“Local” Music at PUBlic Knowledge
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has started a cool-seeming new off-site program for barstool philosophers. PUBlic Knowledge will be a monthly...
Mercury Rising
A lot of people, understandably, are making a big stink about Dan Hunter, a.k.a. PlayRadioPlay, the shiny, happy 17-year-old local singer-songwriter whose MySpace page...
Weekender: Fri., Aug. 7, 2009
A friend of mine back home up north saw Motley Crüe a year or two ago when the legendary hair-metal band went through Pittsburgh...
Mayyrh Records Goes Forth w/New Releases
Relatively recent Weekly feature subject Mayyrh Records –– like its weird Seattle/Fort Worth brethren, Indian Casino Records –– is forging ahead with new releases,...
Readers Speak: Best Rains Songs
I promised to post videos of all-time best rain songs suggested by Blotch readers, and here they are:
Bryan F said, “ 'Thunderstorms and Neon...
