Return to Sender
As anyone who remembers the old Lola’s knows, the place was essentially two places: a bar-bar (Lola’s Saloon) and a backyard with a nice...
Marfa Lights Shine
Left Arm Tan was a pretty popular, twangy roots-rock outfit, but when they disbanded earlier this year, guitarist Daniel Hines wrote “about 50 to 70 songs,”...
New moves from LABELS, Denver Williams, Broke String Burnett, and more.
New LABELS Track, Singer
Mid-Cities psychedelic-punks LABELS are releasing a new single on Saturday to coincide with their show at 10:30pm at the Boiled Owl...
Court Hoang’s Triptychs
Introspective indie-rock singer-songwriter Court Hoang will release his latest EP on this year’s fall equinox and continue putting out more music every seasonal solstice/equinox....
Not Fade Away
If you don’t know anything about Sublime with Rome, it is a guy named Rome Ramirez performing Sublime songs backed by a band that, from...
Ricki Derek ‘Reprised’
I can’t remember exactly when I saw Ricki Derek for the first time, but I do know it was at Scat Jazz Lounge, the intimate...
‘Greatest’/‘Favorite’ Local Singers?
I came across a particularly fun Rolling Stone listicle the other day — it’s probably old — but it got me thinking. About myself, first (as...
R.I.P., Tone Sommer
Along with the rest of the local music community, we here at the Weekly mourn the loss of Tone Sommer. The long-time musician best known...
Dave Cave’s a Baddie
Dave Cave is trading surf rock for MTV.
On the charismatic singer-songwriter’s new record, it’s out with the arpeggiated guitar lines and in with the synths....
Local Scene Dying? Not so Fast
In a recent Fort Worth Report story entitled “Live music isn’t dying, music venue owners say,” Texas Music Office director Brendan Anthony said that “three...
