Sequins & Diamonds
Former Moonlight Native frontman Will Roth was running karaoke at Caves Lounge in Arlington one night when his future wife walked in. Dumbstruck, he...
Burnett Strikes Gold
Nearly three years ago, married couple Brandon and Jessica Burnett co-fronted a folk-punk outfit they dubbed the Phantom Sensation, releasing the concept album Blackgrass...
Seth James on Draft
Area bluesman Seth James has a new album called Good Life out this Thursday, and this is my fourth attempt at writing about it....
Not OKKK
As members of a democratic society that presumably values the dignity afforded by a firm, professed belief in the equality of humans, we have...
Big, Mature Useless Brain
Remember Cityview? They were one of those acts that mined the pop-punk/emo boy-band vein that was the proverbial flavor of the week of the...
While We Were Sleeping
Time and tide wait for no man. Despite the lack of the gender-inclusive tone we should expect in these late 20-teens, the fatuous “wisdom”...
Hightower Is No Longer Low
There’s a line in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in which the washed-up character Brick tells his father, “I’m takin’ a...
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...
Hall of Fame Class 2019
We’ve nominated the bands, published the ballot, released an all-local compilation, threw a ginormous music festival spanning eight venues with 40 combined bands, and...
Remembering Chris Hardee
I don’t remember exactly when, but the last time I saw Chris Hardee, he’d popped into the Boiled Owl Tavern while I was bartending,...
