Trying to Understand
In the spirit of barely adequate coverage, here are some recent releases that deserve your immediate attention. Juma Spears dropped an excellent new EP,...
Cancer Sucks, but People Are Amazing
North Texas painter and musician Jayson Wortham (Dove Hunter, Mandarin) has been battling cancer for the better part of a year now. He was...
Suzie Q, Baby, We Love You
A minor key kind of feeling draped itself over the local music scene after the recent death of Susan Jennifer Oberhofer-Maben, better known as...
Out of School, Into the Weather
Thanks to the proliferation of School of Rock, where students learn the rudiments of melting faces, the Fort Worth music scene is benefiting from...
The Grown-Ups Are Alright
Somewhere there’s an airline employee whose car bumper is covered in job-related stickers –– mostly inside jokes. One such tag on this airliner’s auto...
Levi Ray’s Battling On
Based on my own recognition of his name, I assumed that Levi Ray, himself an enduring fixture on the local singer-songwriter circuit, had a...
Still Shinin’
Few local rappers have been near as prolific as Dru B Shinin’. In over a decade, the keen MC has recorded hundreds – emphasis...
The Resolution of Izzy
Izzy rung in the New Year the same way she has the past four — alone. The folk artist sat on top of her...
Stag Punk
Don’t even think about messing with Gollay. In “White Stag,” the first single off the Fort Worth five-piece’s upcoming album, frontwoman Rachel Gollay and...
Have Yourself a Melancholy Christmas
Imagine the spectrum of Christmas cheer as a gleaming peppermint-striped continuum that runs between Buddy the Elf on one end and Ebenezer Scrooge at...
