Shadows of Jets: After the Layover
On Friday at a show at MASS, Shadows of Jets officially dropped their latest recording. The four-song EP Going Up to Space is the...
Hip-Hop Coup
A huge hip-hop concert is happening on Friday, but it's not being put on by either of North Texas' giant commercial hip-hop radio stations....
America’s Original Art Form
It's jazz, but can you define it? I guess I'm left paraphrasing Potter Stewart's response to pornography: I know jazz when I hear it....
R.I.P. Kevin Short
Like most news, I learned about Kevin Short’s passing from a casual glance at my phone. It came last Monday, December 30, and I...
And Boom Goes the Oil
When Dallasite/Fort Worthians Oil Boom arrived a couple of years ago, they were doing the electro-blues thing that was popular at the time, thanks...
P.A.T.: Urban Noir
For reasons that are either all too obvious or completely indiscernible, hip-hop is geared less toward performance and more toward recording. I mean, a...
Burning Hotels, EPIC RUINS
Though you may have caught them at Lola’s (2736 W 6th St, 817-877-0666) during the 2011 Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festival in July,...
The Pirate Sets Sail
Last week, the folks at The Southside Pirate, the 2-year-old Near Southside-based internet radio station devoted to Fort Worth music, announced on their Facebook...
From Blog to Record Label
Daily newspaper critics used to be tastemakers in the music industry. Not anymore, of course. Haven't been for a long-ass time. I mean, why...
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...