Holy Moly: Brothers’ Keepers
The last time Holy Moly played Billy Bob’s Texas, a mosh pit broke out, a first for the World’s Largest Honky-tonk®. You’ve got to...
SoundClash ’13: Irie Times
The year 2004 seems like forever ago. The music scene hereabouts was only a fraction of what it is now. The only day-in/day-out rock...
Chuggin’ Monk: Indie Music to Arlington
Arlington is a lot of things: rollercoaster capital of North Texas, home of JerryWorld, chain-restaurant wasteland. What the city has never been is a...
GRO-ing Up
Somewhat quietly, Green River Ordinance has become Fort Worth’s most famous rock export not named The Toadies. The band has been around for an...
Curtis Heath Benefit Sunday
In the annals of Fort Worth music, The Theater Fire looms large. Smart, dusty, and melancholy, the quintet managed to bridge all kinds of...
Dr. Wu’s Diagnosis? More Blues
Like commercial-radio country, heavy metal, and hip-hop/R&B, the blues gets a bad rap. “It’s boring,” some people cry. “It’s too noodly,” lament others. And,...
Dreamy Jazz Soundz
Back in the mid-aughts, even after Caravan of Dreams was shuttered, Fort Worth was a pretty jazzy town. The Black Dog Tavern was packed...
Sabbath Assembly: Black Hosannas
Until Pinkish Black/The Great Tyrant came along, circa 2008, did anyone else notice a distinct lack of black metal in the Fort? There’s been...
Shadows of Jets: Time for Them to Fly
Though Shadows of Jets just released their debut album, a brilliant slice of “divorce pop” (to apply the term coined by Son of Stan’s...
Chokehold Signs Southern Train Gypsy
Southern Train Gypsy might not seem like the kind of band to be interested in stuff like record labels and “getting signed” and all...