St. Marie, Calhoun, Earthquake Country
A new Fort Worth-based record label specializing in shoegaze (but not exclusively) is about to debut. In May, St. Marie Records...
Twisted Black Ties
As I first Tweeted this past Monday morning, one of the biggest North Texas bands of the ’00s, Black Tie...
Legendary Texas Music?
Married Fort Worth filmmakers Carl and Betsy Crum started quite a stir recently when they announced plans for a documentary...
Stone Machine Electric Doom LuVa
Somewhere between the hair-metaldom emanating from joints such as The Rail and Tomcats West and the proto-punk and hardcore from 1919 Hemphill...
Rooster Crowes
For a couple of weeks now, the Wild Rooster (3204 Camp Bowie Blvd., Cultural District, 817-332-WILD) has been hosting live music...
SXSW Gets an FW Load
I’m kinda torn. On the one hand, SXSW is nothing but a glorified ACL, a festival starring artists who don’t need...
New Alan, Doc’s
There was a time when I wasn’t all about Fort Worth/817 music, when I just listened to whatever came my...
Roads to RUINS
One of my favorite songs of 2010, EPIC RUINS’ “Child and Cobra,” has been remixed out the wazoo by Spirit Animal, a project helmed...
817 Albums of the Year
I don’t want to step on you guys’ toes. I know that every summer we present our annual Music Awards and...
Songs of the Year (Kinda)
The Dallas Observer’s music blog, DC 9 at Night, recently came up with a great idea, one that I’ll be stealing next year: The...
