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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Local Scene Dying? Not so Fast

Industry Contractions?

Darstar Redux

Heartfelt

Eric Osbourne’s “I’m the Bear”

Hearsay

Hearsay

Lola’s Love from the Netherlands

The Wreck Room will always be a mythical place in both local and national lore. The Wreck, which was razed a couple of years...

Fort Worth Sings For Haiti

For people grief-stricken by the Haiti earthquake, who don't think that donating $10 to Red Cross is enough, and who love local music, a...

Pazz & Jop

Every year for, like, the past 30, the country's oldest alt-weekly, the Village Voice, has polled more than 1,000 music critics across the country...

JJ’s R.I.P.

As first reported on Blotch by longtime staff writer Eric Griffey (Sun., Jan. 3, 2010), the lovable J&J's Blues Bar is closing its doors...

KXTeed Up

OK, so everybody's favorite new radio station, KERA's KXT/91.7-FM, is playing a lot of good stuff, stuff that can't be heard anywhere else on...

The Decade’s Best

I'm not from Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could, but I like it here well enough. My first Lone...

‘Tis the Season For Thievin’

Chances are if you're reading this column, you at least appreciate local music and musicians (and maybe artists in general). You probably won't mind...

Fort Worth, P.A.

First off, there are a helluva lot worse places to live than Fort Worth. Ever hear of a little ol' ville called Youngstown, Ohio?...

Between Nothingness and Eternity

Other than the annual Bertha Coolidge show, there's little to zero jazz fusion in the Fort. I guess most local musos are too time-strapped...

Exit the Highway

There are a lot of things I don't "get." Coconut flavoring is one. Who in the hell wants to eat anything that tastes even...