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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Local Scene Dying? Not so Fast

Industry Contractions?

Darstar Redux

Heartfelt

Eric Osbourne’s “I’m the Bear”

Hearsay

Hearsay

New Albums Hitting

Collin Herring is back. On Thursday, (yes, Thanksgiving), the alt-country singer-songwriter who decamped for Austin a couple of years ago is playing The Moon...

KXT Saves?

Since KXT/91.7-FM's inaugural broadcast last week, local musos seem to have rediscovered the wonders of the ol' wireless telegraphy box. "Hey, 2009! The 1940s...

Peace and Harmony

"Ambition is the last refuge of failure," according to everyone's favorite legendary smarty pants Oscar Wilde. "Not so fast, my dead friend!" I say....

Survival

The Star-Telegram recently published a story about the Ridglea Theater, one of Fort Worth's oldest live music venues and a heavy-metal haven. The story...

Fort Worthless

Sigh. Once again, Fort Worth isn't part of the North Texas music conversation, and, naturally, my boxers are in a wad. A while back,...

Kickin’ It Old-School

The Fort Worth Cats, one of the premier bands from the nigh-legendary Fort Worth "teen scene" of the 1960s, never technically broke up, at...

Cowpunks ‘n’ Punks

Though Holy Moly toured Europe this past summer, the cowpunk quartet somehow managed to write, record, and produce an album, Clickity Clack, whose official...

Interactivity

Austinite-via-Fort Worth Collin Herring has just finished his fourth studio album, Ocho, and will release it on Nov. 17. The record was produced by...

Rest Of

A lot of great stuff happened over the past 12 months. I didn't get tasered, for one thing. For another, I didn't lose any...

Comedic Improv

Last week ("Missile Mens," Sept. 16), I wrote that there's nothing local music-y to do on Tuesday nights other than hit The Moon (2911...