A Thing Called Competition
Tarrant County dominated The Voice during last week’s show, proving that we grow some gold-plated tonsils around these parts. We produce fantastic competitors in...
Claire Hinkle: Good Girl
How many times have you heard musicians say they joined a rock band to get laid? Well, all that van-balling creates babies, you know....
Got Bars? The Rap Game
More than any genre’s artists, rappers seem to be (by far) the most entrepreneurial and brand conscious. (Remember Dave Chappelle’s “Wu-Tang Financial” sketch?) Nationally,...
Complete’s Three Cents
Youth is the ambrosia that sustains both rock ’n’ roll and hip-hop. A steady injection of new blood is fundamental to the unspoken, yet...
A Music-Lover’s Manifesto
I'm worried. There's this book out now by famed socio-economist Francis Fukuyama that confirms everything I've feared about hipster retro-culture.
See, as technology makes possible...
Status Quo (Not the Band)
For seating capacity at restaurants to be increased and for bar-bars to reopen, Gov. Greg Abbott says, essentially, that the number of available hospital beds...
MAF’14, Round 2
The full lineup for Fort Worth Weekly’s 12th Annual Music Awards Festival is just about done.
For the free daylong concert on Sunday, June 22,...
Fair Warning
Here's all I have to say about Van Halen: If you're a fan, don't go to the legendary hard-rock band's show this Saturday at...
Red Herrings, Kerrang
When they started out about a year ago, the Red Herrings were three guys with some moderately respectable indie cred - bassist Coby Queen,...
Save the Cool Clubs
If you haven’t done so already, check out this week’s cover story by my evil alter-ego, associate editor Anthony Mariani, about the Fort Worth...