Big Bertha
The last time I saw local fusion pioneers Bertha Coolidge play, I admit, I was a little underwhelmed. Could have been the venue: the...
Sound, Art
Last spring, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth did a trés cool, trés New York City thing and produced an outdoor concert, in...
Big Dans and Mikes
Say what you will about Rolling Stone's hero-worship, staunchly leftist sympathies, arbitrary lists, and relatively recent descent into fetishizing celebrities a la People magazine,...
On the Cusp
Not sure what it means, but at Calhoun's packed show last week at Lola's, when the Fort Worth rock 'n' roll quartet/quintet played "Kick-Drum...
Shhh-Show
Now that dancing days are here again, the good ol' Eastside speakeasy is opening its doors back up to some BYOB-partying. A little background:...
South-B’bye
A million bands, a million clubs, a million people, one big headache: SXSW, the annual music festival and conference in Austin, took place last...
Katsuk, Kahsen, and Case
Heavy metal was a bad reaction to psychedelic music and everything it stood for: peace, love, freewill, dirty hair, smelly clothes, everything. Black Sabbath,...
Flyover Spillover
Every year around the middle of March, Fort Worth - and probably every other alleged flyover town in the Southwest - gets spillover from...
Burning Celluloid
The folks at Walden Media were having a helluva time finding the right Texas band to play a small performance bit in one of...
Grazin’ in the Grass
The jaunty trad-bluegrass standard "We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again" is one thing (i.e., awesome), but young folks playing it today is a...
