Calhoun on Heavy Sugar
Calhoun has embraced pop. Not that the style was inherently anathema to co-songwriters Tim Locke and Jordan Roberts. But never before have...
Indie-Jazz
A few years ago, before blogs took over "the internets" - and began commandeering the local-music conversation - Ghostcar often popped up when discussion...
Russell, Russ, and Fletcher
All this angry music is making me ... angry. "You broke my heart, you lousy whore of Babylon!," "You stole my money, you mindless...
Two Minutes to Midnight
Let's get one thing straight: I love Spune Productions' Lance Yocom, whose contributions to the Fort Worth scene and hipster cachet are manifold and...
The Pearl and the Bird
Every year since she passed away in 2002, blues giant Lady Pearl has been honored by the blues community in the form of a...
It’s Hip to Be Square
I love hipsters, I really do. I know I make fun of 'em a lot, saying they're too cool for school, that they're way...
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...
Flyover Spillover
Every year around the middle of March, Fort Worth - and probably every other alleged flyover town in the Southwest - gets spillover from...
It’s That Time O’ Year Again: Music Awards
On pg. 18 is the ballot for our 12th annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards.
The ballot also - technology gods willing - will...
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,...