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...
Radio, What’s New?
I know I'm going to get a raft of shit from my boys at The Good Show (Sundays 9 p.m.-midnight, 88.7-FM/KTCU), but as a...
Chart Movements
Every once in a blue moon, a successful local band may find one of its singles in the Billboard Hot 100, a weekly chart...
Fort Worth in Sundance
And, no, we don't mean the square downtown. In addition to Californian-via-Fort Worth filmmaker Jesus "Chin" Beltran (see our story last week, "Sundance Kid"),...
Bleeding Hearts, Possibly Noses
Local rockers are generally good about helping one another out. When in serious need, I mean. Not when one of them needs a Tuaca...
The Village Voice
For the past 15 years, the voice of local music for Star-Telegram readers has been Malcolm Mayhew. He was here when The Toadies and...
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...
Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
Breaking In, Out
Several weeks ago, when local musician John Zaskoda opened Sessions Music, a boutique guitar store on White Settlement Road near downtown, he had grand,...
PlayJazzPlay
Just when you thought the days of major labels' swooping down from above and plucking obscure bands from the bowels of local music scenes...
