The Shortest Distance
The Shortest Distance is an alias for activist Ramsey Sprague, an early driving force behind the 1919 Hemphill radical arts/educational collective. Folks might not...
Sunny Sweeney
It was last fall when Sunny Sweeney’s self-produced debut c.d. first arrived in the mail. Not that it was particularly momentous.
She hails from...
Five Times August
Brad Skistimas, the 24-year-old Dallasite who operates under the sweeping moniker Five Times August, recently released his second full-length effort, Brighter Side.
And for a...
The Mag 7
There’s this one episode of Beverly Hills 90210 in which Brandon, Brenda, and the gang bring their rayon shirts, sideburns, and bi-level eye sockets,...
Darling New Neighbors
Listening to music is usually a subjective experience, but certain rules and boundaries apply to performing it. Songwriting is not for the weak of...
Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...
Destination Decibel
As national tours are still not quite a thing — at least not this summer (thanks, pandemic) — many of the town’s busiest local...
The Dangits
I’d resigned myself to the fact that nobody around the Metromess plays real, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll anymore — you know, that blues-based music...
Anjani
“There’s perfume burning in the air / Bits of beauty everywhere,” sings jazz pianist-vocalist Anjani on the opener to Blue Alert, her third album....
The Juke Jumpers
When I first hit the Fort back in '78, Robert Ealey's New Bluebird Night Club seemed like a hipster utopia, where TCU kids and...
