Rob Baird & the Whiskey Reunion
Having a country-rock scene as thriving as the Fort’s spells great news for musical connoisseurs and not-so-great news for artists just emerging into it....
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...
Sufjan Stevens
Writing a definitive Sufjan Stevens review is almost as ambitious as Stevens’ intent to write, record, and release 50 albums themed after each U.S....
The Clientele
“Nothing here has any value — nothing here is real,” croon the folks of The Clientele on the opening track of their new album,...
Soundtrack to the Cosmos
The cross-section of art and science is not often obvious, but whether it’s the hypnotic beauty of the Fibonacci Sequence’s recurring presence in nature...
Various artists
Kinky Friedman’s songs are known more for their titles than what the music sounds like. “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get...
Fontaine Brown
Tales from the Fence Line (Manatee Records)
By Tom Geddie
Listening to Fontaine Brown's Tales from the Fence Line is almost like plugging in an old...
‘I’m Going Straight to Hell’ All Clean (Self-released)
After more than five years in the making, All Clean is finally poised to release its debut album. The long-awaited Down from the Inner...
The New Amsterdams
Before launching The New Amsterdams six years ago, Matt Pryor fronted the Get Up Kids, an almost-famous indie-rock manufacturer that recently shuttered its hometown...
Son Seals
A Journey Through the Blues: The Son Seals Story celebrates the semi-acclaimed, wholly distinctive singer-songwriter and ax-man the way he lived: straight-ahead and raw.
Seals...
