Christmas Wax
“Do people still buy records?” This is a question I’ve heard asked by Boomer dads at Off the Record (the Near Southside record store/watering...
The Year of Ryker Hall
The year 2018 hasn’t been kind to Ryker Hall – the person. He lost his digital marketing job and two grandparents died in quick...
Flexing a New Muscle
In 2013, D. Tall thought he was on his way. His first major single, the catcalling trap tune “Dem Heels,” was getting a lot...
Local Radio Rundown
In prepping for an article about radio stations that play local music, I did my due diligence and poked around the seven or eight...
Tennessee Dixon: Settling Down
Like many musicians before him, Caleb “Tennessee” Dixon started his music career in middle school, playing lead guitar in a classic rock cover band,...
Voyager Has Landed
Despite the fact that Svenny Baby! frontman/keyboardist Victor Toruno describes his band as an “edgier ELO,” the quartet doesn’t seem to adhere to a...
Becoming Devi
Devi is the Sanskrit word for “goddess,” which sounds like an ambitious name for an artist, but it’s an apt description of what the...
The Orange Years
In the entire history of musical expression, from the first repeated notes uttered by a caveman to whatever Brock Lesnar puts on to start...
Summer-Fi
Two years ago, Mac Probst was co-frontman of Movie the Band, an Irving-based five-piece that made charmingly low-fi slacker rock in the vein of...
On Desert Museum
Lambert Carsey started Desert Museum in 2015 as a DIY recording project made in the bedroom of his friend Ryan Winters. That endeavor resulted...
