Retrophonics Dig Deep
Chris Watson is sort of rebranding himself. After playing the North Texas circuit for most of his professional life as bandleader of the soulful...
Big Heaven’s Divine Reward
In the middle of the summer, after rehearsal for the Dedicated Followers of Fashion, a short-lived Kinks tribute band, the de facto Ray Davies...
Off the Rail
We dig The Rail. It’s a high-quality, great-sounding venue and frequently a home for hard rockers and metalheads, who have been reduced over the...
What SXSW Says About FW
I spent the past six SXSW festivals running up and down 6th Street trying to catch every band I possibly could. Not this year,...
Twilite Lounge 2
Beneath glowing blue and yellow neon, there’s a door that cuts off the corner of a low industrial building. The former warehouse now proudly...
Ayden Trammell
Though he just started college, this 19-year-old is already racking up more than 8,000 monthly streams on Spotify. The guy generating all that traffic...
R.I.P. Savvy’s Rich Mauch
The guy whose looks, musicianship, and demeanor made him one of the coolest guys on the local rock scene in the 1970s and 1980s...
Goodbye, Lola’s
What’s really sad to me about Lola’s closing is that I more or less wrote this column once before. In May 2022 (“R.I.P., 3726...
Bass Family Music Grant Sparks Some Backlash
Some artists are a little P.O.’d. They don’t think of musicmaking as a smackdown-able thing. It’s more like a higher calling. To them, asking...
Straight Outta Irving
Unless you live in Irving, you probably don’t have a lot of positive thoughts to spare for it, if you spare any thoughts for...
