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...
Songbird
You’d think that a young songwriter whose honkytonk guitar-playing father raised her on a steady diet of country legends would be super-enthusiastic about C&W....
The Byrds
Arguably one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and early 1970s, The Byrds were also occasionally mediocre and derivative as they wandered...
Solo Voce
Ad-libbing a new ending to a Mozart concerto changed Jordan Critz' world - not to mention his standing in the piano competition in which...
Waves of Sound
Fort Worth natives Jeremy Lantz, 33, and Joshua Wrinkle, 30 –– together known as the techno duo Tidals –– were once asked to describe...
Top 20 Songs of 2019
This year’s task of paring down the last 365 days of sonics in the 817 to a list of 20 was damn-near impossible. There...
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...
iNcelta: A Man Out of Time
It’s a welcome treat when I’m tasked with listening to something and am genuinely surprised by what I hear. I don’t necessarily mean when...
He Loves Fort Worth
If the video game Guitar Hero had only songs written and performed by Texas music legends, it's a good bet that one song by...
Matthew McNeal’s Aural Alchemy
The last couple of weeks have sucked, objectively speaking, seeing that everyone’s been confined to their homes to avoid catching COVID-19. With the hysterics...
