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Killer or Filler?

The first in a series of planned Hanna Barbarians EPs has a winner.

Songs of the Year

From Darkness to Morning

Lion Eye is (from left to right) Shayla Sweetz, Andrew McCollough (Dru B Shinin’), Sam Rude, Paul Gordan, Paul Garza, and Chris Birdine (Young Zeus).

Lion Eye: Roaring Rhymes and Riddims

Killer or Filler?

Music Feature

Music Feature

And Another Thing …

Little Rooster wasn’t a hero. He was a small-town constable who always wanted to play cop. Got himself a scanner and listened to it constantly....
“I’m not really into the whole ‘bro country/party all the time’ kind of music that you hear a lot on the radio.”

Ryan’s Hope

Country music is chock-full of great drinking songs, but Fort Worth singer-songwriter Mike Ryan, 28, may have recorded the classic ode to toking up...

No Reservations

The economic downturn has not been kind to the folks from Indian Casino Records, the plucky little Seattle-based indie record label that we've profiled...

Bending Metal

Apocalyptic Nintendo music? That's what happens when the members of the happy-black-metal band Urizen started fiddling with the technology. When envisioning the North Texas...

Blonde Ambition

Dylan Owens is a different breed of punk. Bad Blonde’s twentysomething frontman is an anti-millennial –– confident with an air of positivity yet unfazed...

Dirty Diversion

The label “garage band” may have fallen out of fashion years ago, but that doesn’t mean rockers no longer practice the art. Though it...

Clay Perry Bets on Himself

As well as being one of the more erudite rhyme masons in the local hip-hop scene, over the last few years rapper Clay Perry...

Miller Time

In March 2020, the Zep-inspired Dead Vinyl had just embarked upon a West Coast tour when the pandemic forced them to turn around and...
The Orbans’ Vedere was noteworthy for multiple reasons.

Top Local Albums of ’14

1.) A couple of years ago, as I was interviewing Calhoun songwriters Tim Locke and Jordan Roberts, the discussion turned to The Orbans’ tremendous...

Ghetto Fabulous

In my column last week about PPT’s new full-length, Tres Monos in Love, I (ever the diligent reporter) failed to mention that along with...