Fortress Creative
After the postponement of Fortress Festival 2020 — now slated for April 24 and 25 of 2021 — festival co-founders Alec Jhangiani and Ramtin...
The Nova Blak Shine Darkly
After years of playing the circuit as a hard rock outfit in the early aughts, Justin Foia and Brock Miller recently reconnected to develop...
Breaking the Silence
As we flip over another page in our 2020 “Hang in There” kitten calendars and reveal the sneering visage of an angry August, we...
Hold Music
0. Deletron is less a band than a collection of kindred spirits searching for expressions and impressions that matter. Formed several years ago, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Save Our Stages
I don’t know what Gov. Greg Abbott does in bars, other than probably look for a way out as quickly as possible (get thee...
Shifting Bands
Drummer Madison Winchell III accomplished a rare feat for a local rock ’n’ roller. He played in two bands that went national. That was...
