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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Live Oak Dead

What Happened to Texas Music?

Top 20 Local Rappers

Caged Bird

Like The Light Crust Doughboys, Shotgun Friday harks back to the days when bands had sponsors.

Slammin’ Sounds

Music Feature

Music Feature

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...

Time to Celebrate

Grady Spencer is in a pretty good spot. While his life probably isn’t totally free of anxieties, the Lubbock-bred country-leaning singer-songwriter seems to be...

Twisted Black Rhymes On

Street cred isn’t all it’s, uh, cracked up to be. High-profile rappers sentenced to significant prison terms –– Mystikal, Shyne, Slick Rick –– have...

Squeezebox Bandits: Made in Texas

The Squeezebox Bandits sound a whole lot like Texas. Their mix of Tejano and C&W reflects the upbringing of the quartet’s co-frontmen, Abel Casillas and...

Top 20 Local Songs of 2018

Aren’t end-of-the-year lists silly? Who are we to say that Joe Gorgeous’ “Wet Cement” was a better track than, say, “Little Sea” by Bosque...

A Higher Calling

Not of necessity, but out of personal nostalgic indulgence, I find that writing about Josh Weathers takes me back to a somewhat wild time...

Beautiful

In November 2021, Fort Worth Magazine ran an oral history-style interview with the original members of Flickerstick in conjunction with the then-recent releases of...

The Wreck Room: 1997-2007

A couple of years ago, I sat at a table at J&J's Hideaway with Wreck Room owner Brian Forella and developer Philip Poole. The...

New Local Music

Red Shahan’s Men & Coyotes (Magnolia Records) At first glance, “Men & Coyotes” seems like a silly name for a song, much less an album. And then...

Panhandling Law Hampers Buskers

Ray Russell has been playing blues guitar around Fort Worth for more than 25 years. For the past year, he has been a busker,...