CAM Can Do It
Jack Black’s shrieking and guitar shredding in School of Rock would fit in fine at Southwest High School’s Contemporary Academy of Music. CAM offers...
The Graduate
“Who you know that flow like dis?!”
NinoSoSupremey screams these opening lyrics while wearing an oversized blue tunic and a wig overflowing with hair curlers....
Killer or Filler?
Punk attitude goes a long way in defusing listeners’ bullshit detectors. And you don’t have to play loud, clanging guitars at breakneck speeds to...
Simone Nicole’s Foreign Exchange
A lot of people make music as a hobby, picking up an instrument in high school, college, or early adulthood, jamming in the living...
In Transit
Lou CharLe$ is constantly on the move. Whether it’s touring, recording, promoting, or shooting videos, the TCU graduate can’t stay still for too long....
New Local Music
Jessie Frye’s Boys’ Club
Jessie Frye has balance working in her favor. Her rich voice could easily work in the hands of a dance-pop...
New Local Music
MicroD’s D’s Quest (self-released)
When I first saw the artwork for D’s Quest, the new EP from MicroD (the nom de programme of Fort Worth’s...
Songbird Jones Soars
If you asked Songbird Jones frontman Matt Jones what he wanted out of life 10 years ago, the 34-year-old would have said a career...
Love, Loss, and Dead Horses
Clint Niosi's debut album has been a couple of years in coming.
The Sound of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders is a sly and...
Prayers Up
A little over a year ago, I interviewed long-running instrumental band Stem Afternoon about their then-new debut album, Bandit from Beyond. Talking with multi-instrumentalist...