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...
Starting to Roll
It’s an almost comical understatement to say that local musicians can’t compete for people’s attention right now. With the myriad profound and life-altering circumstances...
Poly’s Pure Heart
Owning his own record label, barbershop, and fashion line –– his own sneaker, no less –– doesn’t mean Everett George doesn’t roughen his hands....
A Songwriter’s Pilgrimage
In April 2019, Joe Savage carried his Martin backpackers’ guitar and walked across the north of Spain for 500 miles in solitude for 31...
Worried and Woke
Court Hoang was a couple of weeks into the pandemic lockdown and feeling disconnected. Hunkering down wasn’t the problem. The software developer works from...
Waves of Tidals
Probably the best way to listen to Tidals is on a dark train zipping through the city at night. New York City perhaps or...
Mean Motor Scooter
Mean Motor Scooter may be “local,” technically, but the hard-rocking and -popping quartet has fans all over, including France and Spain, where MMS has...
