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Beer-tastic Party Songs

Like purple syrup and hip-hop and like massive amounts of cocaine and Duran Duran, beer and rock just go together. Sure, C&W pickers and...

Making a Spectacle

Steve Gnash, Wed, Nov 9 w/ Oil Boom and Native Fozex at The Live Oak Music Hall, 1311 Lipscomb St, FW. 817-926-0968. $5 cover. Who...

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...

High-Toned

Cameron Smith wanted to be a songwriter in his early teens, he said, after first hearing Bob Dylan. In fact, War Party originated as...

Free to Rock

Say what you want about sonic identities, but no matter what a band thinks it sounds like, the common element among them all is...

The Future is Now

As Fort Worth-based rapper Tornup sat at Avoca Coffee during a bustling lunch hour trying to answer a reporter’s (overly) simple question –– How...

Dead Rising

Learning on the fly has become the norm for Dead Singers Party. The Fort Worth ensemble recorded and released its debut album, Strange Youth,...

Straight Outta Irving

Unless you live in Irving, you probably don’t have a lot of positive thoughts to spare for it, if you spare any thoughts for...

Leon Bridges’ Encore

Swaying tempos, ooo-ing backing vocals, splishy-splashy drums, echoing guitars, the mélange trebly yet layered to a heavenly thickness –– Coming Home sounds as if it...

A New Kind of Happy

A lot has changed for I Happy Am since its beginnings as a solo musical outlet for Fort Worth artist Rebekah Elizabeth. After about...