Best Concerts of 2016
Fort Worth’s music scene is as vibrant as ever, and all of the bands, bars, sound guys, and fans of the scene made 2016...
Best Local Songs of ’16
There were so many good songs this year, there’s no way I could have kept up with all of them, but I managed to...
Best Fort Worth(-ish) Albums of ’16
If it weren’t for the following tunes (and perhaps many others, ones I either haven’t heard or that haven’t been recorded yet), then I...
Trái Bo: Whatever Works
Band names are often non-sequitur, a pair of unrelated words that sound good rolling off the tongue. Trái Bơ is a Vietnamese word that...
New Local Music
Heater, Reaching for Things Unknown (Twistworthy Records)
Geez, where did Heater come from? On first listen to the Fort Worth band’s new 7-inch EP, Reaching...
A Beat like No Other
In some circles, Mike Lackey is a celebrity. The Fort Worth-based beatboxer has elevated his craft far beyond the ’80s-era Fat Boys standard of...
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...
