Still Swinging
In jazz vernacular, “groove” refers to the pulse of the rhythm section. To have a nice groove, an ensemble has to find the right...
New Local Music
Joe Savage’s Songs Worth Singing
A century removed from the way Hank done it and decades after the heyday of Townes, Willie, and Waylon, and...
Keeping Busy
Luke McGlathery is a busy dude. If the Fort Worth singer-songwriter isn’t playing gigs to promote his new album Life Ain’t Hard, or backing...
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...
Siberian Traps: Supermen
Seth Reeves has lots of things to say about living in Nashville. Some are good. Others, not so much.
“It’s the city of shattered dreams,”...
Complete: Truly Outré Stars
That they weren’t in tune was expected, and even if they wanted to, the four unkempt, frumpy middle-aged dudes making up the Fort Worth...
New Local Music
Sally Majestic’s Rate of Exchange
Sally Majestic’s new album is interesting. Oh, sure. The musicality and performances are inventive –– the kind of musician’s telepathy...
Left Arm Tan: Smart Country
Left Arm Tan is a country-and-Western band, although its adventurous members sometimes defy that categorization. There’s plenty of heartbreak to go around on Lorene,...
Ronnie Heart: Moving on Up
A text saying, “I’m on my way!” hits my phone as Neon Indian’s 2010 anthem “Deadbeat Summer” starts playing in a coffee shop on...
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Bomb Quixote’s
Netflix and Chill
It’s kinda funny that Netflix and Chill has a song called “Why Wolves” on it, because somewhere near the end of...
