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Live at the Live Oak, Vol. 1, various artists
The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge is an acoustically and aesthetically pleasing joint to go...
Le’Velle Rising
At 20, Fort Worth rapper Le’Marr Warren — better known as Lyric Le’Velle — has drawn comparisons to J. Cole and earned Leon Bridges’...
Mind Spiders Punk at Heart
There’s something almost serene about Mark Ryan. The thoughtful, direct, soft-spoken 40-year-old frontman/guitarist/songwriter for Fort Worth/Denton’s Mind Spiders carries himself with the confidence of...
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Hightower’s Echo Spring
You have to admire the ambition on Echo Spring. The debut album from Hightower, the band-vehicle for 33-year-old Fort Worth singer-songwriter...
War Spoils
I remember War Party’s inception five years ago as something a couple of dudes I knew were goofing on. Bassist Tyler Moore told me...
Northern Rising
The last time I interviewed Turbid North, the Alaskan-born, Texas-based death metal band, was on a brief break from touring in support of Orogeny,...
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Tornup’s Collider Scope
Collider Scope (Ephemeral Hangs), Fort Worth rapper Tornup’s follow-up to Impossible Dreams, is a sonic collage of experimental music and vocals. Tornup...
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Men of Extinction’s
We Made it Ourselves
Jim Colegrove releases a self-produced album every year or two, and the projects tend to sound familiar and...
Solo Time
Last month, Chris Brown’s seventh album, Royalty, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard charts. When the R&B stylist’s label, RCA, started taking pre-orders...
Juando a La Vez
The formula for a band to release music to the masses has been the same for more than three quarters of a century: Write...
