Saved by the Southside
A steady stream of people comes in and out of Avoca Coffee on West Magnolia Avenue. It’s a cool Saturday afternoon, though many of...
Blonde Ambition
Dylan Owens is a different breed of punk. Bad Blonde’s twentysomething frontman is an anti-millennial –– confident with an air of positivity yet unfazed...
New Local Music
Randy Rogers Band’s Nothing Shines Like Neon
Some of the best country and western songs feature Texas cities: “Abilene,” “Amarillo by Morning,” “Galveston,” “El Paso,”...
Top 10(-ish) Local Albums of the Year
Lots of good albums come out of town every year. Tons. But when time comes for me to compile this list, I have to...
Top 10 Local Songs of ’15
Once again, a wealth of exceptional tuneage exploded from the great 817 this year. On a purely technical level, there were at least ––...
A Rock Band’s Rock Band
Collectively, the four guys in Caliche Burnout have amassed a century’s worth of experience playing in local bands. With a resume of past acts...
New Local Music
Clint Niosi’s
Captives of Sense
Clint Niosi’s third album is 10 tracks of mostly instrumental experimental sounds soaring over the pulse of quiet guitar, sly keyboards,...
Moon Rocks
Moon Grave has seen the good, bad, and ugly sides of a name. Until last May, the Fort Worth alt-rock trio went by the...
A Quick Buzz
For a band that technically didn’t form until the summer of 2015, Ill Smiths have quickly become one of the buzziest acts in the...
Squanto’s Spear of Density
For fans of ’90s trip-hop, early Beck, glitchwerks, the poetry of John Ashbery and Jorie Graham, and music as people 30 and older probably...
