Lost in the Crowd at SXSW
In retrospect, complaining about any part of South by Southwest sounds inordinately whiny. It’s not on par with bitching that the gold leaf on...
Festival Season Has Arrived
Denton’s massive annual music festival returned for its seventh year with even more emphasis on local artists, which was by no means a bad...
New Local Music
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...
New Local Music
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,...
New Local Music
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...
New Local Music
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...
