Ice Eater: Cold Comfort
Ice Eater is not a very Fort Worth-ish band. The guys can party with the best of ’em, but their music sounds like it...
A Tame … Tame Christmas
With all the hustle and bustle of modern-day holiday commercialism and parental guilt trips, the real reason we still practice the tradition of Christmas...
South By Stockyards
There was a time, probably 20 years ago, when South by Southwest was a legitimately incredible way for fans to see dozens of young,...
Relatively Heavy
Danny Mabe grew up the youngest of three brothers in a highly musically talented family.
But up until recently, the new Burleson High School graduate...
Big Heaven
The charts of today’s era are dominated by formulaic pop. So much so that as an adolescent, I developed a strong distaste for the...
Who’s Your Uncle Toasty?
Mean Motor Scooter drummer Jeffery Chase Friedman is fronting a new band. It’s called Uncle Toasty, and, at least for its debut show at...
New Local Music
Bad Blonde’s
Caffeine Daze
“Breaking Loose,” the first track off Bad Blonde’s Caffeine Daze, starts out deceptively mellow, with vocalist/guitarist Dylan Owens’ echoing voice draped over...
Summer-Fi
Two years ago, Mac Probst was co-frontman of Movie the Band, an Irving-based five-piece that made charmingly low-fi slacker rock in the vein of...
O Brother, There Art Thou
There’s no doubt that T Bone Burnett is a mature artist — the 58-year-old was mentored by Bob Dylan, worked on plays with Sam...
High on Pyre
Any preconceived notion of doom-metal takes Four Days to Burn.
By JIMMY FOWLER
Easy categorizations are hard to find when talking about Fort Worth's down-tempo punk...
