Best Local Songs of ’13
By “best,” of course, I mean “my favorite.” And by “local,” I mean “Tarrant County.” For the most part. People from Dallas, Denton, and...
Killer or Filler?
Cheap recording technology probably partly explains the wealth of new music popping up in town these days, but what explains the high quality? Maybe...
Dangerous Hoedown
At one point during the tune “Haypatch Hustler” from Walker & The Texas Dangers’ 2011 debut album Pay the Fiddler, Brett Walker shouts, “Balin’...
Kaleidoscopic
The Fort Worth indie-pop quartet Kites and Boomerangs has been playing high-energy shows with its current lineup –– guitarist/vocalist Josh Garcia, guitarist/vocalist Will Appleton,...
Zapped
As long as there have been video games, there’s been videogame music –– and there have been video games for nearly 35 years. The...
Killer or Filler?
The problem with genre music is that it all tends to sound alike. Well, if it sounded like anything else, it wouldn’t be part...
Crisco Redux
Calhoun has always been a little, well, different. When Tim Locke launched what was at the time his solo project, lo, these 10-plus years...
Slumberbuzz Awakens
Last January, Slumberbuzz had changed its name, solidified its sound and lineup, and written enough material to fill an album. At the time, the...
Easy, Shannon
Listen: A giant lived here.
Ronald Shannon Jackson was born in Fort Worth on Jan. 12, 1940. He died here on Saturday, of leukemia, in...
Killer or Filler?
Music Awards has just come and gone (well, since late July), and look at all the dynamite new recordings that have already popped up...
