Clint Niosi: Pleasurably Spiteful
Sometimes lyrics seem just thrown together, and for some bands, louder bands, you can see why –– on disc or in person, their words...
Live Oak to Work With Spune?
More changes are afoot at The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge, the plush venue/bar/restaurant that recently opened on the Near Southside.
A month ago,...
Lycan Licks
A little over a year ago, in the thick of one of the hottest Texas summers in recent memory, three dudes squeezed into a...
That’s Kicker
In many ways, The Longshots are your typical roadhouse-rocking throwback band. Just four young dudes playing dirty rock ’n’ roll, looking grungy, and drivin’...
The Appraiser
To say that Kevin Aldridge has just made the record of his career is a bold statement. The 39-year-old singer-songwriter has been churning out...
Killer or Filler?
The Toadies’ Play.Rock.Music
Let’s get this out of the way first. Play.Rock.Music, The Toadies’ fifth studio album since first forming in the late 1980s, doesn’t...
Punk Drunk
Perhaps one of the most tired arguments that can arise between two humans is the one that tries to define punk rock. People who...
Killer or Filler?
Oil Boom’s Gold Yeller
Last August, just a few months after the Dallas-Fort Worth trio Oil Boom dropped its first, widely acclaimed EP, Black Waxy,...
Paws for the Cause
Now in their mid-30s and early 40s, the three Fort Worthians comprising the shoegazing, psych-rocking Year of the Bear are undertaking the novel task...
Boogie Nights
Until recently, Fort Worth’s noisy blues-rock trio The Frisky Disco was having a rough go at it. They had been floundering, really, for the...
