Rotten Roots Jam
Angsty, punk-rocking Texas teenagers with caches of bluesy Lone Star country records are bound to mellow out with age, and Rotten Roots, somewhat of...
Killer or Filler?
Singer-songwriter Taylor Craig Mills’ debut album, Don’t Ever Look Back Twice, has been a long time coming, and it’s a shiny little gem of...
Killer or Filler?
Darrin Kobetich’s The Longest Winter
The title of guitarist Darrin Kobetich’s latest self-released album, The Longest Winter, suggests the musician might be applying his considerable...
Gone Rogue
The two “Rogues” in JJ & The Rogues have, um, gone rogue. Just in the past few weeks, the Fort Worth pop-rock quartet lost...
Killer or Filler?
Here’s a split EP released on cassette (!) and digital download that features six tracks of raging, lo-fi punk rock thrills, with a virulence...
Rock Explosion
Fort Worth has a lot of rock bands. Indie-rock, hard-rock, stoner-rock, punk-rock. But good ol’ fashioned, straight-ahead, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll? Eh.
But Fort Worth,...
Calhoun Conquers SXSW
At South by Southwest this year, I was reminded of an old theory that applies to festivals: The average festivalgoer only hears broad strokes,...
SXFW
Since the late 1990s, when I first started attending South by Southwest, I’ve complained so much about the annual music festival and conference that...
Spinning Mind Spiders
The funny thing about buzz in the internet age is that the attention a band gets is seemingly disconnected from a sense of place....
The Glow of Mon Julien
For reasons that will become obvious later, one of the best songs off Mon Julien’s recently released eponymous album is also one of the...
