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...
Killer or Filler?
Like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, bassist Paul Unger does exactly what he wants when he wants (or at least when he isn’t holding down...
Killin’ ’em Softly
Killa MC and about a half-dozen other Fort Worth rappers huddled around a table at a local coffee shop about a year and a...
Cody Jinks Hits 30
The lanky stoner-looking dude at the bar at the White Elephant Saloon in the Stockyards might seem a little out of place amid all...
War Party Throws Back
The details of a brief November road trip to Austin are still hazy for War Party’s four members. In an interview on a recent...
Buzzing Slumberbuzz
Before pegging Slumberbuzz, first consult rock taxonomy and stop at shoe-gaze, one of various offshoots of post-rock. The 20-year-old term derives from the musicians’...
Blonde Ambition
When Texas Music singer-songwriter Charla Corn turned 19, the Panhandle native moved to Nashville to make it big. The young, fit, attractive blonde achieved...
Upward to Madràs
Started by brothers Jeevan and Mathew Antony, Madràs –– everything about it –– was created out of a series of seeming disconnects, fitting for...
