Novel Approach
Creative expression, the desire to master an art form, to honor one's influences - they're all important reasons for a performer to pick up...
Auld Bang Syne
Present-day Fort Worth and '90s-era Deep Ellum are about to clash. Topping a four-band bill at Lola's Saloon-Sixth this weekend are Haltom City's mighty...
Business Gets Better
With an author's love of wordplay and keen eye for gritty details, 26-year-old Eaton Lake Tonics frontman Tony Ferraro draws inspiration from "dude-lit," writers...
Le Freak
Here are a couple of fun facts about the 817 musical entity Disco:Hate, a.k.a. Casey Colby: First, he sings and writes original material but...
Art of Darkness
Under normal circumstances, three guys who all work at art museums starting a band together would either be the beginning of a lame joke...
North Texas’ Woodstock
Everyone remembers Woodstock. But what about the Texas International Pop Festival?
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Cold Comfort
The Future Unlived's music is "built upon revenge," according to frontman Danny Future. Case in point: "Machine," a blues-rock stomp in which Future, whose...
Pay Dirt
Austin Allsup is a complex guy -- tough, tender, lost, confident, sane, crazy -- but what he isn't is lazy. A couple of weeks...
Come Together
Matt Skates has been a fixture on the Fort Worth music scene for years. He plays bass currently in seven local bands: Ginny Mac,...
Pluck
Frank Whetstine has reinvented something almost as commonplace and universally accepted as the wheel: the plastic guitar pick. The flat, triangular pick favored for...
