Darrin Kobetich’s Longest Winter
Darrin Kobetich and his guitars have been through a lot together over the last 33 years. When he was a howling force in thrash...
Dru B Shinin’
Rapper Dru B Shinin’ used to take part in hip-hop battles but not anymore. While his insightful, intelligent lyrical flow might help him triumph...
Foxymorons Tell Bible Stories
The Foxymorons aren’t your typical band. It’s the songwriting vehicle for two guys from different cities, Fort Worth’s Jerry James and Nashville’s David Dewese,...
Killer or Filler?
Feeler is the lost Toadies album, recorded in 1997 and meant as the follow-up to the Fort Worth quartet’s widely acclaimed platinum-selling album...
EPIC RUINS Soar
Lots of bands put out CDs. Few bands put out an album, in the sense of a seminal recording (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...
Reckoning In Memory of Man
Last year, the veteran Fort Worth prog-metal band Loaded Moses dissolved but didn’t really disappear. Instead, the two main songwriters, guitarist Chad Beck and...
Killer or Filler?
When area musicians talk about drummer Matt Mabe, they do so with a healthy measure of respect for his skills on the skins. Soon,...
Enter: The Orbans
You blinked and missed it. OK, call me unreasonable, but a couple of weeks ago, one of the best albums ever produced by a...
Still Twirling at the Stagecoach
Out on East Belknap Street, in a stand-alone building covered in Western murals, honkytonk is alive and kickin’. The Stagecoach Ballroom, with a history...
Reliving DFW Punk
When filmmaker Laura Tabor-Huerta was an Arlington high school student in the early 1980s, punk was for the freaks. “It was just me and...
