Twisted Black Rhymes On
Street cred isn’t all it’s, uh, cracked up to be. High-profile rappers sentenced to significant prison terms –– Mystikal, Shyne, Slick Rick –– have...
Raging Boner Gets Pissed
Almost anyone in a band will try to sell you the same story: I’m only in it for the music, man! But when you’re...
Shapes Stars Make Are Out There
In These Mountains Are Safe, the North Texas trio Shapes Stars Make manages to turn furious progressive rock into an electronic lullaby. The majority...
What SXSW Says About FW
I spent the past six SXSW festivals running up and down 6th Street trying to catch every band I possibly could. Not this year,...
Wasted Words Aren’t
They walk among us, inconspicuous, hooked on the sickest fix in town. Jason Aldy, an overly polite 28-year-old, works at a health food store,...
Sunny Roads Ahead for J. Walkers
Take a look at the scrubbed-clean MySpace photos of the pop rock quintet The J. Walkers, and you can tell from their shiny smiles,...
Tommy Atkins (1974-2010)
Tommy Wayne Atkins, bassist for the Fort Worth experimental hard-rock trio The Great Tyrant, was found dead at home last Thursday afternoon. His two...
Panhandling Law Hampers Buskers
Ray Russell has been playing blues guitar around Fort Worth for more than 25 years. For the past year, he has been a busker,...
He’s Changed
While making We've Changed, Fort Worth troubadour David Matsler faced his demons and found them less daunting than he had feared. After five years...
Crystal Blue Persuasion
When Colin Arnold of the Dallas psychedelic duo Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things admits that his and ex-Fort Worthian Sean French's band "lends...
