New Local Music
Vincent Neil Emerson’s East Texas Blues
Think about this: Leon Bridges’ and Vincent Neil Emerson’s respective sounds are dissimilar enough that the comparison might seem...
Summer-Fi
Two years ago, Mac Probst was co-frontman of Movie the Band, an Irving-based five-piece that made charmingly low-fi slacker rock in the vein of...
Killer or Filler?
God’s Joke is an Arlington power trio that harkens back to Australia’s Hard-ons as well as Red-era King Crimson, delivering jams of shifting tempos,...
New Ears Eve
This past year has been a great one for local music. From indie troubadour Cameron Smith’s beautiful album Shine to veteran psych-rockers The Cush’s Riders...
Top 10(-ish) Local Albums of the Year
Lots of good albums come out of town every year. Tons. But when time comes for me to compile this list, I have to...
Progressions
When Adrian Hulet, the singer, pianist, and songwriter for the arty soul outfit oso closo, moved from Grapevine to Denton in 2001 to attend...
Hip-Hop Beyond the Stigmas
Fort Worth’s hip-hop landscape has no shortage of talent, but your average local music fan doesn’t hear a lot of the exciting acts coming...
Dirty Pool
John “JZ” Zaskoda has been one of Fort Worth’s more renowned guitar players for more than 20 years. Whether touring with professional country acts...
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...
Song of Himself
The next time Texas balladeer Steven Fromholz performs here, you might be snapping your fingers rather than applauding.
“I will be dressing all in black...
