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...
No Reservations
The economic downturn has not been kind to the folks from Indian Casino Records, the plucky little Seattle-based indie record label that we've profiled...
A Light in the Field
Most of us who go to local shows probably spend a lot of time paying polite attention, maybe nodding along to the beat a...
With a Bullet
Having spent several years as a member of the neo-soul vocal quartet Keingz Ransom and as a roommate of Keegan McInroe of Catfish Whiskey,...