Killer or Filler?
The number of CDs being produced by local artists on small labels or in home studios is both blessing and curse. It’s interesting to...
A-Roy’s Not Rough
Last fall, when Alan Royal started rapping in front of live audiences, he would introduce himself as “just a regular guy who likes hip-hop.”...
Saint Marie Records Arrives
Fort Worth may turn into a music town after all.
Just a couple of years ago, there wasn’t any industry infrastructure in place to...
The Skeeves Get Dirty
On their recently released self-titled debut album, The Skeeves tear through several genres of music. From mod-pop to synth-laced industrial trance to gritty, uptempo...
SXSW Wrap-Up
I was about four beers into my 12-pack when I realized Taiwan was not in Japan. One of my new Taiwanese friends, who had...
Beauxregard’s Gryphoemia
J. Quincy Romine, lead singer and co-songwriter for the baroque Americana band Beauxregard, has an intriguingly diverse set of influences. He loves movies ––...
The Hendersons: Back to the Future
Nolan Robertson labored intensely over every sonic meter of Lotosyros, the first mini-album from his ’60s revivalist, dream-pop project The Hendersons. After the 20-year-old...
Big Cliff, JKush: Freestyle Kings
Rappers Big Cliff and JKush will never replicate a performance. In fact, they will never even come close to doing a song the same...
Say Oh Whitney
Every band should have a patron saint like the one that watches over alt-Americana outfit Oh Whitney. She lets the band members live in...
Snow Tha Product: Immigrant Song
As far as she knows, Snow Tha Product is the only bilingual female rapper anywhere in the music business. The daughter of illegal immigrants...
