Everybody’s Outlaw
Even if artists such as Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, and Elvis Presley have seen more chart action with...
The Byrds
Arguably one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and early 1970s, The Byrds were also occasionally mediocre and derivative as they wandered...
Hunters, Forests, and Porridge
Midlake is another in a long line of famous indie rock bands from Denton. Other wildly successful non-mainstream acts that also hail from our...
Dangerous Hoedown
At one point during the tune “Haypatch Hustler” from Walker & The Texas Dangers’ 2011 debut album Pay the Fiddler, Brett Walker shouts, “Balin’...
Garage Rock
About a year ago, when Terry Chandler and his wife, Jennifer, bought Fred’s Texas Café from Terry’s parents, the gourmet greasy spoon was known...
Nü-Disco
Just how inventive is dance music supposed to get? This is the question that challenges and inspires the Fort Worth trio known as Shuttle....
Comping the Fort Worth Co-Op
Don’t underestimate the importance of quality control. Running a venue, dancing in a ballet company, curating a gallery, being in a band, publishing a...
Bends Sinister
When you make music that describes life as a bottomless void and other people as hell and have a song about a child wandering...
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...
Why the Hell Not?
Although he’s made his name as a novelist and humorist, and may soon be known as Mistuh Guv’ner, Kinky Friedman, as many of y’all...
