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...
The Panthys ’08
We got a lot of votes this year. Almost 20,000, to be exact. Both online and in print. And thanks to our ballot-counters -...
Dan Family Do’s
Brett Walker, who plays standup bass in the cowpunk trio The Dan Family, writes songs in his head as he drives a tractor around...
The High Life
Imagine, if you will, that all rock music stopped being made after 1975. No new wave, no thrash, no indie, no lo-fi, no '80s...
Time Out of Mind
Playing bass with Black Oak Arkansas, Rocky Athas, “Smokin’” Joe Kubek, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Rocky Hill, Marc Benno, and many other musicians has given...
Lycan Licks
A little over a year ago, in the thick of one of the hottest Texas summers in recent memory, three dudes squeezed into a...
Killer or Filler?
Jetta in the Ghost Tree’s Clandestine, Vol. 1
It’s been almost nine years since former Flickerstick frontman Brandin Lea put out an album. You would...
Calming Influence
We certainly live in weird times. Between a genocidal war in the Middle East looking like a prelude to WWIII, a vice-like economic structure...
Birth of the Cool
One of the Fort's oldest - and only - fusion outfits ain't goin' anywhere ... 'cept maybe Nashville.
By CAROLINE COLLIER
Bertha Coolidge gigs are about...
