Toeing the Line
Ballerina-turned-rocker Allie Noelle sticks to the basics.
By the time she was in third grade, Fort Worth native Allie Noelle had a schedule as booked-up...
Bending Metal
Urizen breaks the rules - including the one that says all metal bands have to lack a sense of humor.
By CAROLINE COLLIER
Apocalyptic Nintendo music?...
No Longer Beginners
Most rock bands start out sounding like their forebears. And for every 200 bands that never find their own styles, there's one that goes...
Get Ready to Fest
The year was 2002 when Fort Worth Weekly decided to put together a concert as part of our annual Music Awards. The location was...
All In
In a story about SXSW for Rolling Stone last year, veteran crit David Fricke called the Denton-based Riverboat Gamblers “the best band without a...
Cheers and Jeers ’08
Looking back on the year that was in local music - and the years that may be.
By SOME LOCAL MUSIC KNOW-IT-ALLS
We asked a...
Killer or Filler?
When area musicians talk about drummer Matt Mabe, they do so with a healthy measure of respect for his skills on the skins. Soon,...
The High Life
Singer-songwriter Peter Black had almost had it with music, especially with flaky backing musicians.
“Playing with new guys with certain talents sometimes reveals the shortcomings...
In the Fry-ing Pan
I’m a senior journalism major at the University of North Texas, and like a lot of undergrads in Denton, I’ve taken to Fry Street...
High on Pyre
Easy categorizations are hard to find when talking about Fort Worth's down-tempo punk quintet Four Days to Burn. They excel at fast, skull-rattling sonic...
