Holding Two Things at Once
“The words are weird about it,” Jacob Furr said about grief. “We say we ‘incorporate’ it or ‘integrate’ it into our lives. It’s this...
New Local Music
Hightower’s Echo Spring
You have to admire the ambition on Echo Spring. The debut album from Hightower, the band-vehicle for 33-year-old Fort Worth singer-songwriter...
Ryan’s Hope
Country music is chock-full of great drinking songs, but Fort Worth singer-songwriter Mike Ryan, 28, may have recorded the classic ode to toking up...
Christmas Wax
“Do people still buy records?” This is a question I’ve heard asked by Boomer dads at Off the Record (the Near Southside record store/watering...
Patriot: Fire, Brimstone
Shortly after singer-songwriter Jake Paleschic graduated high school in spring 2009, he packed his bags and moved from Fort Worth to Nashville. Some friends...
Coyote Spirit
Musical renegade Red Shahan says he is in “new and unfamiliar territory.” He and his girlfriend are starting a family and planting roots, raising...
Good Place to Start
Fort Worth roots-rock quartet Chatterton has been together in one form or another for a few years now. Though frontman -- and lone remaining...
Dirty Diversion
The label “garage band” may have fallen out of fashion years ago, but that doesn’t mean rockers no longer practice the art.
Though it...
Rivercrest Yacht Club Raises Anchor
The moniker “party band” and which groups it’s applied to often carries an undue negative connotation. Somehow, not being “serious” can translate into not...
Reaching Meachitude
When I rolled up to MASS to interview them ahead of their gig on Sunday night, the five dudes that make up Meach Pango...
