American Heart Form
Live, improvisational jazz isn't scary, it needn't be excessively mathematical or theoretical, and it doesn't require a college degree to be enjoyed.
Most jazz performers...
Love, Loss, and Dead Horses
Clint Niosi's debut album has been a couple of years in coming.
The Sound of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders is a sly and...
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 -...
Death, Blood, and the Saint
Here's what I remember of Derek St. Holmes: listening to "Stranglehold" over and over while doing curls with red Kmart weights in front of...
Hot, Airy
The expression "Pffft," under the scrutiny of a Google search, reveals several meanings, including "The sound you make when someone says something really stupid"...
Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards 2008
Go home. Watch reruns. Go to some "hot" club and look pretty. Go to work. Go to sleep. Go out to a fancy dinner....
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...
Spacey
Most musicians go through little rituals when songwriting, and most of them can't explain the madness to their methods.
Ditto for Chris Plavidal, the...
Deep Space
Chances are that most folks know of Darth Vato as that crazy-ass party band that plays TCU a lot.
Yes, the trio frequently haunts the...
Blood, Rock
Fort Worth guitar hero John Nitzinger's life and music can be summed up pretty succinctly by the lyrics to "The Beast," off his 2007...
