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Whence The Longshots?
For a brief moment a couple years ago, the gritty, dirty, Stones-honoring Longshots looked like the Next Big Thing. They had the pedigree: co-fronted...
Beer-tastic Party Songs
Like purple syrup and hip-hop and like massive amounts of cocaine and Duran Duran, beer and rock just go together. Sure, C&W pickers and...
The Winner? FWRA
Were there any bar fights last night? I wouldn’t know because I’m writing this as the votes are pouring in. I hope your person...
Making a Spectacle
Steve Gnash, Wed, Nov 9 w/ Oil Boom and Native Fozex at The Live Oak Music Hall, 1311 Lipscomb St, FW. 817-926-0968. $5 cover.
Who...
Come Again, Vinyl
Visiting family a couple of months ago, I tried to think of the last time I listened to an LP. Perfect Strangers? Rock Will...
New Local Music
MicroD’s D’s Quest (self-released)
When I first saw the artwork for D’s Quest, the new EP from MicroD (the nom de programme of Fort Worth’s...
Jacob Furr’s Sierra Madre
Jacob Furr
Sierra Madre
(Self-released)
On 2014’s Trials and Traces, Jacob Furr delivered a heartbreaking work of staggering darkness in the wake of losing his wife...
Our Tribe’s Fall Classic
Jerome 57 has been in his band longer than he hasn’t. Now 35, he cofounded Spoonfed Tribe when he was at the tender age...
High-Toned
Cameron Smith wanted to be a songwriter in his early teens, he said, after first hearing Bob Dylan. In fact, War Party originated as...
Free to Rock
Say what you want about sonic identities, but no matter what a band thinks it sounds like, the common element among them all is...



















