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Killer or Filler?
What to get that music lover in your life? Well, iTunes gift cards are great but are grossly impersonal. Worse, they don’t allow you...
Best Local Albums of ’13
Fort Worth produced a ton of good records this year, and there’s just so much to choose from that compiling a judicious list of...
Brandin Lea: Clean, Sober, and Back Onstage
At around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday evening, the folks at Lola’s Saloon will not be feeling warm and fuzzy and standing arm-in-arm with one...
Fort Worth’s J.T. Hodges Goes Hollywood
Add thespian to J.T. Hodges’ list of talents. The Fort Worth musician will be featured in the world premier of Finding Christmas, a Hallmark...
Best Local Songs of ’13
By “best,” of course, I mean “my favorite.” And by “local,” I mean “Tarrant County.” For the most part. People from Dallas, Denton, and...
Killer or Filler?
Cheap recording technology probably partly explains the wealth of new music popping up in town these days, but what explains the high quality? Maybe...
Finding Lost Child
Monday nights have been pretty rad at Lola’s over the past month. Bartender (and sax-man extraordinaire) Jeff Dazey started booking free shows on the...
Dangerous Hoedown
At one point during the tune “Haypatch Hustler” from Walker & The Texas Dangers’ 2011 debut album Pay the Fiddler, Brett Walker shouts, “Balin’...
Holy Moly: Brothers’ Keepers
The last time Holy Moly played Billy Bob’s Texas, a mosh pit broke out, a first for the World’s Largest Honky-tonk®. You’ve got to...
Kaleidoscopic
The Fort Worth indie-pop quartet Kites and Boomerangs has been playing high-energy shows with its current lineup –– guitarist/vocalist Josh Garcia, guitarist/vocalist Will Appleton,...
