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Four Obituary Notices
A number of people whose work has caught my interest over the years have passed away recently, and while I let a couple of...
New Booking at Live Oak
The beautiful new Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge and its in-house booking agent, Clint Simpson, have parted ways.
“Basically, it just wasn’t a good...
Randy Travis Arrested Again
Randy Travis is a very talented, even legendary country artist, but the last couple of years he’s been on a downward spiral of “bad-worse-worst”...
CD Release Weekend
The past 12 months or so have been pretty great for local musicians’ recorded output. Just look at all the albums and EPs on...
Killer or Filler?
Oil Boom’s Gold Yeller
Last August, just a few months after the Dallas-Fort Worth trio Oil Boom dropped its first, widely acclaimed EP, Black Waxy,...
Aldridge, Katsük, Madràs
I don’t know what –– if anything –– this means, but two of the first few musicians I met when I moved here, lo,...
Paws for the Cause
Now in their mid-30s and early 40s, the three Fort Worthians comprising the shoegazing, psych-rocking Year of the Bear are undertaking the novel task...
UPDATED Comptroller Storms Lola’s
For the second time in about a month last Saturday, agents from the state comptroller’s office stormed Lola’s Saloon (2736 W. 6th St., 817-877-0666)...
Ode to Lola’s, Fort Live
Here’s one thing that can be said for Progress: Sometimes new stuff is better. Case in point: Lola’s Saloon. Many of us fondly recall...
Boogie Nights
Until recently, Fort Worth’s noisy blues-rock trio The Frisky Disco was having a rough go at it. They had been floundering, really, for the...
