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The Chemistry Set
With ample support from Josh Hoover, Cory Helms, Meredith Knoll, and a cast of thousands drawn from a deep pool of Golden Triangle musicians,...
Various artists
In regularly exploring politics and American culture, Randy Newman’s best songwriting often walks a sardonic line between humor and insight. On the tribute album...
Stella Rose
Stella Rose is the best new grunge band you’ve heard but tough where others are just loud, and spacey where others are just gratuitously...
Shadow Bound
Even though The February Chorus moves effortlessly through different shades of rock — from driving yet airy to seductive yet noisy — the band...
Amistad
Combining traditional Mexican/Colombian folk styles cumbia and vallenato with bits of reggae, calypso, rock, rap, and turntable mixing and scratching, Fort Worth-based Amistad’s six-song,...
The Backsliders
Funny how a lot of melodic rockers seem to require an angsty outlet. When he’s not with The Burning Hotels, bassist Coby Queen spends...
Thrash, Not Trash
In 1987, Gammacide guitarist and co-founder Rick Perry (definitely not the governor) said his band was “built on the premise of ecological warfare and...
Wonderful — Façades and Metal
Don't know if you got a chance to catch Wonderful Façade and Associate Editor Anthony Mariani on CBS-11's morning show late last month, but...
Valhalla
Most rock bands develop respect not by fancy book-learnin’ but by playing holes-in-the-wall for peanuts.
Then there’s Valhalla, a new local indie-rock three-piece whose members...
Elvis White
On Promise, a seductive reggae album with strong hip-hop elements, Elvis White urges listeners to think positively — and then urges himself to seduce...
