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The Shortest Distance
The Shortest Distance is an alias for activist Ramsey Sprague, an early driving force behind the 1919 Hemphill radical arts/educational collective. Folks might not...
The Decade’s Best
I'm not from Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could, but I like it here well enough. My first Lone...
Fort Worth Band GRO on VH1
The video for Green River Ordinance’s new single, “Come On,” is out now, and the song is part of VH1’s Top 20 Countdown, right...
The Crash That Took Me
Huge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection,...
Breaking Light
Breaking Light is yet another performing alias of Burleson-based guitarist Kavin Allenson (who usually goes by "Kavin." with the period). Aside from performing solo...
Strange Days
Don't call Hentai Improvising Orchestra a band. With completely extemporaneous performances and refusal to practice or designate a bandleader, the Fort Worth experimental ensemble...
‘Tis the Season For Thievin’
Chances are if you're reading this column, you at least appreciate local music and musicians (and maybe artists in general). You probably won't mind...
Caught in The Webb
My father recently purchased that Time/Life “Golden Age of Country” CD set that Mickey Gilley hawks on TV. It arrived just last week, and...
Weekender Fri., Dec. 18, 2009
If your idea of a swell time is being assaulted by screeching static, then does Wasted Words Art Collective in Arlington (2404 S. Fielder...
Chesapeake Moves Forward With Eminent Domain
Just weeks after an agreement was made to move gas pipelines from Carter Avenue--where they would have had to run under residents' front lawns--to...
