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Breaking Boingo Shaman
So I missed the big Hentai Improvising Orchestra/Breaking Light show at Doc’s Records and Vintage last Sunday. However, each band lives...
Tommy Atkins (1974-2010)
Tommy Wayne Atkins, bassist for the Fort Worth experimental hard-rock trio The Great Tyrant, was found dead at home last Thursday afternoon. His two...
Breaking Badcreek
Tell Badcreek’s five members they’re in a Southern rock band, and they won’t grouse much about it. It’s when you classify these Fort Worthians’...
Mercury Rising
A lot of people, understandably, are making a big stink about Dan Hunter, a.k.a. PlayRadioPlay, the shiny, happy 17-year-old local singer-songwriter whose MySpace page...
More On Ema Rosenauer and Vintage Fort Worth Rock n’ Roll
This week's feature story on LaVon "Ema" Rosenauer ("Godmother to Rock n' Roll," May 7, 2014) was a joy to research and write, but...
Super Bowl Post-“Glee” Analysis
I watched the Green Bay Packers' defense come up big and Christina Aguilera flub her lines, but you're not hear to read about that....
The Dangits
I’d resigned myself to the fact that nobody around the Metromess plays real, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll anymore — you know, that blues-based music...
Cody Lynn Boyd: Branded
Cody Lynn Boyd has a look: shaggy blond hair, bowled and trimmed just above the eyebrows, and an all-black uniform of jet-black boots, jeans, and turtleneck, imbuing...
Black Tie and CMJ, Flick On, FWAC’ers
Though HearSay ain't no native, your friendly neighborhood columnist has been around here long enough to know what's what about local music.
But I'll admit...
Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle's second CD, Midnight at the Movies, is not quite country and not quite folk, but it's as deeply rooted in both...