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Staff Benda Bilili
Read the backstory on these guys, and you'll think they're superheroes. Paraplegic street musicians who tool around the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic...
Sam Sadigursky
It would be wrong to call Words Project III Miniatures a "poetry-jazz" record. To many folks, that description evokes a '50s movie cliché of...
JJ’s R.I.P.
As first reported on Blotch by longtime staff writer Eric Griffey (Sun., Jan. 3, 2010), the lovable J&J's Blues Bar is closing its doors...
Reminder, Public Meeting Tonight
The North Central Texas Communities Alliance will present State Sen. Wendy Davis and DISH Mayor Calvin Tillman tonight, Jan. 13, at the Hotel...
Telegraph Canyon to Play SXSW
Telegraph Canyon is now the second band with 817 ties –– the other is Best Fwends –– to be selected to play the annual...
Free Tix to AA Bondy Show at Lola’s
Thanks to Spune Productions, I've got a pair of tix to Fat Possum’s AA Bondy gig tonight (Monday) at Lola’s Saloon Sixth (3726 W....
Barnett Shale Meeting Rescheduled
Last Thursday's North Central Texas Communities Alliance meeting about problems associated with Barnett Shale gas drilling, canceled because of inclement weather, has been rescheduled...
Joey Green Hits Red Dirt
It's one of the oldest stories in music: Local boy grows up singing and playing guitar in talent shows, coffee shops, and church camps,...
Tom Waits
Waits has had quite an odyssey, from Troubador doorman to protégé of Frank Zappa manager Herb Cohen (who sponsored the recordings released as two...
KXTeed Up
OK, so everybody's favorite new radio station, KERA's KXT/91.7-FM, is playing a lot of good stuff, stuff that can't be heard anywhere else on...
