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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...
Chesapeake Drillers Threatened
Almost heaven, West Virginia -- unless you’re a gas driller.
The Wetzel Chronicle reports that Chesapeake Energy employees found a dummy hanging from a tree...
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,...
What’s Local in No-Man’s Land?
I admit, I’m having a hard time keeping track of which musicians are “Fort Worth-based” and which ones are from Dallas, Denton, or beyond....
Sam Bush
The difference between bluegrass and newgrass is kinda like the difference between rockabilly and early rock ’n’ roll: The latter, at its best, draws...
Memorials for Leonard Belota, Justin Elliot
The North Texas scene recently lost two talented musicians.
On Sunday, July 27, Leonard Belota, a jazz trumpeter who toured with the Stax Records band,...
Noteworthy
Midlake at Tulips Thursday
The first time I heard 2006’s The Trials of Van Occupanther, I was blown away. Here was this band, Midlake, from...
Just Because It Looks Beautiful Outside…
Well, after what seems like nearly two weeks of rain, which we needed but which nearly set my little house adrift, I got up...
Top 5 Shows 1/25-1/27: “Go See 88 Killa on Friday” Edition
1) Thursday night at Hyenas Comedy Club (425 Commerce) is the Eric Nadel Benefit Blowout, a charity concert featuring Luke Wade and Grady Spencer...
Shea and Lola
In early 2001, a Fort Worth-born singer-songwriter named Shea Seger put out a major-label album, The May Street Project, inspiring Elton John (?!?) to...
