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Bleu Edmondson

Dallasite Bleu Edmondson likes Fort Worth. A lot. Last fall, before his acoustic show at Sundance Square's 8.0 Restaurant and Bar, he bemoaned the...

Completely Spent

Hard to tell whether Complete is real or fake, though I'm betting real. The Fort Worth/Austin duo's songs consist of three simple barre chords...

Working-man Blues

Many people who spent their early twenties unemployed, drinking beer, crashing overnight on friends' couches, and practicing guitar consider those as "lost years," a...

X

Talking records with an Aussie chum recently, I professed to be impressed that the Beatles' first album was recorded in just 10 hours. "That's...

Iris Leu

Dallas-based singer-songwriter Iris Leu waited until after college to start her musical career, but she's making up for lost time. Hitting the boards in...

Big Ideas

From out of left field, seriously, comes the No Idea Festival, an annual multi-city avant-garde music event featuring musicians from all over the world....

Bending Metal

Apocalyptic Nintendo music? That's what happens when the members of the happy-black-metal band Urizen started fiddling with the technology. When envisioning the North Texas...

Bending Metal

Urizen breaks the rules - including the one that says all metal bands have to lack a sense of humor. By CAROLINE COLLIER Apocalyptic Nintendo music?...

Big Ideas

From out of left field, seriously, comes the No Idea Festival, an annual multi-city avant-garde music event featuring musicians from all over the world....

Jazzercise

On his third album, the freshly released Ricki, crooner Ricki Derek interprets several '80s pop hits, including The Cure's "Why Can't I Be You,"...