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Bill Kirchen
A c.d. with the title Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, by a guitar player as hot for so many years as Bill Kirchen seems...
Shaolin Death Squad
There are concept albums, and then there’s Shaolin Death Squad’s Intelligent Design.
Having something to do with the Christian Right’s illogical argument against evolution, the...
The Pearl and the Bird
Every year since she passed away in 2002, blues giant Lady Pearl has been honored by the blues community in the form of a...
Teenage Symphony
At what point does a fascination with childhood become just plain creepy?
Like Denton’s Polyphonic Spree and other orchestral, choral pop groups, Teenage Symphony draws...
The 2006 Tally
Fort Worth isn’t the same place it was as little as five years ago. It’s more populated and developed, sure, but, more importantly, it...
Anne Feeney
Anne Feeney’s If I Can’t Dance ranges from traditional folk to rock ’n’ roll to rap to a Spanish ballad.
Mix it all together...
Bob Margolin
As with most blues, feel and sound matter more than lyrics. The words don’t always matter because the emotion in every real blues song...
Radio, What’s New?
I know I'm going to get a raft of shit from my boys at The Good Show (Sundays 9 p.m.-midnight, 88.7-FM/KTCU), but as a...
Old New World
Even though he’s an easy-going guy, Telegraph Canyon’s Chris Johnson has some serious convictions. Last spring, he traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part...
Aimee Mann
When an interminably melancholic and arty rock singer-songwriter like Aimee Mann releases an album of yuletide tunes, you have to wonder: Whatever happened to...
