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Shadow Bound
Even though The February Chorus moves effortlessly through different shades of rock — from driving yet airy to seductive yet noisy — the band...
The Backsliders
Funny how a lot of melodic rockers seem to require an angsty outlet. When he’s not with The Burning Hotels, bassist Coby Queen spends...
Wonderful — Façades and Metal
Don't know if you got a chance to catch Wonderful Façade and Associate Editor Anthony Mariani on CBS-11's morning show late last month, but...
Thrash, Not Trash
In 1987, Gammacide guitarist and co-founder Rick Perry (definitely not the governor) said his band was “built on the premise of ecological warfare and...
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,...
Valhalla
Most rock bands develop respect not by fancy book-learnin’ but by playing holes-in-the-wall for peanuts.
Then there’s Valhalla, a new local indie-rock three-piece whose members...
Russell, Russ, and Fletcher
All this angry music is making me ... angry. "You broke my heart, you lousy whore of Babylon!," "You stole my money, you mindless...
Elvis White
On Promise, a seductive reggae album with strong hip-hop elements, Elvis White urges listeners to think positively — and then urges himself to seduce...
Pretty Girls Make Graves
“Pop!” goes the hot Seattle-raised quintet Pretty Girls Make Graves, and their fans seem pretty divided. PGMG always resembled a more canny, if less...
Time Out of Mind
Playing bass with Black Oak Arkansas, Rocky Athas, “Smokin’” Joe Kubek, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Rocky Hill, Marc Benno, and many other musicians has given...
