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Gollay’s Search for Meaning
Like a lot of songwriters, Rachel Gollay finds it hard to try to write a song explicitly about a specific thing. Words come from...
Extra Innings
These dudes ain’t no lightweights. Washed Up Rookie’s third EP, Too Late, Pt. 2, is a veritable hat trick, the perfect soundtrack for a...
The Fort’s Fest-Off
I hate to admit this, but I didn’t know what Ubbi Dubbi was until I was tasked with writing about it, and that assignment...
More of More
The din of road noise is a backdrop for Peter More’s voice as we talk over the phone. Being driven by a foreign friend...
Middle-Finger Johnny Cash Painting Missing from Lola’s Saloon
An iconic piece of Lola’s Saloon has gone missing.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the venue’s black-and-white painting of Johnny Cash giving the...
Circling Fortress Festival
Near the end of his Saturday set at Fortress Festival, Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions asked the audience crowding the stage to raise their hands...
Fort Worth Opera’s Porgy and Bess Is a Multisensory Treat
There’s merit to the idea that music is a universal language. Cultural references and dialogue weigh heavily on a work’s immediacy and ease of...
The Sweeter the Music
Ever try rocking “Free Bird” with arthritis? Carrying a keyboard with a bum back? Climbing stage steps with creaky knees? Squeezing your thighs together...
Deep Cuts
Among the many matter-of-fact statements that accompany the imagery on display in Van Halen’s “Right Now” video, the one that has stuck in my...
Radioville, Simon Flory (Self-released)
It’s fair to say Simon Flory is comfortable being old-fashioned. Flory, a native of rural Indiana, purveys a sound that is a melting pot...
