Say what you will about Rolling Stone –– that it’s basically a celebrity rag with a few album reviews in it, that it hasn’t been relevant in, oh, about 900 years –– but the 850-year-old magazine is still the last word on mainstream music. To wit: In the mag’s Hype Monitor section, much love is given to Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon. I quote: “Sprawling Fort Worth, TX septet write alarming small songs, ornamented with accordion and violin — quiet little alt-country numbers that work their way toward irresistible choruses.” Read the rest.
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