MAF’14, Round 2
The full lineup for Fort Worth Weekly’s 12th Annual Music Awards Festival is just about done.
For the free daylong concert on Sunday, June 22,...
So Long, Rail Leader
I wasn’t at the Rail Club Monday night, but area bass player and Jerry Jonestown Massacre podcast co-host Dustin Schneider was, and he shot a clip of...
Death of the Album?
About a week ago, Dallas Observer writer and former local musician Daniel Hopkins penned a column about local bands and albums, specifically about the...
Maren Morris Is Our Hero
Maren Morris sure can write some catchy tunes. With only one or two exceptions, every moment of her major label debut from June is...
Suzie Q, Baby, We Love You
A minor key kind of feeling draped itself over the local music scene after the recent death of Susan Jennifer Oberhofer-Maben, better known as...
R.I.P. Kevin Short
Like most news, I learned about Kevin Short’s passing from a casual glance at my phone. It came last Monday, December 30, and I...
Remembering Chris Hardee
I don’t remember exactly when, but the last time I saw Chris Hardee, he’d popped into the Boiled Owl Tavern while I was bartending,...
Trumpster Josh Weathers?
Josh Weathers is a good cat. Anyone who’s spent even 30 seconds with him knows that he also would have played an Obama inaugural...
Once-and-Future Toadies
One day, someone is going to write a book about local rock icons the Toadies. The band’s storyline seems plucked out of a John...
Sub Sahara: “Blue Lives Don’t Matter”
Driving along 35-North the other day, I ended up behind an SUV with a “blue lives matter” bumper sticker. I immediately thought, “Well, there’s...
