SXFW
In two weeks, South-by-Southwest, the annual corporate branding showcase masquerading as a music festival, descends upon Austin, the world’s most eminent Important Music City....
Good Sinners, Great Barbecue
You wouldn’t think of the Railhead Smokehouse in Parker County as a musical hub. But that’s where twangy quintet Chance Ray & The Good...
Springtime Rec Sports
I’d bet two or maybe even three drink tickets that every musician who’s ever had a “main band” has at least fantasized about doing...
Wrex’s Winter is Here
Bravado has been the chitinous veneer that has armored the soul of hip-hop since its inception nearly four decades ago. What began with perspicacious MCs...
Laughs at MASS
Ask anyone who runs a music venue, and they’ll probably concede that their stage is pretty much open to anything that brings bodies through...
Claire Hinkle: Good Girl
How many times have you heard musicians say they joined a rock band to get laid? Well, all that van-balling creates babies, you know....
Mind Spiders: Rise of the Machines
We may very well be headed for some dystopian future with man battling silicon hordes of sentient computers. But on their new album, Mind...
Sunset Limited’s Emo Revival
If you’re in your early 20s and subsist chiefly on a steady diet of memes, you may not realize that the word “emo” was...
Alverson’s Broken (and Repaired) Heart
By a stroke of good luck, Tommy Alverson was almost poisoned to death.
Alverson, wife Amy Alverson, and their two young kids ––...
Local Music for 2018
Anyone with a shred of sanity remaining is practically doing cartwheels putting this past strange and anxiety-riddled year in their rear view. Despite the...
