South by SouthWTF?
Anyone have any idea what’s going on?
Just a couple of years ago, weren’t we all clamoring for badges to South by Southwest? Lots of...
Whence the Under-30 Stars?
Turns out that for Brian Forella, owner of Lola's Trailer Park and adjacent Lola’s Saloon, keeping the lights on has required some concessions, especially...
Fort Worth Music Blasts 45
Anytime now, rockers. Anytime. Anytime now, rappers, too. And I would say, “Anytime, country stars,” but I think that for what I’m about to...
Burning Hotels, Royal Sons, Queen Bey
I recently interviewed a friendly, smart young woman in her junior year at TCU who has been living in Fort Worth for a couple...
Rock for Trump!
Don’t be fooled. It can’t be real.
A couple of weeks ago, an ad appeared on Dallas’ Craigslist seeking “conservative musicians” for a “new tour,”...
Donald Fagen, Oh Whitney, Magic
The good news arrived the old fashioned way.
“Hiatus is over!” Peter More wrote on Facebook last week. “Excited to announce upcoming shows, record release,...
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...
Robert Ealey Tribute Saturday
I never knew Robert Ealey, but when I landed in Fort Worth in 2002, about two years after he had died, I heard a...
Nazi Punks, F*ck Off
Boy, that Donald Trump is really shaking up Washington, huh? Pretty much all of his cabinet picks are old, rich white men, which comes...
Bertha Coolidge: Jazz in Your Rock Pants
Not sure what Sunday nights are like now for live music, but during the Lea/Locke/Forella/Price/Mariani Administration (circa '05), when clubs stayed open well past...
