Katsuk, Kahsen, and Case
Heavy metal was a bad reaction to psychedelic music and everything it stood for: peace, love, freewill, dirty hair, smelly clothes, everything. Black Sabbath,...
Flyover Spillover
Every year around the middle of March, Fort Worth - and probably every other alleged flyover town in the Southwest - gets spillover from...
Burning Celluloid
The folks at Walden Media were having a helluva time finding the right Texas band to play a small performance bit in one of...
Grazin’ in the Grass
The jaunty trad-bluegrass standard "We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again" is one thing (i.e., awesome), but young folks playing it today is a...
Kind of Blue
High times for jazz are here apparently. Last week, legendary composer Herbie Hancock won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
River: The Joni...
Jazz Week
For every great movie Spike Lee serves up, he drops a clunker or two. For every Do the Right Thing (1989) or Summer of...
Super Groups
It doesn't happen very often, a veteran singer-songwriter hooking up with a veteran band to form a new, um, solo band. But over the...
Fair Warning
Here's all I have to say about Van Halen: If you're a fan, don't go to the legendary hard-rock band's show this Saturday at...
Doctor’s Blues
He's feeling fine, he's been cancer-free since undergoing treatment several months ago, and he's still playing, writing, and producing. But last week, legendary Fort...
Newness En Route
Anglophilia here in the States usually - and annoyingly - takes the form of obsession with the royal family. Prince William washed his hair...
