New Music Roundup
Spring has sprung, and the unpulled pages of my Far Side desk calendar are many. Along with nine weeks of old cartoons to catch...
Card-Carrying Boss
In 2022, my band Goisagi was trying to figure out how to get past the pandemic slump with our music family intact. Taiko drumming...
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
Jeff Zero is taking on the “cycles of love." On his rocking new EP Love Shampoo, the former Dallasite and current Fort Worthian channels...
Sounds of Freedom
Here’s an interesting gift idea: a record collection of Black artists who, for one reason or another, have called Fort Worth home.
Gifted from me,...
Cosmic Country
On a Saturday night in January, the Boiled Owl Tavern went country. Or at least that impression was created at the Magnolia Ave bar...
Amor del Sur
Celestial L’amour and husband Luis Lopez have been making and performing music since the pandemic and are now only getting busier.
Onstage and at home.
Full-time...
In Memoriam
During our annual Music Awards ceremony honoring new crops of winners, we always take a few moments to honor those we’ve lost since we...
Not Cursed
As the distorted guitars chug along with a galloping beat, apocalyptic images take shape and drift into one another like a disturbing dream. A...
The Place for Hardcore
At Tulips FTW on Friday night, local shoegazers Trauma Ray, having recently returned from a fall tour of the U.K. and the U.S., headlined...
Getting Funky
Every town has its nicknames. Chicago is lovingly referred to as Chi-Town or the Windy City. NYC is, of course, the Big Apple. Similarly,...