Still Real
Hip-hop is a genre often dominated by rappers spitting endless verses about how great they are or how great being them is. How much...
’23 Skiddo
After bands finally felt comfortable enough to start tiptoeing out of their practice spaces to once again take up arms on stages all across...
New Ears Eve
This past year has been a great one for local music. From indie troubadour Cameron Smith’s beautiful album Shine to veteran psych-rockers The Cush’s Riders...
Local Christmas Song Playlist
With late-stage capitalism ever-motivating corporations to desperately make their year-end nut by going all-in on Christmastime consumerism, the kickoff of the holiday season seems...
R.I.P., Curt Low
Your first impression is probably your longest lasting: four white guys standing on a stage at some venue and with the utmost sincerity and...
A Singular Voice
In 2010, I was at a party in Red Oak when an old friend told me she knew this girl from our hometown in...
Loungin’
A miscommunication kept rapper J/O/E (pronounced as J-O-E) from bringing his beer into Funky Picnic’s Backroom, where I was set up to interview him....
A Stem Afternoon
After seven years of shows, Stem Afternoon finally has a studio recording. Currently composed of Mykyl Garcia on drums and trumpet, James Velasco on...
We Need You to Vote (and Not Just for Beto)
Voting, amirite? Election time is upon us, and we have a lot to say about former punk musician turned politician Beto O’Rourke in the...
Passage to Haltom
If you’re dismayed about the pace of change in this city, I have three words for you: “Keep Haltom High.”
This mantra is the name...
