Drake Milligan
As a child, Drake Milligan fell in love with music from listening to his father’s record collection. The Mansfield native would spend hours spinning...
Music in Focus
When Jose “Chico” Santiago started out in 2010, his studio was a little garage on the North Side. Since then, major label Fort Worth...
Better Late than Never
As a producer, the artist known as BenCJones (pronounced to rhyme with the name of famed R&B producer Quincy Jones) has been around music...
You Gots to Chill
The restrictions brought about by the pandemic have been a thorn in the side of every musician. The inability to play shows and meet...
O. Deletron’s Lost Limb
0. Deletron loves bits. Our band loves bits nearly as much as we love making music. We feel that it’s fairly natural to supplement...
Claire Hinkle Gets It Done
Though her father is a well-known local bluesman, Claire Hinkle, now 20, is certainly her own woman. With her own sound. Papa James Hinkle...
A New Angle
My meeting with Local Famous Records co-founders Anthony Sosa (Temporal Distortions) and Michael Garcia (Double Bear) started with a handshake and ended with hugs...
Ashes to Ashes
Let’s play a word association game. When I say “surf rock,” what comes to mind? You’re thinking California, Brian Wilson, the ‘60s, maybe Dick...
Kings of Madness
For most of us, the events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 elicited a mix of shock and horror. The breach...
Your Summer Playlist
I’m sure you’ve read by now about the massive emergence of Brood X cicadas now dominating the eastern seaboard. After being dormant for 17...