Not Beneath the Monsters
For fans who’d seen One-Eyed Monsters earlier this year, the local riff lords’ studio debut, the six-song 34-minute album Ambrosia, documented the trio’s near-telepathic...
Free Jazz Zemire
As a child, Jazz Zemire was fascinated by The Phantom of the Opera. From the moment she saw her first performance, the grandeur of...
Flying High
It’s been two years since Hermez the God was released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for gang activity, and he’s already built...
Sheprador’s Hot ‘Take’
Garrett North wasn’t sure what took him so long, but in January 2024 at the age of 32, after two decades of playing music,...
Quicksilver Hammer
Though the scene may indicate otherwise, ’80s-inspired hardcore-punk still lives.
And Antirad is one of the genre’s best practitioners — locally and beyond.
Inspired by Black Flag,...
Celebrating Tone Sommer
Danny Ross and Tone Sommer’s friendship dates to the early 1980s, when the two backed Fort Worth blues legend Robert Ealey. The keyboardist and...
‘There’s More’ Now
After more than a decade of playing dives and honkytonks across the United States, country troubadour Cory Cross has learned a few lessons, and...
Electric Cowboy
After arriving fully formed on the scene in 2021 with the electro-country track “Tarrant County,” G.W. Childs signed with COP International (Stabbing Westward, Chiasm),...
Trinity Pride Fest
If you ask me, nothing can inspire people like a huge party. And in a time (now) and place (Texas) where right-wing fearmongers and...
Ex-Regrets
A hallmark genre and ethos of the ’90s, Riot Grrrl punk has not gone anywhere — as Ex-Regrets proves.
“It’s against femicide and a...
