Psych-Rocking Dreams
In 1968, back when Texas’ legendary psych-rock scene was emerging, a young folk musician by the name of Johndavid Bartlett signed a record deal...
Lotus Sutra’s Mourning Dawns
Often hidden in the shadows of every music scene, clandestine among fawned-over stylish and attractive indie rockers, concealed behind the glitzy flex of the...
Olemano Arrives
“Want to do that three-four one?” guitarist Austin Kroll asked his bandmates before launching into a funky riff.
Drummer Miro Hernandez, seated nearby, entered cautiously...
Stone Machine Electric’s Sonic Journeys
In an era when attention spans have been atomized into mere microseconds by the constant barrage of rapid-paced, seizure-inducing digital content steadily beamed into...
Hindsight on 2020
One day, when we look back on the unholy year that has been 2000 and 10 times two, the cataloguing of unbearable tragedies, atrocities,...
OK, ALG
ALG’s new album is the sound of the band “working together.” That’s according to multi-instrumentalist Austin Gardea (Squeezebox Bandits). Oh, K is the instrumental prog...
Song for Atatiana
Few events in recent memory have shaken Fort Worth like the killing of Atatiana Jefferson. The 28-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed...
Controlling the Noise
The writing dynamics inside of bands vary almost as broadly as the stylistic sonic fruits of those dynamics. There are some groups in which...
Panorama View
COVID doesn’t care about your damn music. Clint Niosi knows this firsthand. The moody singer-songwriter was about halfway through production of a new EP...
The Guitar Makes the Man
There’s always been a sticky commingling between classic C&W and rock music that has existed in so-called alt-country, or Americanan, or whichever other buzzy,...
