This Is a Deathwatch
A strange realization: the word “dystopian” no longer feels futuristic. Apocalyptic weather, the unpredictability of artificial intelligence, the convenience of attack drones, erratic driverless...
Emo Country
On Friday, singer-songwriter Dustin Brown will release his latest record, a self-titled 10-track collection of what he half-jokingly referred to in a recent interview...
GWAR Coffee
It’s not uncommon for bands these days to include food items in their merch line or lend their name to a beer brand. Iron...
Showroom Sounds
In all the verbiage about venues closing over the past couple of years, there’s been little mention of third spaces or nontraditional rooms. There...
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...
