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...
Knocked Loose
For new bands, cobbling beats, chords, and lyrics into passable songs that merit playing in front of people is actually the easiest part, because...
Putting It on Wax
We haven’t even made it to Memorial Day, and the most hated organization in the entire state, the Energy Reliability Council of Texas, has...
Melting Faces
While it may be difficult to rank the heat factors of a sweltering Texas summer, the steam sauna at some hoity-toity day spa, and...
Livin’ the Dream
Like many singer-songwriters, Theo Carracino is a storyteller. While relaying a tale or painting a musical portrait of a person are standard tropes, Carracino...
Black Tie Dynasty
Two years ago, after a highly anticipated reunion was initially tabled by the pandemic and then later by the loss of a founding member,...
