Working-man Blues
Many people who spent their early twenties unemployed, drinking beer, crashing overnight on friends' couches, and practicing guitar consider those as "lost years," a...
Bending Metal
Apocalyptic Nintendo music? That's what happens when the members of the happy-black-metal band Urizen started fiddling with the technology. When envisioning the North Texas...
Bending Metal
Urizen breaks the rules - including the one that says all metal bands have to lack a sense of humor.
By CAROLINE COLLIER
Apocalyptic Nintendo music?...
Jazzercise
On his third album, the freshly released Ricki, crooner Ricki Derek interprets several '80s pop hits, including The Cure's "Why Can't I Be You,"...
Jazzercise
Standards old and not so old pop up on local singer Ricki Derek's latest album.
By ANTHONY MARIANI
On his third album, the freshly released Ricki,...
Davis Lee Roth
Singer-songwriter Josh Davis is known for his casually masterful, blues-inflected country tunes. His two biggest influences are iconic troubadour Merle Haggard, whose songwriting Davis...
Davis Lee Roth
A former Speedtrucker still shelves the metal for alt-country. His new sound is proof.
By JIMMY FOWLER
Singer-songwriter Josh Davis is known for his casually masterful,...
Birth of the Cool
Bertha Coolidge gigs are about as infrequent -- but as blazing -- as falling stars, mainly because the band is truly only a band...
Birth of the Cool
One of the Fort's oldest - and only - fusion outfits ain't goin' anywhere ... 'cept maybe Nashville.
By CAROLINE COLLIER
Bertha Coolidge gigs are about...
Seize the Day
Automorrow takes its contrarian rock 'n' roll nature only so far. The young trio's smart, quasi-punk songs often reflect "an individual's take on the...