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Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Multitalented artist Will Oldham has kept busy over the past couple of years.
He’s acted in critically acclaimed films, including last year’s Junebug and...
Doug Sahm
Maybe Doug Sahm never became a household name because he wasn’t an easy-to-categorize, one-note musician.
He wandered through blues, R&B, country, Tex-Mex, rock, and,...
Sunday Drive
Sunday Drive’s Needle/Eye has a solid, guitar-based indie rock vibe, but the Dallas band’s third studio album does generic indie one better by being...
Coal Fever
In James Michael Taylor’s new album, Slaughter Mountain, the singer-songwriter persuades us to walk a country mile — and then some — in his...
The Evangelicals
Any band that opens an album with a minute-long instrumental prelude of squiggling, squealing synth guitar lines — and calls it “Mouthful of Skeletons”...
Michelle Malone
Sugarfoot is one of those c.d.’s that can be inserted in the space between the blues and rock without really adding anything new to...
Yo La Tengo
After dropping a slew of compilations and covers albums (one by caller-request for a radio station pledge drive), and being met with varying reviews,...
Breaking In, Out
Several weeks ago, when local musician John Zaskoda opened Sessions Music, a boutique guitar store on White Settlement Road near downtown, he had grand,...
Magic
A “dove hunter,” or “Southern Unknown,” is a mythical, winged scorpion. Dove Hunter is a relatively new North Texas band. What the two have...
