AltWeeklies Wire
Copeland’s Timenew
The 41-year-old Fort Worthian’s excellent new album could be a national debut.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
11-02-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Crazy Heart, Scott Copeland
Snow Tha Product: Immigrant Songnew
Female, Hispanic, bilingual, and on a mission: Fort Worth’s Claudia Feliciano can definitely hang.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
02-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Two Young Filmmakers Raise Funds for a Texas Nod to Kafkanew
Burt Rutherford and Tim Yager look like a mismatched comedy duo, and the idea isn't that far off: the two longtime friends are back involved in comedy courses while raising money for their first feature, Model Man.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
10-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Burt Rutherford, Tim Yager
Cityview is Bignew
Pop-punkers Cityview have mostly known each other since high school, but they and their music have both matured over the years, and Big on the Inside is a tightly crafted set of tunes.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
06-30-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Big on the Inside, Cityview
Fungi Girls: All Hyped Upnew
The three high-school males who make up Fungi Girls were too young to attend the official SXSW festival by themselves, but they still played six shows in front of screaming college-age crowds.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cole Garner Hill |
06-02-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fungi Girls
Indie Folk-Rockers Katsuk Turn the 'Skeleton Key'new
Good karma was clearly involved in getting indie folk-rocker Daniel Katsuk together with the folks who made his band's latest album come together.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
04-21-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: KatsuK, Skeleton Key
Twisted Black Rhymes On . . . From Behind Barsnew
In 2007, Twisted Black (Tommy Burns) was sentenced to 30 years on federal drug charges. A couple of months ago, he performed the vocals for his new CD, Hustle or Go Broke Vol. 5, over the phone from prison.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
04-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
After a 10-Year Hiatus, Shea Seger is Back.new
Shea Seger released her debut album on RCA when she was 18 ... and then disappeared. Now she's back with a new album and renewed vigor.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
04-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shea Seger, Shea Seger Redux
Though Purely Anarchic, a North Texas Art Collective has Unifying Qualitiesnew
Most acts at Wasted Words craft their cacophony through nontraditional means, often with electronics. Performers heavily alter equipment, warping or degrading pre-recorded material — such as political speeches, clanking machinery, and movie clips — or making bizarre, entirely new instruments.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cole Garner Hill |
03-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Beth Wood's Nighttime Visions Have Led Her to Success and a New Albumnew
Beachcomber's Daughter sounds like a de-twanged Dolly Parton mixed with the FM radio vocalists Wood listened to on her bedroom radio.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
05-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Soulever Lift Finds Middle Ground between Christian & Secular, Contented & Poornew
Rather than promoting personal agendas or grinding metaphorical axes, the Fort Worth band's songs are focused on capturing life's everyday moments. All four members are practicing Christians but do not proselytize.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
04-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Soulever Lift
Blood Of The Sun is Living the High Lifenew
A new album and another tour of Europe are on tap for the Fort Worth fuzz-rockers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Justin Press |
03-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blood Of The Sun
Collin Herring is Tearing Up Rootsnew
The Fort Worth singer-songwriter's Past Life Crashing has been a long train running and a long time coming.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
03-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Collin Herring, Past Life Crashing
Ginny Mac, the Cowgirl Poetnew
Though the traditional C&W singer-songwriter has just graduated from college, she's old-school Old West.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ginny Mac
Vincent's Got A Lot of Buzz and Promisenew
Members of Vincent are lucky if they can find time once a week to rehearse, but the fact that they spend much of their time apart buoys that calm vibe, too, he said.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
02-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: vincent
