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In terms of sheer productivity, the past 12 months will be remembered as a pivotal moment in Fort Worth music. Everybody and their dog put out an album, EP, or song — and 99 percent of them were bona fide, full-fledged, non-homemade productions. The ones that weren’t (Drug Mountain’s S/T, Fungi Girls’ Seafaring Pyramids) couldn’t have been done any other way.

On the fame-o-meter, the past year has also been pretty exceptional. A lot of local artists licensed their songs for use in TV and movies, The Burning Hotels made a performance cameo in a major motion picture, Telegraph Canyon got props in Rolling Stone, and, thanks mainly to KXT, you can now hear a lot of 817 artists’ music during drivetime. Several bands broke up, but a couple got back together, most notably Calhoun and Garuda, and several good-looking new outfits popped up (see: all of the nominees for best new artist plus White Mountain and Bravo Zulu).

You can say a lot of things, but you can’t say the 817 sucks. If you don’t think there’s enough “challenging” music here, you clearly haven’t heard Hentai Improvising Orchestra, Pinkish Black, Dove Hunter, Drug Mountain, Secret Ghost Champion, Eyes Wings and Many Other Things, Raging Boner, Poison Apple, The Phuss, Breaking Light, loop12, Shuttle, Zanzibar Snails, Black Dotz, The Shadow, JoCo, Rotundus, or Shortwave Death System. If you think the scene lacks a charismatic poet type, you haven’t met Kevin Aldridge (Chatterton), Peter Black (The Orbans), Clint Niosi, Luke Wade, Tim Locke (Calhoun), or Sam Anderson and David Matsler (Quaker City Nighthawks). If you think there’s a dearth of hip-hop-influenced stuff, you haven’t heard Browningham, Rivercrest Yacht Club, Quamon Fowler, Dru B. Shinin’, Immortal Soldierz, Royal South, Nice Major, or Keite Young.

And if you think that not enough people are going to shows, well, you just need to get out more. — Anthony Mariani

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The OrbanS have been meticulously crafting solid alt-Americana rock for several years now. The band has just released its most accomplished work — and easily one of the best discs in the country: When We Were Wild, produced by Adam Lasus (Yo La Tengo, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah).

FaTe LiOnS get a lot of airplay on all of the good local radio shows and for good reason. Loaded with gorgeous vocal harmonies and jangly guitarwork, the band’s pop-ish songs are intricate yet unassuming.

ChaTTerTOn is the best of both worlds: excellent tuneage, just as excellent lyrics. Frontman Kevin Aldridge’s penchant for killer, poignant turns of phrase is matched only by his band’s expert, honey-brown-’70s-radio chops.

With their ragtime tempos and arrangements of raw acoustic guitar, banjo, horns, harmonica, and fiddle, WhiSkey FOLk raMbLerS have always hearkened back to Depression-era folk and Spaghetti Westerns. On … And There Are Devils, the Ramblers capture the good, bad, and the ugly of those eras.

CLinT niOSi’s provocative yarns are full of spiritual wrestling and black humor and betray the spare, eccentric music that brings them to life. Songs like “My Mephistophilis” — listed among HearSay’s best songs of the decade — swagger along the thin line between prim arrangements and sudden devilish punches of off-kilter bridges and minor strings.

PhanTOM CaSTe, you’re hearing it here first, might just be the second coming of Black Tie Dynasty: propulsive rhythms and glorious melodies, all polished to a sheen so fine, you can see your reflection in it. The band is currently putting the finishing touches on its debut EP.

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The burning hOTeLS set Fort Worth on fire last year with a series of scintillating shows and the release of their dazzling new album, Novels. Precocious and intense, Chance Morgan, Matt Mooty, Marley Whistler, and Wyatt Adams have lived up to the hype that greeted them upon forming five years ago.

CaLhOun crafts delicate indie-pop with rock sensibilities. The band’s got a knack for light, gentle builds and sweetens the edges of tracks with touches of slowly ascending/descending steel guitar. The band will release its next album, Heavy Sugar — produced by James Barber (Ryan Adams, Hole) — later this summer.

JeFFerSOn COLby blasts out a brand of rawk that’s redolent of all kinds of ’70s referents, mainly psychedelia, stoner-rock, and good ol’ fashioned pre-punk. The trio recently released not one but two (!) full-length albums.

SeCreT ghOST ChaMPiOn fluidly blends diverse genres — progressive rock, psychedelia, folk, and pop — with striking emotional depth and often all in the same song. But unlike many avant-garde acts, SGC never hides behind effects. Instead, the band lets its feverish guitar solos and grandiose, sweeping arrangements do the talking.

ChriSTian LynneTTe WiLLiaMS channels the ragged, pop-country of Whiskeytown, writing songs about just how good it is living bad. Her simplistic strumming ensures the focus never strays from her sexy, raspy drawl. Filling her songs with die-hard romantics and vivid imagery, Williams sings for the bad girl (or guy) in all of us.


Sam Anderson’s new project, Quaker CiTy nighThaWkS, may traffic in sharp country-rock strutting, but don’t let that fool you into thinking they aren’t really rock ’n’ roll purists. Songs like the band’s bristling drinking anthem “Crack at the Bottle” are just as indebted to classic R&B compositions as to the soul of country.

JaSOn WOrLey’s lyrics and delivery are obviously indebted to Fort Worth’s own Townes Van Zandt, but Worley’s music is another story. Through smooth, brisk fingerpicking and interludes of his soulful harmonica, his songs aggregate a storied, far-reaching pedigree of classic folk songsmiths.

Without a doubt, Nathan Brown’s solo project brOWninghaM is our favorite purveyor of candy-coated white-boy R&B. Listening to his easy-like-Sunday-morning soul vibe is like snuggling up to a big, warm, silky pillow.

kriSTina MOrLand writes bouncy, dreamy-eyed songs that could easily find their way onto the next hit indie film soundtrack. Her graceful, smart songs refuse to leave your head. And with a playful voice that whispers her lyrics like treasured secrets, it’s hard not to fall in love.

eaTOn Lake TOniCS recently cemented their reputation as one of the most outstanding purveyors of pure, unadulterated indie-pop via the release of their most recent album, Rancho Folly IV. Nothing beats keen melodies and riffage that’s not necessarily all G, C, D but still strong and memorable.

Texas Music chanteuse Maren MOrriS has a summer touring schedule that includes France and Lubbock — her no-bull, blues-inflected brand of grrrl power evidently knows no borders.


STOOgeaPhiLia aims to blow listeners out of their seats. What else would you expect from a band established mainly to expose young hipsters to the oft-neglected pre-punk Stooges era?

Ain’t no party like a Josh Weathers party ’cause a Josh Weathers party … oh, you know the rest. Big and bombastic, with killer horns and even killer-er rhythms, JOSh WeaTherS and The True+endeavOrS’ hyper-charged sound is funky, bluesy, and soulful and often all at the same time.

From its inception, rabbiT’S gOT The gun has aimed to interject some unapologetic enthusiasm into the scene. Singer Kewaithian Freeman is an inherently positive guy, and that translates well into Rabbit’s unique mix of metal, soul, rock, and funk.

Not only are the two boys ’n’ a girl in STeLLa rOSe purty, they also rawk hard, and more than one local insider reckons they’re ready for the big time; perhaps the live DVD they just shot at Lola’s Saloon will be the vehicle to get them there.

PinkiSh bLaCk is the new incarnation of The Great Tyrant, a rhythmically molten trio that dissolved last year after bassist Tommy Atkins’ death. Featuring drummer Jon Teague and keyboardist-vocalist Daron Beck, Pinkish Black is no less orchestral or epic than its previous incarnation but decidedly less bottom-heavy.

The PhuSS is an aggressive duo pumping out what it calls “dirty Texas devil rock.” “Heavy” and “Texas” is a hard combination to pull off, but Rick Fleming and Trey Alfaro manage to do just that without sounding like they’re merely churning out electrified methamphetamine bluegrass.


The dangiTS exploded out of the east (their original stomping grounds at Arlington’s Caves Lounge) with a sound redolent of Aussie and Scandi despoilers like Rose Tattoo and the Hellacopters and recently dropped a raucous debut disc modestly entitled Greatest Hits, Vol. 1.

The four musos in CiTyvieW have been pounding the boards for over a decade now, and this year they released Big On the Inside, produced by Ed Rose of Get Up Kids/Appleseed Cast fame, which showcases a sound alternately fuzzy and melodic.

danieL kaTSük is back after a brief stint in Colorado and with a new, decidedly rockier edge to his foundation of psychedelic Americana. His latest EP, Skeleton Key, is full of wild lyrical imaginings, finely calibrated bombast, and occasionally funky, occasionally tribal grooves.

WiLL CaLLerS frontman Jake Murphy’s ragged-yet-refined voice is engaging and perfect for his band’s signature brand of slow-burning, whiskey-stained roots-rock.

When not releasing their startlingly melodic new album We All See Stars, the TiTanMOOn guys spent some of 2009 helping open an orphanage in Pakistan — that sense of generosity is manifest in the band’s highly accessible U2-ish mod-rock.

If you were to mistake keegan MCinrOe’s music for that of a young Tom Waits, you could easily be forgiven. The connection between Waits’ tunes and McInroe’s funky, frayed-edge work is undeniable; so too is the undercurrent of doom that permeates his latest release, From the Wall & In the City.


exiT 380 might be the quintessential local rock band. They play, play, play and unabashedly pay homage to their favorite grunge-era bands while maintaining a quirky, idiosyncratic edge.

The once shy singer-songwriter Michael Maftean has emerged from Catfish Whiskey to be a more than capable frontman for the trio My WOOden Leg, which finds the country-roots equivalents to Tom Waits-style tales of dreamers, seekers, and folks just barely hanging on.

Intellectual and lunatic, eccentric and populist, the five members of the riverCreST yaChT CLub wind their way through intricate rhymes, puns, and assorted wordplay. They bounce between low pop-culture references and high college subject matter with equal authority and always get the party started right.

Frontman Tony Diaz’ status as a radio personality and bassist Matt Hembree’s membership in a half-dozen gigging outfits keep gOOdWin’s profile high, but their sound still hinges on guitarist Daniel Gomez’ songcraft (and onstage leaps) and drummer Damien Stewart’s flashy stickwork.

An audience with The vaTiCan PreSS would surely be enough to make a pop-punk aficionado kiss their respective rings. The band is as tight and crisp as a mohawk.


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