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With a strong fondness for all things Ohio, North Carolina, and New York City, Jeff Strowe is a writer now based in North Texas where he offers forth posts on music, culture, and sports. Though his favorites include Dylan, Uncle Tupelo, and The Band, he is also rumored to be frequently seen breaking it down with his young daughter to some Taylor Swift.
You can follow on Twitter at @JeffStrowe.
Roky Erickson means many different things to many different people. To most, he's a torchbearer of psychedelic rock and beloved Texas institution. To informed music connoisseurs, he's the wailing voice behind such cult masterpieces as "You're Gonna Miss Me," "Starry Eyes" and "Two Headed Dog." To those that dig a little...
Writing Songs and Building Guitars A music legend chats with PopMatters about the release of his new album, the process of creating art, and a lifetime of memories. Guy Clark is a plainspoken, honest, and uncompromising figure.
Beyond Record Store Day There are plenty of good reasons to visit an actual record store besides that one hyped day in April. April is a cool month. Baseball is back. There's the drama and pageantry of The Masters. In some parts, it's even warm enough for outdoor patio seating at restaurants.
At only 25 years of age, singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless sings with a voice befitting someone well advanced in years. Not a weary, ragged with age type of voice, mind you, (though her Midwestern twang does sound a tad whiskey-soaked at times) but rather a lifetime's worth of experience.
Protomartyr's February 27th show at Dallas' fairly new, DIY-influenced club, RBC, proved to be quite the step back in time.
Parquet Courts frontman Andrew Savage is a man who stays true to Texas. While the band relocated from Denton to Brooklyn and has since gone on to such acclaim as being dubbed "The Last Rock Band," Savage carries a bit of the Lone Star State wherever he goes. Whether it's the...
Once dubbed the "Queens of Grunge," Los Angeles rockers L7 are back out on tour, following a brief hiatus that interrupted last year's long-awaited reunion. Filled with snarling punk attitude and buoyed by scorching metal tendencies, the band - guitarists/vocalists Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner, bassist Jennifer Finch, and drummer...
Steven Tyler Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas Monday, August 1, 2016 "This ain't American Idol!" Steven Tyler shouted near the start of his near-sellout show Monday night at the Music Hall at Fair Park. No, Tyler wasn't here as an occasionally snarky, yet profound television talent judge. Nor was...
Culture Club With Grove Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, August 5, 2016 Around the midway point of Culture Club's 90-minute set at a raucous Verizon Theatre on Friday night, Boy George turned reflective. "Well, 30-some years have passed since we started this thing. Remember, you were going to be a...
Coldplay With Alessia Cara AT&T Stadium, Arlington Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 Minutes into Coldplay's set Saturday night at a sold-out AT&T Stadium, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin looked like a man who had already put in a hard night's work. Drenched in sweat and adorned with a few strands of the...
