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May has five weekends and three holidays (four, if you count Star Wars Day): (in chronological order) Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day, so that’s a lot of musical opportunities, rain or shine. Here are some cool-to-us shows we’ve noticed after a little digging, plus some schedules from local

4 Ya Soul has a very active February. Catch them at Club Ritzy’s (1201 Oakland Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-888-3360) 9pm Sat; the Freeman Cafe (2626 Commerce St, Dallas, 214-377-9893) 10pm Fri, Feb 9; Knockouts Sports Bar (6730 Fossil Bluff Dr, Fort Worth, 817-782-9849) 7pm Sun, Feb 25; and Legends Bar & Grill (7120 S

Not every concert requires you to take out a second mortgage. Here are the best free and cheap concerts in Dallas-Fort Worth this week.

A Big Bend-area ghost town provided the perfect inspiration and setting for Keegan McInroe’s new LP.

Fort Worth is fast becoming a destination for musicians and other creatives, so we talked with a few to find out what makes Cowtown so singular.

Simon Flory follows his 2021 LP with a strong five-song collection recorded live in a single room.

The collection's title is not only a reference to the wealth of self-confidence that lives in each of us but also a nod to where the set of five songs was recorded (and Flory's adopted hometown): “It's a title that encompasses the thematic stories found on the EP, but Fort Worth, Texas, was also  once known as 'The Young Giant of the Prairie.'”

How was your Christmas? My long holiday weekend was two days of sheer chaos followed by doing absolutely nothing on Boxing Day. Between refills of Irish coffee and google searches for return policies, clearance sales, and sausage-ball recipes, I watched my final Christmas movie of the season on Sunday evening —

Throughout its history, country music has been fortunate enough to have several trailblazing women whose work bucked cultural standards of the so-called “woman’s place” in society. Whether by Loretta Lynn’s “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ ” or Dolly Parton’s “Just Because I’m a Woman,” brilliant women songwriters were

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