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Songwriters Cameron Smith, Ryan Taylor and Ghost Cloak performed a song-swap last week on the AllGood Cafe stage, trading stories and original music.

The Sunday afternoon storm clouds spread across the sky like shreds of steel wool, rusted and bursting with their own rain and the setting sun. All the patio furniture in the gravel area in front of the Woodshed’s stage was wet, yet a pair of millennial couples had dried off some chairs at the edge of this zone, and

It should be easy to bristle at the mildewed cliche that “rock ’n’ roll is a young man’s game.” Sure — ignoring for a moment the archaic gender-exclusivity inherent in the phrase — it’s true that youth might be a salve against the grind of late nights and cramped vans, the stomach-churning sustenance of greasy gas

The past decade Cameron Smith has been playing across the US—especially in his native regions of North/Central Texas—both in his own bands (War Party and

It goes without saying that, so far, the “roaring” in this century’s version of the Roaring ’20s seems to be in reference to the sound of the raging fire in our collective dumpster. It’s been another energy-vaporizing year of social estrangement, widening political divides, and comfortable, middle-class living

The vehicle for singer-songwriter Cameron Smith, Sur Duda, celebrated a record release party last night at MASS with Dallas’ FIT and local garage-rockers Cool Jacket. About 75 folks kept the Near Southside venue hopping throughout the

It seems like every year, our fair burg grasps the next highest rung on the gilded ladder of ascension toward Official Gold Star Nationally Recognized Music City® status, and that Everest-ian climb definitely looks to continue into the coming year. Perhaps due to being afforded some, um, “extra free time,”

Stream Lou Charle$ LP "Life Goes On" until Nov. 11 on Fort Worth's free music platform.

Fort Worth Weekly Better Late than Never After taking a circuitous route to writing and recording his own music, singer-songwriter BenCJones feels like things are starting to happen. By PATRICK HIGGINS Photo courtesy of Shane Brant of Images by Brant As a producer, the artist known as BenCJones (pronounced to rhyme with the name of famed R&B producer Quincy Jones) has been around music most of his life, but it wasn’t until just a few years ago that the 35-year-old decided to begin...

Fort Worth Weekly In demand producer/engineer Peter Wierenga wrestles with the state of humanity on his debut solo EP. By PATRICK HIGGINS Photo by Dayna James If music fans still take the time to read album credits, those locally will likely recognize the name Peter Wierenga. As a producer and engineer, as well as the drummer for power pop outfit Siberian Traps, Wierenga’s unique Frisian surname appears in small print on dozens of local records. Two weeks ago, however, his name (a...