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Psych-Rocking Dreams By JUAN R. GOVEA Bartlett: “I did remember what I was going for and thought that I could recreate the spirit and sound of what … I tried to do back then.” Photo by Emily Rose Burek. In 1968, back when Texas’ legendary psych-rock scene was emerging, a young folk musician by the name of Johndavid Bartlett signed a record deal with the Lone Star State’s premier psych-rock label, the Houston-based International Artists. Two labelmates, the 13th Floor Elevators and The Red Krayola, urged the high school student to hit the studio. With help from Krayola mastermind Ma...

Dallas lost a pillar in its music community when Tim Daniels, co-owner of Club Dada, Off the Record, and other venues, passed away from COVID-19 complications on Saturday, Jan. 15. Daniels is remembered in the community as someone who was always there to support musicians and even patrons who needed some help. A memorial page has been set up in his honor to help his mother, Mary, for whom Daniels was the sole financial provider. With COVID still going strong, Fort Worth’s Fortress Festival has decided to cancel its 2021 festival, which was rescheduled from 2020. All ticket holders will be...

Black Tie Dynasty drummer Eddie Thomas died Dec. 26 after a years-long battle with brain cancer. After reuniting in December 2019 after a decade-long hiatus, the band played a handful of shows before the pandemic and was planning to reschedule shows that had been subsequently postponed. Thomas is survived by his wife, daughter and granddaughter. Emo band awakebutstillinbed, whose lead singer Shannon Taylor hails from Mesquite, surprised fans with a new EP on Christmas Day, the band’s first release since their 2018 debut. Stay who you are includes three new tracks — “beauty,” “leav...

Fort Worth Weekly Hindsight on 2020 This year, despite many losing their means to make a living, local musicians proved the pandemic couldn’t lock down their creativity. By JUAN R. GOVEA AND PATRICK HIGGINS - Twenty-Twenty wasn’t fine, but it certainly was musical. Collage by Patrick Higgins One day, when we look back on the unholy year that has been 2000 and 10 times two, the cataloguing of unbearable tragedies, atrocities, and absolute insanities that we’ve all somehow endured this year will read more like CliffsNotes exposition from a clichéd dystopian young adult nove...