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Five months.
When Pete Freedman first asked me to take on this column, I confess that I thought, at the time, I'd be lucky to last that long. I was already over-committed...
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A large mural of the Virgin Mary is being illuminated by intermittent splashes of blue light, and against the wall to the right is an animated image of a mother running...
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If Delmore Pilcrow frontman Chris Garver wanted to avoid stultifying genre tags like "freak folk" or "new weird America," he might have considered picking a less freaky, folky...
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Early last year, Doug Burr finished a suite of Psalms arrangements and decided to record them in a building that had intrigued him for years.
The 130-year old, five-story...
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The intersection of Cedar and Oak streets, just off the Denton Courthouse Square, has been full of backhoes, barricades and construction workers for most of this past spring...
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Usually a "buzzkill" is the last thing a musician wants during a performance.
But by the time a fan hopped on the stage at Dan's Silverleaf on Saturday, June 7, to hold...
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We're all pretty Radiohead-obsessed," says Grassfight's Nathan Forester, and certainly the opening bars of "Rhodendron," from his group's French Shemes EP, with its spare,...
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On a steep hill overlooking the wooded, undeveloped flood plain just south of the Old Alton Bridge, near the border between Argyle and Denton, there's a weather-beaten red...
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If you've been to a show in Denton or seen a Denton band recently, there's a good chance you've also seen the work of visual artist and printmaker Nevada Hill. Hill's...
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Denton bands don't exactly have an aversion to roots or regionalism.
That said, a bent blue note or shit-kicking shuffle is likely to raise eyebrows in these parts—if...
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Michael Chamy loves his new Speak and Spell.
Sitting outside Recycled Books on the Denton Courthouse Square, Chamy's jittery fingers fly around the toy's letters and buttons,...
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Truth be told, most musicians would be content to write songs, rehearse them and then walk directly to the waiting, sound-checked stage before a ready throng of appreciative...
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Strawberry Fields is more than just some small record store near the westernmost edge of Denton; it's part head shop, part anarchist bookstore, part outtake from High Fidelity...
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Isaak Hoskins was on his way to Austin to try his hand at a songwriting career when he stopped in Denton to take a job and make some cash. Half a decade later, he still hasn't...
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Don't let the recent national attention paid to melodic, songwriting-focused acts such as Doug Burr and Midlake fool you: Denton bands can be aggressive and dark. Really....
