Joe Cripps

The Echo Lab Is An Extension Of Denton's Scene

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Deep Down

Deep Ellum has too many opening acts and not enough headliners

Bad Business

The snooze alarm is going off, and the folks in the music bizneed to wake up and take notice

Pine Bluffing

Joe Cripps spent the past couple of years trying to coax a new record out of Delta blues legend CeDell Davis. In August, he finally will.

Brave Combo

Joe Cripps and Barrett Martin ride a Fast Horse to record-label utopia

A Marked Man

Pimpadelic, Tommy Boy Records split

Scene, Heard

Selected songs disappear from the playlists at Clear Channel stations

Dream On

For Todd Deatherage, the waiting is the hardest part

Scene, Heard

The hiatus is over for The Legendary Fritz

Scene, Heard

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

Hijinks at Trees

Long-overdue debuts

Scene, Heard

Smirnoff sucks them in; The Rocket Summer waits 'til fall; Jeff Buckely's mom; North Texas Music Festival jab; Plus, much, much more

Out Here

Gropius

Scene, heard

Cheap tricks, SXSW, record releases, and lots of words in bold type

South by so what

Putting the jest in music fest

Scene, heard

Bad mouthing good bods; Keeping up with the Buck Joneses; the Broose is loose; Tim DeLaughter speaks; And much more

Rocket from the Cripps

Joe Cripps leaves Brave Combo for brave new worlds

Back to the Future

Brave Combo reunites its nuclear polka family as it celebrates its 20-year anniversary

Havana good time

Brave Combo's Joe Cripps goes to Cuba, becomes friends with Peter Buck, and talks to Castro

Hope floats

Three compilations later, Chris Lewellyn is one of Dallas music's last, best friends

Musician, heal thyself

A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

Out Here

A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

Blast from the past

In days of old, when nights were bold

Out Here

In days of old, when nights were bold