This week, LM’M turns to “most interesting name” award recipient, Moody Fuqua. Fuqua has logged plenty of time as a local musician, and talent buyer, most recently for the stage at Crown and Harp, who are getting ready to host a benefit Saturday night for one of Fuqua’s inspirations in…

Lloyd Banks runs Rockin’ Rodeo in Denton, but he’s been perched up north doing live music venues for a decade and a half: national touring acts mixed with local and regional bands, not only as opening acts, but also plenty as standalone showcase acts. He’s managed a band or two…

It’s been a spell since we’ve touched base with Lance Yocom, the ever-busy man at the head of Spune. Lance has been in this column before , and shortly thereafter, gave us all a start when he fell seriously ill while in Arizona, and spent over two weeks in a…

Once, Deep Ellum bouncer Anthony Streeter paid the bar tab of a guy he had just thrown out. He didn’t know him and it didn’t matter. The guy was shitfaced, riled up and ready to fight, too. “Look,” Streeter said, trying to talk the guy down from wherever the night’s…

He’s a very busy man, indeed…running Kirtland Records (Boom Boom Box, Toadies, The Fixx, The Hourly Radio, Polyphonic Spree, Bob Schneider, Sarah Jaffe, more) and Sonar Management as well as part of a building developer partnership in downtown Dallas, he’s not the easiest fella to catch up with. But Kirtland,…

Brett Stowers played for Fair To Midland for 10 insane years. He was part of brilliant, hair-raising shows full of frenetic energy and, at times, stuntman-level acrobatics, records that combined metal, prog and art in a way that eventually caught the attention of big labels first, and later Serjical Strike…

Most know Barry Kooda from his days in The Nervebreakers, a local punk act that good fortune smiled on in an awful big way in the ’70s when they opened locally for The Boomtown Rats, The Police and even the grand triad of classic punk, The Ramones, Sex Pistols and…

Recently I was on a search to hire a poster artist for a project of my own, and I happed across Scott Krakowski, and his new poster for a show coming up at The Crown and Harp. I loved his work. I found his prices to be expensive-leaning, but I…

Michael Pyeatt has been watching music go down in Dallas for a long spell. If you rewind far enough into Club DaDa’s history, it was Michael running the door (often wearing an IHOP dress, according to his own recollection). As you’ll read, Pyeatt is also apparently sitting on some golden…

Folks, meet my former co-worker Shaun Colon. Shaun and I worked together briefly in 2009 at The Absolute Space, a recording and video studio, as well as 100-room rehearsal facility in Dallas. Absolute is gone now, but the memories remain of aligning with some profound musical talent and pretty cool…

Next month will mark one year since Mary Larke Pewitt Godfrey lost her son, Deep Ellum fixture Sean Ashford, and gained a following she never expected, via Sean’s friends. Overwhelmed first by loss and later by support and adulation, Godfrey and her new following of Deep Ellumites who knew and…

We caught up with producer David Castell here a couple years ago, but he’s been up to an awful lot since then. Castell has produced, mixed, mastered and otherwise had his hands in local music dating all the way back to the early ’90s, and he shows no sign of…

For over a decade now, Casey Di lorio’s musician colleagues have asked him for help making a record. Nowadays, it’s the basket he puts all of his creative eggs into, at his own Valve Studios. Di Iorio played in One Ton Records-signed rock outfit Valve back in the day, who…

He’s one of the quiet observers-from-a-distance of our local music scene. He knows local people both big and small, but judges no one. He’s sick and tired of all the name jokes, and wisecracks about being eaten on a Lee Harvey’s burger. He’s the ultimate barfly, and wise observer of…

As proprietor of what could possibly be the finest P.A. system in Deep Ellum, Trees’ Lee Russell is a repeat guest in this column. We spoke to him in January about his jet engine of a sound system, installed at Trees, but he’s up to more now. Much, much more…

Christian Chavarria is a talented jazz musician, and former UNT Jazz student, who has become so tireless in his trek to grow, produce and expose young artists he’s had to backburner his own projects for now. Chavarria has been working under vocal coach Linda Septien (Jessica Simpson, Selena Gomez) at…

Ever been backstage at House of Blues Dallas? Rachel Behring painted the cool murals you see on the walls back there of some of rock and soul’s legends. But hell, that’s just her showing she loves where she works … and who wouldn’t? Behring spent a good stretch of time…