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Band of Horses, Midlake

Thursday, April 7, at Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie

By Roy Kasten
Apr 7, 2011

Given the restless impulses of Band of Horses principal singer and songwriter Ben Bridwell, it's no wonder that any cease-and-desist letters the My Morning Jacket legal team may have sent were returned to sender. Giving up on Seattle, where he formed the band, Bridwell recently retreated to the land of...
Alejandro Escovedo's Music Hides His Age.

By Roy Kasten
Mar 3, 2011

Alejandro Escovedo sounds happy. And he should be: After nearly succumbing to Hepatitis C in 2003, the Austinite is touring steadily, writing songs with friends such as Chuck Prophet, recording them with heavy hitters such as producer Tony Visconti, working with Bruce Springsteen's management company and making some of the...
Slobberbone, Telegraph Canyon, Scott H. Biram

Wednesday, December 30, at Granada Theater

By Roy Kasten
Dec 24, 2009

More bands should study the elegant, almost neoclassically refined career arc of Slobberbone. The flight path goes like this: Drink beer, play for your friends, take your name from a porch dog's chew toy, tour, rock, tour and, above all else, rock. The Denton, Texas, foursome of songwriter and singer...
Ha Ha Tonka, Ludo, Meese, Without a Face

Friday, November 13, at the Prophet Bar

By Roy Kasten
Nov 14, 2009

Ha Ha Tonka caught the new wave of ersatz old-time stompers and pickers churned up by the Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show, but the Springfield, Missouri, band rides the twang with an idiosyncratic style and the electric confidence of self-made Ozark shit-kickers. The title of the band's 2009...
Sea Wolf, Port O'Brien, Sara Lov

Tuesday, October 27, at The Cavern

By Roy Kasten
Oct 22, 2009

Jack London's novel Sea Wolf is a tale of the destructive potential of a single, domineering vision. For all his gifts, Alex Brown Church, who named his band after the parable, isn't one to go it alone. Were it not for his big canvas collaborations, he'd drown in Bright Eyes comparisons (and...

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