How one worldly musician seeks to propel his career through collaboration By Forrest Cook Arlington-based SYLA Media is preparing to touch down on home soil like a space-aged planetary rover with a bag full of alien produce. SYLA is an acronym that stands for Support Your Local Artist, and—no otherworldly concept, rest assured. The idea […]

By: Forrest Cook You’ve heard of the opioid epidemic. In Texas alone 1,402 people died from overdose deaths involving opioids in 2018. The Texas Medical Association has reported that preliminary data from 2019 shows an estimated rise in overdose deaths by 4.6% across the U.S. of course, that was all before the global pandemic. The […]

By David Fletcher for En La Calle On The Street Set to be released in 24 hours to this date comes the long-awaited covers album Replicated from Dallas sludge metal band Mountain of Smoke. Last week marked the release of their widely-acclaimed 2019 album featuring Kyle Shutt of The Sword Future Sins on vinyl through Seeing Red Records. If that […]

The Kinky Bastards | Photo Credit: Zane Daniel Review of The Kinky Bastards – “Are You Kinky?” demo debut By Forrest Cook Charging in with the next generation of DFW hardcore/punk rock music comes the newly emerging Kinky Bastards – who in the shape of many great things “punk”, formed less than a month ago, […]

  Spencer Douglas Wharton and Aubrey Wallace | Photo: Andrew Sherman By Juan “Johnny” Govea Denton TX’s singer-songwriter Spencer Douglas Wharton premiers his latest music video for his single, “When Love Gets Turned Away.” The single will be featured on his upcoming 8 track album, Getting Off On Misery. Accompanying Wharton is singer-songwriter Aubrey Wallace […]

By Juan R Govea (From a Press Release) Someone once said, “If Tom Waits started a surf rock band in the back of a Dallas, Texas pawn shop, it’d be The Prof.Fuzz 63.” That might be the nicest thing anyone’s said about the weirdo lo-fi rock trio from the north Dallas suburbs, but it’s not […]

Fort Worth’s Denver Williams front man for the group Chillamundo has been making music for quite some time now. Filmed in Crowley, Texas on May 2nd 2020 En La Calle is happy to premier “A Campfire Session.” Music Written, Performed and Mixed by Denver Williams Video by Seth Gamez and Holden Foster Denver: Insta @denverwilliamsmusic […]

ALL PHOTOS AND BLURBS BY WAFFLES WEEKLY ON THE DFW/DALLAS BEAT! FOR MORE CHECKOUT WAFFLES WEEKLY ON FACEBOOK AT @EATMOREWAFFLEZ Starfruit Self-described “bubblegum avant-pop prog post-punk noise” group Starfruit celebrated the release of their full-length record Wild West Combat this year behind the screen at Texas Theatre, supported by Dallas artists Mattie and LLORA. Featuring […]

Novakain | Photo By: Lewis Leveridge   Bandcamp: https://novakain.bandcamp.com/ Review of Novakain – Hallucination Imagination By: Forrest Cook  The lo-fi rockers of Novakain have just released a new full-length album titled Hallucination Imagination. The new release represents Novakains’s second LP since their 2013 debut demo. It’s chock full of stoner grooves and heavy riff signatures, […]