Last night may have been one of The Fort’s finest hours. In a relatively small venue – Live Oak off Magnolia — Fort Worth music heads circled up around one of the best musicians in the world — Donald Fagen … composer, producer, studio musician extraordinaire, co-founder of and singer for one of the […]

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    Do you know a band we should talk with while we’re at SXSW in a few weeks?  Send us press information … Meanwhile, as we prepare for SXSW music/interactive/film in Austin, we thought it would be fun to post a few things from our archives … a few of our favorite things from […]

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      For years I have received cool promo pieces from a certain PR group that specializes in promoting rock bands.  I think we first hooked up on some SXSW music event in Austin.  Anywho, for the most part, they send me notes on concerts that are out of my reach.  But, recently, I […]

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The latest installment of The Dirty Gig led me to New York to work in the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy (SSS) … Have you noticed that post-disaster is almost the only time we use the word “aftermath” anymore. “Why … I can still remember when I was a boy and ‘Aftermath’ was a Rolling […]

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Guess it doesn’t matter how long it took me to post a piece on Slaid Cleaves’ show at Fort Worth’s McDavid Studio. Because it seems, when I “discovered” him six or seven years ago, I was already way behind the curve. The folkster recently told a Fort Worth audience that he and a grade school […]

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At the end of ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls & The Bible” exhibit, there is a representation of Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall. And like the original, the pseudo wall allows visitors to write notes or prayers on paper and wedge the messages in between the stones. Having been called a “Wi-Fi evangelist” many times, perhaps you can […]

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  The PingWi-Fi.com site had fallen, but now it is up. Here is a post we put up on Facebook while we waited to be rescued … Anywho … what the heck. The ping goes on. So, today, let’s talk music … “I’ll take ‘Vintage Rock ‘n’ Roll Sing-alongs” for 100, please.” If the gameshow […]

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When The Dirty Gig is good, it is very good. But when the DG is bad* … Once again PingWi-Fi blogs anew, on the road, because of a disaster. This time it is a man-made event near Washington DC. Enough said. Here’s the good part …

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Across the border from The District, I was out in Maryland today when I struck up a conversation with the assistant manager of an 84 Lumber location.  To my surprise, he did not know of one of the best bands in the last 20 years — perhaps THE biggest name in Americana music — Wilco. […]

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