Nov 7, 2024
Black Sheep Country Reaction Gifs
Oct 17, 2023
Apr 14, 2023
New Texas Law to Require Fiddle in All Bands
House lawmakers in Austin passed a bill on Thursday that would require all bands that play in the state to include a fiddle player.
House Bill 42069 won initial approval Tuesday, and then received a final vote Thursday, passing 127-19. It now heads to the Senate.
The bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Texas Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism chair Douglas K. Ershaw, would force any "musical act consisting of more than 2 members to include a fiddle player, as God intended."
While it was unclear how this would affect musicians in genres that don't generally include fiddle, Ershaw insisted that the law would also provide for bands without such an instrumentalist, forming a Fiddle Corps of unaffiliated players for assigning the lacking groups a fiddler free of charge.
Bill co-sponsor Charles E. Daniels of Delta County explained "While we agree that many bands with great lead guitarists can pick it hot, that's just not good enough for a Llano man."
"Whether you want your fans to two-step, do-si-do, headbang, or do The Bust Down, in the Lone Star State from now on, sir, you've gotta have a fiddle in the band." smiled Ershaw, seemingly assured that the Senate would finalize the bill and that Governor Abbott would codify it into law.
At press time, music stores across the state were reporting a shortage of rosin.
Dec 16, 2022
Zach Bryan, Pantera, Spiritual Cramp: Robert Dean's 2022 Wrap-Up
By Robert Dean
This year felt like a blur – still. The post-COVID timeline, plus things going on in life, have become this miasma where everything kind of happens. There are no “AH-HA” moments of clarity, at least not for me. One of those small breakthroughs this year was finding Zach Bryan.
I didn’t hear about him through the hype train, but he randomly popped up on a Turnpike Troubadours playlist on Spotify. Immediately, I was transfixed by “Oklahoma Smokeshow” and have been hooked on his music since. He’s probably my most significant find of 2022, with Spiritual Cramp being my number two. Spiritual Cramp is a fun, dancey punk band that feels like The Clash at a kegger. Highly suggest you give them a spin. They’re capable of doing great things where bands like Riverboat Gamblers usually play.
It was a bummer we lost Every Time I Die, but happy Tom Delonge is back in Blink 182. Matt Skiba is Alkaline Trio – full stop. The death of Taylor Hawkins sucked, but the outpouring of love and respect was an extraordinary moment to watch. Botch is back, and now, we wait for Coalesce or Fugazi. And the “Pantera” reunion sucks.
Have a good rest of 2022, and I hope for all of us, 2023 is better.
Feb 9, 2019
Saturday Night Music / Dave Grohl, Corey Taylor, etc / "Walk" (Pantera)
Jan 12, 2019
Saturday Night Music / Pantera / "Cowboys From Hell" (Live in Moscow)
Oct 12, 2018
Farce the Music Halloween Playlist 2018
The No Sleep Roundup: Nirvana, Deer Tick, Migos, Pantera, etc.
Jul 7, 2018
Saturday Night Music / Pantera / I'm Broken (Live)
Jun 25, 2018
Ride Easy, Vinnie Paul
It’s not lost on me that I was lucky enough to have seen Pantera destroy Chicago six times. The shows were brutal, emotional, an exorcism of whatever garbage life threw at me. Pantera owned their musical carnival, chucking beers and paper mache joints into the crowd, but always ripping the seats out of the stadium without any bullshit laser beams or fancy smoke shows; it was four dudes who caught a lick