REVISITING 2023: Hoodoo Mural Festival 2023

The morning of Saturday, September 30th, I took a short drive to Amarillo and entered Polk Street for what would be another year of one of the greatest block parties in West Texas at the HOODOO Mural Festival

REVISITING 2023: An Interview with Cleto Cordero

One of our favorite moments this year was Andrew and I getting to talk with Cleto Cordero of Flatland Cavalry ahead of their show in Lubbock, Texas at Cook’s Garage. Here is the full interview.

REVISITING 2023: An Interview with RaeLynn by Timothy Tschoepe

Read Timothy Tschoepe’s interview with RaeLynn for World College Radio Day.

REVISITING 2023: An Interview with Geese

Earlier this year, I reached out on a whim to hopefully interview Geese prior to their show in Dallas at Club Dada that I was attending. I was a huge fan of their album 3D Country, so as 2024 kicks off, I want to take a moment to revisit the interview.

Zachary’s Top 100 Albums of 2023

As another year concludes, I always enjoy pretending I am a major music outlet writer as I piece together my 100 favorite albums of the year.

REVISITING 2023: Austin City Limits Music Festival Weekend Two Recap

Revisiting the best moments of 2023, Zachary Sorrels looks back at Weekend Two of Austin City Limits Music Festival.

A Fall Semester Concert Roundup: Quick Reviews Since I’m Lazy and Didn’t Do Full Articles For Each Show

This semester was extremely busy. While I know it could always be worse, I took 16 hours this semester. My reporting, digital journalism production, and senior seminar history classes kicked my ass, and I was studying for the LSAT in the midst of all of this. Safe to say, I didn’t have time to write […]

REVISITING 2023: Every Raider Alley Show of 2023: Ranked

In 2019, Texas Tech announced enhancements to the football fan experience on gamedays, as they do nearly every year. However, the biggest focus of the 2019 announcement was the complete revamping of Raider Alley. It was moved to the engineering key and the biggest addition was a stage for pre-game concerts. The first season was […]

The Music That Made My Year

This year, I consumed plenty of music. 74, 595 minutes to be exact, according to my Spotify Wrapped. To be entirely honest, I had some pretty strange listening habits and I was apprehensive coming into this year’s Wrapped season (don’t worry, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought). For most of the year, it […]

Flatland Cavalry, Treaty Oak Revival, and a Red Dirt State of the Union

The Background: There’s been two huge and highly anticipated Texas Country album releases almost within a month of each other. Lubbock natives Flatland Cavalry released their fourth album Wandering Star, their major label debut with Interscope, at the end of October while West Texas newcomers Treaty Oak Revival released their sophomore project Have A Nice […]