Metalcore rule: the harder the name is to read, the harder they thrash. If you know, you know. If not? Squint harder, dad.
Full breakdown on insta: www.instagram.com/p/DJaBGNuNx9k/
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This Friday: five metalcore bands, three readable names, two cursed sigils from a demon calligraphy class.

Why do metal bands want you to squint? We break it down on insta:

www.instagram.com/p/DJaBGNuNx9k/

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EXTC & The Listening Room of Misfit Toys Terry Chambers—best known for keeping time in XTC, the cult new wave heroes of the late ’70s—brings EXTC, his project, to Texas Music Café.

Never was a big UK new wave guy, but Terry Chambers’ EXTC show at Texas Music Café this Friday night caught my eye. Offbeat band. Perfect venue. Wrote some words about it.

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EXTC & The Listening Room of Misfit Toys Terry Chambers—best known for keeping time in XTC, the cult new wave heroes of the late ’70s—brings EXTC, his project, to Texas Music Café.

Terry Chambers—the drummer from XTC—is playing Texas Music Café in Waco on Friday night. Sounds unlikely. Makes perfect sense.

Here’s why.

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5th Annual Pinewood Block Party: Joyful Sounds in Waco’s Uptown » Waco Insider At the corner of Austin Avenue and 23rd Street, Pinewood’s coffee bar and public house face each other across a courtyard strung with lights and built around a single old…

A new piece for @thewacoinsider.bsky.social about the annual Pinewood Block Party in Waco on Saturday, featuring eight different musical acts.

Here's the rundown on The Texas Gentlemen, Kelley Mickwee, Phil Hollie, and the other performers.

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5th Annual Pinewood Block Party: Joyful Sounds in Waco’s Uptown » Waco Insider At the corner of Austin Avenue and 23rd Street, Pinewood’s coffee bar and public house face each other across a courtyard strung with lights and built around a single old…

The 5th Annual Pinewood Block Party is the kind of Waco gathering where the music settles in like something you forgot you needed.

Want to know more about this Saturday’s show with The Texas Gentlemen, Kelley Mickwee, and others? Here’s the rundown.

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A second line hits Bridge Street Plaza in East Waco on Wednesday night. King Cabbage Brass Band brings the heat—real brass, real lungs, real sweat.

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A second line in East Waco. Conjunto accordion by the Brazos River. Country-soul in a coffeehouse courtyard.

Porch lights are on. Guitars are hot. Waco’s music scene is wide awake. Get your need-to-know:

www.instagram.com/p/DI_gLU_xgbS/

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Waco’s music scene is stacked this week. We picked five standout shows, dropped the times and venues, then added short takes with no fluff, no filler.

Full rundown + band photos on Insta:
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Sequins, Steel & Storytelling: Tori Martin Takes the Wheel » Waco Insider Tori Martin plays Texas Music Cafe in downtown Waco on Saturday, April 19, for a night of country music that blends old and new sounds.

The rhinestones may be packed up, but the gospel according to Tori Martin last night at Waco's Texas Music Cafe still echoes loud and clear.

Missed the show? Catch the story behind the sequins and steel.

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Tonight, country singer Tori Martin turns Waco’s Texas Music Café into a roadside chapel with a dance floor—and maybe even a place to testify. Praise be.

Full story at Waco Insider:
wacoinsider.com/2025/04/14/s...

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