Dick Texas, National Photo Committee, The Part Timers

Under the Dick Texas moniker, Detroit-based vocalist, songwriter, and producer Valerie Salerno constructs a disarming aural environment that's equal parts curious beauty and palpable danger. Themes of grief, growth, and clouded clarity come together as long-wandering experimental forays disguised at first as straightforward campfire songs, rolling uneasily along with all the dusky colors of a desert sunset. Her debut album All That Fall is beguiling, unexpected, and not quite like anything else happening right now - Fred Thomas Recommended if You Like: RIYL: Dehd, Gun Club, Pharmakon, Spacemen 3, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Cindy Lee.

Interesting rock, the Chicago way

The Part Timers formed in 2022 and began playing shows in 2023. The band had a rotating cast of members throughout the spring and summer, but settled into their current lineup in the fall of 2023 to record their debut EP 'Clock In'. The EP was a stepping stone towards a sound which they are now honing in on – pulling from roots rock, 90's alt country, and indie rock, The Part Timers form a musical palette which weaves its way in and around the expansive tradition of twangy rock n roll.