Today we’re excited to share with you a new poem by one of the most skilled writers and community organizers on the scene in North Texas: Sebastian Páramo!

Today we’re excited to share one of the sweetest love songs to ever come out of Shiny Sound Recording Studio: I Got Lucky (With You). This fresh Songwriting Scholarship track was created with our good ol’ pal Andy Cox.

It’s a pleasure to share & celebrate this week’s featured artist, Nina Chantanapumma, not simply because she is a mind-mindbogglingly talented multi-disciplinary artist and designer, but because she’s also had a major role in administrating and organizing everything that Spiderweb Salon has managed to accomplish as a collective this year.

Our featured artist, John Wilcox, first became involved with Spiderweb Salon after seeing a Facebook post requesting art for Low Power Radio, the zine benefiting local Denton radio station KUZU 92.9FM. The art he sent in ended up on the back cover, a beautiful radio robot bookending the musical ruminations of so many spiders.

For this week’s feature, the crew invited Rachel Weaver to Shiny Sound Recording Studio in early September to make some noise and create something beautiful together, and today we’re unveiling the new track they recorded and released under Rachel’s musical project moniker,  blendways.

This week’s featured artist, Bryan Kelly, loves Denton as much as we love Denton. We’ve loved seeing him at the Denton Community Market on Saturday mornings, and his first Spiderweb Salon submission will be published in our upcoming zine, Book of the Dead.

Today’s featured writer, Alejandra Ramos Gómez, is a bilingual educator and a poet who is very active in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. We are bringing you two of Alejandra’s language-blending poems. Both poems are gripping, drawing from personal experience to show us the dualities of its subjects.

Today, we feature poet Ryan Creery and his ability to make even the most desperate and seemingly hopeless moments precious and beautiful.

Today we welcome a longtime friend of Spiderweb as our newest recipient of our ongoing monthly Songwriting Scholarship! Robert Fennell would regularly awe us with his skills and electric guitar solos in the early days of our house shows, eloquently merging calculated hardcore rhythms with catchy riffs under his solo project titled, Dyscalculia. His new project, called the fate of stars, carries a similar instrumental djent-prog-vibe.

This week’s featured artist is Ashley Enfield, a mixed media artist and designer who works mostly with ink. She has a background in sculpture, paint, fibers, and digital media with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts.

Nicole Lefteau works tirelessly on a million and one films projects while managing to write and perform poetry and prose as regularly as possible. The focus of Lefteau’s art revolves around womanhood and female sexuality and has recently shifted her creations around queerness and queer anxiety as well.

Lisa Huffaker is a phenomenal poet, a classically trained opera singer, and an abundantly creative visual artist, but she’s also a community-builder and, like us, an appreciator of anything made by hand with love.

Team Spiderweb is so thrilled to bring you our newest musical production from Shiny Sound Recording Studio, “Easy Tiger” by Denton-based creative, Naomi Kliewer! "Easy Tiger" is a magical, tender anthem to the self, and we’re terribly excited to share this song with you today.