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Song of the DayMount Moriah: “Bright Light”Photo courtesy of Andrew Synowiez
For a band that started out as a side project, Mount Moriah sounds completely natural in the spotlight. A few years back, singer/guitarist…... |
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Song of the DayEl Tule: “Anthem”For El Tule, making music is something of a family affair. In 2003, guitarist Bobby “Miklo” Baca moved to Austin and looked to put together a band. Interestingly en…... |
Song of the Day
Poor Moon: “Birds”
Sometimes you hear a piece of music and it immediately evokes a sense of season. The Beach Boys basically scored summer, the bulk of Nico's songs are great for the cold days of winter and, for some reason, The Turtles' "Elenore" just makes me...
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Austin Music Minute
Rosie & The Ramblers Plays Tonigh...
Austin-based quartet Rosie and The Ramblers have been playing together for about a year now, but all the combined talent you find in the band comes from lots of experience gigging across the country...
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This Week in Texas Music History
This Week in Texas Music History: Texa...
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll commemorate the Lone Star State’s own version of the Woodstock Festival. From August 30th to September 1st, 1969, just two weeks after Woodstock, Angus Wynne III organized the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, outside of Dallas. The festival...
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Music
Left of the Dial – Songs for Brent
Brent Grulke, 51, Creative Director of SXSW and an all–important nexus of the Austin music scene, died of a heart attack on Monday August 13th. He had an enormous appetite for life and for music, and his death stunned and saddened his hundreds of friends. Many of them contributed suggestions for...
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Remembering Stevie Plus...
This week on Texas Music Matters we celebrate the life of Stevie Ray Vaughn with recollections from former bandmates. Also, we browse the web for new releases from Trail of Dead, Billy Gibbons, and Natalie Maines. All that plus the latest music news and much more on Texas Music Matters. Tune in...
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Song of the Day
Pony Boy: “The Murder Ballad Of ...
Like its fellow Southwestern states, California is a melting pot of differing cultures. Los Angeles might be the perfect example of this, especially when it comes to its music. Enter Pony Boy, an Angeleno outfit that flirts...
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Music Archive
Uncle Lucius @ KUT 8/23/12
If Austin had a signature sound it would probably be something like Uncle Lucius. The 5 piece indie band pulls no punches and always delivers and electric live show full of fuzzy guitars and fun, funky backbeats. The group added a horn section for this...
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Music Archive
Tallest Man on Earth @ KUT 8/27/12
As a teenager, Swedish born songwriter Kristian Matsson studied the greats of American folk music after discovering they were the inspiration for his idol Bob Dylan. Now Matsson channels his hero onstage as The Tallest Man on Earth with his own...
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Song of the Day
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft O...
With the help of her fan base, Amanda Palmer raised almost $1.2 million dollars through Kickstarter, attracting the attention of music and business writers the world over. Now, the fan support is bearing fruit in the form of her new album and record label....
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Austin Music Minute
Uncle Lucius Album Release Show Saturd...
I, your humble Austin Music Minute maven, am the dork who will play a song on repeat, over and over, if I'm hooked. That's the kind of dorking-out that I do. And such was the case with "Everybody's Got Soul" by local band Uncle...
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Music Archive
Shinyribs @ KUT 8/24/12
Shinyribs is Kevin Russel of The Gourds in disguise. He just isn't that well disguised. But the music is still great! Kevin says he just had so many songs he wanted to perform he felt he had to put together a new group to do it. The rootsy swamp...
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Texas Music Matters
World Premiere: The Odessa Tapes
Jimmy Dale Gilmore. Butch Hancock. Joe Ely. Three of the most respected singer-songwriters in Americana music.
The story of how they joined forces once-upon-a-time in their native Lubbock is so much the stuff of myth that when their rare first Nashville recording was reissued on Rounder in the...
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Features
THE GOOD MUSIC CLUB: My Jerusalem
Brace yourself! The good music just keeps on coming with The Good Music Club, the live monthly music event and online video series highlighting local music artists making their mark on the Austin scene. The GMC’s ultimate goal is to...
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Music Archive
Y La Bamba @ KUT 8/22/12
Portland's Y La Bamba swings through Austin as part of an extensive tour for their new album Court the Storm taking them across the US before heading back to the North West. The septet brings a modern swing and swagger to their folk...
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