Progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers is known for their more experimental take on bluegrass. Their music is still bluegrass throughout, but each member of the band is so talented that they are able to take bluegrass in new and interesting directions....
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Holy smokes. Could it be that we're approaching the finish line after one long and amazing SXSW week? Not quite. We still have the weekend, and there are many more bands to check out. You do have the Austin Music Minute to...
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It's safe to say that Ray Wylie Hubbard is a Texas legend, but it's not as if anyone handed him that title. He's played music professionally for nearly 50 years now, and has been at the forefront of several movements within country music, especially the progressive country music...
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On the 25 year anniversary, to the day, of the first South by Southwest music conference, a man who helped define American popular music over the last quarter century delivered this year’s keynote speech. And in true Bruce Springsteen fashion, it wasn’t long before he was tugging on the...
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On the 25th anniversary of the first South by Southwest music conference, a man who helped define American popular music over the last quarter-century delivered this year’s keynote speech. And in true Bruce Springsteen fashion, it wasn’t long before he was tugging on the heartstrings of an...
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Ladies and gentlemen, in the midst of all the SXSW madness, The Good Music Club emerges with more fantastic performances! The GMC is both a live music event and an online video series highlighting Austin-based bands and solo music artists making an impact on the local music scene. Of course, one of...
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Singer-songwriter Grace Woodroofe has enjoyed a near meteoric rise to notoriety in the music world. From her home in Perth, Australia, she recorded two demos for an Australian radio competition, which earned the attention of several music industry...
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As the world comes to Austin for SXSW music this week, KUT is celebrating five Austin musicians making a mark on the world stage--we call them Austin Aces.In the final part of our weeklong series “The Austin Aces”, Jody Denberg reports on a drummer and producer...
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If the band Blitzen Trapper is anything, it's eclectic. In their dozen-or-so year run as a group, the band has touched on bits of power pop, prog, indie folk, country, 70s rock and more, and earned raves from the usual suspects (Rolling...
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Jamaican musician Jimmy Cliff has been recording and performing music professionally for fifty years now, an incredibly lengthy career by any standards, but especially impressive given the fact that those 50 years started when Cliff was just 14 years old. One of the world's most...
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AUSTIN, Texas—March 14, 2012—KUT 90.5, community supported public radio from Austin, Texas, has been named “Best Radio Station” in the Austin Chronicle Music Poll and…...
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Either despite or because of her lack of formal training, Austin based jazz singer Kat Edmonson never fails to amaze an audience. After releasing her first album, Take to the Sky, in 2009, critics and fans alike were astounded by her voice, which...
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Hello once again from the fray! I, your friendly neighborhood Austin Music Minute maven Laurie Gallardo, have another handful of recommended gigs for you to check out. I'm well aware that, if you're in the midst of catching all of this amazing music, you haven't...
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Daniel Blue picked up the guitar at age 27 and decided to start a band–and sure enough, he’s seen that dream through. He’s now the guitarist and chief songwriter for Seattle’s Motopony, but he...
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