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Song of the DayEscondido: “Bad Without You”Sometimes it’s best to follow that initial instinct. A few years ago, Jessica Maros and Tyler James met at the latter’s home studio in Nashville. While reco…... |
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Song of the DayDeadbeat Darling: “Surf India”This Thursday (April 11) is your last chance to catch Joseph King’s (frontman for the Brooklyn-based group Deadbeat Darling) last solo residency gig at the Scoot…... |
Austin Music Map, Texas Music Matters
Announcing MapJam 2013!
The Austin Music Map, KUTX, and the City of Austin Music Division present... MapJam 2013, a daylong festival celebrating Austin music. From bluegrass to hip hop and conjunto to rockabilly, we've booked some of our favorite local bands at some of our favorite local venues. ...
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Song of the Day
Suzanna Choffel: “Race Car”
Suzanna Choffel only has two full-length albums to her credit, but she’s already become a household name around Austin. Her 2006 release, Shudders and Rings, was a more jaz…...
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Song of the Day
The Lumineers: “Stubborn Love”
After some SXSW 2012 gigs, they were back in Austin in May where they stopped by Studio 1A to perform a few tracks. “Stubborn Love,” from their debut full-length, was one of them....
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Austin Music Minute
That Sexy, Rockin’ Voice
The Heartless Bastards did, in fact, get together in Cincinnati in 2003, but I selfishly claim the band for Austin. Vocalist and guitarist Erika Wennerstrom makes her home here, for the time being, and Austin is...
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Austin Music Minute, Music
Shakey Graves and the Mesmerized Crowd...
Yes, your friendly neighborhood Austin Music Minute maven is a fan of Alejandro Rose-Garcia‘s one-man powerhouse Shakey Graves, but even I was rather curious ov…...
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Music, Music Archive
Gregg Rolie at KUTX 1.16.13 @ 2 p.m.
Keyboardist and singer Gregg Rolie casts a pretty long shadow. He’s a founding member of not just one, but two of the most influential groups of the late 60s and 70s: Santana and Jo…...
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Song of the Day
Bobby Jealousy: “Shipwrecked”
Whether you're seein' Bobby Jealousy live, listening through your headphones or blasting them through your speakers (which you should totally try, by the way), they're one of those bands that'll stop you in your tracks....
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Austin Music Minute
The Man, The Myth, The Legend
I'm guilty of repeating myself, but so be it. The Austin Music Minute makes no bones about it: Dale Watson is someone you need to add to your short list of must-see performers. And if you haven’t had the chance to see him, you owe it to yourself to check him out....
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Texas Music Matters, This Week in Texas Music History
This Week in Texas Music History: Texa...
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll visit a place that puts the official state seal on the sounds of Texas....
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Music Archive
Jason Moran in Studio 1A on 1.11.13
Since Jason Moran emerged onto the jazz scene in the late 90s, the jazz pianist has never stopped proving himself as a perfumer and an innovator. Frequently called "the future of jazz," Moran has won a smattering of awards for risk-taking approach to jazz...
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Music, Song of the Day
John Fullbright: “Gawd Above”
There’s a lot of rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, both geographically and on the gridiron, but there’s also been a great back-and-forth cultural exchange between the sta…...
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Music, Song of the Day
The Joy Formidable: “This Ladder...
The Big Roar–the Joy Formidable’s 2011 debut–ended up being aptly titled. Not only were the songs loud and brash, but the album proved to be a pretty big hit,…...
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Austin Music Minute, Music
Get Down, Get Hard Proof Funky
A band like Hard Proof Afrobeat continuously blows me away. I’ve seen them in just about every sort of venue imaginable, from the larger places they seem to take over with their mammoth sound, to the tiniest of stages where the...
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This Week in Texas Music History
This Week in Texas Music History: A.O....
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a piano playing cowboy who was not really a cowboy at all. A. O. Babel died in Randolph, New York, on January 19, 1896. The son of a music professor, Babel was born in 1858 in Seguin, Texas. He got his start playing piano in...
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