March 19, 2013 5:00 am by: Alexandria Mayo
It’s the first Tuesday post-SXSW, and there’s probably more than a few of you out there still recovering. We here at KUTX had an awesome SXSW, and all this week we̵…...
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Throughout her career, Amy Cook has been able to count on her peers to help her out. Early on, she was tapped by Alejandro Escovedo to open for him on a national tour, and he later p…... » read more
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"Celebrity (Empire Of Emptiness)" finds the Austin fiddler growing more mature, even if she's seventeen and barely out of high school....
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With their signature fuzz and razor-sharp pop sense, Denmark's noise-rock duo
the Raveonettes pick up where landmark bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain and Sonic Youth left off. But even if you strip away the layers upon layers of...
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Wye Oak is not a band that stays in place for long. Though a lot of the same elements carry over from album to album--singer Jenn Wasner's throaty croon, her slash-and-burn guitar playing, drummer Andy Stack's inventive...
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Seemingly a lifetime ago,
Sixpence None The Richer captured the world's hearts with their hit single "Kiss Me." But they've since moved on to a sound marked by wise maturity rather than the teenage exuberance....
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Their brand of revved-up folk and Americana is less smooth, aged bourbon and a lot more white lightnin' straight from the tap....
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Last week, we received news that Susanna Clark, wife of Guy Clark, passed away at the age of 73. Rodney Crowell talked to KUT's
Kevin Connor about what an inspiration she was--not only to Guy, but also to Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, and Crowell himself. "I was in love with...
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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars is a band that came together in the middle of a war that tore their country apart....
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It can be a beautiful thing when a musician steps out into the spotlight after living in the shadow and psuedo-anonymity of being in bands. Multi-instrumentalist
Chris Cohen has just made that big leap. On...
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The sound of
Woods seems lost in time and place. The New York band's brand of psychedelic folk recalls hazy days lolling around in late 60's Southern California, but with a decidedly more introspective, lo-fi, 21st-century indie...
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Who would have thought that a band could take the bellicose pomposity of the "1812 Overture" and kind of make it cheeky and fun? Well, it's been done by Austin's own imitable, classical prog-punks
The Invincible Czars....
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The quintet makes beautiful music that straddles the worlds of indie-pop, chamber, and folk....
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Loudon Wainwright III is something of popular music's class clown. Since 1970, he's been poking and prodding with irreverent songs that, while written in a folk style, are removed of the dour seriousness that can sometimes...
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In addition to his solo work White, a native of Richmond, Va., is the leader of the critically-aclaimed, avant-garde jazz group Fight the Big Bull....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "We change, whether we like it or not." If the last sixty years of pop music has taught us anything, it's that reinvention is ubiquitous. Great art comes through revolution and change, even if that change is unwelcome. We may be poked and prodded into it but whatever...
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