Scott H. Biram is a one-man band with a wall of speakers. His fiery songs blur the lines between country, blues and hard rock. Biram himself has trouble pinning down what he plays. "I don't have a word for it, so I tell people I'm a cross...
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Eleanor Friedberger is primarily known as the singer for the oddball pop duo the Fiery Furnaces, but that may soon change. On her new solo debut, Friedberger exhibits some of the best songs of her...
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Dale Watson has become an Austin institution by repeatedly headlining Austin institutions. He's a regular at honky-tonk landmarks like the Broken Spoke or » read more

You would need a spreadsheet and a slide rule to unravel the tangled web of bands and performers that make up the roots of the collective that is My Jersusalem. Members hail from groups like » read more

In the early '70s, a number of Dallas musicians decided to pack it up and move to the sleepy town of Austin. Jimmy Vaughan and his younger brother Stevie, Paul Ray, and Doyle Bramhall made the trek and remade Austin into a blues paradise. So it was with great sadness that we heard the » read more

At first glance, punk and folk music don’t seem to have much in common. But both genres passionately celebrate the agony and ecstasy of a life lived on the wrong side of the tracks. Chuck Ragan, the former frontman for Florida punk group...
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The Toronto-based five-piece folk outfit The Wilderness of Manitoba came from the big city, but the band’s complex, lush harmonies and backwoods instrumentation evokes the cold, rugged beauty of wide-open North American...
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Steve James has loved the blues before he was old enough to pick up a guitar."I was the only four-year-old on my block with Leadbelly 78s," he jokes with KUT's Jeff McCord in an Oct 13. visit to Studio 1A. Born in New...
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With his long shock of white hair, beard and glasses, J Mascis is an easily recognizable guy. He’s primarily known for his work as the amplifier-bursting frontman for pioneering indie rock band Dinosaur...
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In 2009 Darvin Jones and Beth Puorro founded Austin’s Boy + Kite in a hot tub. The duo discussed the nature of life and being in a band. Swaddled in the steamy, percolating waters, Jones and Puorro hatched a plan to start a band together,...
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Akina Adderley comes from a jazz pedigree, but she makes her home firmly in the R&B and funk camps. She's the granddaughter of trumpeter Nat Adderley and the grandniece of...
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Austin’s own The White White Lights are the like the mutant love child of The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s arty, urban cool and Nancy Sinatra’s psyched-up strut. The much bandied-about group made a big splash last...
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The shaggy-mopped, fresh-faced guys in the band Marmalakes are strong evidence that the kids that grew up in Austin are usually cooler than the kids that didn’t. Since forming four years ago, the boys of Marmalakes have turned out a crop...
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Portland, Oregon-based instrumental rock duo Talkdemonic combines elements of electronica, folk, rock and classical. Multi-instrumentalist Kevin O’Connor started Talkdemonic in 2004 with violist Lisa Molinaro. O’Connor wanted to explore...
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