When Hayes Carll first came to Austin, music was his third occupation, behind selling vacuums door-to-door and working Red Lobster. In his dwindling spare time, Carll worked bars around Central Texas and the Gulf Coast, sometimes earning as little as $50 for...
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The Walkmen make music that's both uneasy and uplifting....
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Let's get one thing out of the way: Cowboy and Indian isn't a vanity project. Jesse Plemons (who played Landry on Friday Night Lights) is a legitimate guitarist and songwriter. Plemons and former » read more

Austin's Wiretree shows off their brand of power-pop for today's Song of the Day....
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The best aspect of Blitzen Trapper is their sheer sense of adventure. The Portland, Oregon quintet is nominally a country or folk band--there's the requisite drawl from singer Eric Earley, pedal steel guitar, and golden harmonies. But that twang is accompanied by spacey-sounding keyboards,...
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Richard Swift is not your typical singer-songwriter. He first made his name singing Tin Pan Alley-influenced pop songs, but the past few years have found him branching out into a number of different directions. In 2008 he released a fiery garage-rock EP...
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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 shares the space with multi-instrumentalist...
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Sam Beam says there’s a perfectly logical reason his latest record, Kiss Each Other Clean, sounds like a complete departure from the signature hushed vocal sound he established on his 2001 debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle. “We try to have fun...
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OK – it’s kind of a dumb name. But don’t let it fool you. Honestly, Daniel Zott and Josh Epstein aren’t the first band to find success almost in spite of their moniker. After releasing a few sporadic EPs, the Detroit-based duo released their debut...
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Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince met in 2000 when Mosshart heard Hince practicing in the hotel room above hers. They were both in different bands at the time - and based on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean (Mosshart is from Florida, Hince is from the UK). ...
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Singer-songwriter Tom Russell may call El Paso home, but he's hardly stayed put in his forty-year career. Born in Los Angeles, Russell left California for a traveling lifestyle, spending time in such far-flung places as Puerto Rico, Spain, Norway,...
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Steve Earle first tipped us to Joe Pug. A few years back, while recording his own Studio 1A session, Earle sung the praises of his opening act, a young, unknown singer-songwriter from Chicago. Since then, Pug has moved from the Windy City to Austin, and...
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Twin Sister started turning heads with last year's Color Your Life, an EP that showed the Brooklyn group to be master dance-pop makers. On September 27, the quintet is set to release their full-length debut, In Heaven,...
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It's funny to think about now, but just a few years ago, people were legitimately afraid of St. Vincent. The Dallas-raised, New York-based artist (otherwise known as Annie Clark) drew a number of raised eyebrows at her 2007 SXSW...
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