Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts are at the forefront of a crop of garage bands that draw influence not just from the usual '60s suspects (like the Velvet Underground), but also from '80s post-punk. It's a modernized mixture--garage rock has constantly evolved over the past half-century, and Crystal...
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Last November, Austin's Sahara Smith made her national TV debut on The Late Show With David Letterman. The performance capped off a tremendous year for the singer-songwriter--and it was just a preview for what's surely to come. ...
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If you decide to break down the lyrics to many of their songs, the experience of listening to The Walkmen could be kind of a bummer (there’s a song on their latest LP, Lisbon, called "Woe is Me," believe it or not). But as many critics have noted in the past, the quintet – who began in our...
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Austin-raised, Dallas-based Tiger Darrow says she started working in film when she was 7 and "transitioned" into songwriting at 12....
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Imagine it’s the crux of your weekend - the moment when you either tell your friends goodnight or order another round. If The Bright Light Social Hour is acting as the soundtrack to your night, you’re going to wake up with a party-induced headache. ...
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The Civil Wars is a singer-songwriter duo hailing from the Southeast. Having met only a year and a half ago, the duo's creative synergy quickly became contagious, landing them plenty of publicity for their debut, Barton Hollow....
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Bosque Brown's brand of dark country-folk has been wowing audiences for a few years both here in the States and Europe. The Denton band is led by the ghostly singing voice of Mara Lee Miller. ...
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In a recent article with the Los Angeles Times, Ebert expressed that his decision to isolate himself post a rigorous Magnetic Zeros' tour schedule was due to "a drive to learn and grow." The result, Ebert's first full-length solo project, Alexander....
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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 when we go into the studio,” Beam told KUT’s Jay...
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Over the past few years, The Budos Band has been a leading light in the rise of “neo-soul."...
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Since moving to Austin a few years ago, Erin Ivey has quietly become one of our city’s biggest critical successes. Ivey just released her second full-length, titled Broken Gold, and she dropped by KUT to record an exclusive performance of the new tunes....
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Gurf Morlix career spans more than four decades. In addition to having accompanied artists like Lucinda Williams and Robert Earl Keen, he's released six solo albums. His most recent release, Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream, is a 15 song collection of Blaze’s songs....
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Alejandro Escovedo is a fixture in Texas music history, but that is not to say he is a fixture of any one genre. Across more than a dozen of his solo albums, he has played punk rock, Latin jazz, alternative country, and Americana to great success . His most recent album, Street Songs of Love,...
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Just a day after their inaugural live performance as Courtyard Hounds, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire performed for a packed Hilton Hotel lobby on Friday morning as part of KUT L…...
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