December 25, 2012 12:57 am by: Art Levy
We're counting down our favorite KUT Songs of the Day of the year, and we start today with Catherine Irwin's bittersweet country ballad "Mockingbird."...
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The "band" is really just one fella: songwriter Matthew Houck.... » read more
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Brooklyn’s Cale Parks might be best known to some as the drummer for the bands Aloha and White Williams, but the multi-instrumentalist has managed to create a meaningful sp…...
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Pyeng Threadgill was born into an artistic family on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1970′s and after high school, she found herself at Oberlin Conservatory to study cl…...
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Danny Malone grew up in Dallas but now he calls Austin home. He began honing his songwriting craft at the age of only 13, and though his tunes are much more polished these days, they re…...
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Victoria Bergsman records under the moniker Taken By Trees. The Swedish-born songstress recorded her new album East of Eden in Pakistan (she says that about half of the album was r…...
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Buenos Aires’s, Elisa Ferrari is an Austin based musician that weaves jazz and folk with music native to her Argentinean roots. She recently released her second album, Isla de N…...
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Brooklyn jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood have moved away from traditional record making. With their Radiolarians series they instead chose to write the songs, tour with the…...
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Bankrupt and the Borrowers are a quintessential local band – living together in a house on the east side and playing some good rock music while they’re doing it. They h…...
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Originally from Sydney, Australia, Howling Bells, moved to the United Kingdom to record their much acclaimed debut album with producer Ken Nelson. Three years later the group is…...
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Michael Fracasso grew up in the steel-mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio. He eventually made it to Greenwich Village and honed his songwriting craft at the Cornelia Street Cafe.
Fr…...
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Otis Gibbs hails from the small rural town of Wanamaker, Indiana, and though he’s a current resident of Nashville, he admits that he feels right at home here in Austin. Gibbs…...
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Blitzen Trapper is a sextet from Portland, Oregon that has whole-heartedly embraced what some are calling the ‘new folk revival.’ The band’s songs are full o…...
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Singer-songwriter Tori Amos is an American pianist powerhouse with songs about female power, religion, sin, and other deeper truths. Her tenth studio album, Abnormally Attrac…...
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Calgary’s Kendel Carson and Austin’s legendary songwriter, Chip Taylor are a musical match that has drawn much attention in the world of folk and country. The duo’…...
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Our neighbors to the north are probably not the first place you’d look to as a hot spot for innovative indie-rock. If that’s indeed the case, Norman, OK natives, Starl…...
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