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Song of the DayBrass Bed: “I’ll Be There With Bells On”There’s magic in taking a three-minute pop song and mind-bend the psych-pop heck out of it. It’s a trick The Zombies perfected way back when, and reprised (and expand…... |
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Austin Music MinuteGoing Lo Hi LoThe roots of Paperhaus run deep. Not only is this a highly-revered DIY band in the Washington, DC area, they also created The Paperhaus - literally, their own home –…... |
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Hayden: “Rainy Saturday”
Photo by Vanessa Heins
Paul Hayden Desser has a quiet confidence about him. The Canadian singer has been performing under the name of Hayden for close to two decades now, but…...
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Yellowbirds: “Young Men Of Promise”
Sam Cohen draws a lot of influence from orchestras, often decorating the songs he records under the Yellowbirds moniker with all manner of stringed instruments. He often rec…...
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Will Courtney: “There’s No Answer”
Songwriter Will Courtney is a rambler, a restless spirit always on the move. As a musician, he’s played and worked with some heavy-hitters, but he’s about to strike o…...
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Le...
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are one of those groups with a perfect name. It’s mean, it’s nasty, but it’s also liberating, and just plain cool. Just like r…...
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Superhumanoids: “Geri”
“I hope our music is something that people can put on at a party, but also when they’re alone and feeling introspective,” says Cameron Parkins, singer for Su…...
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Billy Bragg: “Handyman Blues”
Photo by Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
SXSW can be very unpredictable at times, and it’s best to roll with the punches. Case in point: the illustrious Lianne La Havas had to bow ou…...
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Josh Ritter: “Joy to You Baby”
When he heard Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s duet “Girl from the North Country,” a teenage Josh Ritter ran out and bought a guitar. Cash, Dylan and Ritter shar…...
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Ray Wylie Hubbard: “Mother Blues”
Next weekend marks Ray Wylie Hubbard‘s fourth year hosting a big ol’ shindig called the Grit-n-Groove Fest. This year’s fest–which’ll be happ…...
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Austin Music Minute
Dream Glow On Your Side
The most I could decipher from the mystery that is Slow Magic - it struck me as mysterious, in some ways – was that it was a one-man show, a single performer with synth and a d…...
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The Art of Infinite Posibilities
It could very well be that the idea of percussion instruments illustrates a limitless realm of possibilities. You can use almost anything as a percussion instrument. However, lo…...
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Welcome to The Funhouse
This is a delightful discovery for your friendly neighborhood Austin Music Minute maven. What we have here is a band that basks in black humor, embraces the extraordinary, and can make a song called "Raise the Dead" so full of hand-clapping, foot-stomping life. ...
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True Believers: “Hard Road”
KUTX’s Studio 1A is built pretty solid. It would take a pretty heavy rock ‘n’ roll wallop to test its limits, and recently, we had just that. The legendary Tru…...
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While the Gittin’s Good
The track I used on today's Austin Music Minute from Mayeux and Broussard's 2012 release While the Gittin's Good (and yes, indeed, that is spelled with an "i") is the unflinchingly irreverent"Hollow Ground," which I love, but the one I first heard and got completely hooked on was the swaggering and...
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Mixing the Austin Soul Stew
I say that songwriter Kurt McMahan knows a lot about music from Texas, but actually, his knowledge is vast on a wide range of styles and not just the Texas variety. You could chat…...
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