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Song of the DayTaddy Porter: “Fever”The band's got a new record called Stay Golden out on February 26, but they've let slip a single from the album to give you a little taste, and it's today's song of the day.... |
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Music, Music ArchiveRuthie Foster @ KUT 12/11/12Singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster truly earns the hyphenate title of "singer-songwriter." She has a voice that can bring down the house, coupled with a songwriting ability that cuts straight to the truth of life's big issues. Foster's passionate soul/blues style have lead some to compare here to legends such as Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald. At the beginning of the year, Ruthie Foster released her latest album, Let It Burn. Presented with the opportunity to record in New Orleans, she let the historic culture of the city infuse itself in her music, which resulted in something fantastic. Tomorrow, you can hear Ruthie Foster perform live on KUT when she joins us in Studio 1a. Take a listen to that session RIGHT HERE!... |
Features
Fun Fun Fun Fest Is Movin’ On Up
Now in it’s 6th year, the alternative music event known as the Fun Fun Fun Festival is leaving it’s home in Waterloo Park for the larger pastures of Austin’s Auditorium Shores. For Texas Music Matters Peter Babb reports on the little festival that...
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Song of the Day
Dengue Fever: “Uku”
In 1997 Californian organist Ethan Holtzman took a trip to Cambodia. On that trip Holtzman discovered the sounds of 60s Cambodian rock, a strange brew of fuzzy guitars and eastern melodies. Holtzman was hooked. When he got back to the states he teamed up with his brother, guitarist Zac Holtzman,...
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Austin Music Minute
B-52s Perform Tonight at Stubb’s...
This month marks the anniversary of the formation of one of the quintessential pop bands, the B-52s.
The Athens, GA quintet first got together in October 1976, and before long, they were the talk of the post-punk underground. Of course, it...
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Austin Music Minute
Gaby Moreno Plays Tonight at Lambert’s
Gaby Moreno is originally from Guatamala City, Guatamala, but some distinctly American music is what inspired her to become a songwriter and record her own songs.
When she was a little girl, she was mesmerized by an African-American...
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Music, Music Archive
The New Mastersounds @ KUT 11/2/2011
Leeds, England based funk band The New Mastersounds have been playing music together since 1999, though back then they played with more of a boogaloo sound. Since then, they've refined their sound to the great funk they play...
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Austin Music Minute
The White Ghost Shivers 8th Annual Hal...
Welcome, foolish mortals! By the way, if you don't get that reference, it happens to come from a rather famously happy haunt with a very recognizable ghost host.
Yes, it's the special All Hallow's Eve edition of the Austin Music Minute, and I, your hostess with the mostess Laurie Gallardo, am...
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Song of the Day
Ra Ra Riot: “Boy”
There are many hyphenated iterations of the label “pop” used to describe the band Ra Ra Riot. Indie-pop, chamber-pop, baroque-pop are just a few. At the end of the day, though, they are simply a great pop band in all of its un-hyphenated...
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Austin Music Minute
Fun Fun Fun Nites Get You Ready for th...
Holy smokes. I blinked, and November was here. And driving past Auditorium Shores, I could see the stages being built. The Fun Fun Fun...
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Song of the Day
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears: ...
Austin’s very own Black Joe Lewis is a dangerous man. He’s bluesman with a punk rock heart, and a soul-shouter unafraid to let wring his heart out on every track. With his band the Honeybears, Lewis brings back the immediacy and the...
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Song of the Day
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: “...
Gaby Moreno is originally from Guatamala City, Guatamala, but some distinctly American music is what inspired her to become a songwriter and record her own songs.
When she was a little girl, she was mesmerized by an African-American...
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Music, Texas Music Matters
A Live Tribute to Guy Clark
Texas music legend Guy Clark turns 70 this Sunday. Tomorrow night, a who’s-who of Texas music, from Lyle Lovett and Rodney Crowell to Shawn Colvin and Joe Ely, will take the stage of the Long Center to pay tribute. Ray Wylie Hubbard expressed the consensus: Guy Clark is kind of like the holy...
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Music, Music Archive
Graham Wilkinson @ KUT 11/1/11
The musically limber Graham Wilkinson is extremely difficult to pin down to any one genre. KUT's own Jay Trachtenberg has called him one of the most eclectic acts in the very eclectic city of Austin. On Wilkinson's latest...
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This Week in Texas Music History
Mary Austin Holley
Mary Austin Holley, was born Mary Austin on October 30, 1784, in New Haven, CT. She learned to play piano, guitar, and harp and helped organize local musical events. In 1805, she married Horace Holley, a minister. Mary Austin Holley was a cousin of famed Texas entrepreneur Stephen F. Austin. In...
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Austin Music Minute
The Preservation CD Release Show Tonig...
In 2009, musicians Matt Matteoli and Cayce Marsh were still performing and touring as a duo, but they decided it was time for a big change. Make that, a bigger band. That was the beginning of “Cosmic-American” outfit The Preservation.
Drummer Josh Wienholt and bassist Ben Burdick, who had...
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