Music
November 6, 2023
The Mountain Goats Have Returned to West Texas
On the new album ‘Jenny From Thebes,’ the indie band revives the characters from ‘All Hail West Texas,’ its seminal 2002 exploration of life in the Lone Star State.
Band
Sports
October 27, 2023
How the Texas Rangers Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love Creed
The World Series–bound Texas Rangers have embraced the much-maligned band with arms wide open. And it turns out that Creed kinda slaps.
Meanwhile, in Texas
December 6, 2022
Guns N’ Roses Welcomes Texas Firearms and Flower Shop to the Jungle With a Lawsuit
The band aims to bring Texas Guns and Roses to its kn-kn-kn-kn-knees—or at least compel it to change its name.
Music
November 22, 2022
Brockhampton Breaks Up—Twice
The San Marcos–bred supergroup released two farewell albums last week, one of which is a reflective solo record that complicates the band’s legacy.
Music
October 21, 2022
Faith, Love, and Scandal: The Wild Origin Story of a North Texas Heavy Metal Band
With its fourth album and a big upcoming tour, Tulip, which is led by an ex-evangelical opera singer, is on the verge of its big break.
Music
September 26, 2022
A Decade Later, the Mars Volta Leaves the Drama Behind
After years of breakups and makeups, the rock band is back with a poppier sound.
Music
May 5, 2015
A West Texas High School Suspended Its Band Teacher for Having a Beard
There is something weird going on in Christoval ISD.
Texas History
January 20, 2013
O Sister, Where Art Thou?
History makes no mention of what was one of the most popular all-female country acts ever. Yet the story of the Goree Girls—inmates who banded together in the forties at Texas’ sole penitentiary for women—is worth a listen.
Music
March 1, 1998
Band Aid?
Austin’s major-label bands-of-the-moment
Music
April 1, 1995
Word of Mouth
Never mind the bullocks, here’s Sincola: An Austin band tries to live up to the hype.
Music
November 1, 1982
Halftime Heroes
The bright-eyed, pink-cheeked cream of Texas youth aren’t scrambling on the football field. They’re playing in the high school band.
Music
November 1, 1981
The Attack of the Electronic Beast and Other Pleasures
Four performers in Dallas are making a new kind of music that combines precision, grace, and crazy humor.
Music
March 1, 1981
Make Friends With the Quin Tikis
Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.