C3 Announces Auckland City Limits Festival. Nope, That’s Not A Typo
We chatted with C3 partner Charles Attal about how an iconic Austin music festival ended up in New Zealand.
We chatted with C3 partner Charles Attal about how an iconic Austin music festival ended up in New Zealand.
After ten years out of the game, Black is back. Get an advance listen to two tracks from the new album, On Purpose.
With Fernando A. Flores’ short story collection and the forthcoming documentary shining new light on the RGV punk scene, let’s take an audio tour.
Ten years after his last album, Clint Black has a new record—and the same old attitude.
The banjo player from Belton recently won the Steve Martin Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass award, a recognition of his “barnyard electronic aesthetic.”
Never a dull week for music in Texas.
The Austin-by-way-of-Wichita Falls singer-songwriter brings an aching melody to a song about inhabiting your youth.
Getting ”Lucky” doesn’t sound like much of a plan in Lott’s voice.
The Turnpike Troubadours may not be from Texas, but they get here as often as they can—the next nine dates of the band’s fall tour include a whopping seven performances in Texas, including in off-the-beaten-path towns like Belton and Brenham (as well as the expected gigs in Austin, Houston, and Dallas,
Mike Flanigin begins again.
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
He’s not Kinky, he’s “The Loneliest Man I Ever Met."
The singer-songwriter brings a song he didn't write to a Ted Hawkins tribute album.
Twenty years after her death, who gets to love Selena (and how)?
Advocates for the equal rights ordinance are calling on Queen B to leverage her clout for the cause.
The Austin folk-punk trio have a twangy take on change, aging, and gentrification that's equal parts Neil Young and your bitter uncle.
Why is Texas’ favorite burger chain taking sides on Drake and Meek Mill’s beef? No clue. But it’s pretty amazing.
When the team tweeted last December that they’d reschedule a concert booked at Minute Maid Park if they needed the field for the playoffs, fans mocked them mercilessly. Well, who’s laughing now?
Further study of Spotify’s music maps shows Texas artists’ pockets of popularity outside of the state.
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
How Shakey Graves made the leap from cult figure to major festival draw.
The country megastars announced their divorce today.
The ten-piece Austin band brings some stylish blue-eyed soul.
The untold story of the underground rock scene that’s thrived in the Valley since the mid-sixties gets told in the voices of the people who were there.
This Houston-based synth-pop outfit brings a Wes Anderson-inspired aesthetic to the video for a song about plain old heartbreak but also the heartbreak of having your house broken into.
As development threatens two mainstays of Austin’s Red River Cultural District, it’s time to start considering the unthinkable: What would Austin’s live music scene look like without Red River?
The two musicians, featured on our July cover, talk about Texas’s rich songwriting history and their place in it.
Old friends Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett talk about songwriting Texas music history, and the early days back in College Station.
This state has been shaped by its songs. And as these 25 tales show, the stories behind them are often as great as the songs themselves.
Texas’s favorite octogenarian looks like a spring chicken next to his longest-tenured roadie.
A new song from Austin’s indie pop quartet looks at life, time’s passage, and starting over in a new song from their new EP.
A performance 42 years in the making.
The City of Austin Music Office commissioned a survey of 4,000 people in the city’s music industry to learn what reality is like as a musician in the Live Music Capital of the World. What they found stinks.
But the real mystery is, why are we still so obsessed with this particular Mississippi Delta blues legend?
No one can do it better, including getting plaques that were stolen from him back from a pawn shop in North Texas.
There is something weird going on in Christoval ISD.
Standard-fare ACL acts like the Foo Fighters and the Strokes are joined by Drake, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, and more.
The Austin-based Levitation Festival—formerly the Austin Psych Fest—builds anticipation with an exclusive mixtape.
The Taco Cannon, which debuted at Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2012, once again fights to be recognized as the world’s first.
By releasing a song called “It’s All Going to Pot,” of course.
A big ol’ slice of red-dirt country cheese.
Burleson County law enforcement apparently prefers officers use a different standard than rock-paper-scissors when determining infractions.
More like the fun police, are we right?
When Willie met Scarface.
P.J. Proby is still here.
How did Leon Bridges go from washing dishes to “winning” SXSW in just a few months?
Dallas Observer music editor Jeff Gage published a weird paragraph last year in reference to how a female punk singer looked—and Gawker is still holding his feet to the fire for it.
If posing for pictures with Snoop is outlawed, only outlaws will pose for pictures with Snoop.
The patron saint of Houston hip-hop took to Reddit to answer questions from fans about his Rice course, religion, Houston restaurants, what’s hot in Texas hip-hop, and more. Here are some of the highlights.
Even academics know what there is to learn from La Reina de Tex-Mex.