A motorist fleeing a DWI traffic stop drove the wrong way down a one-way street, then charged through a barrier onto a closed street, turning a night at the festival into a tragedy.
East Texas native Kacey Musgraves’s best-selling debut has made some Nashville establishment types pretty nervous. But she’s not sure what all the fuss is about.
There's more than one impressive music festival in Texas this month, and the one in Dallas is free.
Bad news, Little Monsters: You’re not going to be able to crash down onto a parking lot on 5th Street in Austin to catch Lady Gaga perform a free show from within the confines of a 56-foot-tall Doritos vending machine.The makeshift Doritos stage that pops up in a
The Motor City Madman has been called many things over the past few decades, but until last week, you couldn't call him phony.
Taco Land, the beloved punk rock dive in San Antonio, closed its doors in 2005 when owner Ram Ayala was shot and killed inside his own club. Now, the space has been renovated and reopened by a new owner—but just how much the new Tacoland resembles the old is up
The Austin band preps its debut album with a bluesy, groove-heavy bit of heartache.
In remembrance of our late poet laureate.
Dallas's Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) on her new album, the “weird high harmonics" of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, and the there's-nothing-in-the-world-quite-like-it quality of a Texas sky.
Johnny Winter, who turns 70 this month, recalls the stories behind some of the songs that built his career after he was discovered in Austin in 1968.
The controversy-courting Motor City Madman has donated his speaking/rocking services to the "Salute to Heroes Patriot Dinner and Concert" in April, which will raise funds for a New Braunfels non-profit that builds homes for disabled veterans, and he's got—you guessed it—some strong words for those who would criticize that appearance.
In 1978 Punk magazine sent photographer Roberta Bayley to Texas to chronicle the band’s tour through the South. Her photos of the two Texas shows capture the surreal collision of two radically different cultures.
It doesn't get any more Kinky Friedman.
Fort Worth's rising country star serves up a tasty slice of twangy Texana with a side of Abilene.
Somehow I lived in Texas more than twenty years without seeing Willie Nelson. This had to end.
Robert Ellis is the next big thing. Trust me.
The sneakerhead subculture descended on Houston in November for a major convention, and streetwear company Karmaloop offers an inside look.
Tom Wilson, a Harvard-educated Republican from Waco who helped launch the careers of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Lou Reed, and a few other musicians you might have heard of.
Don't miss these new releases by Texas recording artists.
One doesn't need to be a master thief to figure out why there might be a flaw in this plan.
The Austin-based musician has spent time playing with Shearwater and the Low Lows, and he's paired one of the prettier tracks on his forthcoming solo debut with this creepy, fascinating video.
The "Greatest Living Texan" candidate surprised fans by releasing a fourteen-track self-titled album on iTunes at midnight. Even more impressive: The album purchase also includes an eighteen-part collection of new music videos.
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
How the Eli Young Band cracked the code of the country music business and became one of Texas’s most successful exports.
How did Guy Clark become the most revered songwriter in Nashville? One hard-won tune at a time.
If you like your country twang with a whole lot of rock and roll to it, give a listen to the new song from the this quintet's forthcoming album.
The founder of the Grammy-winning Grupo Fantasma is striking out on his own. For his next act, will he remake Latin music again?
The new book "Houston Rap," makes it clear that by the time the city's rap scene began attracting national attention, its roots were already strong.
Corn maze + Willie's braids and guitar = pure Texas.
Fun Fun Fun Fest's most unique "headliner" returns, firing bean, cheese and tortilla ammunition—and possibly some Twinkies—across Austin's Auditorium Shores.
When Robert Glasper won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, no one was more surprised than the Houston-born jazz pianist himself.
Curious about the reading habits of Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff? Read on.
For the first time in its history, the Austin City Limits Music Festival stretched over two weeks, a format that worked out well for some—and not so well for others.
Kenny Rogers, who has a new album, ‘You Can’t Make Old Friends,' talks about country versus pop, choosing duet partners, and never letting the audience down.
Only in Austin would a local kid's choir share the bill with Lionel Richie, Muse, The Cure, and Wilco.
Let's take a spoiler-free look at "Felina" and Marty Robbins' classic outlaw ballad.
Seventeen years ago, Old 97's recorded with their idol, Waylon Jennings. To mark the first release of these songs, Old 97's recounted the time they spent with the father of the Outlaw Country movement.
Houston rapper Riff Raff’s debut album is just the first step on his journey to world domination. No, really.
TXDOT, which holds the trademark to the circa-1985 antilittering slogan, has issued over 100 cease-and-desist letters to companies using the slogan since 2000. Somehow, all of these slipped through the cracks.
Blue October’s CD Sway is the group’s first album since Justin Furstenfeld, second from right, spent 75 days in rehab.
Now that she’s left the conservatory, mandolin player Sarah Jarosz plans her next move.
Howard Rains on his quest to bring back an old-time style of Texas fiddling that was popular between the Civil War and World War II.
After years as an in-demand fiddle payer, Amanda Shires is redefining herself as a boundary-breaking singer-songwriter. Emphasis on “writer.”
Bob Schneider, the Austin singer and songwriter, created a weekly songwriting game with a strict deadline that has helped him fill five albums.
The premiere of Slaid Cleaves' "Texas Love Song," a track from his newest album, Still Fighting the War, on sale today.
More than 75 songs to accompany you during a meaty quest.
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen almost died, repeatedly, before he decided that life was worth living. In El Paso.
The two singer-songwriters talk about their friendship, their profession, and their tour.
Can the famous piano competition survive without Van Cliburn?
Six albums to pick up before the summer touring season begins.
