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December 1, 2012
Sax & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Bobby Keys and the Rolling Stones: behind one of pop music's most famous solos.
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October 31, 2012
One Man’s Mission to Help Heal Soldiers
Darden Smith finds that music therapy can help soldiers with PTSD.
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October 31, 2012
Six Degrees of Will Johnson
A new album from the Centro-Matic front man—and indie rock's one-man social network.
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September 30, 2012
Making an Austin City Limits Debut
Terry Lickona, the television show's executive producer, talks about some of the acts that will step on the Austin City Limits stage for the first time, including Radiohead and Kat Edmonson.
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September 30, 2012
The Thrill Isn’t Gone
How Gary Clark Jr. is reclaiming and reinventing the blues for the hip-hop generation.
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August 31, 2012
Ryan Bingham Strikes Out on His Own
Starting a new label is a dicey proposition, but the country star who co-wrote the Oscar-winning song "The Weary Kind" thinks the time is right.
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August 31, 2012
Not Fade Away
Can a posthumous release of Waylon Jennings’s last recordings keep his legacy from disappearing?
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August 1, 2012
Norah Jones Releases New Video
The Texas songbird strikes a disturbingly dark tone in the video for "Miriam."
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July 31, 2012
Years Later, Old 97’s Still Embrace One Special Record
It might have been recorded fifteen years ago, but the Dallas-based band will mark an important anniversary with the album that began their alternative-country journey.
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July 31, 2012
Amy Cook
On her new album, Summer Skin, and more.
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July 31, 2012
Grandfather Child
A new album by Grandfather Child.
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July 31, 2012
Funky Was the State of Affairs
A new album by Fergus & Geronimo.
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July 31, 2012
Robert Earl Keen’s Scriptorium
The singer-songwriter shows us where he writes.
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July 12, 2012
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 Lineup Revealed at Bingo Parlor
The increasingly prominent Austin music festival unveiled the lineup for its seventh incarnation around midnight with a game of Bingo in East Austin.
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July 9, 2012
For the Toadies, a Fresh Start
Success has never come easy for the Toadies, but the Fort Worth-based rock band is back with its fifth studio album Play. Rock. Music.
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July 3, 2012
ICYMI: ‘Mariachi High’ and the Students of Zapata High School
Watch the heartwarming documentary PBS aired a high school mariachi band from the Rio Grande Valley.
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June 30, 2012
For the Toadies, a Fresh Start
Success has never come easy for the Toadies, but the Fort Worth–based rock band is back with its fifth studio album, Play. Rock. Music.
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June 30, 2012
Jon Dee Graham
On his new album, Garage Sale, and more.
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June 30, 2012
Believe
A new album by the Cookers.
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June 30, 2012
Shakedown
A new album by Hacienda.
Film & TV
June 30, 2012
Meat, My Maker
When Dallas’s very own Marvin Lee Aday—that’s Meat Loaf to you—optioned one of my screenplays, he didn’t just offer me a glimpse of paradise by the dashboard lights. He also helped me write a novel.
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June 4, 2012
Hear Fat Tony’s New Mixtape
The rapper, who Bun B calls "Houston's best-kept secret," threw out his notebook and recorded Double Dragon entirely freeform.
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June 1, 2012
Billy Gibbons on the “Zee Zee Top” Prom Photo
Billy Gibbons tells Andy Langer that he would date an early photo of the band that went viral this week to May 1970.
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May 31, 2012
Shawn Colvin’s Survival Story
The Austin-based singer-songwriter talks about her new autobiography, Diamond in the Rough, and her sixth studio album.
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May 31, 2012
Five New Albums You Shouldn’t Miss
Including new sets from Alejandro Escovedo, Rhett Miller, and more.
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May 31, 2012
Singing Opera
Jay Hunter Morris on singing opera
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May 21, 2012
Flaco Jimenez and Brother Santiago Reunited
The two brothers, legendary conjunto players with completely different styles who had not shared a stage since 1982, played at San Antonio's Tejanjo Conjunto Festival over the weekend.
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May 4, 2012
Rapper’s “Gay Is Okay” Song Goes Viral
A YouTube video posted by Adair Lion, an El Paso-born rapper, has been viewed more than 100,000 times and was dubbed “The World’s First Pro-Gay Rap Song.”
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April 30, 2012
Norah Jones
On her new album, Little Broken Hearts, and more.
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April 30, 2012
Like Father, Like Son
Andy Langer talks with Willie Nelson and his youngest son, Lukas, about "The Family," Willie's new album (Heroes), and passing the torch.
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April 30, 2012
The Grifter’s Hymnal
A new album by Ray Wylie Hubbard.
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April 30, 2012
Nootropics
A new album by Lower Dens.
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April 30, 2012
Bill Collings, Luthier
Collings makes some of the best acoustic guitars in the world and counts Lyle Lovett, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, and Joni Mitchell among his customers. His company, located outside Austin on U.S. 290, is famed not only for the high quality of its instruments but also for its refusal to
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April 17, 2012
Exclusive: Listen to Todd Snider’s New Jerry Jeff Tribute Album
Hear singer-songwriter Todd Snider's new album, Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker, before it's released in stores on April 24.
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April 16, 2012
Want to Sleep in Farrah Fawcett’s Bedroom?
The Corpus Christi ranch house where the bombshell lived during high school can be yours for $215,000.
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April 12, 2012
Ian McLagan to be Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Austin finally sees its first resident accepted into the venerable institution.
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March 31, 2012
A Tribute to Mr. Bojangles
Todd Snider's latest album reflects his deep-seated admiration for Jerry Jeff Walker's free-spirited style.
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March 31, 2012
Way Down Low
A new album by Kat Edmonson.
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March 31, 2012
The Body Wins
A new album by Sarah Jaffe.
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March 31, 2012
The Mars Volta
Omar Rodríguez-López on the meaning of Noctourniquet, doing a reunion with At the Drive-In, and getting bored.
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March 1, 2012
9 Texas Bands That Could Make an Impact at SXSW
Though South by Southwest is bringing big names like Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z this year, here are picks from showcasing Texans, from the obvious to the relatively obscure.
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March 1, 2012
Lyle Lovett
On his new album, Release Me, and more.
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March 1, 2012
Meltdown
A new album by the Mind Spiders.
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March 1, 2012
Black Radio
A new album by Robert Glasper.
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February 29, 2012
Vidor’s Hip-Hop Anthem
Two local rappers are trying to change the the image of "the 409" with their song "Vidor Anthem," which has become a modest hit online.
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February 2, 2012
VIDEO: Destiny’s Child, Sly Stone, and other Texan “Soul Train” Moments
Our thanks to Don Cornelius for bringing us these Texas music moments.
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February 1, 2012
Sweet Symphony
How two rare Stradivarius violins at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra brought Michael Shih and Swang Lin, who both grew up in Taiwan, together.
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February 1, 2012
Ben Kweller Makes Some Noise
The Austin-based musician talks about his new album, his record label, and making viral videos with Jason Schwartzman.
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February 1, 2012
Ben Kweller
The musician and former front man for Radish on moving to Austin, pretending to be a label mogul, and getting his electric guitars out again.
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February 1, 2012
Animal Joy
A new album by Shearwater.