Music
October 12, 2015
Music Monday: Shea Serrano On ‘The Rap Yearbook’ And His Houston Hip Hop Playlist
How the Houston-based writer went from ”this sounds super f—ing boring” to the author of a new book.
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October 8, 2015
Bun B Just Dropped Astros Rap “Crush City,” Y’all
”Put your H's in the air if you with it, mane.”
Music
October 5, 2015
Watch ‘The Voice’ Stars Dawn & Hawkes Duet In The Middle Of Nowhere
A one-take music video from an Austin duo for your melancholy Monday mood.
Music
September 28, 2015
Music Monday: Dale Watson Takes Us To Luckenbach In His New Music Video
”Anybody who sees the video, they get a little taste of Luckenbach. At least they learn how to two-step, anyway.”
The Daily Post
September 24, 2015
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.
Music
September 23, 2015
Exclusive: Hear Two New Clint Black Songs & The Stories Behind Them From The Man Himself
After ten years out of the game, Black is back. Get an advance listen to two tracks from the new album, On Purpose.
Music
September 21, 2015
Music Monday: An Introduction To The Rio Grande Valley Punk Rock Scene’s Golden Era
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.
Music
September 17, 2015
Black Is the New Black
Ten years after his last album, Clint Black has a new record—and the same old attitude.
Music
September 14, 2015
Danny Barnes Proves That Playing the Banjo Can Pay
The banjo player from Belton recently won the Steve Martin Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass award, a recognition of his “barnyard electronic aesthetic.”
Music
September 11, 2015
Free Press Houston Announces New Festival, A Campaign to Save Austin’s Hole In The Wall, And More In Texas Music Business News
Never a dull week for music in Texas.
Music
September 11, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Ali Holder Makes Us “Feel Alive”
The Austin-by-way-of-Wichita Falls singer-songwriter brings an aching melody to a song about inhabiting your youth.
Music
September 4, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Eddie Lott Gets “Lucky” With A Duet From His Forthcoming Debut Album
Getting ”Lucky” doesn’t sound like much of a plan in Lott’s voice.
Music
August 28, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Turnpike Troubadours Load Up On “The Bird Hunters”
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,
Music
August 19, 2015
You Don’t Mess Around With Mike
Mike Flanigin begins again.
Arts & Entertainment
August 19, 2015
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Music
August 18, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Kinky Friedman On “The Loneliest Man I Ever Met”
He’s not Kinky, he’s “The Loneliest Man I Ever Met."
Music
August 14, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: James McMurtry Has “Big Things” In Store
The singer-songwriter brings a song he didn't write to a Ted Hawkins tribute album.
Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2015
Amor Prohibido
Twenty years after her death, who gets to love Selena (and how)?
The Daily Post
August 7, 2015
#BeyBeAHERO: Twitter’s Asking Beyoncé to Speak Up for Houston’s HERO
Advocates for the equal rights ordinance are calling on Queen B to leverage her clout for the cause.
Music
August 6, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Austin’s I Am The Albatross Get Lost In “The Weed”
The Austin folk-punk trio have a twangy take on change, aging, and gentrification that's equal parts Neil Young and your bitter uncle.
Music
July 31, 2015
Whataburger Gets Salty on Twitter By Insulting The Rapper Meek Mill
Why is Texas’ favorite burger chain taking sides on Drake and Meek Mill’s beef? No clue. But it’s pretty amazing.
The Daily Post
July 29, 2015
The Astros Are Moving The Date Of That Taylor Swift Concert After All, Haters
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?
Music
July 27, 2015
Mapping the Popularity of Texas Artists Outside of Texas
Further study of Spotify’s music maps shows Texas artists’ pockets of popularity outside of the state.
Music
July 23, 2015
Spotify Charts The Favorite Songs of Texas Cities, & It Isn’t Surprising At All
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
Music
July 23, 2015
Steady as He Goes
How Shakey Graves made the leap from cult figure to major festival draw.
Music
July 20, 2015
Miranda Lambert Unlikely to Be Referred to as “Blake Shelton’s Wife” Anymore
The country megastars announced their divorce today.
Music
July 17, 2015
Exclusive Video Premiere: The Nightowls Gets Down With “Get Up!”
The ten-piece Austin band brings some stylish blue-eyed soul.
Music
July 13, 2015
Watch the Trailer for a Documentary on the History of Rock Music in the Rio Grande Valley
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.
Music
July 1, 2015
Exclusive Video Premiere: The Wheel Workers Break Into Your House With “Burglar”
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.
The Daily Post
June 23, 2015
Could Austin’s Live Music Community Survive Without a Red River Club District?
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?
Music
June 19, 2015
Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett on the Front Porch
The two musicians, featured on our July cover, talk about Texas’s rich songwriting history and their place in it.
Music
June 16, 2015
On the Porch With Robert and Lyle
Old friends Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett talk about songwriting Texas music history, and the early days back in College Station.
Music
June 11, 2015
The Secret History of Texas Music
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.
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June 8, 2015
Willie Nelson’s Daughter Is Making a Documentary About His 90-Year-Old Roadie
Texas’s favorite octogenarian looks like a spring chicken next to his longest-tenured roadie.
Music
June 5, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: First Year on Earth Say “The Best Is Yet to Come”
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.
Music
June 3, 2015
ZZ Top Will Finally Play “La Grange” in La Grange
A performance 42 years in the making.
Music
June 1, 2015
Eight Things We Learned About Austin’s Music Industry From the Austin Music Census
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.
Music
May 29, 2015
49 Experts Agree: That Third Photo of Robert Johnson Is Not Authentic
But the real mystery is, why are we still so obsessed with this particular Mississippi Delta blues legend?
Music
May 7, 2015
Gangsta Rap Progenitor The D.O.C. Will Reclaim His Platinum Records From a Plano Pawn Shop
No one can do it better, including getting plaques that were stolen from him back from a pawn shop in North Texas.
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.
Music
May 5, 2015
Austin City Limits Releases a (Relatively) Diverse Festival Lineup
Standard-fare ACL acts like the Foo Fighters and the Strokes are joined by Drake, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, and more.
Music
April 29, 2015
Exclusive Mixtape Premiere: Levitation Festival 2015 Previews the Black Angels, 13th Floor Elevators, Flaming Lips, & More
The Austin-based Levitation Festival—formerly the Austin Psych Fest—builds anticipation with an exclusive mixtape.
The Daily Post
April 27, 2015
Taco Cannon Controversy Continues
The Taco Cannon, which debuted at Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2012, once again fights to be recognized as the world’s first.
Music
April 20, 2015
How Willie Nelson Celebrates 4/20
By releasing a song called “It’s All Going to Pot,” of course.
Music
April 17, 2015
Exclusive Song Premiere: Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen Contemplate What They’ll Do “In The Next Life”
A big ol’ slice of red-dirt country cheese.
Music
April 15, 2015
Police Officer Lets a Rock-Paper-Scissors Game Determine Whether an Underage Drinking Suspect Will Get in Trouble
Burleson County law enforcement apparently prefers officers use a different standard than rock-paper-scissors when determining infractions.
Music
April 14, 2015
El Paso Police Are in Trouble for Making a Super Cool Music Video
More like the fun police, are we right?
Arts & Entertainment
April 13, 2015
The Outlaws
When Willie met Scarface.
Music
April 13, 2015
The Return of P. J. Proby
P.J. Proby is still here.
Music
April 10, 2015
Rookie of the Year
How did Leon Bridges go from washing dishes to “winning” SXSW in just a few months?