Austin

Festivals 

SXSW 2023: Walking Through Austin

March 26, 2023March 28, 2023 Robin Cook 0 Comments Austin, Dana Gillespie, Dream Wife, Jaguar Jonez, Jane Weaver, Lara Price, MELTT, Sorry Mom, South by Southwest, SXSW, SXSW 2023, Texas, The Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Trials of Cato

Chatting up some of the acts at this year’s festivities in Texas

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Indie Rock Progressive Rock Rock 

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: If You Want Blood, You Got It

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 2022, Austin, Black Flag, Conrad Keely, Dine Alone Records, Genesis, Jason Reece, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Quadraphonic, Sonic Youth, Texas, XI: Bleed Here Now

Austin, TX’s own “Punk Floyd” goes Quadrophonic on their latest LP

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Music Journalism 

SXSW 2022: The Interviews

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Robin Cook 1 Comment 2022, 50 Ft. Wave, Austin, BlackPunk, Cindy Emch, Grey DeLisle, Kristin Hersh, South by Southwest, Steve Wynn, Sue Foley, SXSW, The Dream Syndicate, Throwing Muses, Von Phoenix

Seven chats with seven music acts that define the wild diversity of this year’s South By Southwest Festival

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Indie Rock Pop 

LISTEN: “All We’ve Lost” by Oliver Future

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, A Year At Home, All We've Lost, Austin, Jon Brion, Los Angeles, Oliver Future

The Austin-by-way-of-L.A. band picks up right where they left off on their first new music in 14 years

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Country and/or Western North Americana Pop 

Nobody’s Girl Returns With Eponymous Sophomore Set

July 18, 2021July 19, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Austin, BettySoo, Bonnie Raitt, Grace Pettis, I'm With Her, Nobody's Girl, Rebecca Loebe, Texas

Named after a classic Bonnie Raitt tune, this Austin super trio continue their ascension on beguiling second LP

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Bluegrass 

The Assimilated Triumph of Mark Rubin

June 22, 2021March 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 6 Comments antisemitism, Austin, Bad Livers, Bluegrass, Killbilly, Klezmer, Mark Rubin, Oklahoma, Texas, The Jew of Oklahoma, The Triumph of Assimilation

The self-described “Jew of Oklahoma” and eternal Bad Liver confronts Antisemitism on his excellent new solo album

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North Americana 

Gurf Morlix: Love in the Time of COVID

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 j. poet 1 Comment 2020, Americana, Austin, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gurf Morlix, Kiss of the Diamondback, Lucinda Williams, Quarantine

Talking music and quarantine with Lucinda Williams’ onetime guitar guru

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Music Journalism 

The Ghost of SXSW 2020: Lost In Austin

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Jason Gross 7 Comments 2020, Austin, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dirty Dog, SXSW, Texas, The Alamo, Willie Nelson

The city struggles with/without live music as clubs and musicians pick up the pieces of a cancelled SXSW

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Pop 

Demitasse: Songs from the Deep Heart’s Core 

February 11, 2020July 11, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments 2020, Austin, Buttercup, Demitasse, Erik Sanden, Joe Reyes, Perfect Life, Texas

A vivid conversation with longtime songwriting partners Joe Reyes and Erik Sanden

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Folk Indie Rock Remembrance 

There’s a Heaven and There’s a Star for You

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 Joseph Kyle 1 Comment Austin, Daniel Johnston, Forced Exposure, Hi, How Are You?, Kurt Cobain, RIP, Shimmy Disc, The Big Takeover

Inside the world of Daniel Johnston

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Indie Rock Remembrance 

RIP Daniel Johnston

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Austin, Daniel Johnston, Eddie Vedder, Hi, How Are You?, Kurt Cobain, Larry Clark, RIP

Pop legend of the American Underground died of a heart attack at 58

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Pop Rock Soul 

Soul Magic in the Heart of Texas

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 Luci Turner 0 Comments Akina Adderley, Austin, BettySoo, Charlie Faye, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, TX

Austin’s Charlie Faye & The Fayettes are truly the whole shebang

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