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Second SXSW 2019 Band List
Black Midi hasn’t yet released a song. Nevertheless, following a benediction from fellow London youths Shame and a brief video clip, the British press now touts them as the best band in the UK’s capital city. As such, they epitomize South by Southwest’s second band list, which is notably light on star power, but flush with emerging European talent.

10:00AM Wed. Nov. 28, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Jason Isbell Headlines Old Settler’s 2019
Old Settler’s Music Festival has rolled out the initial lineup for its 32nd annual campout, taking place April 11-14 in Tilmon. An intimate acoustic performance from Americana pacesetters Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit provides a marquee attraction.

9:00AM Tue. Nov. 13, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Not Enough HAAM to Go Around
Last Thursday, just a week after the start of open enrollment, funding ran out for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians program, offering free health insurance to local musicians.

12:55PM Mon. Nov. 12, 2018, Rachel Rascoe Read More | Comment »

Musician Hurt in Panhandler Attack Outside Show
After performing at Beerland last Monday, Nov. 4, Thunderstars bassist Omar Richardson planned on taking a rideshare home. Instead, he was driven away in an ambulance following an attack by a panhandler.

11:25AM Mon. Nov. 12, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

BMI to Open Austin Office
BMI, the major performance rights organization that collects licensing fees for over 800,000 songwriters and publishers globally, has solidified plans to open a creative office in Austin next year, a representative for the company confirmed this morning.

9:01AM Thu. Nov. 8, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Album Premiere: Sydney Wright
Years in the making and ever delayed by the detours of life and creative growth, Sydney Wright’s debut full-length amounts to a greatest-hits-so-far for the Austin pop polymath, whose lush, layered compositions are hallmarked by slow-burning verses erupting into gargantuan hooks.

1:25PM Wed. Nov. 7, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

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Superfónicos & Julie Oliver Get the Vote Out
In an effort to encourage the younger demographic to vote and foster a dialog deeper than the repetitive stump speeches that bombard everyone throughout October, Austin songster Walker Lukens is connecting politicians with bands who can turn their messages into music.

11:35AM Mon. Oct. 29, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Moving Panoramas’ Baby Blues
If like any self-respecting Austinite you see Moving Panoramas perform 10 times annually, a gradual lineup shift makes it easy to overlook the sonic evolution that’s taken place since the dream rock outfit’s 2015 debut, One.

12:45PM Thu. Oct. 25, 2018, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

That Nasty Ol’ Johnny Rotten
Punk’s first public face as frontman for the Sex Pistols, John Joseph Lydon, 62, pulls into Mohawk on Thursday with his post-punk pioneering outfit Public Image Ltd., promoting the band’s impressive new documentary and a career-spanning box set, The Public Image Is Rotten.

7:00AM Thu. Oct. 25, 2018, Tim Stegall Read More | Comment »

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