New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...the Living, the eponymous single of which featured Clarence James and dropped in December. The event is free to..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...necessary proxy for "support local musicians" notions. Detroit's late James Dewitt Yancey, Feb. 7, 1974 – Feb. 10, 2006,..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...Song craftspeople of every size, stripe, and sound: Kalu James, Seela Misra, Israel Nash, Ray Prim, Aaron Sinclair, Sydney..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...James Hand Move Forward Music Fest..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Bonnie Whitmore Sticks to What She Does Best

“I’m hoping to have a lot more stories to share after all this”

"...upcoming tours got cancelled. I had one planned with James McMurtry and was going out again with the Mastersons..."

Oct. 13, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...new levels after consuming new toxins.  – Derek Udensi James McMurtry: Blasted From the PastBandcamp..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: The Saving Graces of Sarah Jarosz

Texan roots muse sings of Cedar trees, Bay towns, wilderness

"...I’ve been listening to a lot of Bruce Cockburn, James McMurtry, Sam Cooke, Bill Withers, and Gillian Welch. Her..."

June 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: BettySoo Invents the Corona-Gram™

Inside the beautiful mind of a reluctant livestream breakout

"...There were really magical moments: James McMurtry sent a song he finished, started decades earlier..."

May 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: James McMurtry Waits on Widespread Testing

“We can’t pack the clubs until we do”

"...a trial under any president,” writes South Austin seer James McMurtry on his website. “I fear it’s more of..."

May 6, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Pure X Reconciles With Austin

Local rock group returns after six years, Gold Rush Vinyl checks in, and Threadgill’s closes permanently.

"...this Saturday, 7-10pm. The massive livestream lineup also includes James McMurtry, John Fullbright, Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, and..."

April 24, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Accelerates Into Weekly Artist Lists

Naked Giants, Ghost Wolves & Saint Phnx top 111 new reveals

"...Bad Bad, Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few, Curtis McMurtry, and Lolita Lynne. Also hailing from the 512: Arya,..."

Jan. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Music Awards Gallery, 1988-2007

"...Nanci Griffith and James McMurtry, 1990..."

Nov. 27, 2019 Photo Gallery

Remembering Daniel Johnston (1961-2019)

"...Daniel Johnston and (third from left) James McMurtry at the 1990 Austin Music Awards..."

Sept. 12, 2019 Photo Gallery

Day Trips: Levelland

Mosaics on the High Plains

"...The subject of a James McMurtry song, Levelland was originally surveyed by C.W. Post..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake

Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more

"...James McMurtry has signed with major indie imprint New West..."

April 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Rounds Up Last Wave of Talent

Bully, Khalid, Car Seat Headrest, Lizzo, and Billie Eilish join fest

"...Brass Band, Cece Hustle, Cheap Fur, Cody Campbell, Curtis McMurtry, Daniel Francis Doyle & the Dreams, Dayglow, DJ Big..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Terry Klein

"...More than a hint of James McMurtry's hard narratives linger in Terry Klein's sophomore offering,..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Playback – Austin’s Darlin’: Toni Price

Quintessential Austin song stylist takes up residency at Little Darlin’

"...for establishing one crucial weekly residency after another – James McMurtry, Jon Dee Graham, Dale Watson – Price's HH..."

May 18, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...holds down maybe Austin's best residency – he and James McMurtry Wednesdays at this venue. Nights of raw life..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

2017-18 Austin Music Industry Awards

"...Jenni Finlay accepting for Best Ongoing Music Residency: James McMurtry at the Continental Club..."

Feb. 26, 2018 Photo Gallery

Austin Music Industry Award Winners Announced

Best radio station, record store, club, music writer, and more honored

"...Best Ongoing Music Residency 1) James McMurtry, Continental Club Gallery 2) Sarah Sharp, Elephant Room..."

Feb. 25, 2018 Music Post by James Renovitch

SXSW List No. 4

Dan Auerbach’s father and 118 other acts

"...Curtis McMurtry (Austin)..."

Jan. 18, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Start 2018 with some Texas travel

"...filming of the Lonesome Dove miniseries. Based on Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two aging Texas Rangers who..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

2017 Music Critics Poll

Best roadshow, best new local acts, R.I.P.s, etc.

"...Freeman: James McMurtry, Continental Club..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 25-27

Your auditory agenda for the next three days

"...Unlikely Eastside techno hub Kinda Tropical stacks a gritty..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her

On Margaret Moser: Happy together, then, now, and forever

"...Sexton at 15. Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, and James McMurtry acoustic at the Awards with the show still..."

June 30, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...a singular artist. Although the story I did on James McMurtry a couple of years ago was pretty special...."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Music Live: Conqueroo Day Party

ATX hootenanny sends beloved PR maven out with a bang

"...Mike Stinson unloaded rockabilly roar to set up Curtis McMurtry’s more jazzy folk turns playing with Diana Burgess on..."

March 19, 2017 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Austin Music Awards' Industry Accolades Announced

Best radio station, record store, club, and many more

"...Warren Hood, ABGB 4) The Resentments, Saxon Pub 5) James McMurtry, Continental Club 6) Austin Mic Exchange, Spider House..."

March 6, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...regular, which in recent history has included Junior Brown, James McMurtry, country supergroup Heybale!, and – at least twice..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

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