Geto Gala, Two Step Inn, and a 420 Smokeout Headline Our Crucial Concerts

From country to hip-hop to sludge metal, get some ideas for your week in live music

"...marks the event’s 30th anniversary (initially called the Bob Marley Reggae Festival) benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank. The..."

April 19, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

For you to rewind this weekend at Zilker Park

"...commanding that I imagined it akin to witnessing Bob Marley in the Seventies. Between songs, he'd speak his mind..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Hard Proof’s Fela Kuti Felabration!! and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, Janelle Monáe, and Mockjaw lead our recommended shows

"...– remains the original Afrobeat prophet, just as Bob Marley gifted our globe reggae. Fusing jazz horns with African..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Tribute Convenes Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, Norah Jones, and More at the Hollywood Bowl

Two-night song extravaganza pulled stars from across generations

"...extensive catalog with a few notable exceptions, like Norah Jones keying “Down Yonder” in tribute to Nelson’s Sister Bobbie,..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Eight April Music Festivals In and Around Austin

From Rancho Alegre to Austin Blues, April offers ample opportunities

"...genre's biggest names, alumni including Mykal Rose and Julian Marley. The locally owned music event annually benefits the Central..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The 2023 CMT Music Awards Red Carpet Photos

"...Primo the Alien and Tameca Jones..."

April 3, 2023 Photo Gallery

Qmmunity: Editor Beth Sullivan's Queer Goodbye

Closing the chapter with OUTsider Fest and more queer events

"...thank you to the "corner office" – Editor-in-Chief Kimberley Jones and Managing Editor James Renovitch – for your patience..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Beth Sullivan

Joe Strummer

"...unreleased 1986 track co-written by Clash songwriting partner Mick Jones: "U.S. North."..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Whitney

Another glimpse behind the curtain at the late musical legend

"...of Whitney by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Marley, and the reality-based The Last King of Scotland). Yet,..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music Jazz Sampler

Psychedelic, post-bop, Latin-inflected, and more: 11 jazz artists

"...features Ezra Collective drummer Femi Koleoso and pianist Joe Armon-Jones. Ezra Collective..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Holiday Viewing: A Christmas Carol

In this season of giving, who is the best Scrooge?

"...all-star extravaganza, with Goofy falling over his chains as Marley, and even Basil, the great mouse detective, dropping by..."

Dec. 24, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Plax

"...doing it. "Location" features truly brutal drumming courtesy of Marley Jones from OBN IIIs, while Spray Paint's Chris Stephenson..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Review by Libby Webster

Plax Coalesces

ATX punks premiere new track “What a Waste”

"...Chris [Stephenson] from Spray Paint and Michael [Goodwin] and Marley [Jones] from OBN IIIs had been getting together. They..."

July 31, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...The beneficiaries – Ruby Jane, East Cameron Folkcore, Tameca Jones, Mother Falcon, Danny Malone, Gina Chavez, Casey McPherson, the..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Let the Music

Garage punk Orville Bateman Neeley III crosses over

"...Don't forget their bandleader's Brian Jones-like facility with any instrument...."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

OBN IIIs Record Review

Worth a Lot of Money (12XU)

"...Music." Money's B-side finds the band on steroids, with Marley Jones' unforgiving hammering and Tom Triplett's nicotine-stained fretwork pushing..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

50 Years of Rolling Stones

Today, I’m as old as rock & roll itself

"...the tragic early death of their former guitarist Brian Jones,” trumpets the back of the funny little (blue) Blu-ray..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Live Shot: OBN IIIs

Stooge-ly locals go less James Williamson, more Thin Lizzy

"...few local drummers effortlessly play the entire kit like Marley Jones, and few lead players rip Strats apart like..."

March 21, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Jonly Bonly

Last Texas Platters of 2014

"...his day job in punk. Enlisting fellow OBN III Marley Jones on drums and Sweet Talk guitarist/vocalist Stephen Svacina..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Music DVDs

"...Four and substitutions/exclusions, but clearances of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen – not to mention spins of "Layla,"..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: OBN III's Tuned Up

"...for bassist Michael Goodwin, lead guitarist Tom Triplett, and Marley Jones on drums. In turn, Neeley's assumed rhythm guitar..."

June 13, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

OBN III's

"...boom, ignited by Jason Smith's terrorizing Rickenbacker leads and Marley Jones' cocaine beat drumming, everything else we'd heard that..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

(Tom) Petty Fest

‘Southern Accents’ pack the Mohawk

"...Whereas last August’s double-barrel Bob Dylan and Bob Marley tribute brought out local luminaries including Graham Wilkinson, Akina..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...Jazz Band), most importantly, perhaps, rippled Montreal institution Oliver Jones, at 78 ("been 'retired' 12 years now") the inheritor..."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Hornucopia

Hey armchair QBs – shut your fajita holes

"...so far for the Longhorns is like calling Bob Marley the most talented of the Wailers. In Lubbock, they..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Sports Column by Michael Corcoran

The Luv Doc: Toftation Island

"...whiskey shots followed by a monster hit from a Marley-sized spliff shared by Black Pistol Fire drummer Eric Owen..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...MARLEY (UK / USA) Director: Kevin Macdonald The definitive life..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Super Heavy Stones

Assessing the Rolling Stones' 2011

"...very, very good year. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman revving up Chuck Berry's..."

Dec. 29, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Manu Chao

"...at a soccer-stadium scale. Opener "Mister Bobby," as in Marley, summed it up in a song, wafting a syncopated..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Higher Ground

Stevie Wonder in 10 songs? It's a start.

"...so that went into the first issue of Mother Jones. But the headline on the RS piece accurately reflected..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

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