Checking In: Guitar Heater Sue Foley Works on Her PhD

Ace stringer “spaced out for about three months” first

"...need to be together and feel each other’s heart beat. What happens when you can't access that? A lot..."

Aug. 18, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...minutes, a formula that worked like gangbusters for classic Memphis and Muscle Shoals platters. Fronted by local music lifer..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Valley Drive (2018) then motored its sublime ride to Memphis per its storied sponsor Argent Records, "WMD" (weapons of..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...the occasion became a pressing issue. Hastily returning from Memphis, the singer's chief collaborator, Bill Miller, had no choice..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music Rounds Up Last Wave of Talent

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

"...Alphabeat (Copenhagen, Denmark)..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Steve Cropper Recalls Rhythm & Blues History Through Six Strings

Chatting with the most egoless guitar hero in history

"...because the notes were cleaner. When you did those backbeats, it was brighter. If you did it on a..."

Feb. 21, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

SXSW Unloads Fourth Artist List

Quin NFN, Cayucas, Gabriella Cohen, and 128 more

"...Korean hip-hop crew XXX, and the highly original Pakistani beat music of Jaubi...."

Jan. 17, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Seth Gibbs Promises to Fight

Cancer stricken pop savant crafts his NOT-posthumous album

"...Mile Records, and second LP Electric Power, tracked at Memphis' legendary Ardent Studios under the guidance of Big Star's..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Where Does Margo Price Get Off?

Willie, Billy, Loretta, and Nashville’s crossover queen

"...punk rockers and metalheads got tired of taking that beating, and decided to play Waylon Jennings covers instead. In..."

Jan. 25, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Whitney Rose

"...Want Half (I Just Want Out)" and the hard beat of "Arizona" both long for Rose to unleash, while..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Blackest of the Man in Black

Pinkus, Buzzo, Bad Seeds highlight new Cash tribute

"...Grinderman) lords over the stirring second side, which finds Memphis miscreant Joey Killingsworth singing murder ballad “The Sound of..."

Oct. 23, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your handbook for a happy Friday and Saturday

"...swash of machines, the Bristol, England, producer pulses eclectic beats of drum ’n’ bass, footloose jungle, and hip-hop. Moog-filtered..."

July 7, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...and the death of Michael Brown, plus the 24 Beats Per Second and Global programming, and an Alien retrospective...."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Thursday Night SXSW Showcases

"...to loosen the entire Festival's shoelaces for a spell. Memphis soul legend Timmy Thomas, freshly exhumed via sampling of..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Sun Also Rises

Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.

"...a bunch of like-minded guys. Growing up idolizing the Beat generation and that lifestyle, we just made it for..."

April 3, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...their second album, Chris Shaw and his band of Memphis misfits graduated out of the scrappy B-plus output that..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Playback: Rap Reigns at SXSW

Snoop Dogg crowns SXSW hip-hop as keynote, the Cherubs may have topped Heroin Man, and Sparkplug becomes part of musicians’ shared economy

"...or a Gibson SG for $45/day. The prices won't beat newly Austin Music Poll-anointed Equipment Rental winners Rock N..."

March 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...2 Chainz, SXSW keeps its rap game tight with MC/beatmaker Madlib (aka Quasimoto), 20-year-old Brooklynite Joey Bada$$, and Grammy-nominated..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: List Four

First of regular Friday blasts notches total acts past 1,000

"...The Beat Academy (Toronto, Canada)..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Music Post

Wednesday SXSW 2014 Showcases

Stay planted for an evening

"...Big Tits, and the ethereal jangling of Fullerton's Cosmonauts. Memphis' Sheiks seem to share some Oblivians DNA. Also appearing:..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Park your hiney at a Saturday night SXSW showcase

"...Film, Martin Shore's Take Me to the River celebrates Memphis' multiracial music traditions by documenting a new album featuring..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Liquid Black Licorice

Jägermeister and music go together like clubbing and hangovers

"..."I think we got too old," he says. "It beat your innards so bad you eventually just stopped seeing..."

July 5, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Saturday Showcases

"...country band Them Duqaines, who use hot guitar, train beats, and primo fiddling to keep the energy up until..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Useless Eaters

"...nuclear-winterized angst sound fresh? The lingering undertones of voracious Memphis garage-rock primitivism. Lead Eater Seth Sutton accompanied the late..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Greg Beets

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...The grit now covering my faux leather pants and Beatle boots isn't any more welcoming than the rutting rubes...."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Wednesday International Bands

Wednesday's just the beginning!

"...Expansive neo-psych from Memphis, Tenn., with occasional twang...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...to Lauryn Hill are well-earned. Brooklyn-by-way-of-Israel electro trio Balkan Beat Box whips up a radical gypsy dance party on..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...up through the famed crossroads of Highway 49, into Memphis, Tenn.; St. Louis; and north to Minnesota. The blues..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, the soul band to beat coming soon to a stage near you. Lewis steeps..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

"...12mid, B.D. Riley's There's a strong Memphis vibe to the Golden Boys' local R&B, a near..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature

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