New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Lucinda Williams, Ray Prim, and Curved Light lead the pack

"...what follows flash fries a page outta 2020. "Bad News Blues" rattles and thumps the daily ticker of quicksand..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...most anticipated local debuts since she took home Best New Act honors at March's Austin Music Awards. While the..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...fellow countryman Gabriel García Márquez and a dream of new realities."..."

July 9, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...Facebook, Sunday 30, 1pmMusic by Austinites Go Fever, Como Las Movies, Mike Melinoe,..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"..."Clipping his consonants and flaaattening his vowels, South Texas scarecrow Charley Crockett's constant tickle of the ear gives..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth

What we’re spending time with

"...of the Lone Star State" since 1984, Austin nonprofit Texas Folklife managed a feat perhaps unique to the live..."

May 1, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Apple Music, Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...First single "Rabbit in Passing" bounces in Krautrock and New Age inclinations, while gorgeous closer "11:11" runs as an..."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Apple, Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube Music..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...above a whisper/ He'd just disappear into the hot Texas night," Crockett laments on the introductory track to his..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...feels distinctly autobiographical in spots. "Awake" touches on your musician father's sacrifices, and "Home" is an ode to growing..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...What Is There, Apple Music..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Star dignitary George Strait. On the horizon: recording a new album, leader Ray Benson's annual birthday concert during South..."

July 24, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...her into the same room as the listener. Uptempo works too, because when "No Cure for the Blues" starts..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...At what point does sound become music? USA/Mexico, apparently: first Laredo (2017), then Matamoros (2019), and..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...Texas A&M University Press, 168 pp., $35..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...rock ensemble Montopolis. "I had all these shows throughout Texas cancel, so it then became:..."

June 5, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Celebrity Austin Music Pollster: Kalu James of Kalu & the Electric Joint..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...cassette won Best Tape in the latter year's Austin Music Poll. This many moons later on CD, it sounds..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...word "classical" throw you. In the context of classical music in Austin, it doesn't mean formal. It doesn't mean..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...cultural landscape of the world exploded. Writers, painters, photographers, musicians, and performers were producing new and provocative works of..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...been both big bandstand sellers and Waterloo Records/Shiner Bock Texas Top Ten List chart hogs. The live souvenir business..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Faster Than Sound: Music Industry Workers Face Uncertainty Around Unemployment Benefits

Independent contractors advised: “When in doubt, go ahead and register”

"...March 6. Skinner joined a growing number of local music industry workers suddenly unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic..."

March 27, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Music Industry Workers Face Uncertainty Around Unemployment Benefits

Indie contractors advised: “When in doubt, go ahead and register”

"...March 6. Skinner joined a growing number of local music industry workers suddenly unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Texas Gamut

Titles From Texas

"...Kinky, the private Dick, has a cat in his New York digs that he digs and he has Indians..."

May 15, 1998 Books Feature

Bob Bursey Takes Over Texas Performing Arts

UT hires the director of Bard College's Fisher Center to run TPA

"...Get ready to welcome a new executive director to Texas Performing Arts. Today, the University..."

Sept. 3, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival

Music books strut their feminism, hip-hop, and emo

"...Music, whether background radio hits or handpicked playlists, offers a..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Think 'New' Music

eighth blackbird helps Texas Performing Arts change how we regard classical

"..."It would be one thing if it were a new piece that people didn't know," I hear him grouse...."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...with a special affinity for the swampy sounds of New Orleans, the Texas soul/blues scene, and the improvisational daring..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Downtown's New Year

"...for cover. Intel had just abandoned construction on a new building, CSC was wrapping up one of its office..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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