A Culture 50 Years in the Making: The Kerrville Folk Festival Experience

Life-altering and deep-listening scenes from the oldest music festival in Texas

"...If Texas is the state with the richest folk songwriting history, the Kerrville..."

May 20, 2022 Music Feature by Hank Erwin

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...Note: You often don’t know you’re witnessing history in the moment you’re seeing it, but there’s an undeniable feeling..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

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

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is the season for Texas travel

"...be aware of this before making any plans. It’s the beginning of wildflower season and time to hit the..."

Feb. 29, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Looking Back on 15 Years of the Townes Van Zandt Documentary

Producer/Director Margaret Brown revisits her movie

"...in Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, Margaret Brown's seminal 2004 documentary on the..."

June 14, 2019 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

Luv Doc: Square Pegs

You have to allow people the space to build the walls that make them feel safe

"...recently divorced, middle-aged, white male and am back on the dating scene after nearly two decades in mothballs. I..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...In a metropolis where music does the talking, words buoyed the 2017/18 Austin Music Awards as..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...own truncated moniker in 2016 for Get Out of the City. The shift allowed the decadelong Austin scene veteran..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her

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

"...Sweetly and appropriately the celebration of the extraordinary life of Margaret Moser continues..."

June 30, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Blaze Foley's Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings

Cult songman keeps thwarting his own success – even posthumously

"...Mary and died during surgery at Brackenridge Hospital hours later on Feb. 1, 1989, at age 39, he left..."

May 5, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Why Record Store Day Is Great …

And why it sucks (a shopping guide)

"...Talk to the owners of any of Austin’s participating records stores and..."

April 21, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

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

"...March 31, the day before Jim Caligiuri left Austin for California, we..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Music Awards’ Message of Love

35th annual local prom sets a new standard

"...On an evening filled with historical performances, the emotional core of the 35th annual Austin Music Awards..."

March 13, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Rolling Stones pledge since 6 thanks to the overlapped harmonies of "Honky Tonk Women" during a kiddie..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...So your plane just touched down and the pilot said, “Welcome to Austin: the Live Music Capital..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...Blame the Big Boys, whose scathing punk for a classed-up Austin..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

The Luv Doc: Equal Time

Good friends are going to cost you

"...he always finds an excuse not to go. Not the same with his friends. Anything they invite us to..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...Johnny Rotten to Madness, Ian Dury's influence made him the UK's street poet laureate with this 1977 corruption of..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Playback: Guy Clark 1941-2016

End Transmission: Adios Guy Clark, and Transmission Events as we knew it

"...A Mount Rushmore of Texas' greatest songwriters wouldn't be complete without Clark's face. The West..."

May 20, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Guy Clark 1941-2016

“The thing about writing songs is, everything is songwriting”

"...visited his West Nashville home in 2013, ornery was the word I heard the most. Indeed, the songwriter that..."

May 17, 2016 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Playback: Austin Cinema Limits

ACL doc fundraises, UT inherits Ian McLagan's personal collection, and ScoreMore for the kids

"...Merle Haggard heard the call of nature while taping an episode for Austin..."

May 13, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Birthday Bash

Growly troubadour – still canny after all these years

"...When Ray Wylie Hubbard walks onstage Saturday at the Paramount Theatre, he’ll be instantly recognizable – with his..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Excitable Boy

New Okie standard John Fullbright

"...In 2009, the Folk Alliance International Conference took place in Memphis. The..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Radio Coffee Beer & Folk

Native son Jack Wilson, behind the bar and onstage

"...Jack Wilson relishes entrenchments where songs thrive, the Kerrville Folk Festival and Old Settler's Music Festival, for..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Old Settler’s Music Festival: Saturday

Peak day for a peak year

"...27 years, Old Settler’s Music Festival knows that Saturday’s the day to shine. This year they outdid themselves with..."

April 13, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows

Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang

"...Begin with the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1984, and remember who you're talking..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...7pm, BD Riley's Brothers Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa formed Dog Trumpet in..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...8pm, Speakeasy The cultural dialogue around Israel remains dark and sobering, so..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

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