New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...with the organ-lifted "I Love You Still" and marvelous Tweedy-eque piano build of closer "Kingdom Come."  – Doug FreemanBORN..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Music we’re playing

"...his music. In January, Wilco's label released the Jeff Tweedy-backed live performances as Chicago 2017, and now Idaho heroes..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Red River Music Venue Barracuda Closes

Rent due and no revenue, thriving club shutters

"...The club’s proprietors, which included Hotel Vegas co-owners Brian Tweedy and Jason McNeely, plus musician Max Vandever and investor..."

June 10, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Musicians on How Best to Employ City Funds Earmarked for the Local Scene

$3 million in HOT funds are coming. Now what?

"...great conversation with [Barracuda and Hotel Vegas co-owner] Brian Tweedy last year, and he broke down Free Week –..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...and acts he had influenced, including Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy, Built to Spill, the Preservation All-Stars, the Districts, and..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

"...and acts he had influenced, including Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy, Built to Spill, the Preservation All-Stars, the Districts, and..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Matthew Logan Vasquez

"...or two sits on your shoulders. Voice refracting truly Tweedy-esque on "I Love My Boy," "Trailer Park" sounds ripped..."

June 14, 2019 Music Review by Elise Barbin

SXSW Music Review: Mavis Staples

The freedom highway extends all the way to the Clive Bar

"...and rumbled on “Who Told You That,” a Jeff Tweedy-penned collaboration from 2017’s If All I Was Was Black...."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Faster Than Sound: Spider House Ballroom Will Cease Live Entertainment

Longtime local venue converts to arcade bar following co-owner misconduct allegations, code violations, and artist payment delays

"...under the booking talents of Jason McNeely and Brian Tweedy. Both eventually left to run Hotel Vegas and Barracuda...."

Feb. 8, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Tapping Into the New Old Settler’s Music Festival

Checking in with Donna the Buffalo, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, the women of I'm With Her, and more

"...influences," says Hoffman of a lineup featuring Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Phish bassist Mike Gordon. "Obviously, we enjoy festivals...."

April 20, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...card points to get a rad tattoo of Jeff Tweedy.) In May, Real Ale was a featured cameo in..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Playback: New No Wave, Old Dicks, and Woody Allen

US Weekly emerges, the Dicks reunite, and Woody Allen casts Kat Edmonson

"...basement gig in his underwear. Hotel Vegas co-owner Brian Tweedy remembers being apprehensive about having a local act follow..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The Future of Austin Recording Studios

Studio owners look at different solutions to surviving in an increasingly expensive city

"...$100,000 via GoFundMe, with celebrity donations coming from Jeff Tweedy, Mojo Nixon, and his Court Yard Hounds bandmate Emily..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

More OSMF Bluegrass Pick(er)s & Sleepers

"...positioned Farrar neck-and-neck with his former Tupelo bandmate Jeff Tweedy, whose own spin-off act Wilco debuted the same year...."

April 15, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

White Denim

"...2011's D and brazen classic rock of the Jeff Tweedy-assisted Corsicana Lemonade two years later, the band's seventh LP..."

April 1, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Who-like power quartet of previous breakthroughs like the Jeff Tweedy-assisted Corsicana Lemonade of 2013. Front falsetto/bandleader James Petralli and..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Playback: White Denim Stiffens

White Denim v.2 bows a new debut, Magna Carda raps its full-length debut, and the Austin Music Census holds on to its virtue

"...bookings, appearances on Letterman, and studio sessions with Jeff Tweedy, there was only one venue booking the scrappy local..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...McNeely, along with his Hotel Vegas co-conspirator Brian Tweedy, Flesh Lights guitarist Max Vandever, Cliff White, and former..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wilco

"...spatial imagination and enigmatic lyrics warmly revisiting leader Jeff Tweedy's lately less-tapped poetic heart. Eleven tracks in 33 minutes,..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Music Review by Neph Basedow

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...he landed a deal with Atlantic, recording with Jeff Tweedy, and toured with Gary Clark Jr. Now Frost preps..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Film Review: Mavis!

Singing joy down through the years

"...Helm, Prince, and her latest devoted collaborator, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. Mavis took the stage afterward (“I’ve cried off all..."

March 16, 2015 Screens Post by Michael King

Mavis Staples: “Still Here”

Selma’s “living witness” marks anniversary at the Paramount

"...Like the Things About Me,” from last year’s Jeff Tweedy-produced One True Vine, moved the crowd no less than..."

March 9, 2015 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The Most Read Film Reviews of 2014

Bombs away!

"...“Wes Anderson could not give two tweedy fucks about the critics who ding his movies for..."

Jan. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback: The Big Three

Remember major labels? Meet three underground locals on them.

"...Fitz & the Tantrums, and collaborated with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. No release date has been set for his debut..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Bobby Patterson

Soul Patch

"...Jackson; saw his compositions covered by Albert King, Jeff Tweedy, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds; flourished as record company A&R..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Review by Scott Schinder

White Denim Television

Hammer of the gods ATX crew quaffs an ‘Austin City Limits’ 40

"...Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy offering to help squeeze Corsicana Lemonade constitutes a coming..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Subverting the Code

New AFS series showcases Barbara Stanwyck at her most sly and seductive

"...with the Seven Dwarfs outfitted by a den of tweedy professors led by Gary Cooper's linguist, Bertram Potts, who..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

John Elliott

The songwriters' favorite songwriter, at Strange Brew tonight

"...and John Fulbright, and sort of looks like Jeff Tweedy’s younger brother. He lives in San Francisco, but Austin..."

June 11, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Graham Weber

"...drawl ripping the vulnerability, pain, and beauty of pre-SSRI Tweedy. Peter Stopschinski's sparse string arrangements and a light hand..."

June 6, 2014 Music Review by Doug Freeman

No Green Beer Here

The best St. Patrick's Day pub action

"...at 10:30am and run till around midnight, with Kenny Tweedy, Joe Gee, the Tea Merchants, Sunday in Leith, the..."

March 14, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

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