KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...a niche-audience public radio station came to build a new $11 million headquarters, one can follow the light of..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nolan Potter Becomes the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in New Video

Prog-psych composer battles creepy reaper in “Caberfae Peaks”

"...From labyrinthine compositions to galvanizing live performances, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band never..."

Nov. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

25 New Local Parallels

Austin acts cover their own on compilation out today

"...dig for universally beloved source material and avoid contemporary compositions. The connection between the 25 Austin acts featured on..."

Feb. 16, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Crockett waltzes through compositions by "the real deal," as Willie Nelson described Hand,..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

New French Shorts

Queer and immigrant stories, satire and romance give new perspectives on French culture

"...program and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New French Shorts undoubtedly tries to live up to its..."

May 15, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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

Vote for New Music in Golden Hornet's String Quartet Smackdown VII

For the seventh year, Golden Hornet referees this composition competition while you decide the winner

"...it doesn't mean you can't still rock the vote. New music generator Golden Hornet is giving you the chance..."

March 26, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re spending time with

"...heroine Gillian Welch's "Elvis Presley Blues," the locals' brand new single also features homegrown folk quartet Ley Line. It's..."

May 8, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...strong middle-class of indie acts – loaded with buzzy newcomers, international bands, and cult-status dignitaries – brought out the..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

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

"...Jackie Venson-assisted "Dreams" for Austin Boogie Crew Records. "We knew she would add something special, but the session flowed..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...service consecrates life through liturgical material, reinterpreted as soaring compositions where his contemplative voice falls over acoustic guitar, piano,..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...This Austin power-pop quartet's new 7-inch single on Denver indie Snappy Little Numbers snapped..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Randy Rogers, but also a keen sense of the new Nashville sound behind superstars like Chris Stapleton. Aaron LaCombe..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of March 6, 2020, made Austin music history. A new podcast from KUT and KUTX, Pause/Play, unpacks the fateful..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...soundcrafter Kate Davis sheds the stage name and waxes anew as Katherine de Rosset. Name change reflecting the artist's..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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 playing

"...crash, a violent conductor guiding the homegrown trio's crescendoing compositions. Musically astute and artistically laser focused, Skeleton manages totally..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...natural chorus effect that'll come from having his epic compositions emanating from FM car stereos. Socially, he also anticipates..."

June 5, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Colin McIntyre's New Lung: Now with More Resonance

New “Residual Utterances” Show at Dimension Gallery

"...Resonant Lung has since been used for performances of new musical compositions by the metalworking McIntyre himself – and..."

May 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...the eight more recent John Doe and Exene Cervenka compositions (the former now a local dweller), it's classic X,..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Songs of a New Race, Sung Again

A celebration of African-American chamber music from the Austin Chamber Music Center and Huston- Tillotson College

"...more to the size of an ensemble and to compositions that are scored for a single instrument per part,..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Mufasa: The Lion King

Live-action Lion King story continues with a sequel and prequel in one

"...of plenty. Along the way, the two make several new friends, but it won’t be long before Taka becomes..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Golden Hornet’s String Quartet Smackdown IV

In this “hoot” of a competition, every one of the 16 compositions was a gem, but only one was voted the champion

"...Hornet's fourth annual String Quartet Smackdown. The Smackdown pits new compositions against one another in a competition that parallels..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Five Questions for Carson McHone

Old residency, old songs redone, and the old, Deep South

"...of her next album, gorgeously remolded originals and powerful new compositions. Nine years after Margaret Moser first heralded her..."

Nov. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Dar Williams, In the Time of Gods

Mythic themes – Pete Seeger as ‘Storm King’ – in everyday life

"...That was the last time she toured with a new album. Sunday night, 7pm, she appears at the One..."

Dec. 11, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Austin Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Peter Bay spices up the symphonic menu with some new compositions

"...regular subscription holders. ASO Music Director Peter Bay explains, "New music can be stimulating and exciting for many, but..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

The Doom Generation

"...James Duval, Rose McGowan and Johnathon Schaech. Admittedly, Araki's new feature may not appeal to all tastes, but that..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...Walton has quietly amassed an impressive body of original compositions, the Koch label having issued a CD full of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg’s magical tale of the Christmas Eve re-education of a Santa-doubting adolescent gets the motion-capture treatment.

"...gets a multimillion-dollar makeover via CGI and a revolutionary new filming process that allows Hanks to "act" five different..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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