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Music Matters, Words On MusicMay 16, 2022May 17, 2022

John Doe Looks Back. Way Back.

Fables In A Foreign Land is a concept record set […]

Michael Minasi

Interviews, Music News, Sessions & InterviewsMay 11, 2022May 11, 2022

An Interview with Oblivion

Interview with Oblivion Access founders Dorian Domi & Dusty Brooks

Music NewsMay 3, 2022May 4, 2022

The Judds and Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame

Ray Charles and The Judds joined the Country Music Hall […]

Music NewsMay 3, 2022May 4, 2022

Talib Kweli on Black Star’s return: ‘We stand tall on the shoulders of our ancestors’

The first Black Star album was released in Sept. 1998 […]

Michael Minasi

Music NewsMay 2, 2022May 2, 2022

Rancho Alegre festival returns, reminding Austinites conjunto music is alive and well

The Rancho Alegre Conjunto Music Festival returns to Austin

Julia Reihs/KUT

Music NewsApr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022

‘Hi, How Are You’ concert returns for the first time since the pandemic

The show will take place May 4 at ACL Live

Amy Harris / Invision/AP

Music NewsApr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022

Abbott’s concert safety task force identifies key factors that led to Astroworld incident

A state task force found five recurring themes that led to […]

Hollie Fernando/Courtesy of the artist

NPR Music, Words On MusicApr 18, 2022Apr 18, 2022

Meme Girls: Three squares talk about Wet Leg, the band everybody’s talking about

Find your new favorite band in the music of Wet […]

Words On MusicApr 12, 2022Apr 13, 2022

Terry Allen, ‘The Heart of California (for Lowell George)’

California is strange, and Lubbock, Texas can be stranger. Freak […]

Music NewsApr 12, 2022Apr 13, 2022

Oral history project preserves San Antonio’s West Side Sound

Teenagers from the city’s mostly Latino West Side emulated the […]

Jordan Vonderhaar/Contributor

RememberingApr 11, 2022Apr 12, 2022

Daniel Sahad

Daniel Sahad passed away Sunday the 10th

Music MattersApr 11, 2022May 3, 2022

Graham Reynolds on MXTX: A Cross-Border Exchange

MXTX premieres live on KUTX Thursday April 14 at 8pm

Music NewsApr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022

Daniel Sahad, frontman of Austin’s Nané, dies at 29

The band confirmed his death on Instagram on Monday.

Music NewsApr 5, 2022Apr 6, 2022

Behind the guitar: A new collection of artifacts paints a more nuanced picture of Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Wittliff Collections in San Marcos has acquired an archive […]

Music NewsApr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022

Jon Batiste and Silk Sonic take home major prizes at 2022 Grammys

At the 64th Grammy Awards, which took place Sunday in Las […]

Words On MusicMar 31, 2022Mar 31, 2022

Video Premiere: Buffalo Hunt – “Life Not On My Terms”

Buffalo Hunt premieres “Life Not On My Terms”.

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for ABA

Music NewsMar 30, 2022Mar 30, 2022

Foo Fighters cancel all tour dates after drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death

The remainder of Foo Fighters’ tour will be cancelled following […]

Arlene Richie / Getty Images

Music NewsMar 22, 2022Apr 4, 2022

A new Selena album will be released in April, 27 years after her death

27 years after Selena’s death, new music is on the […]

Music NewsMar 22, 2022Mar 23, 2022

City department bumps up set pay for musicians it books. Other Austin agencies could follow suit.

Golden Dawn Arkestra will be one of the first bands […]

Courtesy Brandi Waller-Pace

Texas Standard, Words On MusicMar 22, 2022Mar 22, 2022

African American Roots Music Fest spotlights banjos, fiddles in Fort Worth

African-American music has roots deeper than we think.

Credit: Courtesy of the artist

NPR MusicMar 15, 2022Mar 15, 2022

Bonobo: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Check out Bonobo’s NPR Tiny Desk Home Concert!

Cover for Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band with Willie Nelson; Bobbie Nelson; David Ritz

RememberingMar 11, 2022Mar 14, 2022

Remembering Bobbie Nelson

She was his anchor, his rock. Raised, like her brother, […]

Music Matters, SXSWMar 11, 2022Mar 14, 2022

Are We Ready For SXSW?

SXSW Returns!

Photo Illustration by Estefania Mitre/NPR/Getty Images

NPR Music, Words On MusicMar 8, 2022Mar 8, 2022

Records That Changed Our Lives: How Kate Bush and Yoko Ono challenged us

Celebrate albums by Kate Bush and Yoko Ono that shaped […]