Music Matters Archives

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Music Matters, Studio 1A SessionsJan 23, 2023Jan 26, 2023

Alejandro Escovedo On Punk, Glam and the School of Mott

See Alejandro Escovedo in Studio 1A

Music Matters, Studio 1A SessionsDec 1, 2022Dec 1, 2022

Melissa Carper’s Emotional Wanderings

Melissa Carper continues to explore on her terms.

Music Matters, Studio 1A SessionsNov 17, 2022Dec 1, 2022

Mobley’s New Adventure : How his new album finds art in havoc

Mobley brings “Cry Havoc” to Studio 1A

Photo Courtesy Austin City Limits/Austin PBS. Photo by Scott Newton

Interviews, Music MattersNov 3, 2022Nov 4, 2022

Deconstructing Spoon

Spoon’s newest gets the dub treatment

Patricia Lim

Music MattersSep 27, 2022Sep 29, 2022

Girls No Longer, The Tiarras Keep Moving Forward

The Tiarras recorded in Studio 6A during SXSW 2022

Music MattersSep 8, 2022Sep 8, 2022

Genre-Defying Trumpeter and Composer Jaimie Branch Dies At 39

Hear A Tribute This Sunday, 9/11, at 9 a.m.

Music MattersAug 29, 2022Aug 30, 2022

Austin Music Professionals Roll Call

Deadline for the new Austin Music Census is September 9th

Music MattersAug 9, 2022Aug 9, 2022

Why do three major Austin venues share the same name?

Is Everything in Austin Named Moody?

Courtesy of the artist

Music MattersJul 21, 2022Jul 22, 2022

On ‘Doom Dub II,’ Austin’s Thor Harris Gives Doom A Dub Remix

Thor Harris releases “Doom Dub II”

Music MattersJun 15, 2022Jun 16, 2022

How Austin’s Riders Against the Storm Came to Collaborate With South Africa’s BLK JKS

A chance SXSW meeting leads to a cross continent collaboration

Music MattersMay 16, 2022Jun 2, 2022

John Doe Looks Back. Way Back.

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

Music MattersApr 11, 2022Sep 22, 2022

Graham Reynolds on MXTX: A Cross-Border Exchange

Revisit a cross border collaboration from Graham Reynolds

Music Matters, SXSWMar 11, 2022Mar 14, 2022

Are We Ready For SXSW?

SXSW Returns!

Bloomberg via Getty Images

Music MattersFeb 3, 2022Feb 4, 2022

Solving The Spotify Conundrum

The streaming solution

Music MattersFeb 3, 2022Feb 3, 2022

Neil Young, Spotify, and the Streaming Dilemma

The streaming dilemma

Music MattersSep 3, 2021Sep 29, 2021

Give the Drummer Some

The Irreplaceable Charlie Watts

Music MattersJul 16, 2021Jul 20, 2022

Bill Bentley on the New Roky Erickson Tribute

photo by Eddie Gaspar for KUT A Discussion With Producer […]

Music MattersMay 21, 2021Aug 6, 2021

The Enduring Magic of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On

By Jeff McCord The music is so embedded in our […]

Music MattersMay 7, 2021Oct 4, 2021

Austin Music Writer Ed Ward Dead at 72

Photos by Todd V. Wolfson by Jeff McCord Ed Ward, […]

Music MattersMar 12, 2021Oct 13, 2021

This Time, South by Southwest Goes Virtual

In any normal March, we’d all be lining up excuses […]

Music MattersDec 15, 2020May 4, 2021

Indie Booker Margin Walker Announces Closure

In another blow to our already reeling music scene, Austin-based […]

Music MattersDec 7, 2020Dec 14, 2020

Running Out the Clock on Austin Music Venues UPDATE

With Delays in Emergency Funding, the ‘Live Music Capital of […]

Music MattersDec 4, 2020Oct 13, 2021

The Black Angels’ Alex Maas On Family and his New Solo Album Luca

Luca is named after Alex and his wife Michelle’s son, […]

Music MattersSep 24, 2020Oct 4, 2021

How “Walk With Me, Austin” Happened

A talk with Austin producer/musician Adrian Quesada by Jeff McCord […]