Austin’s premiere Latin fusion group Ocote Soul Sounds released their 3rd full length album this week. Coconut Rock finds collaborators Martin Perna and Adrian Quesada using a wide array of instruments and effects to expand the boundaries of Latin music. Local music critic Thomas Fawcett gives us the review.
Freewheeling singer-songwriter Todd Snider released his 11th full length album The Excitement Plan this week. Austin based music journalist Lynne Margolis has our review.
The East Coast quartet have the soul and the massive talent to back it up…
LOCAL SHOWS: Spoon kicks off three night run at Stubb’s…
TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY: 1995 - The Grateful Dead gave their last concert with Jerry Garcia at Chicago’s Soldier Field…
This week on Texas Music Matters, we’ll spend an hour in the vaults of TV’s longest running music show. Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona shares stories and performances by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, My Morning Jacket, Tom Waits and much more. Hear it Friday at noon or Sunday night at 6 on KUT 90.5.
Former Rolling Stone ‘Songwriter of the Year,’ Freedy Johnston, talks about an album that changed his life - Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
This week in Texas music history, we’ll celebrate a legendary Texas event that became a success almost in spite of itself.
In which countries - apart from the United States - do terrestrial radio stations NOT pay performers for their songs? Iran, China, North Korea and Rwanda.
Michael Jackson’s brand of pop knew no borders and needed no translation, linking listeners around the world through the accessible corridors of rhythm, beat, and dance. And as reaction to his sudden death began to pour in Friday, its extent underscored how far his influence had spread.
Yesterday word came that Sky Saxon, who had moved to Austin only a couple weeks ago, had been admitted to St. David’s Hospital on Monday and was in critical condition. The cause was suspected to be an infection of the internal organs. This morning, the Statesman sends word that Saxon has passed away.
The cost of allowing about 5,000 copyright-protected music files to be shared freely online? About $34 million, declared the regional court of Hamburg in Germany today, finding the file-hosting and -sharing website Rapidshare guilty of violation of German copyright law.
The sounds of the Velvet Underground echoed in the Virgin Megastore in Union Square on Sunday afternoon, as bargain-hunting passers-by and hard-core music shoppers poked through what few items remained at the last large-scale record store in New York City.
