Local folk rockers Brothers and Sisters have more flower power than Mario and Luigi combined, and their songs sound like artifacts from a trippy time capsule from the California countryside in the 1960’s. The real life brother and sister combo, Will and Lily Courtney, are releasing their second album this Saturday with a performance at Club de Ville on Red River. Here’s a track off that new album.
Dell Lounge’s Sound and the Jury contest gives an up and coming band the chance to perform at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Homer Hiccolm and the Rocketboys from Abilene, TX won the top prize last year and delivered a great set. Here’s a song off their 2007 EP.
Imagine an evening of lots of the best independent music that Sweden has to offer… That’s what Stay Gold had in mind when they started Stockholm Syndrome.
Texas Music Matters Laurie Gallardo talks with David brown about a band out of San Antonio that is following in the steps of other San Antonio legends like Sunny Ozuna and Doug Sahm. Hacienda just got back from recording their first EP with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys.
On the next edition of Austin Music Unlimited: critic Doug Freeman reviews the new album by Alejandro Escovedo. Also, we’ll revisit the days when Sunny Ozuna ruled the San Antonio scene…and Laurie Gallardo introduces us to a new band that’s unwittingly following in Sunny’s footsteps. Plus Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona goes into the ACL archives for a classic featuring the late great Sir Douglas Sahm. All that and our Song of the Week when Texas Music Matters presents Austin Music Unlimited. Friday at noon right after the news on KUT 90.5.
This week we are featuring a song from a New York group called Firewater. Here’s Firewater perfoming “Already Gone”. It’s KUT’s Song of the Week.
Austin songwriter Danny Malone performs tonight at Club DeVille before embarking on a mini-tour for the summer. Texas Music Matters reporter Laurie Gallardo sits down with Malone for a quick chat about his upcoming album.
Paste Magazine Editor-at-Large, Jay Sweet, talked with us from Boston about My Morning Jacket - the “fuzzy yetis” from Kentucky who just released their fifth studio album, Evil Urges
Last week, Transmission Entertainment - a consortium of local clubs including The Mohawk, Club DeVille, Red 7 and Scoot Inn - launched their brand new website fit with a calendar of events and info on upcoming shows.
Just before the release of their double-split-LP, Dual Hawks (set to hit record stores on Tuesday) Centro-matic and South San Gabriel took the stage at The Parish on Saturday night.
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