Music

July 18, 2025

‘What’s the alternative? It has to be all right’: Maren Morris on her new album & speaking her mind

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July 16, 2025

Robert Earl Keen plans a star-studded benefit concert for Kerrville on Aug. 28

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July 4, 2025

Rap to the Ranch: The ballad of Mason ‘Bric’ LaDue

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June 27, 2025

Joshua Ray Walker finds a beach amid cancer battle on ‘Tropicana’

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June 23, 2025

‘It’s the best of both worlds’: Adrian Quesada’s latest album revisits psychedelic ballads

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June 19, 2025

Galveston Symphony concert celebrates when 250,000 enslaved Texans were finally freed

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June 18, 2025

US immigration policy is stunting the budding genre of regional Mexican

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June 12, 2025

Asleep at the Wheel celebrates five decades in Texas with treasure trove of timeless tunes

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June 11, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Western swing pioneer Adolph Hofner is born

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June 11, 2025

Rocking Spanish-language pop with Los Pink Cheese Green Goes

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June 9, 2025

Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone and Denton native, has died at age 82

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June 6, 2025

Only 2 women have ever won the Cliburn piano competition. Would narrow keyboards change that?

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May 30, 2025

Huston-Tillotson Jazz Orchestra performs at sold-out venue – just three years after its formation

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May 28, 2025

Meet the composer who created the work all Cliburn contestants must play

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May 27, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Black Angels revive Austin’s psychedelic origins

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May 27, 2025

‘It’s all part of who we are’: New institute aims to immortalize the sounds of Texas music

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May 21, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Kerrville Folk Festival sets down roots in the Hill Country

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May 15, 2025

Carrie Rodriguez’s ‘Laboratorio’ blends Latin roots, poetry and genre-bending sounds with Calexico at Austin’s Paramount

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May 13, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Leon Payne enrolls at Texas School for the Blind

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May 9, 2025

Ukrainian musician’s journey to fight Russia with his art brings him to San Antonio

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May 7, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Galveston choir director brings gospel music to the civil rights movement

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April 25, 2025

‘King of the Roadies’ looks at the man ‘behind the spotlight’ of Willie, Waylon and the Boys

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April 23, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Legendary Austin venue Emo’s opens

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April 16, 2025

Corpus Christi’s Selena Museum spans the life and career of Tejano music legend

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April 16, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Western swing’s founding father Milton Brown dies in crash outside Fort Worth

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April 7, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Arnaldo Ramírez is born

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April 3, 2025

A bond tighter than family has taken this San Antonio musician around the world

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The third round in a tournament bracket of 32 songs about Texas. Scroll down to vote for your picks in a Google Form poll.
March 19, 2025

‘Miles and Miles of Texas’ vs. ‘London Homesick Blues’: What’s the best song about Texas?

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March 27, 2025

‘El más dulce recuerdo’: 30 years later, Selena’s presence still felt in Corpus Christi

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April 1, 2025

‘El más dulce recuerdo’: 30 años después, la presencia de Selena aún se siente en Corpus Christi

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March 31, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Billy Bob’s opens in Fort Worth

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March 31, 2025

Los Inocentes — Three generations come together to honor Cesar Chavez with music and activism

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March 25, 2025

Replaying 10 years of music coverage on the Standard

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March 24, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Prince Albert Hunt records for the first time in San Antonio

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March 17, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Buddy Tate first records with Count Basie, ‘Rock-A-Bye Basie’

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March 12, 2025

‘These guys need to be enshrined in music history’: Butthole Surfers documentary premieres at SXSW

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March 11, 2025

What music lovers can expect at SXSW 2025

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March 7, 2025

Rap to the Ranch: The ballad of Mason ‘Bric’ LaDue

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March 10, 2025

This week in Texas music history: The 1990 Austin Music Awards features star performances

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March 3, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Country singer Jimmy Heap is born in Taylor

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March 3, 2025

Listen to Texas Standard’s guest DJ set on My KUTX

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February 25, 2025

Austin’s Anastasia Hera bridges creativity with commitment to community

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February 24, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Fort Worth band Bloodrock releases debut album

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February 19, 2025

Paquita la del Barrio, a giant voice of Mexican heartbreak and rage, dies at 77

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February 17, 2025

This week in Texas music history: The Cavity Club closes in Austin

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February 13, 2025

Remembering Michael Cash of Austin’s Midtown Live

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February 10, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Leo Wright records with Dizzy Gillespie at MOMA

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February 4, 2025

Meet pioneering jazz musician and Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee Ernie Mae Miller

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February 3, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Trini Lopez splits a bill with the Beatles

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February 3, 2025

Black Gospel Archive receives $2.48 million grant to add oral history, increase space

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January 31, 2025

Here are the Texans to watch at this weekend’s Grammys

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January 27, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Singer Etta Moten Barnett performs at the White House

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January 24, 2025

For decades, conjunto legends sought out this small store in Robstown

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January 20, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Jazzman Julius Hemphill born in Fort Worth

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January 20, 2025

Former Dallas musicians perform at inauguration in ‘President’s own’ U.S. Marine Band

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January 13, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Vietnamese singer Bach Yen records at Sonobeat in Austin

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January 8, 2025

This week in Texas music history: Blues pianist Katie Webster is born

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January 6, 2025

Legendary Austin blues venue Antone’s has big plans to mark 50th birthday

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January 3, 2025

Public Domain Day makes Popeye and ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ free for all to enjoy

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December 30, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Armadillo World Headquarters closes

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December 20, 2024

San Benito’s conjunto museum traces the genre’s past as a new generation takes root

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December 18, 2024

Dallas Symphony’s Young Musicians program teaches music, life skills

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December 18, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Ornette Coleman records ‘Free Jazz’

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December 11, 2024

Today in Texas music history: Opera singer and civic leader Zelma Watson George is born

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December 9, 2024

Mariachi Extravaganza, largest student mariachi competition in the U.S., names its winners

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December 3, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Houston Rapper Fat Pat is Born

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November 20, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Robert Johnson records in San Antonio

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November 15, 2024

Why do Beyoncé and Post Malone fit in country music? They make hits

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November 8, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Jimmie Rodgers is the first inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame

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October 31, 2024

Fronterawave’s ‘Calavera’ album blends goth and cumbia sounds for spooky season

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October 30, 2024

The Jesus Lizard to make thunderous return to Austin at Levitation festival

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October 24, 2024

Sony announces concerts featuring popular video game music

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October 23, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Jack Teagarden records ‘Beale Street Blues’

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October 17, 2024

‘Our show brings out the best in people’: ‘Austin City Limits’ celebrates 50 years on the air

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October 14, 2024

Don Tosti was a pioneer of Chicano rock-and-roll music

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October 10, 2024

New book celebrates Nanci Griffith’s songwriting legacy

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October 8, 2024

Belle Ortiz was instrumental in bringing mariachi programs to Texas schools

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October 3, 2024

Ever-evolving and sonically varied, regional Mexican music is having a moment

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October 3, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Johnny Cash arrested in El Paso

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October 2, 2024

A familiar refrain: Austin’s Live Music Fund sees a surge in demand from struggling musicians

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Museum wall with Selena pictures and gold albums
October 1, 2024

Nearly 30 years since her death, Selena’s reign as Queen of Tejano endures

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September 30, 2024

Triple-threat talent, Kris Kristofferson, dies at 88

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September 26, 2024

New Freddy Fender exhibit paints full picture of Tejano artist’s career and hurdles

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September 26, 2024

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Rosie Flores

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September 19, 2024

A tribute to trailblazing ballet folklórico instructor is at the heart of a new performance in Austin

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September 20, 2024

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Vintage Jay

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September 18, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Big Boys and The Dicks record ‘Live at Raul’s’

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September 11, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Professor Longhair at Soap Creek Saloon

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July 13, 2022

What Elvis Presley owed West Texas

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September 9, 2024

Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson to headline Briscoe Western Art Museum series

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September 6, 2024

Dallas CD club creates space and belonging for music lovers

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August 30, 2024

What’s the story behind ZZ Top’s First Annual Texas-Size Rompin’ Stompin’ Barndance and Bar B.Q.?

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August 30, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Chelo Silva

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August 23, 2024

In the months since his death, South Texans reminisce on Johnny Canales

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August 20, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Big Moe

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August 19, 2024

San Antonio band Los Texmaniacs to play first night of the Democratic National Convention

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August 13, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Dallas Bronco Bowl’s final performance

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August 8, 2024

Fronterawave uses lo-fi Tex-Mex to entwine past and present sonically

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August 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Charlie Christian and Southern electric guitar

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July 23, 2024

Staying in the groove: How San Antonio’s record stores keep spinning

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