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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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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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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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