Music

March 17, 2025

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

0
March 12, 2025

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

0
March 11, 2025

What music lovers can expect at SXSW 2025

0
March 7, 2025

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

0
March 10, 2025

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

0
March 3, 2025

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

0
March 3, 2025

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

0
February 25, 2025

Austin’s Anastasia Hera bridges creativity with commitment to community

0
February 24, 2025

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

0
February 19, 2025

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

0
February 17, 2025

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

0
February 13, 2025

Remembering Michael Cash of Austin’s Midtown Live

0
February 10, 2025

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

0
February 4, 2025

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

0
February 3, 2025

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

0
February 3, 2025

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

0
January 31, 2025

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

0
January 27, 2025

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

0
January 24, 2025

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

0
January 20, 2025

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

0
January 20, 2025

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

0
January 13, 2025

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

0
January 8, 2025

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

0
January 6, 2025

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

0
January 3, 2025

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

0
December 30, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Armadillo World Headquarters closes

0
December 20, 2024

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

0
December 18, 2024

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

0
December 18, 2024

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

0
December 11, 2024

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

0
December 9, 2024

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

0
December 3, 2024

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

0
November 20, 2024

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

0
November 15, 2024

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

0
November 8, 2024

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

0
October 31, 2024

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

0
October 30, 2024

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

0
October 24, 2024

Sony announces concerts featuring popular video game music

0
October 23, 2024

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

0
October 17, 2024

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

0
October 14, 2024

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

0
October 10, 2024

New book celebrates Nanci Griffith’s songwriting legacy

0
October 8, 2024

Belle Ortiz was instrumental in bringing mariachi programs to Texas schools

0
October 3, 2024

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

0
October 3, 2024

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

0
October 2, 2024

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

0
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

0
September 30, 2024

Triple-threat talent, Kris Kristofferson, dies at 88

0
September 26, 2024

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

0
September 26, 2024

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Rosie Flores

0
September 19, 2024

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

0
September 20, 2024

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Vintage Jay

0
September 18, 2024

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

0
September 11, 2024

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

0
July 13, 2022

What Elvis Presley owed West Texas

0
September 9, 2024

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

0
September 6, 2024

Dallas CD club creates space and belonging for music lovers

0
August 30, 2024

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

0
August 30, 2024

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

0
August 23, 2024

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

0
August 20, 2024

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

0
August 19, 2024

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

0
August 13, 2024

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

0
August 8, 2024

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

0
August 2, 2024

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

0
July 23, 2024

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

0
July 17, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Cindy Walker is born

0
July 10, 2024

‘These people look like me’: D-FW hardcore music scene growing more diverse, inclusive

0
July 9, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Link Davis

0
June 28, 2024

Young mariachi singers bring their talented voices together to learn from the masters

0
June 28, 2024

This week in Texas music history: DJ Screw lays down the June 27th Freestyle

0
June 21, 2024

‘Chuco Punk’ amplifies the voices of El Paso’s DIY music scene

0
June 13, 2024

For Jamestown Revival, penning music for ‘The Outsiders’ on Broadway ‘made us better songwriters’

0
June 12, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Hole In The Wall opens in Austin

0
June 4, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Clash film ‘Rock The Casbah’

0
May 31, 2024

‘The world needed to meet Hoof Dog’: Album sheds light on unsung Amarillo artist

0
May 29, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Balde González

0
May 23, 2024

On her latest album, Susan Werner draws a musical map of Texas

0
May 21, 2024

Johnny Canales, Tejano performer and starmaker, is gravely ill

0
May 21, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Roy Orbison tours with the Beatles

0
May 20, 2024

Music boxes of old play San Antonio history

0
May 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Dallas Sportatorium Burns

0
April 29, 2024

New book chronicles the history of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic

0
April 19, 2024

Injuries closed the door on a pro football career. Instead, Don Louis found success in music

0
April 18, 2024

In the age of streaming, some working musicians eye unions as a means to better deals

0
April 17, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Dolores Fariss is born

0
April 12, 2024

Workers at Houston’s Night Owls print shop unionized before learning business had been sold

0
April 5, 2024

With ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Beyoncé reminds us that she ‘has always been country’

0
April 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Bubble Puppy plays ‘American Bandstand’

0
March 29, 2024

Alejandro Escovedo ‘won’t write a song just to write a song – I really want to have something to say’

0
The Final Four in a tournament bracket of songs about places in Texas. Scroll down to vote for your picks in a Google Form poll.
March 18, 2024

Luckenbach or La Grange? Vote in the championship matchup for the best songs about places in Texas

0
March 26, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The historic Galvan Ballroom opens up in Corpus Christi

0
A photo montage showing Carolyn Pfeiffer working with different stars and artists.
March 21, 2024

Carolyn Pfeiffer was there for some of the greatest moments in cinema and (almost) music

0
March 20, 2024

This El Paso couple promotes and performs jazz in the borderlands

0
March 20, 2024

Today in Texas music history: The discovery of Spoon and revival of Johnny Cash

0
March 11, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Conjunto musician Eloy Bernal is born

0
March 8, 2024

Orchestral arrangements give new emotive force in Bayonne’s ‘Temporary Time (Orchestrated)’

0
March 4, 2024

Today in Texas music history: The birth of Roxy Gordon

0
February 27, 2024

Black History Month Profile: The Austin Chitlin’ Circuit

0
February 22, 2024

Texas-based artist Jon Muq brings spin to Western music with infusion of his native Ugandan sounds

0
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE,
YOU’RE ON TEXAS STANDARD TIME