Music

July 17, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Cindy Walker is born

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July 10, 2024

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

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July 9, 2024

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

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June 28, 2024

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

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June 28, 2024

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

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June 21, 2024

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

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June 13, 2024

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

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June 12, 2024

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

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June 4, 2024

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

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May 31, 2024

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

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May 29, 2024

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

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May 23, 2024

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

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May 21, 2024

Johnny Canales, Tejano performer and starmaker, is gravely ill

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May 21, 2024

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

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May 20, 2024

Music boxes of old play San Antonio history

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May 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Dallas Sportatorium Burns

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April 29, 2024

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

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April 19, 2024

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

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April 18, 2024

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

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April 17, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Dolores Fariss is born

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April 12, 2024

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

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April 5, 2024

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

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April 2, 2024

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

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March 29, 2024

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

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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

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March 26, 2024

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

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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

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March 20, 2024

This El Paso couple promotes and performs jazz in the borderlands

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March 20, 2024

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

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March 11, 2024

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

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March 8, 2024

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

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March 4, 2024

Today in Texas music history: The birth of Roxy Gordon

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February 27, 2024

Black History Month Profile: The Austin Chitlin’ Circuit

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February 22, 2024

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

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February 21, 2024

North Texas Ballet Folklórico Contest draws hundreds to focus on traditional Mexican dance

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February 21, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris appear at the Armadillo World Headquarters

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February 20, 2024

From Willie Nelson’s cowboy boots to Taylor Swift’s guitar: Austin museum showcases music history

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February 19, 2024

Black History Month Profile: Glenn ‘Spot’ Lockett

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February 15, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Bevis M. Griffin champions Black voices at the punk mothership in 1987

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February 14, 2024

Beyoncé’s ready to top the country charts, but is the industry ready for her?

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February 12, 2024

Black History Month Profile: Lavelle White

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February 9, 2024

Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Hiss’ tops charts and hits back at misogynoir

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February 8, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Swing player and pianist Ernie Mae Miller born

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February 5, 2024

Black History Month Profile: The Eastside Kings Blues Festival

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A smiling person sings into microphone. They are stylishly dressed in front of a background with greenery.
January 25, 2024

This Austin artist honors her Vietnamese family and language through songwriting

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A black and white photo from the 1940s showing musician Django Reinhardt, a well-dressed man with slick-backed hair and thin mustache, playing a guitar while smoking a cigarette.
January 24, 2024

Fort Worth festival celebrates the life and music of Django Reinhardt

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January 19, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Country legend Billy Walker born

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January 11, 2024

UT Austin student finds the balance between school and making music

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A black and white drawing shows a person sweeping the wooden floor of a convenience store. A long counter is in front of him with a cash register and various goods on shelves.
January 11, 2024

Watch this Texas high schooler’s mesmerizing charcoal music video

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January 11, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Sex Pistols in San Antonio and Dallas, 1978

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January 3, 2024

West Side Sound sax player Rocky Morales born, 1940

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December 21, 2023

Here are five Texas holiday songs to get you in the spirit

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A man sits on the end of a couch looking at the camera. The room is sparse and the photo is in black and white.
December 8, 2023

Listen: North Texas composer adds new arrangements to the holiday canon

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November 29, 2023

For Vincent Neil Emerson, it’s the songwriting that’s most important

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November 10, 2023

Inaugural Honeyland Festival to celebrate Houston’s Black culinary culture

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November 9, 2023

‘We were there’: Meet the ‘Curious Mix of People’ making Austin music in the ’90s

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November 7, 2023

‘It’s just been a natural occurrence’: Trailblazer Jessi Colter is back with album ‘Edge of Forever’

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October 30, 2023

Roky Erickson’s scary psychedelic songs

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October 26, 2023

Psychedelia seeps into the modern music underground at Austin’s Levitation fest

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October 25, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Buddy Holly releases ‘Not Fade Away’ and ‘Oh, Boy!’

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October 18, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Houston rapper Bun B releases first solo album

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October 17, 2023

Before teaming up with Sinatra, Trini Lopez began his musical journey in Dallas

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October 11, 2023

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Carrie Rodriguez

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October 10, 2023

Corpus Christi’s Galvan Ballroom welcomed all at a time when segregation was the norm

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A close-up photos of heads and hands enjoying a concert as a purple light shines in the background.
October 6, 2023

Typewriter Rodeo: Music Festivals

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October 6, 2023

Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Ruben Ramos

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October 3, 2023

Eduardo Mata struck the right note as Dallas Symphony Orchestra director

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September 28, 2023

How Lydia Mendoza became the ‘Meadowlark of the Border’

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September 27, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Maren Morris makes her debut

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September 22, 2023

50 years after ‘Viva Terlingua,’ Wittliff Collections exhibit celebrates the album’s staying power

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September 20, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Tejano legend Roy Montelongo born

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September 12, 2023

Charlie Robison, Texas music royalty, dead at 59

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September 12, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Don Walser is born

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A woman sings into a microphone while playing into a fiddle. She's wearing big reflective sunglasses. This is country music artist Amanda Shires.
September 8, 2023

The Texas women shaping the sound and image of outlaw country

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September 5, 2023

This week in Texas music history: Dallas music variety show ‘Sump’n Else’ debuts in 1965

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August 31, 2023

Houston’s first annual Pop Festival takes places in 1968

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August 25, 2023

T Bird & the Breaks, Greyhounds team up for collaborative project ‘Greybird’

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August 17, 2023

As Beyoncé, Taylor Swift tour, ‘a whole economy is being built around the concerts’

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August 11, 2023

What are your Texas summer songs? Here are a few of ours.

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August 9, 2023

‘Ode to Hip-Hop’ reflects on the genre’s journey from the underground to the mainstream

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August 4, 2023

Del Rio native William Beckmann is heating up Nashville and beyond with his latest album

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August 3, 2023

Documentary explores how Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan brought Texas blues to the masses

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August 1, 2023

Johnny Winter’s historic show at the Vulcan Gas Company broke new ground

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July 10, 2023

Mariachi Summer Recital: Young people learn from pros how to sing from the heart

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July 7, 2023

Houston celebrates 50 years of hip-hop

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March 8, 2023

Texas folk trio and one member’s journey take center stage in ‘Nobody Famous’

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June 27, 2023

Amanda Shires reflects on working with Bobbie Nelson, a longtime idol, for new album ‘Loving You’

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June 23, 2023

Progress amid pain inspires Jess Williamson’s latest offering, ‘Time Ain’t Accidental’

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A person crowd surfs over an audiemce in a dark mnightclub
June 14, 2023

Oblivion Access festival curates the ‘weird end’ of the underground music spectrum

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June 13, 2023

These North Texas high schoolers rehearsed in a locker room. Now they’re headed to a national stage.

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June 8, 2023

What’s the oldest music venue in Austin?

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May 31, 2023

Uvalde varsity mariachi team momentarily brought together a divided city

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May 26, 2023

Taylor Swift tour brings end of an era for ticket resellers in Texas

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May 24, 2023

Texas parks meets Texas music: New album ‘Texas Wild’ celebrates 100 years of state parks

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May 18, 2023

Fatherhood’s late-night lullabies inspire hushed sound of Robert Ellis’ ‘Yesterday’s News’

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Kathy Valentine plays bass on stage
May 9, 2023

Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine celebrates the band’s music in a new way on stage

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April 28, 2023

‘A magical night’ becomes a recorded tribute to Willie Nelson for his 90th birthday

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April 20, 2023

Blazing trails: Country music’s historical – and complicated – relationship with weed

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April 14, 2023

A new take on Rumi, the popular Persian mystic poet, from Dallas’ Verdigris Ensemble this weekend

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April 3, 2023

Diversifying country music industry on full display at first CMT Awards show in Texas

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