AUSTIN - Jeffrey Steele knows how to sell a song. It's no wonder so many of his compositions turn into huge hits for mainstream country artists. In concert Saturday night at the Ranch, accompanied by his four-man band, Steele delivered...
AUSTIN - Certainly much of the arty nonchalance, the elegant despair and the graceful melancholy at the heart of Echo & the Bunnymen can be credited to lead singer-songwriter Ian McCulloch. Onstage Saturday afternoon at the Bat Bar inside the...
AUSTIN - During a long walk, about an hour and 35 minutes, that took me through much of downtown Austin, even to the Texas Capitol building, I went scoping for people wearing T-shirts emblazoned with musician logos. Here's what I...
AUSTIN - Devo is almost indescribable. The new wave icons, now considered godfathers of electronic music, put on a refreshingly unusual show before a packed crowd late Friday night into Saturday morning at the Austin Music Hall. It was the...
AUSTIN - I spent the better part of Friday afternoon with the Del Castillo guys - Mark Del Castillo, Albert Besteiro, Mike Zeoli, Alex Ruiz and Rick Del Castillo. Austin's premier Latin rock band played a 30-minute set at the...
AUSTIN - I'm not a smoker, but I couldn't help but marvel at the old-fashioned cigarette vending machine, the kind with the pull knobs, standing in the back area of Rusty Spurs on East 7th Street. I haven't seen one...
AUSTIN - So I'm walking back to the hotel Wednesday night after the Austin Music Awards at Austin Music Hall and I'm immediately halted in my tracks by the sounds of a band covering A-ha's 1985 hit "Take On Me."...
AUSTIN - Mexico's intriguing new singer-songwriter Ximena Sariñana, who looked incredibly child-like even at 23, made her South by Southwest debut late Thursday night at Momo's. Armed with her firecracker four-piece band, the brunette artist offered several songs from her...
AUSTIN - Thursday afternoon was all about speeches and forums at South by Southwest. In about four hours, I listened to enlightening comments from Quincy Jones, Oak Ridge Boys and Devo. All of them spoke at the Austin Convention Center....
Ok, we have a tentative coverage schedule for SXSW, the music part of which begins next week. We'll have lots of stuff to say and show from the festival, so keep it here from Tuesday evening through March 16....
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