• A more confident and composed Tera Melos plays Will's Pub Tera Melos lowers the math requirement and opens up their sound on X’ed out | 5/8/2013
• Renaissance tours on new record funded by Kickstarter Releasing their second album in the last 30 years, orchestral folk band Renaissance draws a surprisingly younger crowd. | 4/26/2013
• The Krayolas keep home and creative fires burning with new EP It was a surprise when the Krayolas returned from a two-decade hiatus in 2007 with an unrecorded Augie Meyers track, “Little Fox,” that become a... | 4/10/2013
• Party rapper Afroman performs in Winter Haven Fame gave him the slip, but Afroman won't quit | 3/13/2013
• Ron Young faces mortality with a little help from his friends Life's defined by its challenges. In writer/musician Ron L. Young's case, it's a banked curve revealing either just another twist or the more ominous... | 2/13/2013
• Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum tours again after 14 years The famously reclusive songwriter comes to the Beacham | 1/23/2013
• Justin Townes Earle comes to the Social A cooler, more collected Earle is touring on his fourth album | 1/9/2013
• Social Distortion's Mike Ness credits success to determination, stubbornness, and luck They're old school rock 'n' roll rebels with swaggering attitude, a rootsy backbone, and lots of loud guitars. Social Distortion may not have aged like wine, but... | 11/14/2012
• Danny Brown Detroit hip-hop artist plays the Beacham this week | 11/7/2012
• Everclear rediscovers its spark "I am not the king of self-destruction," challenges Everclear frontman Art Alexakis before relenting a smidge. "I may be a crown prince. | 11/7/2012
• Rosie Flores: 'Working Girl's Guitar' Four decades haven't dimmed Rosie Flores' shine or dinted her swagger. From the opening title track — which celebrates the miles from the perspective of her... | 10/25/2012
• Alejandro Escovedo at Backbooth Alt-country guitarist keeps up the winning streak with newest album 'Big Station' | 10/24/2012
• Swans to play the Social 1980s punk act sketches the sweet chiaroscuro between light and dark | 10/10/2012
• Album Reviews Reviews of albums by Efterklang, Michael Jackson, and Murder by Death | 9/26/2012
• Album Reviews Reviews of albums by Animal Collective, The Avett Brothers, and Mystery Machine | 9/12/2012
• Influential dance music DJ Morgan Page says the genre has a blind side, and it's not the college kids Dance music is back! Wait, don't roll your eyes. DJ-remixer extraordinaire Morgan Page knows what you're thinking. | 8/22/2012
• Album Reviews Reviews of albums by Jeff the Brotherhood, Ponderosa, and Joss Stone | 8/8/2012
• Dirty Projectors focus on 'just melody and some words' Success didn't come a moment too soon for Dirty Projectors. Three years ago this summer, their van was hit by an out-of-control car that had flown over a median. | 8/2/2012
• The Vans Warped Tour at 18: Class of 2012 yearbook predictions As the Vans Warped Tour hits town to celebrate its maturity into adulthood, we present some Class of 2012 yearbook predictions | 7/26/2012
• Nicolette Good: 'Monarch' For some people, vibe is enough. Give them a pretty voice and some warm texture to surround it and they're good. Others demand hooks. The former are going to very happy with Good's debut full-length. It's a spacious-sounding album, so sweet and pastoral you | 7/11/2012
• Ron Young: 'Under the Texas Radar' Thirty-eight years after making finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Young releases his debut recording featuring an eclectic batch of lighthearted, oft-heartbroken country... | 7/3/2012
• Ron Young may be 'Under the Texas Radar', but he's living right It began with a woman, and ended with one too. But isn't that always the way? It's certainly the case for one-time San Antonio journalistic fixture Ron Young. | 7/3/2012
• Man Man Man Man's Ryan Kattner's dream: To write a crossover track like the Butthole Surfers' "Pepper" | 6/7/2012
• Beardo apocalypse! Is the end nigh for Americana? | 5/31/2012
• 'Texas Music Scene' gets its due It's a simple, remarkably straightforward idea that's already been tried successfully once. "It's like Austin City Limits circa its beginning in 1976,"... | 5/23/2012
• Ane Brun - It All Starts With One (PIAS America) Who’d keep pop-folk alive and kicking? This Norwegian would. | 5/16/2012
• Midwest by Southwest flashes regional muscle of Daredevils and Wussys Every year, hundreds of bands shoot down interstates toward Austin's week-long finish line. Every tour might just as easily be called Southwest or Bust. | 3/7/2012
• Saturday Night Satellites: 'Drop City' EP This local trio explores similar territory as Austin’s Black Angels, mining sweltering neo-psych with raw garage presence. | 2/19/2012
• Flogging Molly 5 Questions with Flogging Molly | 2/15/2012
• Shelby Lynne gets naked on Revelation Road Shelby Lynne doesn't care about image or marketing. She will drop an emphatic F-bomb while making a point, or perhaps note her feature in High Times. Of course, after a life marked by tragedy... | 1/24/2012
• Two Current critics choose their favorite drinking songs Billie Holiday’s “One For My Baby (AND One More For the Road)” There’s a whole cannon of Holiday’s material we could choose from, but it’s her rendition of the standard “One More For My Baby (And One More For the Road)” that’s top shelf, an aching last-cal | 12/14/2011
• Bonnie Lang: I'm There Local singer Bonnie Lang's full-length debut teases more than it pleases, but still holds out promise for the future. | 11/16/2011
• Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun Like a dog with a rubber chew toy he won't surrender, you have to admire Chris Isaak's tenacity. | 10/19/2011
• Wilco: The Whole Love Who needs magicians pulling rabbits from hats when Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy can perform the same trick using either his head or his ass? | 9/23/2011
• Various Artists: Listen To Me: Buddy Holly (Verve Forecast) Buddy Holly's recording career lasted only two years, but his songs have endured. | 9/7/2011
• Guy Clark: Songs and Stories | 8/17/2011
• Steve Earle spits the bit and leads his own parade It is a testament to Steve Earle that encapsulating his career isn’t quick or easy. | 7/6/2011
• Marvin Gaye: What's Going On: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition | 6/29/2011
• Cody Canada & the Departed: This is Indian Land | 6/22/2011
• Glam masters-slash-punk pioneers New York Dolls storming San Antonio Frequently it is not the most successful bands that have the most lasting impact. Case in point, the New York Dolls. They were a crucial act in the development of both punk and glam rock, and planted the seed for the New York scene that a few years later would produce bands like Television, the Ramones, and Blondie. | 6/7/2011
• The Cars: 'Move Like This' | 5/18/2011
• New York Dolls - Dancing Backward in High Heels No trashy glam, but lots of hooks just the same | 3/30/2011
• When album was king Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock step back in time to revisit a musical heyday | 3/16/2011

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