Category: Music
Ray Benson Introduced Willie to Beto. “Blame Me,” He Says.
On this week’s podcast, Andy Langer talks with the Asleep at the Wheel leader about the tricky intersection of music and politics.
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The Making of the Roy Orbison Hologram Tour
This fall, Roy Orbison is back on tour. Sort of. Here’s how the Vernon native returned to the stage nearly three decades after his death.
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In Our Hyper-Political Times, Even Willie Nelson No Longer Unifies Us
The Red-Headed Stranger announced he’d be playing a rally for Beto O’Rourke. What happened next was predictable.
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Eliza Gilkyson Sings From the Heart
The two-time Grammy nominee performs ‘Secularia’ for the latest in our Sound Check series.
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Ghostland Observatory Performs ‘Miss Abyss’—And Yes, There Are Lasers
Watch our latest Sound Check, in which the Austin-based duo performs a song from their new album.
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Sound Check: The Suffers Perform ‘Sure to Remain’
The Houston-based group stopped by our studios to perform a song off their latest album, ‘Everything Here.’
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The CMA Nominations Prove That Texas Women are the Queens of Country
Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, and Miranda Lambert are the new faces of country music.
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Kam Franklin Is Her Own Woman
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, Andy Langer speaks with the frontwoman for Houston soul powerhouses The Suffers.
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Khalid’s 2018 Guest Appearances Could Make an Entire Album
And it’d be really good.
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Kacey Musgraves Brings the ‘9 To 5’ Fire In Her ‘High Horse’ Music Video
The new queen channels the old queen.
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‘Everything Is Love’ Shows Why the Surprise-Drop Album Is Over
The Carters’ new album is a treasure. We wish we could have looked forward to it.
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Rio Grande Valley Musicians Reflect on Home in Stanford University Project
Stanford Ph.D student Jonathan Leal and producer/filmmaker Charlie Vela teamed for a project exploring this moment in Valley music.
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Kacey Musgraves Takes Her Place as a Proudly Subversive Texan
At her Austin City Limits performance, Musgraves paid homage to female country icons.
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El Dusty Is Reimagining Cumbia and Helping Reinvent Corpus Christi
On our latest podcast, Andy Langer talks to El Dusty, the mayor of Cumbia City. Plus, a “meat up” with our barbecue editor, Daniel Vaughn.
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Why ScoreMore Shows Sold to LiveNation
The Austin-based hip hop and EDM promoter announced a deal with LiveNation on Wednesday.
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Growing Up With Steve Miller
Eleven years ago, the man who topped the charts with ‘The Joker’ and ‘Rock’n Me’ took a thirteen-year-old guitarist and would-be songwriter under his wing. Eleven years later, he’s still teaching me lessons on how to be an adult.
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Bill Malone on Fifty Years of ‘Country Music USA’
Fifty years after it was first published, Bill C. Malone’s ‘Country Music USA’ remains the most comprehensive look at the genre.
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Dear Mark Cuban, Help Us Save Texas Music
We need a museum worthy of our music. And we need Mark Cuban’s help to get us there.
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Post Malone’s Chart-Topping ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys’ Has Sold Fewer Than 200,000 Copies
The Grapevine artist broke a record set by The Beatles in 1964—but that’s largely due to the changes in how we measure music sales.
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