Hollywood, Texas: Kanye West Takes Joel Osteen to Church
Pastor Joel Osteen will welcome Kanye West to his Houston megachurch Sunday morning. Strange as their collaboration may seem, West and Osteen “are fRead More…
Category: Music
Texas Country’s Female Artists Take Center Stage at the 2019 CMA Awards
If you couldn’t tell by the epic sixteen-woman medley that kicked off last night’s Country Music Association Awards, this one was for the girls. Read More…
From Religion To Rock, A New History Says Music Has Always Been Subversive
Music is downright dangerous, according to music historian Ted Gioia [pronounced JOY-uh]. It encourages sex, incites violence and can make you halluciRead More…
Travis Scott Proves His Festival’s Staying Power at the Second Annual Astroworld
Just before Travis Scott emerged onstage to close out this year’s Astroworld Festival, audiences held their breath as a mock breaking-news-style vidRead More…
KXT Live Session: Wilder Woods
Wilder Woods is the latest project from Bear Rinehart, formerly of NEEDTOBREATHE, and in his new role of blues disciple, he shines brightly in his debRead More…
A Love Letter to Lizzo: How the Houston-Raised Musician Made a Name for Herself
I have never seen a shooting star. Whether I blinked at the wrong time or just took too long to glance up, I’ve missed them every time. But last monRead More…
How the Toadies Turned a Lovely Texas Lake Into a Ghostly Song
The man-made oasis Possum Kingdom Lake, situated among the limestone-flecked Palo Pinto Hills in North Texas, has long been beloved by divers and anglRead More…
When Tekle Met Maggie: An Eritrean Refugee and a Rising Pop Star Share ACL Live’s Stage
Tekle Mezghebe stood onstage at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in downtown Austin and looked out over a sea of screaming young Americans. It was SundayRead More…
The Secret Side of Janis Joplin
Holly George-Warren’s Janis: Her Life and Music (Simon & Schuster, October 22) tells the story of rock and blues singer Janis Joplin, who grew uRead More…
Texas Monthly Recommends: Sarah Jaffe’s ‘This Is Better’
Sarah Jaffe released a pair of EPs, This is Better Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, with a party at Dallas’s Belmont Hotel in July. Following a bad break-up,Read More…
The Best Thing in Texas: Trae tha Truth, Houston Hero
WHO: Houston rapper Trae tha Truth. WHAT: Another example of the hometown hero standing up for his community. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Trae tha TruRead More…
In Praise of ACL’s Late Night Show Series
Joseph isn’t a band that’s anywhere close to headlining ACL. Sure, the Portland-based trio is well-admired for their folky approach to popRead More…
How Big Thief’s New Album Brought Guitarist Buck Meek Back Home to Texas
“I think about Texas every day,” Wimberley native Buck Meek told me on the phone a couple weeks ago. “Easy for you to say,” I replied. Meek wRead More…
Cristela Alonzo’s ‘Mixtape Memoir’ is An Ode to Her South Texas Roots
In her memoir Music to My Years: A Mixtape Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up, out today on Atria Books, the Los Angeles–based comedian CristelaRead More…
Shawn Colvin: “Since I Was Five Years Old, Music Saved My Life, Over And Over”
Subscribe Apple — Google Play — Stitcher — Spotify Later this month, Shawn Colvin will be inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Read More…
Kacey Musgraves’s “Yeehaw” Chant, and Other ACL 2019 Highlights
The first weekend of this year’s Austin City Limits Festival kicked off with some of the world’s hottest artists—and sweltering temperaturesRead More…
Texas Monthly Recommends: Matthew McConaughey in So-Bad-It’s-Good “Serenity”
A warning, dear readers: This week I recommend to you something I know you’ll hate, the Matthew McConaughey island noir Serenity. Released earlier tRead More…
Remembering the Rio Grande Valley Punk Scene Veteran Eric Fly
Late on Saturday afternoon, several friends in the Rio Grande Valley reached out, letting me know that Eric Lopez—known better by his punk rock nickRead More…
Jackie Sherrill and Bonnie Bishop: Lessons From Football and the Music Business
Subscribe Apple — Google Play — Stitcher — Spotify In July, after waiting nearly fifteen years for his day in court, college football coachinRead More…
My Friend Spotted a 44-Year-Old Photo of Himself in Ken Burns’s “Country Music” Documentary
Longtime readers of Texas Monthly will surely recognize my friend Mike Shea’s name. From 1998 to 2010 the longtime Austin resident and SXSW executivRead More…