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Thriving nightclubs, popular festivals and favorite sons like Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan have given Austin a well-deserved, if boastful, moniker: "Live Music Capital of the World."
InnerLoop performs at the 2009 Osyrus FestInnerLoop peforming at the 2009 Osyrus Fest with an amazing lightshow.
Everybody's videos look bad on YouTube!To my relief, here's what I just discovered: Everybody's videos look bad on YouTube! The bad videos are what make YouTube a great big, fuzzy democracy.
What's the worst show you've ever played?Comic musician Ken Turetzky: I played Mayfest 2008 in Fort Worth and halfway through my set, the whole crowd ran off to the pig races on the other side of the fairgrounds. I hollered at them, "I'm not finished entertaining you yet!" but they didn't come back.
Tradition trumps change with comic murder ballad, 'True Love'Divorce was unthinkable in a time when people based their decisions on morals and morality and doing the thing that was moral and good. Too late for Valentine's Day but timeless nevertheless is 'True Love,' the murder ballad by guitar comedy musician Ken Turetzky.
Live and Local: Video Interview with Flotation WallsFlotation Walls invited TOP Live and Local to their rehearsal space at Junctionview Art Studios for a late-night acoustic performance of two tunes from their upcoming album.
I Know What You're Doing This Summer - Ani on TourThe Righteous Babe has a babe of her own, but she's still spending some time on the road. Yay for us!
DMB 2008 Tour Set ListsLists are updated as the shows happen. Cry, scream and throw things as they do your favorite songs and you're not there!
The stage was set with a faux boom-box, a projection screen, a table and two mics. The showroom of the Troubadour was beginning to fill up and people had already staked out the area in front and center of the stage.
While Columbus may not be the most happening town, one might be surprised to find out that it is the indie art capital of the world, a noteworthy designation as one of the highlights of the Vinemeet this weekend was a live performance by our host, a member of Floatation Walls.
With 2001's Is This It, The Strokes ushered in a mainstream music fad of stripped down, lo-fi production and straightforward presentation that spread to seemingly countless bands in the ensuing months.
When the time came for him to go on, most of the crowd had dissolved. It was well after midnight in Bucktown and the bar was dead, so Presto Descanto performed his new album in its entirety from start to finish for twenty people while the rest of the world really missed out.
Since the moment they decided to use Jamie Williams' tap-dancing feet for percussion instead of drums, Tilly and the Wall has been a band unafraid of taking chances with its music.
A New Blind MelonI was at this show in Lancaster Virginia, In fact you can see me in some of the photos. I think this article really puts into perspective the Blind Melon reunion.
Austin's 'cool factor' keeps 'em comingThe city (Austin) is consistently voted "Best Place to Live" by state and national publications.
Huge, slick, ostentatious hard rock has been a bafflingly popular genre for nigh on thirty years. I've spent most of my music-listening life wondering how people could continually get into music that was, to me anyway, one-note, unoriginal and largely uninspiring.
When arriving on time to shows these days, minutes after the doors open, it's not uncommon to be greeted by a sparsely populated club with only small knots of people standing here or there.
Power 105 Pulls Reggae Festival Sponsorship Over Lyrics of Homophobic PerformersHip-hop radio station Power 105 withdrew its sponsorship of Saturday's Reggae Carifest because two artists on the bill have used anti-gay language in their songs.
Rain has an interesting effect on live shows. With bad music playing it can reinforce every negative aspect of the experience, heighten criticism and leave an audience not only bored but also cold and slightly miserable.
One of the big stories of the summer in live indie music was Sonic Youth's performance at the McCarren Park Pool in which they played their seminal album Daydream Nation in full, front to back.
I've never been one to frequent Central Park and so at first it was a bit of a trial to make my way to the performance area where New York electronic rockers Brazilian Girls were set to perform as part of this year's Summerstage concert series.
Beirut: A Triple New York ThreatGypsy-folk wunderkind Zach Condon is at it again, scheduling another round of North American tour dates with Beirut for the fall.
On the last date of a nation-wide tour Brooklyn based My Teenage Stride pulled no punches as they nearly blasted off the stage of the Lower East Side's Cakeshop with its three supporting bands in tow.
Metric Hit The RoadAfter spending much of the summer laying the ground work for a new LP in Toronto's Giant Studios, Metric are prepared to hit the road with a number of dates confirmed for a fall stateside tour.
Against a backdrop of gathering clouds, the lightly churning river and the four-masted barque, the Peking, this summer's River to River concert series heated up courtesy of west-coast experimental rockers Menomena.
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