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40 years gone: Blues legend Freddie King was a giant at Armadillo WHQ
This mural of Freddie King was painted by Jim Franklin and once hung in the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you’re young enough to imagine the Armadillo World Headquarters — rather than remember it —...
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The XX coming to ACL Live in May
The xx perform at SXSW 2010. Ben Sklar for the American-Statesman After popping up on the lineup for the Coachella music festival in California yesterday, British indie pop band the XX also made...
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Spoon offers a sneak peek of new album at secret Antone’s show
Spoon debuts new songs at Antone’s on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Peter Blackstock/American-Statesman “Thanks for coming to our rehearsal,” Spoon leader Britt Daniel told a couple hundred fortunate fans who...
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Austin360 Amphitheater, Erwin Center among top-grossing venues of 2016
Austin music venues both large and small turned up in Pollstar’s 2016 year-end lists of top-grossing music venues. The Erwin Center cracked the top 100 worldwide ticket sales and top 50 nationally in...
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Adrian Quesada, Jones Family Singers drop moving cover of “All God’s Children...
The Jones Family Singers perform at the 2014 Austin City Limits music festival.Ashley Landis for American-Statesman If you’re looking for a little uplift on this gloomy Thursday afternoon, Bay City...
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Five dope vintage rap songs that reference Donald Trump
Kanye West meets with President-elect Donald Trump in New York in December. Sam Hodgson/The New York Times Back in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was president and Donald Trump was merely an example of...
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Big Baby D.R.A.M. is the heroic R&B prankster we all need right now
D.R.A.M. at Grizzly Hall. Photo by Kyser Lough for American-Statesman Unencumbered by any notion of what a rapper or R&B singer should be, Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, the artist better know...
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Penis sketches, not ‘How to Punch a Nazi’ video got Thor Harris temporarily...
2011 Julia Robinson/ FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Thor Harris plays a handmade dulcimer during the second set of the Island Arc. Thor Harris, drummer for the influential experimental rock band Swans and the...
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SXSW 2017: New music acts include Pussy Riot Theatre, Bilal, Pell
The South by Southwest Music Festival kicks off in just over a month and today the fest released a list of 140 new artists. None of the big names we’ve been holding out hope for surfaced on this list....
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Listen to James Brown’s awe at Clyde Stubblefield’s “Funky Drummer”
Clyde Stubblefield (Robin Little) Word has it that the great drummer Clyde Stubblefield has died at the age of 73. Stubblefield was one of two drummers (along with Jabo Starks) who animated James...
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SXSW 2017: Contrabanned #MusicUnites highlights music from countries affected...
Mamak Khadem. Courtesy of Facebook. One of the most compelling events at the South by Southwest Music Festival this year is a world music showcase featuring artists from countries affected by the...
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SXSW 2017: Around the World in 5 days: Tuesday, March 14
For the next week, it will be possible to go on a global musical journey without leaving Austin. We teamed with Michael Crockett, host of “Horizontes” on KUTX (7 to 10 p.m. Sundays), to put together a...
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SXSW 2017: Around the World in 5 days: Wednesday, March 15
For the next week, it will be possible to go on a global musical journey without leaving Austin. We teamed with Michael Crockett, host of “Horizontes” on KUTX (7 to 10 p.m. Sundays), to put together a...
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If you miss Hanson at SXSW, don’t worry: They return to Austin this fall
If you’re following South by Southwest news at all, you know that ’90s pop phenomenon Hanson is coming to the festival. If you miss the brothers this week, though, fret not. Hanson announced the...
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Austin Music Awards hit all the right notes to kick off SXSW Music Festival
Kevin Russell, in the orange suit, accepts the Best Blues/Soul/Funk award for Shinyribs at Sunday’s Austin Music Awards at ACL Live. Photo by Dave Creaney/For American-Statesman By Chad Swiatecki,...
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How to find your joy and conquer your fears at SXSW (with karaoke)
Erin Walter competes in a live punk band karaoke contest at South by Southwest 2016. Contributed by Michael Magers By Erin J. Walter, special to the Statesman This time last year, I was drenched in...
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SXSW 2017: Kesha talks lion sex, cat island and eating disorder recovery
Pop singer Kesha did not talk about her recent legal battles with Dr. Luke in an hour long casual conversation with Refinery29’s chief content officer Amy Emmerich at the South by Southwest Conference...
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SXSW 2017: Theater and rock collide in all the best ways for A Giant Dog
Austin band A Giant Dog. From Left: Sabrina Ellis, Andy Bauer, Danny Blanchard, Andrew Cashen and Graham Low. PHOTO BY SEAN DAIGLE You couldn’t pick a more welcoming or well-suited situation for...
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Rocket From The Crypt squeeze all the sweat they can from sole SXSW show
Rocket From The Crypt performs at the House of Vans party at The Mohawk during South by Southwest on Wednesday March 15, 2017. JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN It’s almost unfair how easy John Reis and...
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Danny Brown celebrates birthday at SXSW and the crowd gets the party
Danny Brown performs during South by Southwest on Wednesday at Empire Control Room. Photo by Andy O’Connor When Detroit rapper Danny Brown hit the stage at Empire Control Room on Wednesday night, he...
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