Folk Music

Spooky Folk Fans Explain What the Band Means to Them at the Farewell Show

It was an emotional night for more than a hundred who gathered for Denton's folk-pop quintet Spooky Folk's farewell show at Dan's Silverleaf on Monday night. The beloved five are putting their live shows on hiatus so that singer Kaleo Kaualoku can marry and move to Denver at the end of the month. Se ... More >>

How do We Book a Tour?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Nicholas Altobelli is Betting Everything on His New Album

KXT 91.7's Holiday Concert

Saturday, December 8, at Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge

Vanessa Peters

Thursday, October 4, at AT&T Performing Arts Center

Preview: Loudon Wainwright at the Kessler Theater

Friday, June 22, at the Kessler Theater

Laura Gibson Talks Finding Good Tex-Mex, Valentine's Day and Her Good Buddy Colin Meloy

Although Laura Gibson's engaging and challenging music owes as much to jazz as it does to any notion of folk. La Grande, her recently released sophomore effort, is a collection that laces those sounds with a bit of atmospheric rock. Just waking up before the long drive from Marfa to Austin, and in ... More >>

Centro-Matic's Will Johnson to Join Jay Farrar, Jim James on Album of Woody Guthrie Songs

Woody Guthrie and Will Johnson kinda look alike, amiright?​As far as collaborations go, it's hard to imagine that Centro-Matic's Will Johnson would be able to top his stint in Monsters Of Folk, with whom he backed up Conner Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogus, on the drums. But this morning ... More >>

Last Night: Joe Pug, Doug Burr at Sons of Hermann Hall

Joe Pug, Doug BurrSons of Hermann HallJuly 8, 2010 Better Than: Waiting to see on TV where LeBron chose to play basketball. Joe Pug​KXT-91.7 FM's Barefoot at the Belmont show turned into a Hardwoods at the Hermann one on Thursday night. Since the open air of the Belmont Hotel isn't, you know, ... More >>

Brave Combo Influences Bob Dylan, Answers Your Questions

Brave Combo.​Lest we go more than a week without recognizing polk-rock outfit Brave Combo as one of the true gems of the region, let's use this bit of news as a quick reminder: Yesterday, the L.A. Times' music blog ran an item on the forthcoming Christmas album being released by one Bob Dylan--and ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: SonsStock, Rob Hunt and a Fight (No, Really!)

Jenni and the Hi Lifers at Sons of Hermann Hall's SonsStock on Saturday, August 15. This video is 40 seconds of stage and two minutes of a tour of Sons. Kinda makes you feel like you were there in all that tie-dye majesty. And, uh, Jenni: Singing folk music does make you a folk singer. Just sayin'. ... More >>

Theatre Too Shows There's Good Times Singing About Hard Times in its Woody Guthrie Revue; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Runs Out of Gas

Mom Likes Them Best

Life on the edge, 1960s style

Say the Secret Word and Pre-Order Bob Dylan Tickets Four Days Early

Todd Haynes Offers His Bob Dylan

He knows it might not be your Bob Dylan

Black Sabbath?

Amid a dark controversy, the Denton festival will still go on

Flower Power

Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark on peace, love and understanding

No Regrets

Tom Rush continues his battle against the singer-songwriter stereotype

Spoon Man

Masters' masterwork takes the stage

Bob Dylan for Sale

A local auction house gets its hands on a differet sort of basement tapes

Dixie Chicks

Taking the Long Way (Columbia)

Unfair Squares

John Prine fans get pissed at his newest protest song. They must've already forgotten the old ones.

Berkley Hart

January 10

Short Cuts

Xiu Xiu and Devendra Banhart

July 17

Soul Power

The gospel according to Ruthie Foster

Matt Pond PA, the Mayflies USA; the Damn Personals

November 21; November 25

Wyclef Jean

Masquerade (Columbia)

Crazy/Beautiful

Brian Jonestown Massacre would rather be insane than average

All These Years

Early success was almost the end of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Dynamic Duo

With playwright Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik sidesteps his usual breezy pop

Greil Marcus

Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (Henry Holt & Company)

Chick magnet

Don't ask Ani DiFranco about her business

Out There

Why, baby, why?

In other words, the return of ? and the Mysterians

The great divide

Levon Helm, the heart and soul of The Band, looks back in anger

Roasting Chesnutt

No one loves Vic Chesnutt like Vic Chesnutt

The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Ana Egge picks up her guitar and takes it to the River

A stink over 'Think'

A local housewife-songwriter claims country hunk Collin Raye stole her song

Roadshows

Bewitched, bothered, bewildered

What to make of Erykah Badu's latest album

Timeless flights

The Byrds soar though the changes

'What is that, a muffler?'

Texas is home to an eccentric group of outsider artists celebrated as far away as New York. But if you want to see their work here, you'll have to travel to a renegade art gallery in Waxahachie.

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

The truth of sissy force

Indie stalwarts Romanovsky and Phillips spread the gay gospel

His work is never done

Robert Earl Keen would like nothing better than to save country music

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

Roadshows

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