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Book Review: Mitch Baranowski (editor) “Austin’s Music Scene: Your Guide to the City’s Most Iconic Artists & Venues”

March 10, 2026 Tim Martin 2
In 1991 Austin City Council declared the city the Live Music Capital of the World. The live music and festival scene has grown over the years, including internationally recognised events like South by Southwest and Sutin […]
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Festival Review: South By Southwest 2025, 11th – 16th March, Austin, Texas

March 25, 2025 Oliver Gray 1
Having missed out on last year’s South By Southwest Festival for various reasons, AUK’s occasional foreign correspondent Oliver Gray returned to the fray this year, accompanied, as always, by his intrepid chum Paul Dominy on photo […]
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Book review: Oliver Gray “Austin Healing – Cautionary Tales From 20 Years Of SXSW”

November 14, 2024 Paul Kerr 1
Oliver Gray should be known to AUK readers as our regular Austin correspondent having reviewed the annual SXSW Festival for us over several years. He is, of course, not an Austinite, nor even American. He is […]
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Live Review: South By Southwest Festival 2024, Austin, Texas

April 8, 2024 Paul Dominy 0
In my twenty years attending South by Southwest, Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express have been there for half of them.  Even when they are not going to be in town during the week of the […]
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Live review: South By SouthWest Festival 2023, Austin, Texas

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Here’s our annual report from Austin’s SXSW Festival, written as always by our roving reporter Oliver Gray. This year it’s a photo essay with Oliver’s words accompanied by photographer Paul Dominy’s swell pics. Musical categories, don’t […]

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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]
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Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

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Pat Carter, singer/songwriter of acclaimed alt-country band Rodeo FM, and his partner in crime, Luis de Cicco, head man of hill country blues combo Caboose, will hit the road again in April 2026, promoting their new […]
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Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

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A big-hearted, big guitar album that will leave a smile on your face. Andrew Thomas Trongone has chosen to record and release his debut album after a couple of years away from music, having realised he […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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There are musical moments in your life that are of such significance that you will remember them forever. I recall buying my first record, going to my first gig and lying in bed as a 15-year-old […]
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Bicentennial Drug Lord “This Pabst Blue Ribbon” – what made Milwaukee famous…

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Bicentennial Drug Lord is quite a provocative band name – sounds like some retro-psychedelic band or maybe a Indie rock combo.  In fact, as today’s song demonstrates, they are a band who can do both kinds […]
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The Lostines “Meet The Lostines”

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A wonderfully vibrant New Orleans brew of country, soul, gospel and swamp. The Lostines are singer-songwriters Casey Jane Reece-Kaigler and Camille Wind Weatherford. Both come originally from the Pacific Northwest and met when they relocated to New Orleans. […]

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