2012 LSM Awards: And the Dillo goes to …
By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Hayes Carll (pictured) and the other winners at this year’s Lone Star Music Awards, held April 1 at the Texas Music Theater in San Marcos, all went...
View ArticleJess Klein: “Behind a Veil”
JESS KLEIN Behind a Veil Motherlode Records Like tourists in search of the largest urban bat colony in the world, singer-songwriters in search of new beginnings and inspirations eventually find their...
View ArticleBenson, Schneider toast Young Masters
By D.C. Bloom (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) After playing a bouncy acoustic version of “Forty Dogs” at Austin’s State Theatre on April 23, Bob Schneider looked down at the 2012 class of Young...
View ArticleOld Settler’s Music Fest turns 25
By Lynne Margolis (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) A little layer of dust could hardly tamp down the enthusiasm shared by performers and audience members celebrating the silver anniversary of Old...
View ArticlePaul Thorn: “What the Hell is Goin’ On?”
PAUL THORN What the Hell is Goin’ On? Perpetual Obscurity Records In Paul Thorn’s vision of hell, iPods play only Toby Keith. Fortunately, he lives a few flights up, where far more sublime — and even...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Mark “Gus” McCoy
On Saturday, April 12, Mark McCoy, former bass player for Micky and the Motorcars, drowned in a rafting accident on the Salmon River near Stanley, Idaho. He was 30 years old. By Adam Odor (May/June...
View ArticleSix Market Blvd.: “Shake It Down”
SIX MARKET BLVD. Shake It Down www.sixmarketblvd.com At the risk of downplaying Six Market Blvd.’s creative spark, they sound like they’ve got one hell of a record collection between them. There’s an...
View ArticleRamble On … Levon Helm: An appreciation
By Greg Ellis (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) As I write this, Levon Helm has been gone for two weeks, and by the time you read it that period will be significantly longer. You will probably have read...
View ArticleBait and switch
By Kelly Dearmore (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) At the KHYI Texas Music Revolution held this past March at the Southfork Ranch in Parker County (home of the late television series Dallas), 25...
View ArticleNew Kid in Town
By Kelly Dearmore (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Joe Pug moving to Austin in 2012 wasn’t exactly headline news in town. After all, a guitar-packed van with out-of-state plates making its way into the...
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