Jon Dee Graham

Last Night: Chuck Prophet at the Continental Club

Aftermath: Eliza Gilkyson at the Mucky Duck

Pass the Salt

Veruca Salt -- The Resentments

Rotation

Veruca Salt -- The Resentments

Fatherhood and Loss

Jon Dee Graham writes of missing his faraway son

SXSW: South Congress Circuit

As usual, Saturday afternoon for me was all about South Congress. Bands like Houston's own Allen Oldies Band - fronted by the High Priest of the Oldies and the State of Texas's official unofficial Minister of Fun - are traditions, as are people like Jon Dee Graham and James McMurtry at Mojo Nixon's ... More >>

Unexpected Success

Just when he thought fame had passed him by, Austinite Jon Dee Graham gets rediscovered

Tonight: The Magpies at the Continental Club

[A review from the Magpies' January Continental show is here.] Chris GrayMy son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped me to the Magpies. He saw them at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival about a year ago and pronounced them the hardest-rocking band of the whole ... More >>

The Magpies

[A review from the Magpies' January Continental show is here.] Chris GrayMy son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped me to the Magpies. He saw them at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival about a year ago and pronounced them the hardest-rocking band of the whole ... More >>

The Greatest Texas Rock Album of All Time

[A review from the Magpies' January Continental show is here.] Chris GrayMy son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped me to the Magpies. He saw them at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival about a year ago and pronounced them the hardest-rocking band of the whole ... More >>

Americans Recording Mexican Songs

The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

Jon Dee Graham

Hooray for the Moon (New West)

Local Motion

Hooray for the Moon (New West)

Peter Case, Jon Dee Graham

Hooray for the Moon (New West)

Under the Volcano

Ducking Humberto at Under the Volcano

Big Chris Gates and Gatesville

Big Chris Gates and Gatesville perform Friday, March 2, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899. James McMurtry also performs.

Charlie In Charge

Sexton has gone from child roots rocker to Spin cover boy to Dylanesque bard

Playbill

Sexton has gone from child roots rocker to Spin cover boy to Dylanesque bard

Musical Chairs

It's never the same show with the Good Luck Band

Reckless Kelly

The Day (Valley Entertainment)

Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Stephen Bruton

Photos courtesy New West Records Stephen Bruton, one of Austin's great pickers, songwriters, and good citizens, died Saturday of throat cancer, which he had battled for years, according to a press release by his label, New West Records. The 60-year-old Bruton came out of the school of influential Fo ... More >>

Aftermath: Betty Soo at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

Photos by Hope Peterson It took Spring native Betty Soo a little while to get it rolling Tuesday night, but once she did she wowed the Mucky Duck's capacity crowd with her voice, lyrics and gentle personality. Working in fresh-off-the-road Jon Dee Graham bassist Joshua Zarbo for the first time, it t ... More >>

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "New Texas"

In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New Texas Capital: Austin Patron Saint: Willie Nelson ​Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor ... More >>

Ten Years After

The Continental Club's owners find you can't re-create Austin in Midtown...but you can survive.

Balaclavas, Moccs, Fat Tony Place In Pazz & Jop Poll

Show of hands, everyone who is surprised this is No. 1.​Music writers all know that once they get their Village Voice Pazz & Jop ballot in their e-mail inbox, that it's time to tally their loves from the last year. It's sort of like the leaves changing or the first freeze of winter coming. You ... More >>

Street Soul

Alejandro Escovedo puts strings on ice for the penetrating rock of his past two albums.

What Every Musician Needs: Better Shut Up Lines

We all hate the trope "Houston, we have a problem," but we do have a problem in Houston with talkative, inattentive crowds at live shows. Scanning back over reviews from the past two years, at least 20 percent of them mention crowd noise. So what do the musicians think and, more importantly, what ... More >>

Some Questions About the Texas Music Awards 2012 Ballot

Photo by Jim KrafkaLeslie Krafka nominated for her album White Cat Sessions​If you think we were flabbergasted by songwriter Bob Cheevers touting his election as 2011 Songwriter of the Year in the Texas Music Awards sponsored by mytexasmusic.com and "sanctioned" (a hedge word that appears freq ... More >>