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  Starting With His Own Stories, Houstonian Luke Brawner Has Assembled a Podcast Network

  November 12 at 5 a.m.

  Three and a half years ago, Luke Brawner was commuting to work from Tomball to the Heights. As a worship leader and long time musician he was hearing more than enough music at work every day. The Fort Worth native needed something else to pass the time during the hour-long...

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  Do You Ever Get the Feeling Ted Cruz Doesn't Even Like Music?

  November 6 at 4 a.m.

  The music of Texas is vast and contains multitudes. Like the many cultures that make up our various food scenes, Texas music is a complex patchwork that includes everything from Houston hip-hop to Texas country. It’s produced some of the greatest riffs in rock history and included punk that’s both...

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  Houston Producer Makes His Mark on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter V

  October 12 at 5 a.m.

  In a low-key studio space in the center of East Downtown, Steve O Valdez and Raymond A are working on new music while the muffled sounds of a drum lesson fill the building. The space has a certain charm. Perhaps it's the charm of an independent studio built by a...

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  The (Steven) Marshall Plan to Make it in Music

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  It was a Saturday evening at the Ranch Bar + Kitchen in the north Houston suburb of Cypress. Steven Marshall sat alone on the small stage, dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt, just him and his acoustic guitar. The crowd was fairly sparse at the time—it was still fairly...

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  ElectroLuv 2018 Celebrates All Things Jam Band

  September 26 at 5 a.m.

  “We live in the best time in the history of this planet for music,” Hank Lamb enthuses. “Because everything you’ve ever heard is in play now. And it’s being played as well as ever, if not better, and by more people than ever before. Music has really taken off.” That...

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  Nobody's Girl Launches Country-Folk-Pop Band of Sisters

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  In the comic book world, a familiar storyline move is to put heroes who have established their own books and storylines together at some point to form a super team (think the Avengers or Justice League of America). When it comes to Texas-based contemporary folk and country bands, three of...