Austin Music Minute

September 9, 2021

Crashin’ In

About a decade or so had passed since Mélat‘s last release, but the breathtaking “The Lesson” melts that time away. Her voice nails every layer of vulnerability that the Austin-based R&B artist writes from. Even in the first moments of the song, your knees buckle: “I don’t even know why I wanna stay / When […]

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September 8, 2021

Addicted

The AMM needs to make one clarification before bragging about Slomo Drags: Your host erroneously mentioned that the forthcoming release Twin Absorber on the Spaceflight Records label, out next spring, is an EP. It’s actually an album. WOO. More for our ears to savor. The Austin-based band led by Jackson Albracht was recently featured on […]

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September 7, 2021

The Chief

The number of spins of “Friends” on Spotify alone was enough to send Chief Cleopatra (Jalesa Jessie) over the moon. But the momentum keeps picking up. Following a Hot Summer Nights headlining performance at The Green Jay recently, Chief Cleopatra is also among the list of must-see artists in the huge line-up for the upcoming […]

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September 6, 2021

Continental Monday Nights

-Photography by Gabriel C. Pérez for KUTX. The lightning strikes when The Peterson Brothers just go for it. It’s the improvisational magic that lets Peterson sibs Alex and Glenn, Jr. take over the room and blow people away. Their mastery of classic funk and soul sounds, paired with the mad jams skills, ignites every performance […]

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September 4, 2021

Pipedream

College hadn’t done much to nurture Torre Blake‘s lifelong love of music. After receiving a full volleyball scholarship from East Carolina University, the focus was mainly on athletics. Yet the Austin native knew something was missing. As soon as she returned home after graduating, the burgeoning songwriter put music front and center, and never looked […]

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September 3, 2021

From Dreams

It’s spectral. There’s an aura of otherworldliness in each tale that unfolds within Merlynn Belle, the first album that Tele Novella recorded on Kill Rock Stars, and the first that songwriter/vocalist Natalie Ribbons and multi-instrumentalist Jason Chronis recorded as a duo. The album feels like an invocation of these mysterious, intriguing characters as it exquisitely […]

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September 2, 2021

The Craft

It was a childhood filled with music that shaped the mind of Deezie Brown. He and his dad spent quality time listening to artists like Outkast and Port Arthur hip-hop titans UGK, but putting together playlists and mixtapes is one thing. Realizing that music is one’s life is quite another. Brown was awestruck with the […]

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September 1, 2021

Immense, Intense

The Austin Music Minute assures you this will be one – phenomenal – night. It’s a line-up representing Austin, Dallas and North Carolina at The Far Out Lounge and Stage: -He brought himself out of the depressive turmoil, because who needs to live with that sh*t? J.K. The Reaper owns the darkness and fearlessly dives […]

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