Austin Music Minute

April 28, 2021

Lightstream: Quiet Company and Darkbird

Your Austin Music Minute maven has it on excellent authority that you need to brace for impact at the next Lightstream Backyard Concert. Love and Lightstream‘s latest music series has two Austin bands on this weekend’s bill that will remind you just how badly you’ve missed live music: -It’s just you, me and the boatman, […]

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April 27, 2021

This Week At Radio

The Austin Music Minute is giving you early notice about some very cool performances this week at South Austin hot spot Radio Coffee and Beer, 4204 Menchaca Rd., all socially-distanced for your safety, and all great artists. Seriously, don’t sleep on these: -A double header featuring the eye-wateringly beautiful music of Little Mazarn, and badass […]

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April 26, 2021

A Fistful of Tango

Having a film score performed live at a screening makes it all the more electrifying – and, in the case of reimagining the silent western The Return of Draw Egan, even more hysterically funny. With a script rewritten by Mac Blake and Carlos LaRotta (Master Pancake Theater), the lively tale was given proper treatment with […]

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April 24, 2021

Native Hostel Tonight

Today the AMM offers another badass Saturday night rec from Native Hostel, 807 E. 4th St. Doors open early at 5 p.m., and the music starts at 6 p.m. with The Cuckoos, followed by Dayeater at 7 p.m., and wrapping up with a solo set by Christian Bland (The Black Angels, Christian Bland and The […]

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April 23, 2021

Get It

It’s another one for the books, yet another stellar night at Sagebrush with an Austin Music Minute favorite making a Sagebrush debut. Perfection. If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing Tomar and the FCs do their thing at a live show, then you know. Join Tomar and crew for a blast when they play tomorrow […]

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April 22, 2021

Empire Saturday Night

Another on-fire line-up this Saturday night, April 24, at Empire Control Room and Garage, 606 E. 7th St,, including a bit of Spaceflight Records reppin’. Check it: -If a “Simple Love Song” plays while the sky is falling, the earth is burning, and the end is nigh, does it make a sound? Of course it […]

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April 21, 2021

Waterloo Records: Erin Ivey

Late January marked the release of Erin Ivey‘s LP Solace In the Wild, and the totally swoon-worthy “Where Have You Been All My Life?” landed a spot on the KUTX Song of the Day. Ivey’s striking vocals tend to evoke a myriad of feels simultaneously:  Swoons, sadness, sultriness; love overflow and lingering loss. Taking a […]

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April 20, 2021

Virtual Gallery: Luisa Lopez

Houston-born singer/songwriter/self-taught multi-instrumentalist Luisa Lopez reveres the Southern roots of her mother’s side of the family, but writes the kind of music meant to transcend any borders, geographically or otherwise. Don’t fence it in. The influences run the spectrum, and Lopez delights in keeping the listener on their toes. Lopez grew up listening to a […]

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