Austin Music Minute

January 25, 2021

Croy at Bud’s

Tip o’ the hat to Corey Baum of Croy and the Boys for doing it no other way than keeping it real. Quite simply, he’s living the reality. An album like Howdy High Rise (released via Spaceflight Records) so accurately pinpoints how the very culture of Austin is being dissolved by exploitative, bourgeois elitism that […]

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January 23, 2021

Into the Night

Airport Blvd. mainstay Kickbutt Coffee does it again with another killer livestream show this weekend, featuring Austin band Jay Satellite. The AMM recommends revisiting their prolific discography on their Bandcamp page, a massive catalogue mixing lo-fi power pop, post-punk, and shoegaze badassery. (Today’s AMM features “Into the Night” from their 2017 LP Who We Are.) […]

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January 22, 2021

Saturday Afternoon Tunes

San Gabriel, the awesome solo project of songwriter/musician James Bookert (Whiskey Shivers, Wild Child) dreamily sounds more like a full band than the one-man operation it actually is. Bookert does all the writing, recording and production – mostly during any spare moments he can catch during his day job out at J&J Spirits in East […]

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January 21, 2021

Live from Dizzy’s: Jerron Paxton

He’s a modern-day bluesman heralded as the living embodiment of true blues in the 21st century, in addition to being an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist. Los Angeles native Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton has an instinctive approach to blues music that reaches far beyond his years. And it doesn’t stop at the blues; ragtime, hokum, French reels, […]

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January 20, 2021

Lone Star Sessions

Following a series of sold-out socially-distanced sets at the White Horse, David Ramirez is ready to take the spotlight on the next Jack Daniel’s Lone Star Sessions livestream performance. Lone Star Sessions, streaming live from the stage at 3Ten ACL Live, benefits the nonprofit Sweet Relief Texas Music Artists Fund, supporting musicians and music industry […]

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January 16, 2021

Ruthee Foster on ACL

Go on and treat yourself to the effervescent energy of Ruthee Foster Big Band! Live at The Paramount. For longtime fans of the Austin artist, it has everything about Foster that shines, times ten, thanks in no small part to a band that shines right along with her. The live recording recently earned Foster a […]

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January 15, 2021

Marching On

New York City’s City Parks Foundation’s Summerstage Anywhere presents Marching On: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, a virtual celebration spotlighting performances of poetry, acting and music. The Austin Music Minute recommends checking out sets by musical guests Deva Mahal (“Stand In” is featured on today’s AMM); Tarriona “Tank” Ball (Tank […]

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January 14, 2021

I Want My Hotel Free TV

Live music shows are, for the most part, still on pause, so it’s great to have a platform like Hotel Free TV keeping the momentum going. Actually, the “DIY life support machine for the local music scene” makes it an all-out virtual celebration of non-genre-defined music, art and performance, all in vibrant supersaturated color. Kinda […]

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