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April 2, 2021

Shakey Graves: “Unlucky Skin”

By: Jack Anderson

With the arrival of folks like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, there’s no doubting that Austin’s changed. But one of the Live Music Capital’s biggest mainstays continues to help shape Austin culture with his folksy arrangements and sweaty live performances. I’m talking about Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known to the world as Shakey Graves, who’s escalated his fame well past the local realm (though he does have his own official day here) and become a defining Texas troubadour for younger generations.

Graves self-released his debut LP Roll the Bones a whopping ten years back and to commemorate the journey since then, today he’s released Roll the Bones X, a tenth year anniversary full restoration-remaster along with a second disc that digs up and dusts off some of Shakey’s greatest rarities. Roll the Bones X dropped this morning and Shakey Graves plays a sold out show tonight at Nutty Brown Amphitheater, so give Roll the Bones X a spin when you can, starting a layer up on the aural epidermis with “Unlucky Skin”!


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KUTX’s Artist of the Month Program is powered by Austin FC Raised in Mexico and newly transplanted to Austin, brothers Ricardo and Christian Rodríguez craft songs that feel like sonic mirages—equal parts groove, grit, and atmosphere. Their music lives at the intersection of distortion and introspection, where hypnotic riffs, heavy rhythms, and emotionally charged melodies […]

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Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol: “Peaches”

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April 24, 2026

Mean Jolene: “Private Plane”

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April 21, 2026

Reyna Tropical & Xiuhtezcatl: “Camino”

Cumbia meets Afro-indigenous rhythms in this one-off from Mexican-American artist and activist Xiuhtezcatl and duo Reyna Tropical. Debuted last month at Vive Latino, one of Latin America’s biggest music festivals, the song “bridges the worlds of Indigenous wisdom, diaspora, community, Queer Love and Afro Mexico and the unity and pathways that these bridges are establishing […]

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