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This Song: Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst is having a hard time reconciling his conflicting emotions about America. Luckily his friends and frequent collaborators the Felice Brothers make music that helps him cope. Listen as he tells you why he thinks the Felices are “the best American sounding band” out there and explains how their song “Jack at the Asylum” soothes him during these troubled times.

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Check out Conor Oberst’s Tour Dates

Listen to Jim Jame’s This Song Episode

Listen to M. Ward’s This Song Episode

Listen to Songs from Episode 83 of This Song

 

This Song: The Black Angels

When Alex Maas from The Black Angels heard avant garde electronic pop band Silver Apples’ first record in a bar in Cincinnati he had what he describes as a spiritual experience. Listen as he describes the effect that Silvers Apples had on The Black Angels music and how their new record “Death Song” has been an exercise in trying to understand the world we live in now.

Do you have a song or a record by an obscure band that you want to let the world know about?  Give us a call at 512-766-9066, send us an email at ThisSong@kutx.org or tweet us @ThisSongKUTX.  We’d love to share your favorite, but maybe not so well known band with the world!

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Check out The Black Angels new record “Death Song”

Check out The Black Angels Tour Dates

Check out Silver Apples Tour Dates

Watch the video of Kayla Harrison winning the Gold Medal in Judo

Listen to Songs from Episode 80 of This Song

 

This Song: Spoon

Spoon pretty much owned the SXSW Music Festival this year and during that week Britt Daniel and Alex Fischel stopped by and talked with Elizabeth McQueen about from where they drew their inspiration for their new release “Hot Thoughts.”  During the conversation they touched on Bruce Springsteen’s elevating sax solos, the guitar energy of The Wipers, Dr. Dre’s synth sounds and how audio — and not necessarily lyrics — can transmit powerful emotions.

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Listen to Songs from Episode 75 of This Song

 

Team This Song’s SXSW Wrap-Up

Team This Song is still processing SXSW, and we’ve decided to process with you.  Listen as the interviewers, editors, audio engineers and interns who make this show happen bring you their favorite sparkly festival moments from artists like Lizzo, Spoon, OJR, Temples, Cool Kids, Otis the Destroyer and 6lack.

Listen to KUTX  On Air Host Jody Denberg’s SXSW Wrap Up with Rolling Stone’s David Frick and Robyn Hitchcock

Check out Music and Videos from KUTX Live at the Four Seasons 2017

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Listen to Songs from Episode 74 of This Song

 

SXSW This Song Artist Spotlight

There are a lot of amazing things about being in the music industry here in Austin, Texas; getting to interview fantastic artists that live here and some that are just passing through is great, but seeing them all in one place for a week of music-making magic (and madness) has got to be one of the best. Here’s a list of our This Song artists that played 2017 SXSW official,so even if you can’t see them, you can hear them talk about music that changed their lives!

Benjamin Booker // SXSW

Big Thief // SXSW

Calliope Musicals // SXSW

Gary Clark Jr. // SXSW

Hard Proof // SXSW

Jane Ellen Bryant // SXSW

Kevin Morby // SXSW

Leopold and His Fiction // SXSW

Lizzo // SXSW

Misimplicity // SXSW

Mobley // SXSW

Molly Burch // SXSW

M. Ward // SXSW

The Octopus Project // SXSW

OSHUN // SXSW

Ringo Deathstarr // SXSW

San Fermin // SXSW

The Shelters // SXSW

White Denim // SXSW

*Wu-Tang Clan // SXSW (*RZA from Wu-Tang clan collaborates with Paul Banks as Banks & Steelz)

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This Song: Hard Proof

Austin’s Hardproof is extra special to us at Team This Song. Their song “Mahout” begins and ends every episode of our podcast so we consider them part of the family. They have just released their new record “Stinger” on Modern Outsider Records and when they came to KUTX to talk with Elizabeth about it, band members Joe Woullard, Stephen Bidwell and Jason Frey described the magic they found in the music Fela Kuti, Bad Brains and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings.

Listen to Hardproof’s Studio 1A session here.

Listen to Hardproof’s My KUTX

 

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Listen to Songs from Episode 69 of This Song

This Song: Andrew W.K. // The Star Spangled Banner

Professional Partier Andrew W.K. explores one of the most deeply embedded songs in American culture — The Star Spangled Banner.  As he breaks down how this lyrically archaic a technically difficult song works as a stirring National Anthem, you may realize that you have your own connection to the song.

We want to hear YOUR stories about the national anthem! Did you see it, did you sing it, is funny or inspiring? Comment, tweet, message, email, or even leave a voicemail with our excellent intern Kelly Seale for a chance to hear your story on the podcast!

Twitter: @ThisSongKUTX
Email: thissong@kutx.org
Voicemail: (512) 766-906

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Listen to Andrew WK’s MyKUTX Guest DJ Set

Watch Andrew WK sing the National Anthem live and in Concert

Watch Andrew WK sing the National Anthem live and at another concert.

 

 

 

Listen to Songs from Episode 73 of This Song

 

This Song: Rhett Miller of Old 97s

Rhett Miller, lead singer and songwriter of Old 97’s, explains how seeing a Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer named Phranc  sing Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”  helped him realize  how music connects and saves us all.

Check out Old 97’s new record Graveyard Whistling on iTunes

Watch Old 97’s Studio 1A Performance

Check out Old 97’s Tour Dates

Watch Old 97’s on VuHaus

Check out Phranc’s music on Bandcamp

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Listen to Songs from Episode 72 of This Song

 

This Song: Molly Burch

Molly Burch always knew she wanted to sing, but she just needed to find the right song.  Hear how  Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” has helped her find her way as a singer from the first time she heard it in middle school.

Check out Molly Burch’s Tour Dates.

Listen to Molly Burch’s MyKUTX set

Check out Molly Burch’s Artist of the Month Page

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Listen to Songs from Episode 71 of This Song

This Song: Local Natives

Local Natives Kelcey Ayer and Nik Ewing have been thinking a lot about how to balance darkness and light, art and activism.  Listen as Kelcey describes how Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara” is a “sad song that makes you feel good,” and why he needs those kind of songs in his life. Then Nik Ewing explores why he’s come to appreciate  Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in the past year, and how that song inspires him and others in the band to think expansively about their roles as artists.

Check out Local Natives Tour Dates

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Listen to Songs from Episode 70 of This Song

 

This Song: Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird knew  “For The Sake Of The Song” by Townes Van Zandt already, but when he re- listened to it recently he realized how much he related to the lyrics on a personal level.  His conversation with Elizabeth touches on how much the song affected him, how it inspired him to write in a less encrypted manner and some of the downfalls of exposing his most intimate experiences in his work.

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Watch Andrew Bird perform “Left Handed Kisses” live backstage at ACLfest.

Check out Andrew Bird and Margaret Glaspy performing live from the Green Room

 

Listen to Songs from Episode 68 of This Song

This Song: Flock of Dimes // Lucy Dacus

Jenn Wasner of Flock of Dimes and Wye Oak takes you through why Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia” both comforts and terrifies her. And Lucy Dacus explains how The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” is a friendly ghost in her life, and how Prince’s “I Would Die 4 You,” helped expand her idea of how cool a  song about God could be.

 Listen to Flock of Dimes Studio 1A performance

Listen to Wye Oak’s Studio 1A performance 

Check out Lucy Dacus’ performance on Blogoteque

Check out Lucy Dacus on the cover of Magnet

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Listen to Songs from Episode 62 of This Song

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This Song: Tegan and Sara

We are going a little crazy this week — in a good way.  Only one artist interview for the whole episode but it is a doozy. Best yet? Perhaps.

Elizabeth sat down with Tegan and Sara and got a fantastic insight into twin sister dynamic,  The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Siamese Dream, Phil Collins melodies, teenage bedrooms, finding self-identity, how to be the change and (for all of you songwriters) the secret to writing a hit pop song. These women have a particularly vibrant and articulate way of voicing their perspective and fighting the good fight. Listen in and catch their buzz on this week’s episode and get a lesson in 80’s-90’s music history while you’re at it.

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Watch Tegan and Sara’s new Video for “Dying to Know”

Watch Tegan and Sara’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Listen to Tegan and Sara’s Studio 1 A performance

 

Listen to songs from episode 61 of This Song

 

This Song: BØRNS // Calliope Musicals

It’s ELO Mania on This Song!

First is BØRNS who first discovered ELO as a kid and returned to the group’s not-so-simple chord changes as an adult.  He talks to Elizabeth about “Turn To Stone,” Jeff Lynn’s writing style, guilty pleasures and how he approaches the songwriting process.

Next up is Carrie Fussell and Josh Bickley from Austin’s own Calliope Musicals.  Carrie picks “Tightrope” as her song but quickly gushes about the entire ELO album “A New World Record” and how it guided her through her tough times and helped develop a new artistic direction for the band. Then the band’s co-founder and drummer Josh Bickley explains how the lyrics of a very non drum centric Blind Melon song won over his very drum centric heart.

Watch Børns perform Live in Studio 1A on VuHaus

Listen to the full Børns session from Studio 1A

Watch the Børns session on Facebook Live (scroll down to June 7th!)

Watch Calliope Musicals reform Live from Studio 1A on Vuhaus

Watch Calliope Musicals perform an acoustic version of  “Dreams” backstage at ACLfest on VuHaus

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Listen to Songs from Episode 44 of This Song

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Glen Hansard // Gina Chavez (Episode 13, 2015)

In this episode of “This Song” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with  Glen Hansard  to talk about a song and an extraordinary experience around that song that made him know, for sure, that he would be a musician.  She also talks to Gina Chavez about a genre she heard in Argentina that hit her in the center of her being and helped her find her artistic voice.

Check out videos from Glen Hansard’s Studio 1A performance on Vu Haus.

Check out a video about the making of “Didn’t He Ramble.”

Check out Gina Chavez’s Tiny Desk Concert

Hear songs from Gina Chavez’s studio 1A performance.

Download a live version of her song  as part of our “Song of the Day Podcast.”

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Holly Miranda // Johnny Goudie // David Ramirez

In this episode of “This Song,” Taylor Wallace sits down with Holly Miranda to talk about how a song she heard as a teenager opened her up to being open. Elizabeth McQueen sits down with musician and “how did I get here”  host Johnny Goudie to hear about a song from his teens that made him long for longing. And KUTX  Artist of the month for August, David Ramirez, tells Elizabeth about a song he fell in love with in 4th grade that still inspires him today.

 Listen to Holly Miranda’s studio 1A performance here
Download her live version of “All I Want is to Be Your Girl” from our Song of the Day  podcast here.
Listen to Johhny Goudie’s podcast “how did I get here” here.
Listen to David Ramirez’s Studio 1A session here.
Download David Ramirez’s “Communion”  from our Song of the Day here podcast here. 
Listen to David Ramirez’s guest DJ set for the MyKUTX series here.
And check out our music satire feature “the Rabbit Hole” here.
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Laura Marling // Todd Wolfson

In this Episode of “This Song,” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with singer-songwriter Laura Marling and photographer Todd Wolfson to talk about songs that gave them a greater understanding of freedom and transcendence.

You can hear Laura Marling’s Studio 1A performance here.

You can download Laura Marling’s cover of Towne’s Van Zandt’s “For the Sake of the Song” as part of our “Song of the Day” feature here.

You can check out the work of Todd V Wolfson here.

You can find out when the next Todd Family Music Series at Monkeynest Coffee is here.

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Crooks

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with most of the members of  the Austin outlaw country band Crooks. Guitar player Ryan Goebel, Trumpet and percussion player Doug Day, accordion player Anthony Ortiz Junior, drummer Joey Bybee and songwriter/guitar player Josh Mazor all talk about all the various influences they bring to their raucous mix of country, rock and conjunto.

Crooks have a new record out called Wildfire, and might be coming to your town to play a show!  You can check out their tour schedule here.

Listen to the Crooks live Studio 1A performance here.

You can download the live version of “Fork in the Road” here as part of our “Song of the Day” Series.  If you want a cool new song delivered to you daily you can subscribe to “Song of the Day” on iTunes here.

You can listen to the Crooks “My KUTX” guest DJ set here.

You can listen to the “Austin Music Minute” about the Crooks CD release party here.  And you can subscribe to the “Austin Music Minute” here.

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