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Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat describes how Stanley Clarke’s “School Days” and Jaco Pastorius‘ self titled album expanded his view of what it means to play bass.
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Listen to Songs from Episode 63 of This Song
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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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
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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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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In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Moving Panoramas. Leslie Sisson, Karen Skloss and Rozie Castoe all talk about songs that changed them and contributed to the sound of Moving Panoramas.
You can here the Moving Panorama’s My KUTX DJ set here.
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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.
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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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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In this episode of Views & Brews, guest host Matt Reilly of KUTX talks with Nikki Rowling, of the Titan Music Group, and Don Pitts, from The City of Austin Music Office, to discuss what recent data, published in The Austin Music Census, tells us about the health of the Austin music scene. Is the live music capital of the world on the verge of losing it’s musicians, because they can’t make a living in the city? Is Austin a place to discover new music? What can be done, by the city, the musicians, and the general public to ensure Austin music remains alive and kickin’?
In this episode of “This Song” we hear Brian Beattie talk about a song that blew him away and made a shelf in his brain, Kathy McCarty talks about a song that opened her up to the possibility that songwriting wasn’t just for people from the olden times, and Ray Benson explores a song that showed him the power of one note played with emotion.
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