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This Song: Charlie Faye

Austin based singer and songwriter Charlie Faye leads the sixties inspired girl group Charlie Faye and the Fayettes. Listen as she describes how her childhood love of “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes helped her find her musical way and how it inspired the band’s new single “I Don’t Need No Baby.”

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This Song Extra: Elvis Costello

In this This Song Extra, Elvis Costello explains why he wanted to get outside of himself and tell other people’s stories in an expansive musical style on his new record Look Now.

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This Song: Ethan Hawke and Ben Dickey

The new movie, BLAZE, about legendary singer and songwriter Blaze Foley, is in theatres now. Listen as Ethan Hawke and Ben Dickey describe why they love the music of Blaze Foley and what led them to make a movie about his life.

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This Song: Live at Waterloo Records with Israel Nash

Come to Waterloo Records on Thursday, August 30th at 5pm for a live taping of the This Song podcast with Israel Nash followed by an artist signing. Israel will talk about a song that changed his life, explore his brand new album, LIFTED, and provide an intimate look at his creative process.

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This Song: Tegan and Sara Rerun

Tegan and Sara give 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.

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This Song: Adam Sultan

Austin Artist and podcaster Adam Sultan describes how “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)” by Talking Heads changed his life and explains how his life as a musician has informed the making of his podcast “Friends With Deficits.”

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This Song: Lizzo (Rerun)

Lizzo delves into her love for Lauryn Hill ‘s “Zion” and Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” takes the listener on a journey through her musical influences, and explains why Minneapolis made it possible for her to find her musical way.

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This Song: Night Glitter

On this edition of This Song, we talk to LouLou Ghelichkhani and John Michael Schoepf of Austin’s dreamy synth-pop band Night Glitter about a couple of classic songs that taught them a little bit about themselves. For LouLou, listening to Neil Young’s “Old Man” as a teenager helped her come to terms with some of the difficult feelings surrounding her parent’s divorce. And John Michael says Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” not only set him on the musician’s path it taught him what it really means to have fun.

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Night Glitter is KUTX’s Artist of the Month for July

Check out Night Glitter’s new EP “Hangin’ on a Dream.”

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This Song: Jake Lloyd

Austin Artist Jake Lloyd has been making a name for himself by producing music that mixes R&B, hip-hop, soul, rock, and reggae. Listen as he describes how hearing Tony! Toni! Tone!’s “Let’s Get Down” as a kid made him realize that he wanted to be a musician. Also, he talks about what it’s like to be working as an artist in Austin’s burgeoning hip-hop and R&B scene.

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Watch the new video for Jake Lloyd’s song “Rasclat.”

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Get Jake Lloyd’s song “Mile” as part of our Song of the Day series

Read the Austin Monthly episode about The Breaks

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This Song: Ali Holder

Ali Holder was born with Hepatitis C but wasn’t diagnosed until her early twenties. On this episode, Ali tells us how Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” helped her through the challenging emotions that come with treatment for a serious medical condition and how the experience continues to influence her music.

Ali Holder is in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign for her upcoming record. Check out her Indiegogo campaign.

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This Song: John Prine

Songwriting legend John Prine just released, “The Tree of Forgiveness,” his first record of original material in 13 years. He sat down with host Elizabeth McQueen at a live taping of This Song at Waterloo Records to talk about Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” songwriting, empathy, and why he had to sequester himself in a hotel to write for the new record.

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This Song: Miles Francis

Miles Francis, who has played with Antibalas and backed up Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, just released his first solo EP Swimmers along with a companion visual album directed by Charles Billot. Listen as he describes how two very different songs — Prince’s “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” and The Beach Boys “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)”– showed him how music can convey a range 0f feelings, and helped serve as a template for his own work.

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This Song: Brownout

Greg Gonzalez, bass player for Austin’s premiere Latin funk outfit Brownout describes how Anthrax’s version of “Bring the Noise” introduced him to Public Enemy, which in turn introduced him to the music of James Brown and ignited a lifelong love affair with funk music.

Brownout just released an album of Public Enemy interpretations called “Fear of a Brown Planet.”

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This Song: John Prine Live at Waterloo Records 6.4.18

KUTX presents John Prine “This Song” Live Interview and In-Store Appearance Monday, June 4th at 2pm.

Come celebrate the release of John Prine‘s brand new album, Tree of Forgiveness with this special event.

The interview and performance will be from 2pm-3pm. John Prine will be signing records from 3-4pm

Purchase a copy of Tree of Forgiveness on CD or LP and receive one FREE priority admission wristband for the in-store. Did you already buy the CD or LP from Waterloo Records? Cool! Just bring it by the store to get your wristband. Subject to capacity!

KUTX will be streaming the interview on Facebook Live. Checkout the KUTX Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/kutxaustin/

This Song: Marmalakes

Chase Weinach, of the band Austin band Marmalakes, describes how hearing Rilo Kiley’s “A Better Son/Daughter” when he was going through a tough time in his mid-twenties helped him realize he was not alone.

Check out Marmalakes new record “Please Don’t Stop.”

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This Song: Ibeyi

Lisa-Kaindé Diaz of Ibeyi explains how Nina Simone’s version of “I Put a Spell on You” helped her understand what singing was really about and how music helped heal the relationship with her sister Naomi. Oh yeah, and what it was like to be a part of Beyonce’s Lemonade!

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Listen to Ibeyi’s second record Ash

Check out Ibeyi’s tour dates With David Byrne. Look for the dates marked with a ^^

Listen to the Two and Fro episode celebrating the two year anniversary of Beyonce’s Lemonade

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This Song: Bully

Alicia Bognanno, lead singer, songwriter and guitar player for the Nashville based band Bully explains how the imperfect beauty of the Breeder’s Pod showed her that she could make music the way she wanted to make it.

Bully has a new record out called Losing.

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This Song: Kelley Deal of the Breeders

In this episode, The Breeders’ guitar player and singer Kelley Deal describes how watching Jimmy Page play guitar in Led Zeppelin’s concert film The Song Remains the Same exploded her mind and gave her a template for the kind of sonically adventurous musician she would later become.

The Breeders have a new record out called All Nerve.

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This Song: Mobley (rerun)

Austin songwriter, producer and one and band Mobley has a new project coming out on April 27th called Fresh Lies Vol. 1. In it he explores his relationship, as a black man, with the United States through the metaphor of a romantic relationship. This is the first volume in a career spanning song cycle.

Listen as he describes how Kanye West’s “808’s & Heartbreak” showed him how powerful and freeing vulnerability could be and why he felt compelled to explore his relationship with America in his work.

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This Song: Dessa

Rapper and writer Dessa’s latest record Chime finds her exploring everything from feminism to death to her complex feelings about free will. Listen as she describes all the reasons why hearing Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” as a twelve hear old exploded her preconceived notions about race and gender and gave voice to her feelings of restlessness. And you don’t want to miss her describe her quest to use science to rid her brain of a love that wasn’t serving her. Seriously, what she did will blow YOUR mind.

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