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This week launches the first episode in our new season!
For the first time, we’re pulling an unreleased track from the vault inspired by the 2018 midterms.
Austin-based, Columbian fusion outfit, Superfónicos, wrote and live recorded a groovy track encouraging us all to get out and vote.
This is our last offering in our unedited interview series from the Hotel Magdalena season.
It features Fat Tony chopping it up with Walker about all things Houston and how beautiful it is to fall in love.
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We had a number of great interviews from our latest Hotel Magdalena season.
This week, we’re revisiting Cashandra (Sabrina Ellis & Andrew Cashen of Sweet Spirit & A Giant Dog) where they discuss how their time at the hotel brought them back to their roots of songwriting, growing up playing shows in Houston and hearing real outtakes from their songwriting process.
Give this a listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to rate and review the Song Confessional as well!
We had a number of great interviews from our latest Hotel Magdalena season that we wanted to release the full interviews to check out!
We’re revisiting Boyfriend’s interview from earlier this year where she discusses her songwriting process, her father’s songwriting prowess, and a little incident with cupcakes at Cheer Up Charlie’s.
Check out Boyfriend’s full interview with Walker wherever you get your podcasts.
This week wraps up our mini-season featuring stories collected in our permanent confessional booth at Hotel Magdalena! Our final confession comes from a couple that had just finished an X-rated tryst here in the heart of our city.
San Francisco-based Hot Flash Heat Wave writes us a dreamy pop track to underscore your next entanglement.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
We’re back with a new episode of our mini-season featuring stories collected in our permanent confessional booth at Hotel Magdalena! This week’s confessor shares his perfectly romantic escapade through Spain and the unexpected decision he made to keep it that way.
Inspired Austin sirens Carrie Rodriguez and Suzanna Choffel effortlessly collaborate, writing a song that leaves you longing for the best times.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
We’re halfway through our mini season featuring stories collected in our permanent confessional booth at Hotel Magdalena! This week our confessor shares the unexpected way she finally found the love she deserved.
Houston Rapper Fat Tony immortalizes her story with a new track that captures the beautiful mania of falling in love.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week marks the start of our new mini-season featuring stories collected in our permanent confessional booth at Hotel Magdalena! And let me tell ya…the walls have spoken!
Our confessor shares how she got caught with 2 boyfriends at her own surprise birthday party.
The New Orleans-based self-proclaimed rap-cabaret performance artist, appropriately named Boyfriend, shows us why she’s the authority on all things Boyfriend related.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week season 2 comes to a close and we’ve got a special episode for you. Walker and Zac recap some of our favorite moments from the season and you get to hear the first 2 releases from our new side project YUP….which you’ve actually been listening to all season!
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week we wrap up the final part of our first 3 part episode! We’ve heard the confession. We’ve heard killer tracks from Madisen Ward and the Momma Bear & Night Moves. Now we get to hear what they think of each other’s interpretation!
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week we hear part 2 of our first 3 part episode! Same confession, new song!
Minneapolis indie rockers, Night Moves, take their turn transforming this fun story into a dreamy reflection on modern dating.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week’s we hear part 1 of our first 3 part episode! A widow describes the complexities of online dating in rural Texas over the age of 60.
Mother Son duo Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear hailing from Independence, Missouri; write an instant folk classic begging you to singalong.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
In this week’s episode, a woman shares how the pandemic motivated her to move completely across the country and start anew.
Singer, songwriter, and North Carolina native Libby Rodenbough of Mipso takes us on an emotionally reflective journey connecting the heaviness of the past with the hope of the future.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week our confessor paints an eerie picture of the most scared she’s ever been. A creepy drive into the middle of nowhere, a remote cabin, abandonment by a so called friend in West Virginia
Austin showmen Kalu James and David Ramirez give us a spine tingling collaboration that feels like the soundtrack to your next favorite horror fix.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week’s episode deals with intense topics that may be difficult for some of you to hear. A very resilient young woman shares how she discovered her fathers affair only to be blamed by him for the fallout.
Austin’s Jane Ellen Bryant and the award winning Ontario songwriter Terra Lightfoot collaborate, writing a beautiful and appropriately haunting ballad that peers into our confessor’s bravery.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week we hear the tale of a young musician who followed his dreams of success abroad but accidentally trafficked drugs across international borders instead.
Inspired German electrofunk Afrobeat trio, Sea Moya, slips their hooky jam right into your back pocket only to find it’s been there the whole time.
Listen to Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
This week we hear a woman’s nationally newsworthy proposal gone just a bit awry.
Austin based R&B powerhouse Alesia Lani turns this romantic mishap into a soulful pop anthem reminding us what it feels like to fall in love.
You’ll hear Walker and Alesia talk about their love lives and how she mixed in her own experiences to create this bop!
Don’t miss Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Welcome back to Song Confessional, the only podcast where today’s top songwriters turn your anonymous stories into original songs.
This week, we learn why you don’t send pictures of a gun to your friend in prison and New York-based dance/punk outfit !!! (Chk Chk Chk) turn this cautionary tale into a raucous new groove.
Hear Song Confessional every Thursday at KUTX.org and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Season 2 starts January 13! New song premieres from !!!, Alesia Lani, Sea Moya, Jane Ellen Bryant & Terra Lightfoot, David Ramirez & Kalu James, Madisen Ward & The Momma Bear, Night Moves.
New original score for every episode!
Even more exciting news, we now have a permanent interactive confession booth in partnership with Hotel Magdalena! Visit Hotel Magdalena in Austin, TX anytime to share your stories. New Episodes every Thursday.