Gritty. Honest. Vulnerable.
Naya Ali, a hip-hop artist born in Ethiopia and raised in Canada, said she writes songs that embody those emotions.
After beginning her career in marketing, Ali began...
When the “Tennis Fan” singer initially received word about South by Southwest, Martha Betty Glenn Brown wanted to travel to Texas and perform in spite of the cancellation. But as global fears about...
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The news of SXSW’s cancellation...
The South by Southwest 2020 festival was officially canceled last week, but that doesn’t mean the music stops playing in Austin.
Shows are still happening throughout the week with lineups featuring...
For around 100 shows in 2019, Nik Parr leaned into a microphone, fingers feverishly playing the piano with a saxophone strapped across his chest. His three bandmates played alongside him, performing as...
While traveling the country to perform her music, Tameca Jones said she discovered her true relationship with music.
Jones, commonly referred to as the “Queen of Austin Soul,” is a singer...
He may have moved to Washington state, but UT alumnus Danny Barnes continues to pay homage to his Texas roots one banjo-dominated record at a time.
Barnes graduated from UT in 1985 with a degree in...
BTS, the South Korean boy group, released their seventh studio album on Feb. 21. Map of the Soul: 7 is an introspective album where each of the seven members reflect on their careers and personal...
Written, produced and engineered by the artist herself, Grimes’ fifth studio album is a prediction of the world’s imminent end — with love as the catalyst.
Grimes retains her...
From the outside, nothing marks the Porchfire House in West Campus as any different than the student housing it’s surrounded by.
On the inside, it’s a student run record label.
Austin’s...
Whether they are performing in an open-air folk festival or simply feeding their dogs, the singer-songwriting duo balance one another’s unique talents.
Ordinary Elephant, a husband-wife folk band,...
Billie Eilish’s newest music video, “everything i wanted,” released Jan. 23, has already garnered over 29 million views. Music video editor John Paul Horstmann (“everything i wanted,”...
