City Council members voted last week in favor of finding ways to help reverse a troubling trend after a recently report showed the city’s local music venues and industry have suffered an economic...
When it comes to the hip-hop industry, Houston rapper JAPAN is accustomed to being the elephant in the room.
As a queer hip-hop artist, JAPAN, aka Pierre Hill, is part of a burgeoning scene...
xx – The xx
After meeting at school in 2005, Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Slim, Baria Qureshi and Jamie Smith, known as Jamie xx, used to message each other after curfew with lyrics for their rudimentary...
As the 2016 presidential race rages on, the remaining candidates are doing everything they can to win over voters, turning playlists into political strategies.
While Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie...
Kendrick Lamar is known for his unapologetically daring music that contemplates modern racial tensions, depression and materialism, but on his new album untitled unmastered., the enigmatic rapper cuts...
After a general lack of activity over the past five years, M83 was right on the cusp of becoming a legacy band — a group that exists only in memory according to a very specific sound. With the announcement...
While modern charts are dominated by pop anthems and rap mixtapes, the alternative sounds of the ‘90s still have a firm hold on today’s youth, even though many weren’t born early enough...
When Eazy-E or Wu Tang Clan’s RZA rapped, they took listeners to the streets and told them to pay attention. Rappers from East Coast to West Coast came onto the scene imbuing hip-hop with a message...
Don’t head into South by Southwest unprepared. Accompanying the big-name bands attending the festival this year such as Iggy Pop, CHVRCHES and The Avett Brothers, hundreds of lesser-known groups...
Editor’s note: In this recurring column, music writer Chris Duncan suggests two albums to listen to this week. Have a suggestion? Send a tweet to @chr_dunc, and your pick might appear in next week’s...
To a new listener, it might sound as if The 1975 panders to their teen audience, playing up their boyband features to sell hundreds of thousands of records with no regard for art.
But by the end of...
Austin’s music industry lost 1,200 jobs in four years despite economic growth in the music industry as a whole, according to a recent study commissioned by Austin Music People, an advocacy group...
