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Echocentrics leads a heady aural adventure at the Parish
Echocentrics play a record release party at the Parish, 6.23.15. For almost two decades Adrian Quesada has been a fixture on the Austin music scene. Though he made his name as a guitarist in Latin...
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Flatlanders show brings Lubbock pals together again at Hogg Auditorium
Separate performances by current Texas State Musician Joe Ely and his longtime pals from Lubbock, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, happen with relative frequency around town. But a reconvening...
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Texas Heritage Festival beats the heat with a hot lineup at Stubb’s
Sometimes new ventures just take a little tweaking. When the Texas Heritage Festival made its debut last year with summer shows in four Texas cities, it was a good idea that didn’t pan out as well as...
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Willie Nelson’s Picnic survives the heat for a festive Fourth
Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic is an endurance race — long hours, heat and sun, $12 burgers — for even the most devoted Picnic regulars. But when roadie Tune’n Tom Hawkins brings out Trigger...
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Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ bring the heart of America to the Sahara
“Thank you for coming out to our South by Southwest performance,” band leader Kevn Kinney joked a few songs into Tuesday’s Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ show at the Sahara Lounge. “We’re a little late, but we got...
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He said, she said: One dance and two hours with Drake in Austin
At 10 p.m. sharp Wednesday, hip hop superstar Drake emerged from underneath the stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin for the kickoff of his Summer Sixteen tour. Austin360’s chief Canadian rap...
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‘Baby Got Back to the 90’s’ tour brings nostalgia to Austin
Sir Mix-A-Lot performs at the HEB Center in Cedar Park on July 22, 2016. Photo by Robert Hein/For the American-Statesman BY CHAD SWIATECKI Nostalgia gets to be a dicey proposition when actual humans...
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Steve Miller Band brings the hits and the blues to the Skyline
The Steve Miller Band with guests Jimmie Vaughan and James Cotton at Statesman Skyline Theater on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Photo by Scott Moore for American-Statesman They came to hear the hits, and...
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5 takeaways from Culture Club at the Statesman Skyline Theater
Culture Club performs at the Statesman Skyline Theater at The Long Center in Austin, Texas on August 2, 2016 – Photo Credit: Scott Moore/For American-Statesman On Tuesday night, ’80s pop sensation...
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Neko Case, K.D. Lang and Laura Veirs light up the Long Center
K.D. Lang, Laura Veirs, Neko Case and their band perform at the Long Center on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2016. Photo by Peter Blackstock A half-dozen songs into Wednesday’s performance by Neko Case, K.D. Lang...
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Dixie Chicks make up for a ‘Long Time Gone’ with transcendent show
The Dixie Chicks didn’t allow press photographers at Sunday’s Austin360 Amphitheater concert, but the presentation was much like it was on the June tour-opening show in Cincinnati. Photo by Kevin...
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A tale of two concerts: Chris Stapleton and Hank Jr. on one bill is like...
Hank Williams, Jr. may not have known who Chis Stapleton was before adding him to his current tour this summer, but the Austin crowd at the Circuit of the Americas Saturday night certainly knew the...
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Lyle Lovett lives Large and gets personal at ACL Live
Lyle Lovett & His Large Band perform at ACL Live on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Photo by Peter Blackstock As the years and decades flutter by like leaves falling from ever taller trees, Lyle Lovett...
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Hayes Carll puts the songs front and center at ACL taping
Hayes Carll taping “Austin City Limits” on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, at ACL Live. Courtesy KLRU-TV/Austin City Limits; photo by Scott Newton You won’t see it on TV, but the revelation from Hayes Carll’s...
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Cyndi Lauper proves her ‘True Colors’ are still beautiful at ‘ACL’ taping
Photo by Scott Newton/ Courtesy of KLRU, ‘Austin City Limits’ At age 63, is Cyndi Lauper still “So Unusual”? Glad you asked. Let’s run through few things the ’80s pop icon did at her “Austin City...
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Floating Points entrance Mohawk crowd on Saturday
They Entered in darkness and quietly warbled their sound in, the first few minutes. Then, the crowd Oooo and Ahhh’d when the visuals came on screen — a projection of laser-like lights drawing geometric...
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Goo Goo Dolls balance ballads and rockers at Skyline Theater
Goo Goo Dolls perform at the Statesman Skyline Theater on Sept. 11, 2016. Photo by Scott Moore for American-Statesman “We’re glad to see you’re keeping it weird like you promised,” Goo Goo Dolls...
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Old 97’s bring the old and new to 3Ten in the first of two nights
The Old 97’s (from left, Ken Bethea, Philip Peeples, Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond) opening a two-night stand at 3Ten on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Photo by Peter Blackstock “There was a time in the early...
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Jesus walks, but Kanye flies above us all at Austin show
We didn’t want no devils in this house Wednesday night. Kanye West kept things heavenly in Austin during a one-and-a-half-hour Saint Pablo Tour stop at the Frank Erwin Center, where the rap superstar...
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Kinky Friedman likes Trump: `Jesus rode into town on a jackass.’
Kinky Friedman performed at Strange Brew in Austin Thursday night, and, after the show, said he preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton for president. Friedman, who was an independent candidate for...
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