Music News

We live in the middle of a golden age of documentaries. For the past few years, music documentaries have featured prominently in my Top Ten lists.

While primarily a gala benefit for KLRU, our local PBS affiliate, last night's three-hour ACL Live at the Moody Theater concert celebrated Austin music master Lloyd Maines .

A judge says that the WWE does business in Texas, so it will have to face off there against the guy who "pioneered" giving wrestlers songs to walk into the ring to.

Sonia Leigh is an amazing country music artist and someone to keep an eye on. She's certainly a quiet storm to be reckoned with and, in a world full of pop artists who claim to be "country," it's refreshing to hear a truly amazing country artist.

When the Virginia Arts Festival performs at the Williamsburg Winery on Thursday, May 23, the menu will pair chamber music with fine food and wines.

An official announcement is still a few days away, but Bay Days organizers say they are looking at a musical lineup filled with a variety of accomplished local and regional players, from Norfolk's Mike Aiken Band to Smithfield's Bria Kelly .

The Original Big 7 Social Aid & Pleasure Club with the Original Big 7 Junior Steppers second-line with a brass band down Pauger Street as part of the 7th Ward Festival in celebration of Mother's Day in 2009.

The 4onthefloor got the call-up to lead off Target Field's new Midwest Music Series, a showcase for local bands.

When the photo above was taken back in March, 12-year-old Williamsburg resident Logan Layman already knew she was heading to north to play the Turns out, she's going to Chicago twice this summer.

Our listeners this week the master of the Music 3Rs, Sean Comer taking on Music Zone writer emeritus and Earbuddy senior editor Chris Bell ! All right, enough of the introductions and rules...let's hop to it! Sean Comer: BUY .

On the back of this eponymous disc, Mrs. Glass sits in a fine suit tipping back a tumbler of whiskey.

S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival 2013 is thrilled to announce the lineup for 2013 including Cai.ro, Brighter Brightest, Courage My Love, Sydney, Single Mothers, The Reason, and many more, alongside already announced headliners Tokyo Police Club, Hollerado, and Comeback Kid.

We're not going to lie, we've had Ciara's new single "Body Party" on repeat for what feels like forever now.

Let's take a look at the results of March's Austin Music Awards, shall we? How many times are the Whiskey Sisters or a member of the duo's band mentioned? First, they were named Best New Band.

Jason Boland's come a long way since his Red Dirt-kicking, Pearl Snaps days. 2008's Comal County Blue proved the Okie native and decadelong Austinite worthy of the top tier of emerging Texas songwriters, its poignant tunes crafted through their songwriter's blistered heartbreak and alcoholism recovery.

Death has always been one of the most predominant themes in heavy metal music, taking a backseat maybe only to Satanism.

Michael Jackson's ill-fated comeback shows in London would have featured a lookalike onstage and lip-syncing from the legendary performer.

The ceremony featured performances by now-nominated artists Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, T Bone Burnett with Lisa Marie Presley, Elizabeth Cook and The Milk Carton Kids.

A Taylor Swift fan was arrested near the singer's Rhode Island beach house this morning after allegedly swimming all the way to her house.

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch struggled with the "exhausting" fight training he received in preparation for the new Star Trek sequel because he only had a few weeks to prepare for the action role.