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They say the SXSW trifecta is free food and drinks, seeing one of your favorite bands (current or past) and discovering your next beloved band. I hit that trifecta this year, and it is my absolute pleasure to bring you my new obsession. Atlanta’s CDSM (short for Celebrity Death Slot Machine) are a rag tag […] The post CDSM: “Not Another Bleeder” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

We’re already in April. Q1 is gone but not forgotten. And as a final sendoff to the first part of the year, we’re throwing down with our March Artist of the Month, Gus Baldwin & The Sketch, one more time. The quartet had an affirming SXSW, playing big shows at 29th Street Ballroom with Christian […] The post Gus Baldwin & The Sketch: “Itch” (Live in Studio 1A) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Fun’s not just for Friday anymore. Mondays need need fun too. Maybe even more than Friday…or Wednesday. And your dose of Monday dopamine comes from Austin’s Tiny Specks. Members Vanessa Gonzalez, Nikki Preciado, and Brian Cox have been members of many bands of many sounds over the years, but when the three came together, a […] The post Tiny Specks: “Danger Oso” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Bassist and singer Anastasia Wright has long been a part of the Austin music tradition of being part of about a dozen bands you’ve seen and heard of. Hong Kong Wigs, Tyler Jordan and the Negative Space, Black Basements, and the B-52’s cover band Mock Lobster. Additionally, she’s been running her own vegan catering and […] The post Soft Bones: “Let the Sun In” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Athens, Georgia. A fertile ground for breeding world famous bands like the B-52’s, R.E.M., of Montreal, and Drive-By Truckers. Now, humbly moving their own way up the ranks is hey, nothing. The emo-folk duo, originally from Atlanta, are, for better, or worse, writing music that is much more raw and reflective than what you’d expect […] The post hey, nothing: “Barn Nursery” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Over the last several years, Kenneth Frost has made his mark in the Austin underground scene with his band the Cuckoos, a group that blends classic rock sentiments with neo-psych and club beat attitude and punctuation. Now Frost is stepping into a new project, a six-piece outfit called Blush Fantasy. Blush Fantasy is like a […] The post Blush Fantasy: “Dreamboat” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s Julian Neel grew-up in Lubbock surrounded at home by the music of artists like Joe Ely and the Flatlanders. Then he spent the last half of the 2010’s on the road with Molly Burch touring the US and Europe. All the while, he was fronting his own band, and he released his debut album […] The post Julian Neel: “Mermaid of the Rodeo” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s Nick Garza is Texas music personified. The 13th-generation singer-songwriter uses his baritone voice to add an extra layer of salve to his beautifully-crafted songs that embody not only Western music, but plenty of notes and nods to various Texas-centered genres like Tejano. He’s even collaborated Texas with music stalwarts like Augie Meyers and Los […] The post Nick Garza’s Get Along: “Silver to Hold” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

The last day of Spring Break deserves a real party, doesn’t it? Well, Chinese American Bear has the honey pot for just that. Classically trained Anne Tong immigrated from China with her family when she was around six years old, and after moving around several states in vastly different parts of the country, the family […] The post Chinese American Bear: “Feelin’ Fuzzy” (Live At Scholz Garten) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Happy first day of spring! With sunny skies in the 70s and school out, let’s put an extra spring in that step. Mexico City’s Los Eclipses are a cosmic duo. Blending many Latin music influences with singer Eva De Marce’s Franco background, a lot of their music feels like it’s created a rare new space […] The post Los Eclipses: “Elodie” (Live At Scholz Garten) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

It’s Wednesday, baby, and we are halfway through our week of celebrating some of our favorite performances from last week’s KUTX Live at Scholz Garten, where over 2,000 music fans local and visiting came and celebrated with us. “Contigo Quiero Todo” or “I Want Everything With You,” is one of Edgar Alejandro’s many captivating love […] The post Edgar Alejandro: “Contigo Quiero Todo” (Live At Scholz Garten) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

As we continue our week-long celebration of our week at Scholz Garten where we raised over $20k for the Central Texas Food Bank, we turn our ears north and south to King Cruff. Raised in Jamaica, based in Montreal, and being Bob Marley’s grandson, Solomon Markey-Spence AKA King Cruff, furthers the family legacy with his […] The post King Cruff: “Easy” (Live At Scholz Garten) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Last week, the SXSW storm rolled in, and KUTX was part of the rolling thunder over part of downtown. 16 artists took the Scholz Garten stage across four days, and one of the standouts was Cork, Ireland’s Cardinals. While the band tends to dance around calling themselves post-punk, they do set themselves apart from their […] The post Cardinals: “Unreal” (Live At Scholz Garten) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin native Elijah Delgado has been releasing his self-proclaimed indie rock lullabies since 2021. Since then, he’s performed with national acts like Sister Hazel and Dayglow and performed at Old Settler’s Music Fest and Utopiafest. Since the release of his debut EP in 2021, Delgado has been sprinkling his audience with a few singles, now […] The post Elijah Delgado: “Hide + Seek” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Raucous, infectious, and powerhouse are all words used to describe Real Sickies. Not much of a surprise coming from the band Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has deemed his “favorite Canadian punk band.” The Edmonton-based band has been known for years for their relentless touring schedules and sublimely noisy sound comparable to everyone from Buzzcocks […] The post Real Sickies: “Should’ve Seen It Coming” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

The last time we checked-in with Wes Denzel, he was re-releasing his 2023 H-Town love letter Last Night In Houston. And during that time, he was already working on his next record. The San Antonio-based rapper, songwriter, and self-taught producer has spent the last couple of years working on Sorry About Last Night, a five-song […] The post Wes Denzel: “Juice” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s CLUB COMA are electrifying. Ebbing between dark electro -pop, high-octane rock, and a little bit of funk (sometimes all in the same song), the trio brings the party to the stage. And when you know the members come from Austin groups Ume, Boyfrndz, and Stiletto Feels, your eyes unfocus just enough to see the […] The post CLUB: “Sunshine” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Redbud started as a passion (and let’s be real, therapy) project for Katie Claghorn during the pandemic. Following the release of the group’s debut EP Long Night in 2023, Redbud has been blossoming. At this point, it’s becoming increasingly harder to find people who haven’t heard of Redbud. The group returns with their follow-up album […] The post Redbud: “Pink Pear” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

When you go through a break-up the traditional thing to do is to pull in, find solace in your platonic relationships, and try new things. Very new things. Like, perhaps, uprooting yourself clear across the country to make your next album. Magic City Hippies follow tradition with their new album Enemies. In the three years […] The post Magic City Hippies: “Little Bit of Love” (ft. Antwaun Stanley) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s J’cuuzi are about as avantgarde as you can get. Or as I like to call them pop-vantgarde. They’re too electronic to be post-punk, too post-punk to be considered electronic, and a hair too melodic to be straight noise rock. But it’s hot, wild, and maybe a little dangerous, like a jacuzzi. Their live shows […] The post J’cuuzi: “How 2 Get Everything You’ve Always Wanted 4 Free (Forever)”[PREMIERE] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

If you’ve been paying attention to KUTX the last few years, you’re aware that we have a number of podcasts. One of them is Song Confessional, an effort led by Walker Lukens and Zac Catanzaro where they collect anonymous, wild stories or “confessions” from people then have a musician write a song about the confession. […] The post Brittany Banowsky: “Two Sunglass Town” (Song Confessional) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

When a project is born from a mutual love of PJ Harvey, you know I’m all in. Pink Must began with this love shared from half a country away, but once Mari Maurice Rubio and Lynn Avery, better known as More Eaze and Iceblink respectively, were both located in Brooklyn, it was game on. As […] The post Pink Must: “Morphe Sun” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

The Ohio duo Illiterate Light have been making music together for a decade: starting from humble pastoral beginnings making music while working on a farm in the Shenandoah Valle, to their latest album Arches, which saw the band splitting time between Ohio and Hollywood’s Sunset Sound, a room formerly graced by Bob Dylan and Paul […] The post Illiterate Light: “Payphone” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Born in Houston, partially raised in Plano, and now an Austin resident, Marlei Dismuke has been writing and performing music since she started piano lessons at age five. Writing songs for her brothers turned into composing music for family musicals complete with choreography, and eventually truly honing her craft in high school and college, performing […] The post Marlei Dismuke: “Fantasy” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s Anastasia Hera has been blending her brand of rap and R&B for almost fifteen years. In addition to releasing her own solo work, leading her group Anastasia and the Heroes, and putting her mark on various other projects, she’s also the founder of CAKE (Creativity, Abundance, Knowledge, Education), a non-profit empowering and educating women […] The post Anastasia Hera: “Ambitions” (Live in Studio 1A) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin’s Sam Hernandez has always seen life through a different prism. Colors, textures, and the planes of reality are subjective and mere suggestions. Influenced by the bubbly music of the 50s and 60s as well as an early penchant for Jim Henson and his muppets, Hernandez writes lovely songs to capture a familiar but not […] The post Wabi Sabi and the Sweet Littles: “Nile Walk” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

When I think of Jane Ellen Bryant, the first thing that comes to mind is her vocal tool box. She’s not just a great singer; the control she has over her voice and the tricks she’s able to do with it are show stopping. She’s shows off this mastery in both the dance pop duo […] The post Jane Ellen Bryant: “My Corner of the World” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Since the early 90’s, years before the Hold Steady was a twinkle in his eye, Craig Finn has been laying down his legacy. Now over 20 albums deep into his discography, he’s set to release his 6th solo album Always Been this April. Finn calls Always Been his most narrative album to date, dropping into […] The post Craig Finn: “People of Substance” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

From the hockey rink of the University of Utah to the mean streets of New York City comes Persona 749. After being inspired through music heard at college parties, Landon Langenbrunner and Che Landikusic started writing music, but without real direction, they were making music from a place of fun, playing around in the sandbox […] The post Persona 749: “Stereo Girl” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

New Orleans’s Maddy Kirgo writes music not only akin to the eclectic, all-embracing attitude of the Big Easy, but also to the sounds currently pouring out of its venues, or in her case, the buskers on the corner. To that end, her sounds simultaneously evokes the California country rock sounds of the nudie suit era […] The post Maddy Kirgo: “Spare” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

We all know that when an artist is featured on a song, it’s likely that they recorded it remote and sent the track to the main artist. But how does it work when you’re a quartet and only 2 of y’all live in the same place? To ask the members of Austin experimental psych band […] The post MIEN: “Evil People” (Live In Studio 1A) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

L.A.’s Kowloon is truly a one-man operation. Songwriting? Him. Instrumentation? Him. Recording, production? Yep, all Kowloon. Backed by a full library of effects and music gadgets from various eras, Kowloon released a string of singles last year, demonstrating his affinity for the darkwave sounds of the 80s a la the Cure and Bronski Beat. Ahead […] The post Kowloon: “Heart Begins With You” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Even a piping hot bowl of tokontsu ramen can’t fully shake-off today’s bone chill, but maybe the headspace of partying on a yacht in Mallorca can. Austin native Tommy Francisco hit the scene in 2020 with “Fever,” giving him an international audience and proving his ability to blend his Latin and Indigenous backgrounds into a […] The post Tommy Francisco: “Tommy’s Groove” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Auckland, New Zealand’s Callum Mower, known as Serebii, has always focused on pushing forward. Forward musically, forward personally, and now, forward into naked vulnerability. Serebii’s upcoming album Dime finds Mower at his most vulnerable. Historically, Mower has relied on his mastery of instruments and production with others, namely fellow New Zealander Arjuna Oakes, but […] The post Serebii: “Verrans Corner” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin duo Slept All Day may be new on the scene, but don’t sleep on them. Together, the two create moving soundscapes a la Bonobo and Washed Out. And they use their vocals as an element of the scape instead of its driving force. And despite the electronic instrumentation and vocal effects, the music is […] The post Slept All Day: “Asteria” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Welcome! Today’s theme is vision and reimagining. After spending a childhood in Salt Lake City, Hunter Preuger moved to Austin to sow oats with his project Middle Sattre. The project quickly expanded into a six-piece…and then an eight-piece, and a year after the release of their debut album Tendencies, the experimental folk outfit returned to […] The post Middle Satre: “Corrupted (Uncorrupted)” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

I’ve heard your week’s woes, I know it’s been one, so Aunt Tay is here to deliver a little Friday elixir to shift you into weekend mode as you get ready to burn rubber in the parking garage. Austin’s Death Palmz is another project from Exotic Frutica, and if you’re familiar with the punk band, […] The post Death Palmz: “IL2H2LU” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Austin singer-songwriter Scott Collins has been ever-evolving in both songwriting and sound and now he’s started leaning in more to letting himself define his sound, branching out and seeing what feels right. His 9th EP And All This Happened serves on the title’s promise: it’s all happening. But the early 00’s indie sound is still […] The post Scott Collins: “Aphophenia” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Who said that energy and introspection can’t co-exist? It wasn’t me. And it certainly wasn’t Small Engine Fire. The new Austin band is made up of members of Lola Tried and Quiet Company, and together they create something a little nostalgic, like taking a ride out to Wilco with your Grandaddy. Small Engine Fire throws […] The post Small Engine Fire: “Good Old Day” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

We love a side project, don’t we? Especially when ace collaborations are involved. For a couple of years, Ley Line’s Emilie Basez and Kate Robberson have been creating music as a Her Mana, honing an even earthier and more ethereal sound with the same incredible complex guitar noodling, harmonies, and wide range of world instruments […] The post Her Mana: “Oh This Moment” (ft. Sarita and Gene Evaro Jr.) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

After many years of winning the hearts and ears of Austin music lovers both as a solo artist and as a member of the psych outfit Acid Carousel, Gus Baldwin’s name has been in the mouths of bookers and promoters for years, and more recently, he formed Gus Baldwin & the Sketch. And while it […] The post Gus Baldwin & the Sketch: “(She’s Gone) Arigato” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Winnepeg’s Glassreel is a masterclass on the hard-to-nail trifecta of layers, technique, and breathing space. Nothing is simple, but everything is effortless. Following their 2022 debut Lustre, the group returns with “Myself Instead,” a song that shows the further fine-tuning, cohesion, and boldness the quartet has been building on. While the Belle & Sebastian and […] The post Glassreel: “Myself Included” [PREMIERE] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

If Mama tried to steer you right, Lola Tried is here to steer you wrong. So very, very wrong. Known for masterfully blending the emo hooks of teenage Millennial yore with garage and power-pop sensibilities, the group has always been like the adult charcuterie board to pop-punk’s Lunchable. After nearly a decade under those influences, […] The post Lola Tried: “Degrader” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Rolling into Austin like a quiet, yet alluring fog from the Midwest and Appalachia is Valley Flower, a groovy bluegrass quintet that brilliantly weaves in those regional influences to offer something a little different to the stalwart, homegrown scene here in Austin. And 2024 was very fertile for Valley Flower. They opened for several national […] The post Valley Flower: “Run Buddy” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

I know you’re already fantasizing about your first road trip of 2025, so here’s a new add for that tried and true playlist. Austin’s Yahtzee Brown takes a myriad of inspirations to create his own brand and generation of country-psych, or what I prefer to call Cosmic Country. And while the songs of Townes Van […] The post Yahtzee Brown: “Take It Back” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

As Love Austin Music Months enters the home stretch, let’s visit a recent Studio 1A from an old friend. Skateland played our Free Week Show in 2023, and the next month he was our Artist of the Month ahead of his debut EP New Wave Revivial. In the almost two years since, he’s played SXSW […] The post Skateland: “Postcards” (Recorded Live in Studio 1A) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Kirk Smith has been kicking around Austin and our airwaves for some time, and last Friday he released “Julian.” “Julian” opens with a melancholy, bossa nova shuffle, setting the stage for a worried heart. But it’s not love, it’s sadness for someone you watched from afar decades ago. Lamenting the tale of a John Bender […] The post Kirk Smith: “Julian” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

The imagery of rebirth and change in winter might be the only thing you remember from your Robert Frost lesson in English class, so let’s go back to school and compose a short essay on the significance of featuring this song during this season. Just kidding. Austin’s Futon Blonde have spent the last decade making […] The post Futon Blonde: “3 Color Flag” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Get a preview of this Austin quartet's sophomore album, out Friday. The post Yes Sir, No Sir: “Spiritus Heist” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

It’s cold, man! I hope you’re hunkered down with your comfort food of choice because this song is serving fireside umami. Austin quintet Cast of Thousands released their EP Useful People earlier this month, and weather like today, where you may be bending your ear a little closer to the radio, calls for a little […] The post Cast of Thousands: “Serpo” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.