The Iconic Venue Fund is undeniably helpful, but we could be doing more to sustain Austin’s live music scene.
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Rick Rubin takes an unconventional approach to music production. Working with music artists like the Beastie Boys and Johnny Cash, he set a different, more creative standard for music creation, becoming a heavily awarded music producer.
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How Otis Rush taught his electric blues peers how to weep in song and truly confess the blues.
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Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams eased into the bedroom-pop scene and met a sudden success that even artists twice her age haven’t managed. How did she make it in the music industry? Just ask her parents.
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A new archival record revisits previously-unheard demos of the virtuoso record producer who brought sumptuous symphonics to R&B and was at the forefront of new electronic frontiers before his untimely death.
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As hand-picked playlists continue to frame the way we consume music, it’s time to step back and wonder: what’s the danger of losing perspective?
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In an industry that grows and changes so rapidly under a government that is often divided, it is important to consider the economic impact that live entertainment has on local communities.
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Electrifying hippie counterculture of peace, love, liberation, and bacchanalian revelries defined the 1960s musical landscape. Behind it all? The overarching influence of psychedelic drugs.
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Women have been writing music since the Byzantine Empire, yet they lack significant recognition for their contributions. Whether two millennia ago or today, female classical composers deserve space in the music world.
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How Roy “Professor Longhair” Byrd’s individualistic and experimental piano-playing style revolutionized the New Orleans music scene and paved the way for rock and soul.
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To combat the rising exclusivity around the concert experience, fans turn to sidewalk camping in hopes of door tickets, but even the best-intentioned risk ruining it for everyone else.
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A tree planted by water is a dedication to inner sanctity and peace. Eryn Allen Kane and Aja Monet remind us how important sharing your voice is and how it can impact the world. Through spoken word poetry, they declare that hopelessness is not our horizon and healing is a duty and obligation.
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A reality show, an obsession with rankings, and the South Korean military have all redefined Brave Girls as a born-again viral hit in the quicksilver world of K-Pop ensembles.
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While it seems like a standard dance song, the behind-the-scenes production and timing helped “American Boy” become an international sensation and a club scene classic to this day.
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The rise of streaming, resurgence of catalog, and rapid onset of NFTs’ popularity are all converging. Music royalty will build bigger and more extravagant palaces but only at the expense of artists that are struggling to gain a platform as it is.
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Endless conglomerations, legal red tape, and streaming contracts make music sales pointless for starving artists in the streaming age, so why not avoid it all and pirate instead?
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What happens when a one hit wonder resurfaces 19 years after its release? The most iconic meme of all time.
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The short-lived — yet still thoroughly pioneering — Tropicália movement of the 1960s challenged Brazil’s military dictatorship through carefully-cultivated music rooted in defiance and eagerness for change.
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