By Richard Skanse It’s that time of year again when thousands upon thousands of songwriters, bands, record label executives, bloggers and all manner of other industry types …
By Richard Skanse Singer-songwriter and one-man “AM Country Heaven” preservation society Jason Eady, a champion of old-school musical integrity if ever there was one, has …
By Lynne Margolis One of the Austin music community’s greatest traits is its collective willingness to support a member in need. But when word began …
By Richard Skanse Although Americana, alt-country, and Texas-reared singer-songwriter acts are all now by and large relegated to afterthought (if any thought at all) status at …
By j. poet “I started drinking when I was 15 or 16. It became an issue pretty quickly,” Ashley Monical says, describing the long personal …
BRIAN KEANE Coming Home www.briankeane.net Texas regional radio has been kind to Brian Keane in the past three years. The Josh Abbott Band took Keane’s …
By j. poet (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) Austin’s Band of Heathens like to rock out and generate excitement onstage, but what really …
Notes From the Editor By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) Every now and then, we put our heads together in the …
By Kelly Dearmore (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Joe Pug moving to Austin in 2012 wasn’t exactly headline news in town. After all, a …
Austin says goodbye to Momo’s and Emo’s, hello to Ray Benson’s new club By D.C. Bloom (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) As 2011 …
