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Wondering how Austin artists are keeping busy during COVID-19? Music editor Raoul Hernandez’s ongoing Q&A series gets ATX musicians to open up about where they're sheltering, how they're faring, and what keeps them inspired in these troubled times.
Jan. 21, 2021
Shinyribs Santa closes the questionnaire circle on No. 100
Dec. 22, 2020
Pandemic claims Parisian expatriate to her local collabo’s city
Dec. 21, 2020
“Music ... it teaches, it lifts up, breaks down, warns, criticizes”
Dec. 16, 2020
“I’m doing my best to take care of myself and create things”
Dec. 15, 2020
Bandleader Joshua Thomson forges a pandemic soundtrack
Dec. 8, 2020
Native ATX saxist homeschools himself in advanced John Coltrane
Dec. 7, 2020
Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class
Dec. 4, 2020
“The hugs and real-time raucous laughter and ‘careless closeness’”
Dec. 2, 2020
How to stay afloat when there is no Plan B
Dec. 1, 2020
“So, so, so relieved about the outcome, can’t wait to get back now”
Nov. 30, 2020
“I thought to myself, ‘Would I play ’til the ship sank?’”
Nov. 18, 2020
“I’m an A&R guy for Lucky Hound Music [and] a staff producer”
Nov. 13, 2020
“These are strange times with heightened social unrest”
Nov. 11, 2020
ATX’s Romani Lone Star makes another auto doc, My Mind
Nov. 10, 2020
Venerable Hill Country bluesman digs into Cherry Springs
Oct. 28, 2020
Delta Spirit frontman experiences ‘other 2020’ at home and virtually
Oct. 27, 2020
Live wire wax healer wants to sell you a record for your health
Oct. 21, 2020
Full-time school and a new record label engage in a tug of war
Oct. 20, 2020
There’s Hope, though perhaps not for country-livin’ connectivity
Oct. 14, 2020
“I’m hoping to have a lot more stories to share after all this”
Oct. 13, 2020
IDM experimentalist notches third entry in a Holodeck triad
Oct. 9, 2020
Holodeck stablist gets proactive about records, ambient music & Elgin
Oct. 7, 2020
First installment of a update triptych from the label
Oct. 6, 2020
“Reality is the music business has been changing for a long time”
Sept. 30, 2020
Hard blues band singer + guitarist combo splits at Prince & Barney
Sept. 29, 2020
Los Texmaniacs accordionist dishes his own Hot Tamales
Sept. 22, 2020
“Our community is innovative and [will] adapt to this new culture”
Sept. 21, 2020
Your new favorite folksinger and BF James Steinle leave town
Sept. 16, 2020
“It gets hot in Austin in the summer, did you know?”
Sept. 15, 2020
“The only option is to survive. This is my life. This is my purpose”
Sept. 2, 2020
Japanese punk-n-painter power source beams in
Sept. 1, 2020
“Conjunto has survived [here] for decades and will continue to do so”
Aug. 31, 2020
“Rather than let [it] get the best of me I shifted to hyper creative mode”
Aug. 26, 2020
“Reach back out to me in three months, I may be certifiable by then”
Aug. 25, 2020
Multi-instrumental funk marvel holds on tight to his sound-makers
Aug. 24, 2020
“I’m hoping artists get more creative with the [livestream] format”
Aug. 19, 2020
Ace stringer “spaced out for about three months” first
Aug. 18, 2020
“A Black Live Music Fund would be a great step in the right direction”
Aug. 17, 2020
“[We] won’t be playing live for a long time to come”
Aug. 12, 2020
Long-game guitarist keeps twangin’ and sangin’
Aug. 10, 2020
“Writing and shooting a show every week is quite demanding”
Aug. 7, 2020
“Yes, I’m from Austin (partially). I’ve moved around a lot”
Aug. 5, 2020
Obama-endorsed candidate for best local spinner set the curve
Aug. 4, 2020
“Good time to clean house spiritually and also bust out the Lysol”
July 31, 2020
Strat master teamed with Heart’s Nancy Wilson on Depeche Mode cover
July 29, 2020
“I’ve made a career out of the most unlikely circumstances”
July 24, 2020
20 Buck Spin debut puts blackened ATX death metal on the map
July 22, 2020
Eastern soul fusion or more traditional Indian devotionals?
July 20, 2020
ATX tenor titan stops, looks, and listens – then blows!
July 8, 2020
Texan roots muse sings of Cedar trees, Bay towns, wilderness
June 24, 2020
And soothes us through the valley of the shadows of death
June 19, 2020
Crank up his quarantine theme by Christopher Cross, COVID survivor
June 9, 2020
Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell
May 27, 2020
Tune in Wednesdays, 8pm, to the multimedia maven’s livestream
May 20, 2020
“I’ve had Halcyon by Orbital on repeat”
May 15, 2020
“I was in some pretty intense despair for a week or so”
May 13, 2020
Parenting in a pandemic: “There’s an entirely new math”
May 12, 2020
Inside the beautiful mind of a reluctant livestream breakout
May 8, 2020
Potent C&W psych alights despite global downturn
May 5, 2020
Trail of Dead co-engine decries music’s “shoddy substitute” for shows
May 4, 2020
“Please reach out if you’d like to discuss Indian or Bengali recipes”
May 1, 2020
“My soundtracks are What’s Going On and Imagine”
April 28, 2020
Lifelong folk leader unleashes 2020 into current political cycle
April 27, 2020
ATX indie trueheart sings “time to find out what really matters”
April 22, 2020
Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope
April 17, 2020
Song whisperer and his wife Jessie Johnson also blast some Madvillain
April 15, 2020
Father/daughter ATX musicos maintain during the chaos
April 14, 2020
“Only time we leave is to visit the store and we wear a mask and gloves”
April 13, 2020
Wimberley bard misses his band and maybe even that heckler
April 12, 2020
“The lyrics for Kurt Weill’s ‘September Song’ I quoted should be: ...”
April 7, 2020
Lead cowpoke Mike Harmeier: “Nice being home for this length of time”
April 5, 2020
Sungod percussionist and hardcore punk forges dreamlike ambience
April 4, 2020
Firebrand frontwoman takes “a sec to reassess”
April 3, 2020
Concern in a quarantine for Austin’s pied pipers
