Drawing comparisons from Townes Van Zandt to Tim Buckley to Otis Redding... Adam Faucett is most known for his powerful, almost operatic voice and intricate finger-picking.
The Arkansas native's sound has been descri...
The Tampa Bay area's Alexander & The Grapes are a revelation. Young minds and hearts meld with influences worn boldly on their collective sleeves. We won't say indie or alt-country. We won't declare them breezy singer/so...
Carrying Lightning
“Let’s not give away what all the songs are about,” requests Amanda Shires via email — shortly after an hour-long interview discussing exactly that. “I think I prefer for the listener to ...
Raised in the "live music capital of the world," nineteen-year-old Ariel Abshire has always been surrounded by great music and the people who make it. She started singing classic hardcore country at honky tonks and danc...
BORIS McCUTCHEON
Boris McCutcheon lives off the grid in northern New Mexico, on the High Road to Taos, writing when he can catch a break from pruning fruit trees, chopping cords of wood, and managing the local acequia...
Brian Pounds' voice is the perfect aphrodisiac. It is effortlessly smooth, endearingly honest, and layered with a bite of soul that leaves you breathless. His ability to vividly shape words, and the intensity of his voic...
Buxton, who Esquire.com recently called one of “2012 Artists to Watch,” are currently touring behind their New West Records debut album Nothing Here Seems Strange. Buxton’s fusion of lovely harmonies, jarring explo...
Love and family have always been sources of inspiration for critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/musician Carrie Rodriguez, but never have they featured so prominently than on her brand new release Love & Circumstance,...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Love and family have always been sources of inspiration for critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/musician Carrie Rodriguez, but never have they featured so prominently than on her brand new release Love & Circumstance,...
After leading several popular ‘80s cult bands in and around his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, Chuck Mead landed on Nashville’s Lower Broadway where he co-founded the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet BR549. Th...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Colin has begun recording his 3rd full-length album and has the wind in his sails. With his 2010 release Goodnight Lane, Uncut Magazine called Colin "a surefire star in the making." Mojo described him as "a West Texan Ni...
A baptist minister's son hailing from Appleton, WI. Cory Chisel's debut album "Death Won't Send A Letter" was released in late 2009 on RCA Records. The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli and featured members of The Ra...
After almost ten years as a band and four albums to its credit, Cuff the Duke has made … a concept record. The Toronto roots rockers wouldn’t call it that (there are no suites about dragons here), but there it is, 10...
A Kentucky native now based in Brooklyn, singer-songwriter Dawn Landes released her third album "Sweetheart Rodeo" in 2010 on Cooking Vinyl Records. Uncut Magazine called her "one of the finest voices in modern Americana...
From the deep woods of North Carolina comes Delta Rae. With pure Carolina soul, a rich rootsy sound and four powerhouse lead vocalists, Delta Rae’s music is born for the live setting. Swells of gorgeous harmonies and i...
Hello all, I’m Erin McLaughlin and I am thrilled to be returning to SXSW this year for round two of all the action, the glory and of course, the music. If you didn’t meet me last year, we need to catch you up. I am a...
Name: Freedy Johnston
Birthplace: Larned, Kansas
Home: New York City; Madison, Wi.
Some facts:
- Freedy first came to SXSW twenty years ago to promote his Can You Fly album.
- Since then he has made five records...
2011 has been a large one for Futurebirds. In its third year as a band, the Athens-based outfit has released two well-received EPs, Futurebirds EP and Via Flamina; road-dogged the nation with acts such as Drive-By Trucke...
2011 has been a large one for Futurebirds. In its third year as a band, the Athens-based outfit has released two well-received EPs, Futurebirds EP and Via Flamina; road-dogged the nation with acts such as Drive-By Trucke...
One of roots music’s most fervent leaders, Texas greats, The Gourds will be showcasing their Vanguard Records debut, Old Mad Joy, on March 15th at Antones. Produced by Larry Campbell at the historic Levon Helm Studios ...
Green Corn Revival formed in the spring of 2009. Jared Deck (lead singer/guitar) enlisted longtime friends, Ryan Houck (lead guitars, steel guitar) Natalie Houck (lead singer, percussion), and Kenny Holloway (drums) to ...
"Head for the Hills has created a sound that is all at once organic, precise, timeless, and brand-new,” as reported by the Missoula Independent. The acclaimed Colorado quartet has been receiving nation-wide recognition...
Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital ...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital ...
Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital ...
Tipped by the NME as one of the 100 bands to check out in 2012 and recently signed to Xtra Mile Recordings (Against Me!, Frank Turner) Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun make their maiden voyage to the States for SXSW 2012.
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Jim White: The Facts
Jim White’s sixth studio album, Where It Hits You, will be released through Yep Roc Records on February 21, 2012.
Where It Hits You follows Jim's critically lauded 2010 side project, Sounds o...
Juan Cirerol is a multi-instrumentalist born in Mexicali, Baja California. He studied classic guitar since he was 13th in the UABC. He left the university in order to find his own personal sound. He already played in dif...
Juan Cirerol is a multi-instrumentalist born in Mexicali, Baja California. He studied classic guitar since he was 13th in the UABC. He left the university in order to find his own personal sound. He already played in dif...
On a rainy Nashville Thursday last October, Justin Townes Earle leapt onstage at the famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the 2011 Americana Music Award for Song of the Year. The triumphant evening capped a turbulent twelve...
On a rainy Nashville Thursday last October, Justin Townes Earle leapt onstage at the famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the 2011 Americana Music Award for Song of the Year. The triumphant evening capped a turbulent twelve...
When Lera Lynn takes the stage, there is an undeniable feeling that she is something different – something special. Her sultry voice has a way of wrapping around melodies, enveloping the listener in her lyrics, rife wi...
M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
“I can trace all my songs to a specific moment,” M. Ward told a New York Times writer in February of 2009, as he was about to release, Hold Time, his acclaimed third release for Merg...
M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
“I can trace all my songs to a specific moment,” M. Ward told a New York Times writer in February of 2009, as he was about to release, Hold Time, his acclaimed third release for Merg...
M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
“I can trace all my songs to a specific moment,” M. Ward told a New York Times writer in February of 2009, as he was about to release, Hold Time, his acclaimed third release for Merg...
Presented by: Davis McLarty Agency/Nine Mile Records
There's country. There's alt. country, and then there's Marvin Country. It's a magical place, way off the map, populated by back-porch philosophers, hobos, brokenhearted lovers and spacemen, and presided over by the man ...
Micky and the Motorcars, with their own band of Americana rock, bring an optimism and integrity a band only acquires when its been performing so long the only thing left to tell is the truth.
Eight years and five albums...
One glorious day some years back, a teenage high school dropout Nikki Lane (née Nicole Lane Frady) packed a trailer with her worldly possessions. With one hand firmly gripping a steering wheel and the other flipping the...
One glorious day some years back, a teenage high school dropout Nikki Lane (née Nicole Lane Frady) packed a trailer with her worldly possessions. With one hand firmly gripping a steering wheel and the other flipping the...
Punch Brothers:
Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who’s ...
Punch Brothers:
Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who’s ...
Punch Brothers:
Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who’s ...
Rock the Cause - Minnesota Remembers Vic Chesnutt Live with Special Guests Official SXSW Showcase.
Georgia's late songwriting hero Vic Chesnutt made a lot of friends in the Twin Cities music scene early in his career,...
Shakey Graves is being hailed as the best damn one man show in Austin. His set involves a hand made suitcase kick drum and feverish finger picking which follows in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Leo Kottke and Michae...
Sons of Bill is a five-piece rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia featuring brothers James, Sam and Abe Wilson, as well as Seth Green and Todd Wellons. In 2011, the band joined forces with fellow Virginian David Lowe...
In the year of 2011 five friends gathered out of mutual admiration to play music and get back to the basics of having fun dubbing themselves The South Austin Moonlighters. All stemming from successful Austin Texas bands...
I was actually inspired by my honeymoon. My new bride and I had very little money to spend on a post-wedding trip and I had coincidentally been asked by some friends in the band Bad Books to do a short tour in the Northe...
Loud, hairy, and unpredictable, Three Blind Wolves are four young Glaswegians delivering country rock with a razor sharp edge. Drawing influences from Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Led Zeppelin, the b...
Loud, hairy, and unpredictable, Three Blind Wolves are four young Glaswegians delivering country rock with a razor sharp edge. Drawing influences from Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Led Zeppelin, the b...
Union Specific began in the summer of 2008 in Sherman TX,
where singers/songwriters Tyler Wallace and Gregg Maher
attended Austin College, a small liberal arts university. The two
had long known of each other's son...
The Whiskey Daredevils are one of the planet's finest country punkabilly bands. Since 2004 when former members of The Cowslingers decided to continue playing their mashed up country/rockabilly/americana/punk sound, the ...
The Wild Feathers came together in 2010 in Nashville, TN. Jeff Sosnow an industry veteran knew all the band members personally and thought they would get along and complement each other. In the winter of 2010, they moved...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and ‘Bonnie’ P...
Brooklyn-based Americana/Alt-Country band Yarn’s sound owes as much to Gram Parsons and Earl Scruggs as to Jerry Garcia and Exile On Main Street-era Rolling Stones. Following in a fine tradition that includes forward t...
