Friday, March 6, 2026

Music

Brian HillsmanReview

Austin Punk Scene Takes an Eccentric Turn with Cowpunk Quartet Leche

The self-proclaimed “Lords of Shit City” have graced various Austin stages for nearly a decade.  With several regional US tours under their belt, the Austin four-piece, Leche has found themselves smack-dab in the middle of the modern Austin punk scene.

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Greg AckermanLiveReview

Live music review: Arctic Monkeys taped Austin City Limits TV episode Saturday

Austin City Limits, the long-running PBS series,  continued its 44th season with the debut of the UK’s Arctic Monkeys on the program. The popular alternative rock band (who headlined at Austin City Limits Festival over the weekend) taped the episode Saturday evening at the Moody Theatre at ACL Live. The relatively intimate space gave fans the opportunity to see the British rockers up close, behind the cameras of the ACL TV crew. 

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AlbumGreg AckermanMusic VideoReview

Album review: The Bright Light Social Hour released first new music in three years Friday

After covering The Bright Light Social Hour for nearly a decade, since their debut album The Bright Light Social Hour dropped, I can honestly say I couldn’t be more excited for the group. If you clicked the link, you saw tens of thousands of plays their debut has on Soundcloud which isn’t even the most popular streaming platform they’re found on. The band was hot. You couldn’t turn on KUT (KUTX didn’t exist yet) without hearing one of the band’s singles.

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Greg AckermanPhotosReview

Live music review: Jared Leto’s Thirty Seconds To Mars landed at COTA Saturday

Saturday actor and musician Jared Leto’s band Thirty Seconds To Mars landed at the Circuit of the Americas’ Austin 360 Amphitheater (COTA) with Walk The Moon. K. Flay and Welshly Arms opened the performance. One might be skeptical about an Academy-award winning actor making popular music but Leto has been at it 16 years selling over 15 million records in the process.

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Greg AckermanReview

Live music review: Brit Floyd exceeded expectations at ACL Live last week

Tribute bands are a strange phenomena. Of course we love Pink Floyd. Their pioneering psych-rock musical style pairs well with our own home-bred original Cosmic Cowboy, Roxy Erickson. But a group of talented musicians recreating Floyd’s Division Bell tour like Brit Floyd? Despite the success of the group which tours worldwide, we had our doubts about how the show would play out. In retrospect, our hesitation was unwarranted. The show was a smashing success. The music, lights and visuals were spectacular. As were the musicians who performed. If you have the chance to catch this production when it rolls through your town, you should. It’s worth the ticket price. 

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AlbumGreg AckermanReview

Album review: Jesse Dayton drops outstanding new record this Friday

Austin’s Jesse Dayton is much like his influences Waylon, Willie and even The Clash and X. The music the Texas musician makes perfectly reflects those disparate styles and more. As an artist, Dayton refuses to be pigeon-holed into a particular genre. Listening to the tracks on his latest, “The Outsider” highlights the point that the singer, songwriter and guitarist is talented at presenting music regardless of genre, East Texas Blues, punk, rock, acoustic songwriter ballads in the Texas tradition all make an appearance on this outstanding new record. 

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InterviewsMike Cosmic

The Cover Letter Single Release and Interview

If you have not had the opportunity to check out Austin’s  high energy indie- folk band, The Cover Letter  you are in luck!  You can catch them at their single release show today (May 18th)  at Mohawk.   The Cover Letter’s members Jacob Shipman,  Jarrod Nall,  Evan Runyon,  Angie Vanegas, Fletcher Inzer,  and Patrick Barrow  click together musically in a special way.

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AlbumGreg AckermanReview

Exclusive Album premiere: Chill Russell to drop rocking debut, host release party at Mohawk Friday

  Austin rockers Chill Russell are set to drop a true rock n roll debut album Friday with a release

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