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The Gap Band at Juneteenth, Feels So Gay, and more recommended shows

The Austin-based indie-skiffle-folk songwriter shared this new single today ahead of 'Multiverse Tirade', out next weekend.

This week's live music options run the gamut from rock en español to jazz to honky tonk — and cover plenty of ground in between.

New Jazz Releases: Will Bernard – Ancient Grains (PosiTone): “Will Bernard offers up a hearty meal of tastes and styles from his own harvest of ”Ancient Grains” on his third release for Posi-Tone. With a modern jazz sensibility and elegantly lyrical compositional focus, the crux of this brilliantly evocative musical program remains focused upon the fingers and strings of the expressive guitarist himself. Meanwhile the masterful contributions of B-3 organist extraordinaire Sam Yahel and...

Heartless Bastards and the Tender Things soundtrack return

  Today, Austin-based musician Danny Golden announced an April 23rd release date for his new EP Changes. The announcement comes with the first single “I Can’t Change” — Under The Radar praised the song’s “inviting melodies and plainspoken lyrical approach” along with its “towering layers of shoegaze guitars and crashing percussion.” Listen to “I Can’t Change” here: https://youtu.be/__fGJIsSdjQ Changes follows Golden’s 2018 full-length Old Love. “It’s been over t...

Universal Music Canada “Slow-burning ambient Americana that manages to captivate while avoiding the histrionics of its post-rock forebears.”—The New Yorker “...a sound that evokes imagery of brilliant landscapes and quiet pastoral scenes. Their sweeping instrumentals and sporadic yet haunting vocals draw influence from both classical music and experimental acoustic folk.”—NPR “Rich textures push it past the point of background music, and its gorgeous melodies serve as anch...

One deep sleeper of 2020: Novembers Brand New by Honey Made. Chances are the eight-foot scrim in the front window of Waterloo Records didnt register thanks to the graham cracker album art – and maybe just maybe a global pandemic. Inside the CD, producer (Steve Berlin of Los Lobos), engineer (Jim Vollentine), and studio (Texas Treefort) all make the credits roll, yet zero mention appears of the actual group turning soul-infused retro nectar into viscous ear candy. Online, however, behold a no...