Driving west on I-10 from Austin, the desert creeps up on you, gradually revealing itself mile after mile after mile until the entire landscape has changed. The winding rivers, lazy lakes, scrubby trees and colorful flowers of the Texas Hill […]
It’d be pretty easy to resent these carpetbagging Brits on grounds of blatant musical mimicry. The spirits of the Posies’ Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow loom large in the harmonies of “I Know Without Asking”, while the power-pop punch of […]
“Some gotta wiiiiiin, some gotta loooooose…” When Danny O’Keefe stretches out those words in the classic chorus to his 1972 hit “Goodtime Charlie’s Got The Blues”, it can settle a chattery barroom to a reverent hush, his soaring tenor floating […]
Change is in the air. In early September we gathered in Seattle to celebrate our fifth anniversary, hearing good tunes and toasting good times and remembering all it has taken to get where we are (wherever that is). Then it […]
Our story begins one sweltering night in the dog days of summer in 1991, at the Hole in the Wall, a dive on The Drag (a.k.a. Guadalupe Street) in Austin where a million stories have begun over the years. I’m […]
Five years, 28 issues, 2,824 pages. It’s far too much to revisit in one sitting with any sense of completion, and entirely impossible to encapsulate on a single page. What follows, then, are simply a few things that made us […]
An outgrowth of the annual St. Louis gathering Twangfest, itself an outgrowth of the internet discussion list Postcard2, this series of compilation discs continues with a collection of 17 tracks taken from musicians associated with the P2 crowd in one […]
Oftentimes the early singles are forgotten, written off as mere training-wheels motions before a band hit its stride and began to glide. On the other hand, art is not like riding a bicycle, nor any other practice-makes-perfect exercise: Sometimes inspiration […]
From her handful of more prominent moments as violinist and backing vocalist in Whiskeytown, one might have surmised what avenues Caitlin Cary might pursue in her own work. Perhaps sassy, twangy country, as on “Matrimony” from the band’s first album; […]
I first got to know Kim Webber through a notorious AOL message board which had a little something to do with the name we chose for this magazine. Kim was part of a small contingent from Knoxville who had stumbled […]
