“Tom Petty, Springsteen, Neil Young, and Pearl Jam…these are the people I look to,” says Chris Carrabba, the creative force behind Dashboard Confessional. “They do what they want and follow their hearts, going wherever their music is taking them.” Dashboard Confessional is led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Carrabba from Boca Raton, Florida. He was ...
Kelly Willis is a name in country music that doesn’t gain much attention or recognition. Central Texas residents may have seen her in car dealer Henna Chevrolet commercials singing the jingle and loading her kids into an SUV. She and her husband, also a country singer, are also featured in an allergy medication commercial. She ...
Every March, thousands of people descend upon Austin for SXSW. In the fall, it is The Austin City Limits Music Festival and then there are events and activities every other day of the year. It is non stop. The internet bursts with reports of having the most wonderful time in Austin at such and such ...
The Lone Star state is known for having some of the best music festivals in the nation, satisfying a wide variety of tastes, certainly not limited to country music. From blues to country, heavy metal, punk, indie rock to reggae, you’ll find it all in Texas. Here is a look at the top five music ...
Teenybopper pop star or credible guitar hero? Those seem to be the two areas that people place John Mayer when they discuss his merits as a musician. Mayer burst on to the national scene in 2001 with his major label debut ‘Room For Squares.’ The album gained serious momentum as Mayer made the rounds on ...
Austin, as most know, is the Capitol of Texas. It has seen a lot of rowdy history and gone through quite a bit of turmoil. Heavily influenced by the Spanish, it was also a center for the cattle industry and later oil interests. As the Capitol of the state, it drew politicians and wheeler-dealers. With ...
I am very proud to say that I live in Austin, Texas. The city was goodly enough to accept me as a transplant back in 2006. I’ve since forged a challenging, but mostly interesting, relationship with the city. Austin is, above all, a transformative city. It engages you with a pacing diversity that you can’t ...
One of the first things I wanted to do when I moved to Austin, Texas was attend an Austin City Limits evening concert on the Town Lake hillside above the city while it was being taped for the television broadcast on PBS. I wanted to lye on a blanket under the stars, listen to legendary ...
Chicago has the blues, New York has jazz, Nashville has country, and LA rocks…and Austin? Austin has it all! So famous is Austin for its music scene that it has come to be known as “the live music capital of the world.” How Austin Got Its Slogan Although its musical heritage dates back to frontier ...
