Don’t call Full Service a reggae band. Or a metal band, or a surf-rock outfit. In fact, trying to assign the rockers a specific genre is futile. Even the guys in the band don’t like to classify themselves as any specific type of music.
Armed with an arsenal of comical costumes, Mardi Wareham, the proprietor of “Singing Telegrams of Austin,” is spending her Valentine’s Day traveling all over the city.
David Kovacs’ mother tongue is Hungarian, but he’s also proficient in German, Spanish and French. “This is going to be my first interview in English,” he said as he set down his violin.
Clad in lightwash jeans, boots, button-down shirts and moppy curls that look tousled in an effortless sort of way, Scorpion Child gives off an air of regularity and unrehearsed sincerity.
In a cozy apartment complex just east of the iconic stretch of South Congress Avenue, all seven of local pop-rock heroes Driver Friendly are packed into the living room of one of the units.
UT music professor Sophia Gilmson releases a recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations for both piano and harpsichord, pioneering a concept of performing a piece back-to-back on two different instruments.
Professors at UT try to pinpoint the therapeutic powers of music. Throughout history, it has been used as a means to heal clients with everything from emotional problems to neurological diseases.
Josh Groban's signatre corny style in full effect in All That Echoes, Frightened Rabbit makes mark with Pedestrian Verse, Joe Budden still struggling to find own niche in the rap game.
