Texas Music

A San Antonio area band is plowing musical ground that has lain fallow for quite some time, and their latest album is like a window into another era. The…

Gaslighter is country trio The Chicks' (formerly Dixie Chicks) first new album in 14 years. In some ways, the world has finally caught up to the band since it fell out of public favor in 2003.

Long known as firebrands ready to take on abusers, country music and the president, the trio now known as The Chicks is finding – on its first album in 14 years – beauty in loss and lonesomeness.

Like everyone else, singer-songwriter Joe Ely has struggled to find a new normal in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Playing live is not possible, of…

From Texas Standard : Most Texans have likely experienced some hardship because of the pandemic. But it's hit some harder than others, including those...

From Texas Standard : The Go-Go's' debut album, Beauty and the Beat , climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart in 1981. A year later, their...

From Texas Standard : When social distancing and self-quarantine became common practice recently, all kinds of cultural phenomena emerged on social...

From Texas Standard : In the 1970s, Lubbock-born singer-songwriter and conceptual artist Terry Allen turned conventional country music on its head....

The country star thought it "would be a fun way to bring my old Christmas album back in the form of those old Christmas specials that we love."

Singer-songwriter and Tex-Mex fan Robert Earl Keen tackles questions about other guac-troversies.