Hippie chickrock roller Kacy Crowley took her time getting started In the early 90s she drifted from Los Angeles to New York filling hushed coffee houses with her high-energy intensely personal folk ballads Next she relocated to Austin TX and sang g…

The singing career of Lubbock TX native Kimmie Rhodes kicked off at the age of six when she first performed with her family gospel trio During her teens she began learning guitar and writing songs and in 1979 moved to Austin where she met her future …

b. Missouri, USA. Gravel voiced singer-songwriter Black pursued his muse the hard way, performing at low-key clubs and bars and holding down a variety of menial jobs while he built up his career. Raised in Missouri, Black was playing guitar and begin…

The New York-based White Hassle was formed in the mid-90s by indie rock veterans Marcellus Hall (b. Great Bluff, Minnesota, USA; guitar/vocals) and Dave Varenka (percussion/vocals), as a roots-orientated side-project to the college rock favourites Ra…

The Austin Texas hard rock band Pushmonkey debuted in 1994 with the independent release Maize a major hit on local radio a year later they released a three-song cassette highlighted by the track Caught My Mind which topped playlists in the Houston ar…

With the uprising of countless punk pop acts during the late 90s and early twenty-first century, a band like the Orange Peels is an anomaly. Although there are pop punk elements present in their songs, the band has more in common with classic 60s era…

Texas contemporary bluegrass trio the Greencards are aptly named After coming to the realization that their English and Australian homelands were not so conducive to their uniquely American style of music mandolin player Kim Warner fiddler Eamon McLo…

Downtempo duo Madison Park -- DeAnna and James Cool -- released some of their first tracks on the first two volumes of New Sound Theory a pair of various-artist compilations released in 2003 on their BasicLUX label Just after the release of their fir…

Austin Texas-based guitarist singer interpreter and songwriter Guy Forsyth is like a lot of Austin musicians He leads his own band as well as a group called the Asylum Street Spankers when hes not performing with either of these groups locally you ca…