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Local musician Ashleigh Stone graced the town with her late-night, jazzy performance Tuesday at Triple Crown.
Stone and her band, Our Favorite Colors, successfully filled the venue with deep soul and rich energy.
The band consists of Stone on keys and vocals, Jason Wilkinson on drums, Kevin Colis on guitar and Ricardo Martinez on a variety on
instruments including additional keys, clarinet and saxophone.
Kent Finlay’s Cheatham Street Warehouse, built in 1974, is still booming after 35 years of honky-tonk bliss. The warehouse proved its ability to continue drawing in large crowds of western clad, country music lovers for Wade Bowen’s Tuesday night performance.
The show kicked off with The Wes Nickson Band from Austin. The band was mostly Texas country with a hint of traditional southern rock.
They play shows almost every other night, mostly around Driftwood and New Braunfels at Tavern on the Gruene.
The Bastard Boys Blues Band are a rowdy group of five 20-something-year-old men on a mission to cure their troubles by belting out the blues with a bottle of Jim Beam at their side.
The Bastard Boys are guitarist and lead vocalist Joe Wozny, guitarist Adam Brisbin, bassist Justin Filor, keyboardist Jamie Ringleholm and drummer Brian Dunn.
According to their Web site, the band’s main influences respectively include whiskey, women, trains and Parliament Lights.
Tuesday nights at Tantra Coffeehouse are home to a trio of young jazz musicians and a refreshingly diverse crowd eager to watch.
Albanie Falletta and Django Porter alternate between lead and rhythm on their acoustic-electric guitars while Jesse Dalton slaps a stand-up bass.
The band, mostly instrumental, started with a classic swing, big-band feel, and as I looked around the yard, no empty seats could be found.
People poured in as soon as the music began.
Local music junkies from the area, along with those looking for a good time, found themselves at Bar One-41 Saturday night for the highly anticipated and overly promoted 3D light show.
The bar opened its doors at 8 p.m., bringing the space above Barfish back to life by filling it with a source of entertainment and, subsequently, a crowd. Rest in peace, Lucy’s.
The show kicked off with plunging, hardcore sounds from Austin-based band, Newlywed, which was followed by Zlam Dunk, a San Marcos favorite.
Many local bands can trace their beginnings back to shows through the Texas Hill Country, from Austin to San Antonio and small towns around and in between.
Most of the bands are purely country or rock. Not many can provide a sound so diverse as to engage all different types of genres while producing an energetic yet soulful sound — excluding the Grant Ewing Band.
The band is lead singer and guitarist Grant Ewing, lead guitarist Hunter St. Marie, drummer Jake Sutton, pianist and organist Nathaniel Klugman and bassist Colin Colby.
One particular show on KTSW brings something familiar, yet new, to “the other side of radio.”
Nick Kukowski, electronic media senior, hosts a show called “‘Illbilly Ruckus,” which airs every Friday night from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. Those who tune in would hear the upbeat, country “jangle” of past and present rockabilly artists.
Texas State’s radio station, KTSW, has organized and conducted its own free promotional music festival for the past two years. The festival has been dubbed the name “MR.Fest,” which stands for My Radio Fest.
MR.Fest debuted in April 2008 at Lucy’s, now Bar One-41. Alternative rock group Sputnik Monroe came all the way from Los Angeles to headline the act, but before their set, the audience at Lucy’s eagerly witnessed music by Petals, Funkotron, Spank and Three Leaf. The festival proved to be a success, which persuaded KTSW to try to make this an annual event.
Jack White, most prominently known as the front man of Detroit-based rock duo, The White Stripes, has embarked on a myriad of different musical collaborations over the past few years.
White’s latest endeavor is rumored to be a fusion of his own rock genius with a well-known band called The Rolling Stones. Legendary guitarist and songwriter Keith Richards announced in Rolling Stone magazine that White is scheduled to make an appearance on the band’s upcoming LP, which they will begin recording next year.
The group of 20-something, small-town, big-dreamer musicians is armed and ready with a boxy, hot rod DeVille, an array of overdrive and effects pedals and a tough-as-nails will to turn heads and change lives.
Heroine Stereo is Josh Homme meets a younger, more hostile version of Patti Smith by unleashing a traditionally rough sound with a new technique.
