By Eduardo Baz Music Journalist In Patti Smith’s self written memoir, “Just Kids,” Smith, poet/singer-songwriter, documents her journey into becoming a musician who consistently tries to combine expressive literature and poetry into her songwriting. In the first verse off of … Continue reading Literature in Music
By Eduardo Baz Music Journalist We are all aware that music can be a promising medium when it comes to expressing and evoking emotion. After all, music is highly addicting and something we simply can’t get enough of. The range … Continue reading The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist This year marked the 50th anniversary of D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary, Dont Look Back, released in 1967, which follows a young Bob Dylan–quickly ascending to the peak of his fame–on his spring 1965 tour of … Continue reading Bob Dylan, Dont Look Back, and 1965
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Emotion and music have been tightly knit together for centuries, since long before it was an art-form of the masses. In its current form, the musician funnels their inner feelings into their art for consumers … Continue reading The Music of Trauma
By Brooke Vega Music Journalist Bane’s World, formerly known as Shane Blanchard, is a 21 year old dream-pop/indie-jazz artist from Long Beach, California. With this artist being so young, he has the time to grow in this evolving genre he … Continue reading Hop into a Dream Boat with Bane’s World
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist How many of us speak no Spanish and yet love singing along to “Como La Flor”? Or have gone through a heavy K-pop phase and used the common catchphrase, “I have no idea what they’re … Continue reading Your Introduction to Francophone Music
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Here are KTSW, we consider our job to basically be turning you, the audience, on to new music. This is all well and good, but the fun is the process of discovering and coming to … Continue reading KTSW Spotlight: Shallow Rewards
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist It’s probably happened to you before. Through some means, you’ve come in contact with a song that lies outside the range of what you consider to be “good” music. However, the song draws some sort … Continue reading Guiltless Pleasure
By Troy Vita Music Director I got a chance to talk with Dent May about the dynamics of home recording, collabing with other artists and loving the city life alongside our Promotions Director, Andrea Torres. Check out the interview above … Continue reading KTSW Sit Down with Dent May
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Every music listener has a certain genre of music to which they pay gratitude as a catalyst for their life-long love of the art form. If you ask any fan of music who was born … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Nu-Metal
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist If you have ever been a fan of Weezer’s Blue Album or Pinkerton, you have probably spent some amount of time lamenting the band’s steep and ugly decline. I was very much the same, shaming Weezer … Continue reading Weezer’s Discography: Ranked
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Montana born director, David Lynch, has made a name for himself over the past three or so decades by pushing the visual limits of film, making use of abstract and often terrifying visuals in his … Continue reading Music in the Works of David Lynch
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist “Bomb the Music Industry! (and Action Action) (and Refused) (and Born Against) Are F**king Dead” reads the title of the sixth track on Bomb The Music Industry!’s 2006 album, To Leave or Die In Long … Continue reading Why You Should Listen To Bomb The Music Industry!
By Troy Vita Music Director Corusco is an indie-rock group from right here in Texas that I was lucky enough to catch on their way to play a show at Imagine Books and Records in San Antonio, Texas. We talked … Continue reading Corusco Talks About Life On The Road, Musical Influences, and More
By Nora Jones Music Journalist Artist: Deem Spencer Album: Sunflower EP Release Date: January 11, 2017 Website: https://soundcloud.com/deemspencer/sets/sunflower Deem Spencer, an emerging artist from Queens, is one of the more exciting rappers from New York. Similar to Frank Ocean or … Continue reading Meet the Newest Artist Blending Hip-Hop and Soulful R&B Deem Spencer
By Brooke Vega Music Journalist On this day, fifty-nine years ago, Prince Rogers Nelson was born. Though it has already been a little over a year, the Purple One was taken way too soon on April 21, 2016. It was … Continue reading Remembering Prince
By Brandon Deleon Blog Content Contributor On February 18th, 2016, CUMWAVE brought the noise down to San Marcos at Valentino’s Pizza. The band is a duo out of Austin, Texas, formed in 2014 by drummer Daniel Argall and guitarist/vocalist Lev Merka. … Continue reading Riding The Wave, With CUMWAVE
