By Lillian Jones Local Music Director On Friday, Oct. 13th, the DIY house venue known as Funny Shack, was transformed into the “Scary Shack” for a night of spooky, music-loving, flash-tattooing fun. The house adorned spiderwebs – real and fake – to set the tone for the night. Inside, you could find the three bands, Demure, Ritual and Ladyluck playing in the living room and the two tattoo artists, @florapokes […]
Join executive and local music directors Avery Viers and Lillian Jones as they speak with Window Shop, a San Marcos-based band made up of five Texas State University students, for KTSW FM 89.9's annual Back To School Broadcast. Local Show is sure to entertain with discussion encompassing everything from student life experiences to the rapidly expanding Central Texas music scene!
By Lillian Jones Local Music Director On Sunday, May 21st, Bluekeys Magazine presented their “Fresh Meat” event at Mohawk in Austin, giving a platform to newly developed bands. The lineup was a whiplash of genres ranging from shoegaze to hardcore punk/screamo from young and passionate artists. Friends, family and Austin locals sold out the event to support the up-and-coming bands. Dollhouse Luckily for me, I was able to score […]
By Lillian Jones Local Music Director As you celebrate the end of the semester, with the temperature rising and the bugs becoming more apparent, there’s only one question to ask yourself – who just made the song of the summer? Luckily for you, you won’t have to tap through your old high school SoundCloud rapper's Snapchat story to find the song of the summer because I have curated 10 songs […]
By Lillian Jones Local Music Journalist Recently, there has been a repeating trend of clothing brands popular to a niche side of TikTok collaborating with unexpecting artists. By “niche side of TikTok” I mean the side of the apps algorithm that mostly has to do with a specific style of trending fashion. Mostly these brands have a similar concept of graphic tees, pop culture references and being overpriced while targeting […]
By Lillian Jones Local Music Journalist On Friday, March 31st, up-and-coming local promoter Distortion Media presented their first-ever show at Lazy Daze coffee shop. After a tiring week, my friend and I decided to kick off the weekend by checking it out! Upon our arrival, the parking lot was quite full, foreshadowing an impressive turnout for the newly formed booking business. Making our way into the venue, we were greeted […]
By Lillian Jones Music Journalist Bluekeys Magazine is a teen led art magazine based in Austin, created by high school students Brooke Ellisor and Peyton Priest. The magazine encourages all things creative including music, cartoons, writing, films, sculptures, fashion, drawings and more. Last year, the publication had their first release party for the third issue where The Point, Sub-T and Favor played at Antones; since then they’ve had a few […]
By Lillian Jones Local Music Journalist Having recently moved from Austin to San Marcos, I was excited for a change in the music scene. Texas State University loves to rave about the diversity of both the school and town and – while I can say that’s definitely apparent throughout San Marcos and on campus –- it tends to lack when it comes to the bands. A majority of the San […]
By Lillian Jones Music Journalist In anticipation for this month's Third Thursday, I set up an online interview with the Austin based band, Flight By Nothing. The five members of the band, Conner (lead vocals/guitar), Sam (drums), Pacco (guitar), Porfii (bass) and Huey (keyboard) set up our zoom call in their recording studio as we talked about experiences and passions when it comes to their music. This being my first […]
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