Allison Kirk Music Journalist The Texas Women’s Songwriters Festival in Lockart kicked off its 2nd year this September (19-21). Founded in 2024 by Mandy Rowden, as a way to bring more awareness to the large group of women songwriters from Texas. The festival consists of luncheons, live song-swap events with 50+ upcoming women writers performing around the Lockhart square, and headliner shows. This festival was a great time and […]
By Christian Villarreal Music Journalist Rock music has gone through many changes and has adopted several subgenres since its creation, but rock music itself has been relatively unchanged. Cleopatrick has set their minds to breaking the mold surrounding rock music and is renovating the rock genre altogether with their debut album Bummer. Fuzzy guitar riffs and catchy beats are the least that the Canadian Rock-duo Cleopatrick can do. The band released […]
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 her most acclaimed song "Because the Night" (co-written with Bruce Springsteen), we are given clear example of this venture. “Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe / Love is […]
By Amberly Russell Community Relations Director Amberly Russell interviewed Dustin Welch with Soldier Songs and Voices, a nonprofit organization that provides free instruments and music lessons to Armed Forces Veterans in San Marcos and throughout the nation. The songwriting group meets every Monday at Cheatham Street Warehouse from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is open to all military veterans. All you have to do is show up.
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