Music

From Texas Standard:In January 2019, EEP, an eclectic shoegaze band, formed in El Paso, Texas. Less than two years later, they're receiving international…

Austin's music community rallied at City Hall on Wednesday to support a measure to bolster the ecosystem around live music in light of the pandemic.The…

This week, the Barracuda, in business on 611 East Seventh Street for nearly five years, announced it was closing its doors for good.Barracuda joins a…

Businesses across Austin were temporarily forced to close their doors at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to slow the spread of the…

From Texas Standard:Write, record, mix and master a full-length album in 30 days. That was the goal the Austin band White Denim set for itself in March.…

From Texas Standard:The Go-Go's' debut album, Beauty and the Beat, climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart in 1981. A year later, their second…

From Texas Standard:When social distancing and self-quarantine became common practice recently, all kinds of cultural phenomena emerged on social media.…

From Texas Standard:Santiago Jiménez Jr. has conjunto music in his blood.The son of legendary accordion player Don Santiago Jiménez, he has carried the…

You can enter starting next week by sending us a video of you playing an original song at a desk. If you win, you'll come play a Tiny Desk concert and tour the country with NPR Music.

Millions of Americans — mostly seniors — are living with Alzheimer's or other diseases that cause memory loss. But there's one part of the brain that…