Sadie Fine blends indie pop and dream pop into something that feels both intimate and cinematic with “Just Drive.” The production is soft and atmospheric, creating a late-night feeling that perfectly matches the song’s emotional weight. Lyrically, it captures the need to escape your own thoughts for a while — not necessarily to find answers, but simply to keep moving. Her vocals feel understated and vulnerable, which makes the song hit even harder. It’s the kind of track that feels made for quie...
May 27, 2026•3 min
Self love and Afro-carribean beats – what else could you want from a summer anthem? Sierra Velez, a newcomer to the Austin scene originally from New York, is dedicated to transport listeners to a tropical getaway. This song is sure to make you feel much closer to the ocean rather than the rivers and lakes that we’re used to. The post Sierra Velez: “Lovin’ On Me” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
May 26, 2026•3 min
Primo the Alien and CHROMETONGUE bring the cool girl energy on their new release “Cool Girl” — a perfect mix of polished and slightly chaotic. Huge synths, slick production, and the kind of energy that makes you want to drive a little too fast at night. It feels icy while still being fun, and every part of it sounds intentional. This is the type of track that was made to be played loud. The post CHROMETONGUE ft. Primo the Alien: “Cool Girl” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
May 20, 2026•3 min
Many horror stories become our favorite laughbale memories thanks to the gift of time, and Austin alt-rock pop group BOO85 (boo-eighty-five) articulate this well in their new single “Funny Story,” where the mantra is “sit with it, laugh at it, relinquish it.” Emphasized with layered, catchy pop-rock hooks, Go-Go’s -like vocals and harmonies and enough cheekiness to rectify bucal-fat-removal regret, this one has “song of the summer” potential for those newly healed or needing that “aha” moment to...
May 19, 2026•5 min
Picture this: you’re crusing around Barton Springs listening to your favorite radio station wink wink , and the fuzzy pulse and twinkly synth sparkles of Muse’s “Starlight” flood your car. Suddenly, inspiration strikes. So goes the story for Emilie Basez, one-half of Austin world-folk duo Her Mana. Like a long-term relationship response to the original’s falling in love energy, this beautifully transformed version is down tempo with space to breathe, trading anthemic for the power of the duo’s d...
May 15, 2026•3 min
Austin-based Lani Thomison, aka Street Peach, is fresh off an Ari Lennox after-show at Stubbs and returning to Song of the Day with her latest single, Cloud 12. Produced by Chris Beale of Magna Carta, this song muses on the soaring highs of a romantic relationship in her unique alt-R&B style. With a warm guitar and a hypnotic drum pattern, “Cloud 12” is sure to make you feel like a celestial being. The post Street Peach: “Cloud 12” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
May 12, 2026•4 min
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Danny Malone. Following a bit of a hibernation period, the Austin-based singer-songwriter (and former Sonic Guild grant recipient) had a prolific songwriting year in 2025, penning over 60 songs. As he puts it, his inspiration was “a long battle between my ego and my spirit, and the spirit finally started to win again.” “Leaves” is a rumination taking us back to Malone’s teenage years, reflecting on the now rose-tinted messiness and “what could have been”...
May 11, 2026•4 min
Dark, broody, and effusing forest witch energy, LA’s Lola Bates lays it all out on the table in her debut album Love and Power . A deeply intricate and intimate exploration of keeping the scales of being and sharing yourself in balance, Bates strikes piano keys like plucking heart strings, emphasized by her lush vocal harmonies to craft something passionate and cinematic, masterfully balancing fresh and timeless. Love and Power is out today. The post Lola Bates: “Madonna Gold” appeared first on ...
May 08, 2026•4 min
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May 06, 2026•5 min
Mexico City’s Son Rompe Pera , widely considered to be part of the impetus behind the cumbia-punk movement, have spread that gospel across 20 countries since 2019 (including a set at our SXSW Scholz Garten show in 2023 and a stop by Studio 1A last year). The group is currently on tour (their show last weekend at Brushy Street Commons was chingón as all get out) teasing songs from their upcoming album out later this summer, produced here in Austin at Adrian Quesada’s Electric Deluxe Studios. The ...
May 04, 2026•3 min
KUTX’s Artist of the Month Program is powered by Austin FC Raised in Mexico and newly transplanted to Austin, brothers Ricardo and Christian Rodríguez craft songs that feel like sonic mirages—equal parts groove, grit, and atmosphere. Their music lives at the intersection of distortion and introspection, where hypnotic riffs, heavy rhythms, and emotionally charged melodies build immersive landscapes that demand to be felt as much as heard. At the core of Gran Moreno is a deep commitment to storyt...
Apr 29, 2026•4 min
Whether you’re on a dopamine detox or you’re getting your dopamine hit from visiting this website right now, Austin-based Sweet Limb’s latest single is for you. Over a sultry instrumental with twinkling accents and a thudding 808, Sweet Limb founder Chris Robinson offers to help you boost your dopamine – wink, wink. Sweet Limb releases their sophomore LP, Axis, on Friday, May 1. To celebrate, they’ll be performing at their album release party at Batch Beer and Kolaches off Manor Road on Friday a...
Apr 28, 2026•3 min
It’s fuzzy, it’s doomy, and it’s relentless. The new single from Austin “doom-woppers” Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol keeps in stride with the group’s brand of metal-meets-melodic hard rock, giving you a two-and-a-half-minute riff bomb of what’s in store for their upcoming album Ca$h Grab , out later this year. The band is out headlining a packed six-week tour before returning to Austin for Big Dumb Fest IV on Saturday, May 30th at Mohawk. This year’s line-up includes American Sharks, Palefade,...
Apr 27, 2026•2 min
The new single from Ausitn power-pop outfit Mean Jolene has it all: beautifully harmonized gang vocals with a 1960’s shimmer, 90’s female rock guitar hooks and grit, and an earnest look at the double-edged sword of escapism: a necessity for self-preservation pocked with a compulsion towards innocent complacency. And there’s something about the energy of this song that gives it a mermaid-like quality; it’s hard to articulate, but easy to feel. Mean Jolene has a single release show for “Private Pl...
Apr 24, 2026•3 min
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Apr 22, 2026•3 min
Cumbia meets Afro-indigenous rhythms in this one-off from Mexican-American artist and activist Xiuhtezcatl and duo Reyna Tropical. Debuted last month at Vive Latino, one of Latin America’s biggest music festivals, the song “bridges the worlds of Indigenous wisdom, diaspora, community, Queer Love and Afro Mexico and the unity and pathways that these bridges are establishing and promoting.” “Camino” is out now. The post Reyna Tropical & Xiuhtezcatl: “Camino” appeared first on KUT & KUTX St...
Apr 21, 2026•3 min
Austin’s Club Coma are back, this time with more tricks in their bag and an added touch of fuzzy sweetness, adding Lani Thomison AKA Street Peach to their club mix. The new, absolute banger “You Can Take My Spirit” sees the quartet extending the fazers into experimental territory, adding a little crunch to the beat, and maneuvering towards a sound you want to hear spilling out of the clubs on W 4th Street. Walk away from Slack and Outlook and give yourself a midday, full volume dance break. The ...
Apr 17, 2026•3 min
Billie Marten is an English singer-songwriter known for her delicate folk sound, warm finger-picked guitar, and quietly powerful songwriting. In 2025 she released her fifth studio album, Dog Eared, on Fiction Records, expanding her signature folk style with richer arrangements. Marten’s music blends elements of folk, indie, and jazz-tinged pop, creating an intimate and timeless atmosphere. She stopped by Studio 1A during her recent tour stop in Austin with cozy, intimate acoustic set. The post B...
Apr 16, 2026•3 min
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Apr 15, 2026•4 min
Have you ever needed a dance break in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon? Today’s Song of the Day, “Floor Siren,” transports listeners to the dance floor no matter what day or time it is. New York-based artist I’MMORTAL builds an experimental, deconstructed club sound – similar to contemporaries such as COBRAH and Shygirl – to create a hypnotic dance tune to get you moving no matter where you are or what you’re doing. The post I’MMORTAL: “Floor Siren” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- P...
Apr 14, 2026•3 min
Born and raised in Austin and now based in L.A. (after a stint in Brooklyn), Eyelid Kid is back with more of that smooth, bedroom pop bop action. Produced by Flora and Fawna’s Mason Ables, “What Happened” is cozy and laid back with a midtempo pulse of drum machine momentum and affixed with lots of synthy shimmer that culminates into an atmospheric, Postal Service-like interlude. Once again, Paul Grant gives us another song perfect for your “daily, going about life” soundtrack and especially perf...
Apr 13, 2026•4 min
Formed in 2010, Ratboys began as a humble duo by Notre Dame Freshman Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan. By 2017, they’d become a fully-fledged four-piece, relocated to Chicago, and were opening for acts like Soccer Mommy and Diet Cig with heaps of critical praise to line their nest (I assume all ratboys build little nests for themselves . My ratboy husband certainly does) . Jump to today, and the band is headlining their own full US tour in support of their sixth album Singin’ To An Empty Chair . The...
Apr 09, 2026•5 min
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Apr 08, 2026•4 min
Kerrville, TX native Jake Ames grew-up saturated in the local folk scene, garnering influence from his local DJ father and the town’s famous annual folk festival. Notions of these folk and psych influences flow through his own music, in his solo sets and his band The Stacks . Ames has a Tuesday night residency at the Hole In the Wall stacked with solo sets from some of the city’s finest. This upcoming Tuesday, he’s joined by Being Dead’s Cody Dosier, Gus Baldwin, and David Rawlinson, another mem...
Apr 03, 2026•5 min
On-and-off again metal-punk trio American Sharks are back once again with another slew of tracks that might be considered abrasive if they weren’t also so darn catchy. They’re about to embark on a full US tour with Austin power group Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol in support of the Sharks’ new album Not Dead Yet , their first in six years. On the upcoming album, they’ve brought in a slew of guest soloists to augment and punctuate their raw power and scuzz-leaden bite including GWAR’s Mike Derks...
Apr 02, 2026•2 min
“Flight” by Jess Helios and The Crew began as a song about revolution, but grew into something more personal, tapping into inner truth and rising to a higher state of mind. It offers a glimpse into their unreleased album Apollo 95 , a cinematic, genre-blending journey through grief, love, and the full spectrum of human emotion, where every track brings something different. After debuting the project live and taking it across Texas, they return to Austin on April 9th at Hotel Vegas. The post Jess...
Apr 01, 2026•4 min
After spending 2025 rising from humble five-piece to a staple of the Central Texas bluegrass scene, Austin’s Valley Flower are back with the new single “Mountain Don’t Care,” a song true to their special blend of folk, bluegrass, and country. A bit more traditional than last year’s, “Run Buddy,” “Mountain Don’t Care,” a brooding track postualting on the harrowing power of man vs. nature, sounds like an award-winning theme song for a generational family drama set in the Cumberland Gap where the s...
Mar 30, 2026•4 min
Bannaner Man was born in the Cavendish Islands in the rarely explored Citric Sea. After splitting for Corpus Christi, he found himself in Austin, busking on 6th Street before playing bass for Austin notables Magna Carda and Los Coast. After becoming a Dad, Bananner Man took pity on put-upon parents forced to listen to emetic, saccharine songs made to delight children and inch parents towards the nearest cliff. The result is akin to The Bug Club collabing on early Gorillaz songs: lyrics that are ...
Mar 27, 2026•3 min
Pianist and singer Lene moved to Austin back in 2023, already having seen musical success in Europe: having been a contestant on X Factor: Italia and performing at festivals in Italy and Portugal. She left Italy for love, but a move across the world leads to a shift in identity, and her lush song “I Wanna Be Your Lover” “reflects that mix of excitement and displacement, where you’re building something new while still feeling tied to where you came from. The result is smooth, sultry, a little vin...
Mar 26, 2026•3 min
There’s something about every song by Austin’s Dorio that’s just sweet, sticky, and timeless. It simultaneously takes me to a certain sunny side of the 90’s; my old, cozy, West Campus apartment; and some of the best new music I’ve been listening to all year. It’s also something none of us around here can stop listening to. The soft, bubbly melodies get punctuated with equally soft and bouncy vocals, all wrapped-up in a lo-fi blanket to give it that “anywhere, anytime” feeling. Dorio kicks off Ro...
Mar 24, 2026•4 min
