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Team This Song’s SXSW Wrap-Up Mar 22, 2017

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Team This Song is still processing SXSW, and we’ve decided to process with you. Listen as the interviewers, editors, audio engineers and interns who make this show happen bring you their favorite sparkly festival moments from artists like Lizzo, Spoon, OJR, Temples, Cool Kids, Otis the Destroyer and 6lack. Listen to KUTX On Air Host Jody Denberg’s SXSW Wrap Up with Rolling Stone’s David Frick…

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SXSW This Song Artist Spotlight Mar 17, 2017

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There are a lot of amazing things about being in the music industry here in Austin, Texas; getting to interview fantastic artists that live here and some that are just passing through is great, but seeing them all in one place for a week of music-making magic (and madness) has got to be one of the best. Here’s a list of our This Song artists that played 2017 SXSW official,so even if you can’t see…

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This Song: Hard Proof Mar 14, 2017

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Austin’s Hardproof is extra special to us at Team This Song. Their song “Mahout” begins and ends every episode of our podcast so we consider them part of the family. They have just released their new record “Stinger” on Modern Outsider Records and when they came to KUTX to talk with Elizabeth about it, band members Joe Woullard, Stephen Bidwell and Jason Frey described the magic they found in the…

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This Song: Andrew W.K. // The Star Spangled Banner Mar 08, 2017

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Professional Partier Andrew W.K. explores one of the most deeply embedded songs in American culture — The Star Spangled Banner. As he breaks down how this lyrically archaic a technically difficult song works as a stirring National Anthem, you may realize that you have your own connection to the song. We want to hear YOUR stories about the national anthem! Did you see it, did you sing it…

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This Song: Rhett Miller of Old 97s Mar 01, 2017

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Rhett Miller, lead singer and songwriter of Old 97’s, explains how seeing a Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer named Phranc sing Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” helped him realize how music connects and saves us all. Check out Old 97’s new record Graveyard Whistling on iTunes Watch Old 97’s Studio 1A Performance Check out Old 97’s Tour Dates Watch Old 97’s on VuHaus Check…

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This Song: Molly Burch Feb 22, 2017

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Molly Burch always knew she wanted to sing, but she just needed to find the right song. Hear how Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” has helped her find her way as a singer from the first time she heard it in middle school. Check out Molly Burch’s Tour Dates. Listen to Molly Burch’s MyKUTX set Check out Molly Burch’s Artist of the Month Page Subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher to get the…

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This Song: Local Natives Feb 15, 2017

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Local Natives Kelcey Ayer and Nik Ewing have been thinking a lot about how to balance darkness and light, art and activism. Listen as Kelcey describes how Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara” is a “sad song that makes you feel good,” and why he needs those kind of songs in his life. Then Nik Ewing explores why he’s come to appreciate Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in the past year, and how that song inspires…

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This Song: Andrew Bird Feb 01, 2017

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Andrew Bird knew “For The Sake Of The Song” by Townes Van Zandt already, but when he re- listened to it recently he realized how much he related to the lyrics on a personal level. His conversation with Elizabeth touches on how much the song affected him, how it inspired him to write in a less encrypted manner and some of the downfalls of exposing his most intimate experiences in his work.

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This Song: Raury Jan 25, 2017

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Occasionally in the course of a lifetime we experience songs that open our lives, change our lives and sometimes even save our lives. Raury, a singer and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between Folk, soul, r & b, hip-hop and pop, describes to Elizabeth how, as a young teenager, his hearing “My World” by Kid Cudi did all that for him. The young artist then sends his own message of…

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This Song: Tomar and the FCs Jan 18, 2017

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Singer Tomar Williams from the Austin soul band Tomar and the FC’s talk about how singing Michael Jackson’s “Ben”as a kid started him on a lifelong musical path. The the FC’s drummer Paul Kresowik explains how Al Jackson Jr’s drumming on Sam and Dave’s “Soul Man,” helped him understand what soul drumming was all about. Subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher to get the new episodes of This Song…

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