Actress Issa Rae among 2025 SXSW keynote speakers
Actress, writer, producer and director Issa Rae is among those named keynote speakers at the 2025 South by Southwest ...
Here's how can you support Black-owned businesses in Austin this Black History Month
Discover a list of Black-owned businesses in Austin, from tour companies to boutiques. Celebrate Black excellence and shop local this February.
The Pitch5d
Zhou B Art Center to celebrate history of Black rock ‘n’ roll with ‘Rock is Black’ concert
Rock is Black aims to celebrate and reclaim the Black roots that shaped rock music with an all-Black artist lineup.
Jelly Roll morphed Phoenix Open Birds Nest into a honky-tonk: 'Healing together, baby'
Jelly Roll was joined by MGK (Machine Gun Kelly) at a Phoenix Open Birds Nest concert that offset songs like "Save Me" and ...
Susan Holmes McKagan’s Radio Show, The Clash And A Suspicious Mole
In Part 4 of this series with Susan Holmes McKagan, we have fun. What’s her favorite Guns N’ Roses tune? Is she a fan of The ...
The Bangles, One of the Biggest All-Female Bands, Want to Reclaim Their Legacy
The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new ...
The Macomb Daily6d
Lake Orion teen releases first full album; more music fills the metro area
After about a year into the process, just bringing songs in the studio and stuff, we were like: ‘Wait — this is an album! It ...
How Black-owned businesses pushed out of Austin are thriving from diversity
Pflugerville 'overnight' became the most diverse city in Central Texas as Black-owned businesses forced out of Austin like ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
Houston Press1d
Los Lonely Boys Resurrect "Texican Rock and Roll"
The career of “Texican” rock and rollers Los Lonely Boys has been characterized by ups and downs, fits and starts, hills and valleys. It is perhaps fitting, then, that the band’s first album in over ...