Today is the birthday of Sippie Wallace. She would be 128 today. Beulah Thomas was born in Houston, Texas on November 1, 1898. She grew up in the Third Ward singing in the Shiloh Baptist Church, the same gospel current that ran through the Texas blues tradition from the beginning. She moved to New Orleans, […]
Today is the birthday of Lyle Lovett. He is 69 today. Lyle Pearce Lovett was born in Klein, Texas on November 1, 1957 — a small community north of Houston that was settled by his ancestor Adam Klein in the 1840s. Lovett grew up on his family's land. He studied journalism at Texas A&M and […]
Disney's "Moana" comes to life with a full orchestral score performed live to picture at The Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Tickets start at $178 for a family-friendly evening pairing the beloved animated film with a live symphony. "Moana," with music by Mark Mancina, […]
San Francisco garage-psych institution Osees, featuring former member Brigid Dawson, play the second of two Austin nights at Hotel Vegas on Sunday, November 1, 2026, with a 6:00 to 11:00 PM patio show. Tickets are $34, with Traps PS opening; the first night, October 31, is already sold out. Led by prolific songwriter and guitarist […]
String-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show play the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas on Sunday, November 1. Formed in the mid-1990s and eventually adopted by bluegrass legend Doc Watson, who discovered the band busking on a North Carolina street corner, Old Crow Medicine Show helped spark old-time string music's return to mainstream popularity in the […]
Morrissey brings his singular blend of wit and melancholy to 713 Music Hall in Houston on November 1, with the show starting at 8:20 PM. The Manchester-born singer first rose to fame as frontman of The Smiths in the 1980s, a band whose literate, mordantly funny lyrics and jangling guitar work made them one of […]
Today is the birthday of Delbert McClinton. He is 86 today. Delbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 4, 1940. He grew up in Fort Worth, playing harmonica in the clubs of the Jacksboro Highway strip in the 1950s — a stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls that ran along the city's north […]
Alt-rock forebears Dinosaur Jr. play Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $61, with Stef Chura opening. Formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984, Dinosaur Jr. helped invent the template for a huge swath of alternative rock that followed, fusing hardcore punk's velocity with guitarist J Mascis's towering, […]
"A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical" comes to Bass Concert Hall in Austin as part of its run from November 3-8, 2026, with a StubHub-confirmed performance on Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 PM. Tickets start at $32 as part of the Broadway in Austin series. The jukebox musical traces Neil Diamond's remarkable six-decade career, […]
Today is the birthday of Guy Clark. He would be 85 today. Guy Charles Clark was born in Monahans, Texas on November 6, 1941 — a West Texas oil town in Ward County where the land goes flat in every direction and the sky takes over. His grandmother ran a hotel there. He grew up […]
Today is the birthday of Doug Sahm. He would be 85 today. Douglas Wayne Sahm was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 6, 1941. He was a genuine Texas prodigy — playing steel guitar on the Louisiana Hayride radio show at five years old, performing with Hank Williams at six. San Antonio gave him […]
Joe Stamm Band brings its heartland rock and Americana sound to The Rustic in Dallas on November 6, with doors at 8:30 PM and no cover charge. Hailing from Illinois, the Joe Stamm Band has built a growing national following through relentless touring and a sound that blends heartland rock, Americana, and country influences with […]
