News & Notes

Charley Crockett says the Twin Temple firing was about production, not Satan — plus SXSW’s 2027 preview, Austin City Limits’ new season, and The Animeros’ debut on Dan Auerbach’s label.

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, the band’s steady backbeat for 56 years, has died at 77 at his ranch in Richmond, Texas.

Dallas singer-songwriter Ceci Ceci turns heartbreak into her most personal single yet, “La Burbuja” — plus new music from Billy White, Mexstep and Kohanna.

Hudson Westbrook reveals his sophomore album, Made You Look, out November 6 — plus new music from Jenna Paulette, Flatland Cavalry’s ACM Honors nod, and more Texas music news.

Austin songwriter Jonathan Terrell headlined The Hook’s tenth episode at Sagebrush, where a father and son shared the stage for the first time and Owen Salerno walked off with the show’s coveted Gold Patch.

Austin duo Hovvdy released their sixth album, Big World. Also: San Antonio’s Tejana singing showcase, fresh North Texas singles, and Matthew McConaughey’s mandolin cameo.

San Antonio honored native son Steve Earle with its highest arts award before his Stable Hall show, plus new music from Dallas’s Slow Joy and Jeff Saenz, and Fort Worth’s Amplify 817 Showcase.

Houston honored Don Toliver with his own day at a sold-out hometown show, then a security scare cut it short. Plus news from Kaitlin Butts, Miranda Lambert, Leon Bridges, and Charley Crockett.

Kaitlin Butts opens for Ella Langley at Dickies Arena and headlines her own Dallas show, plus Baba Kuboye, Voz de la Paloma and more Texas music news.

Jazz guitarist Margaret Slovak marks the vinyl release of For the Moment with two Austin quartet shows, plus new hires at the Dallas Symphony and Robert Earl Keen’s Labor Day homecoming.

Janet Gilmore, wife of Texas music legend Jimmie Dale Gilmore, is rallying fans to help stop border wall construction in Big Bend National Park.

Charley Crockett clears up a data center controversy and stands with Willie Nelson and Tanya Tucker, plus new music from Koe Wetzel, Ella Langley, Miranda Lambert, and Kacey Musgraves.

Leon Bridges previews his next album with an intimate, high-priced hometown show at Fort Worth’s Bowie House, plus more Texas music news.

Ruthie Foster’s 12th album, Just Say Yes, arrives Aug. 28 on Sun Records — plus Leon Bridges’ hometown preview show, Miranda Lambert’s new single, and Koe Wetzel and Ella Langley’s reunion duet.

Steel guitar legend Tommy Detamore has died, plus San Antonio Philharmonic news, Austin’s Sound Unseen festival, and a new conjunto exhibit.

Dallas singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker joins a star-studded tribute to the late Blaze Foley, plus Tejano music honors and festival news from around Texas.

Miranda Lambert teams up with Stephen Wilson Jr. on the working-class anthem “Hardwired,” plus fresh news on Texas’s next State Musician nomination and Leon Bridges’s rolling album release.

Dallas-bred JD Beck and French pianist Domi Louna just dropped their wild sophomore album, Who Asked?, plus more Texas music news.

Drakulas frontman Mike Wiebe brought new album Midnight City back to Denton for a one-night takeover of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios.

A new Lubbock mural honors the late Mike Pritchard, and his family’s fundraiser has traded five-gallon buckets for real instruments at a school for kids with dyslexia.