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On Friday April 4 2025, PBS broadcasts Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years!

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The upcoming episode of “Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years” promises to be a special event for music fans. This episode will air on PBS and marks a significant milestone for the iconic show. It celebrates five decades of showcasing talented artists and diverse musical styles that have become a staple in American music culture.

Viewers can expect a variety of musical performances, featuring both legendary and contemporary artists. The episode will pay special tribute to two giants of music, Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Their contributions to the music scene have left a lasting impact, and this celebration will honor their legacies through heartfelt salutes and memorable performances.

In addition to the music, the episode will include behind-the-scenes interviews that offer a glimpse into the history of Austin City Limits. These interviews will provide insights from artists...

“Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years” is set to air on PBS at 9:00 Pm on Friday, April 4, 2025. This special program marks a significant milestone for the iconic music series, bringing together a rich tapestry of performances and memories from its storied history.

The celebration features musical performances that showcase the diverse talent that has graced the Austin City Limits stage over the years. Viewers can expect heartfelt tributes to legendary artists like Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose contributions have shaped the music scene in Austin and beyond. These salutes promise to be both moving and entertaining, highlighting the impact these musicians have had on generations of fans.

In addition to the live music, the show includes behind-the-scenes interviews and vintage clips that provide a glimpse into the show’s evolution over the past five decades. Hosts Jared and Genevieve Padalecki guide the audience through this nostalgic journey, sharing...

Over the decades, Carlos Santana has collaborated with jazz legends (Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter), rock guitarists (Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan), blues greats (Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker), R&b singers (Smokey Robinson, Lauryn Hill), and even country artists (Willie Nelson, Faith Hill). The results were sometimes worldwide hits like “Smooth” (with Rob Thomas) or “Maria Maria” (with Wyclef Jean), but others fell between the cracks and never found the audience they deserved.

His new compilation album, Sentient (out March 28), tries to fix this by taking overlooked collaborations with Michael Jackson,...

Buddyhead, the LA music website and record label, is getting the documentary treatment.

The group, which was created by Travis Keller and The Icarus Line’s Aaron North in 1998, was infamous for its brash attitude in the late ‘90s and early 2000s with pranks such as stealing Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst’s baseball caps and auctioning them off for a rape charity and vandalizing The Strokes’ tour bus.

Keller and Joe Cardamone, the former frontman of The Icarus Line, are now putting together a documentary with some help from artist Shepard Fairey and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.

On The Lash: The Buddyhead Movie will be co-directed by Keller and Cardamone and produced by Fairey and James.

“It’s the birth of the internet, it’s the death rattle of the old world and its story of Buddyhead and The Icarus Line. It’s a time capsule constructed...

Classic Rewind (Ch. 25) is counting down the 40 biggest cassettes turning 40 this year – and the votes are in! Listen to the full countdown on the SiriusXM app now with a subscription and free trial.

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Additionally, tune in to the countdown on Classic Rewind live when it premieres August 29 at 5pm Et, with rebroadcasts throughout Labor Day weekend. Check out the bands and songs on the list below.

40 Cassettes Turning 40: 1984 Van Halen – 1984 Prince – Purple Rain Bruce Springsteen- Born in the U.S.A. Cars – Heartbeat City Bryan Adams- Reckless Bon Jovi- Bon Jovi Don Henley – Building the Perfect Beast Scorpions – Love at First Sting Foreigner – Agent Provocateur Reo Speedwagon – Wheels are Turnin’ Ratt- Out of the Cellar U2 – The Unforgettable Fire Tina Turner – Private Dancer Whitesnake – Slide It In Rush – Grace Under Pressure Talking Heads – Stop...

Independence Day is here, and Deep Tracks is focusing on the most essential fourth releases from American classic rock artists! We’re counting down your favorites, as voted by you.

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Stream the “Fourths for the Fourth” countdown in the SiriusXM app now, and catch it on-air when it premieres on Deep Tracks (Ch. 308) on July 4 at 4pm Et.

Directions: Vote once for up to 15 of your favorite albums in the poll below before 11:59pm Et on June 16, 2024.

Can’t see the poll? Click here to vote.

Fourth releases from American classic rock artists

These are the possible album choices for this year’s “Fourths for the Fourth” countdown:

Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters

Aerosmith – Rocks

Al Kooper – New York City (You’re A Woman)

Alice Cooper – Killer

Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe

Big Star – In Space...

Eddie Wilson could tell stories about the Armadillo World Headquarters, the storied Austin music venue he founded in 1970, for hours. He’ll tell you about how “nowhere else in the world” had ever treated Charlie Daniels so good, or the “phonebook thick” contract Zz Top made him sign, or maybe the times that names like Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, and Stevie Ray Vaughan performed there in the Seventies.

“We got one wonderful picture of Frank Zappa bending over a table with a razor blade,” Wilson recounts in his Texas twang.

Groundbreaking jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal died this weekend, as per reports in the New York Times and other outlets. He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2017. He was also nominated for two Grammys, one for his 2013 album “Blue Moon,” and also for his funky 1980s cover of Bobby Womack’s “You’re Welcome, Stop on By,” which was later sampled by multiple hip-hop artists. He was also the recipient of an Nea Jazz Masters Award, and Kennedy Center Legend Award, and was named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2007. He was 92 years old.

The Pittsburgh-born pianist, who trained in Western classical music, was a noted prodigy in his youth, and began his professional career in his teens. On the road, the young man born Frederick Jones was welcomed by the Muslim community in the Detroit area,...

On May 13, 1975, Ray Benson, leader of the Western-swing heroes Asleep at the Wheel, was readying his band to make their stage debut at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, when he received the news that Bob Wills, the “King of Western Swing,” had died that morning in nearby Fort Worth.

“An AP reporter told me as I got off the bus,” the 72-year-old tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent grand reopening of the Longhorn. “He says, ‘Are you going to cancel?’ I said, ‘Cancel? We’re going to glorify this and play his music.

The CMT Music Awards 2023 proved to be a big night for Jelly Roll who topped the night as the most-awarded artist taking home three trophies.

The “Son of a Sinner” hitmaker took the awards in the categories Male Video of the Year, Breakthrough Male Video of the Year and CMT Digital-First Performance of the Year. Taking two trophies was Lainey Wilson who won Female Video of the Year for “Heart Like a Truck” and Collaborative Video of the Year for “Wait in the Truck” in a duet with Hardy.

Video of the Year was awarded to Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown for “Thank God.”

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The fans have spoken and...

The CMT Music Awards 2023 took over the Moody Center in Austin, Texas to celebrate the best in country music. Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown were the hosts of the award ceremony that aired on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.

Lainey Wilson was the most nominated artist of the nite with nods in categories like Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.

Related: CMT Music Awards 2023 Complete Winners List

Presenters for the night included Travis Kelce, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood, Carly Pearce, Charles Esten, Dixie D’Amelio, Dustin Lynch, hardy, LeAnn Rimes, Madison Bailey, Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp, Parker McCollum, Steve Howey, Peter Frampton, Jon Pardi, Ian Bohen and Megan Thee Stallion.

It was Megan that introduced Twain with the Equal Play Award, the award that “recognizes an artist who is a visible and vocal advocate for elevating diverse and underrepresented voices in country music.”

In a tribute...

The CMT Music Awards is saddling up and heading west this year to that beloved musical and cultural mecca of Austin, Texas. But while the scenery may be different, much will remain the same: two of the CMT Music Awards’ previous hosts will be leading the proceedings, the performance lineup will still run the gamut from new faces to superstars plus legends from outside the genre, and, as always, the winners will be chosen by the fans.

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It’s no secret that Jesse Williams is a great actor, but it turns out he knows a thing or two when it comes to great spirits and music as well.

The actor was part of an intimate group of A-list guests at a recent party celebrating The Macallan’s James Bond 60th Anniversary Release. The Decade I edition was released on March 1 to select retailers in Los Angeles,...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American VOD rights to the documentary Grandpa Was An Emperor from director Constance Marks, whose last feature, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

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The new film, which premiered to rave reviews at the Doc NYC Festival in 2021, is set for theatrical engagement in Los Angeles from April 7-13 at Laemmles Town Center in Encino, with evening showings on the 7th and 8th to be followed by Q&As with Marks, as well as her fellow producers and talent. It’s set for release on digital on May...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has picked up North American rights to the music documentary Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues, on the blues rock guitar legends of the same name, with plans to release it across VOD platforms on March 21st.

Brothers Jimmie and Stevie went from a small, post-war house in Oak Cliff, Texas to selling millions of records and playing alongside the likes of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Carlos Santana and more. A portion of the Vaughan brothers film written, directed and produced by Kirby Warnock is devoted to Jimmie and Eric Clapton’s first ever on-camera interviews about the night that Stevie died.

Featuring newly revealed photos, home movies, and previously untold stories, Brothers in Blues takes a deep dive into the tragedies and the glory of the Vaughan brothers as told by musicians, bandmates, and friends from the early days.

Avatar: The Way of Water dominated the 21st annual Ves Awards tonight, swimming away with nine trophies at the Beverly Hilton. See the full winners list below.

James Cameron’s smash sequel came into the Visual Effects Society’s ceremony with a record 14 nominations. That shattered the old Ves Awards mark for films, set by — no big surprise here — the original Avatar, which amassed 11 noms in 2010. It also won the society’s marquee award that night ahead of a VFX win at the Oscars.

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Tivoli, NY – Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is pleased to announce a Bluegrass Concert by powerhouse acoustic duo Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 7pm. Tickets are 30 general admission. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit kaatsbaan.org/2023-events.

15-time International Bluegrass Music Association Dobro Player of the Year Rob Ickes and Tennessee-born guitar prodigy Trey Hensley are known for their white-hot picking, stone country vocals with soul and world class live musicianship. Together, they meld blues, bluegrass, country, rock, and other string band music of all kinds to form a signature blend of music that defies restrictions of genre.

About Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley

Take a 15-time Ibma (International Bluegrass Music Association) Dobro Player of the Year and a Tennessee-born guitar prodigy who made his Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 11, and you have Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, a powerhouse acoustic duo that...

He never had a signature song the way his peers and sometime bandmates Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton did, but the genres that Jeff Beck explored throughout his career chart the changes in rock — and rock guitar — over decades. One of rock’s most physical technicians, seeming to enjoy wrestling with his instrument, Beck made his name with British Invasion pop. But not content to stay there, he moved into the in-vogue blues-rock of the late Sixties and then the harder boogie and fusion of the next decade. The settings changed,...

This is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.

Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.

The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain. Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month. Deadline review here.

Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron,...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols knows the question is coming, and he can’t help but smile. “Should I be careful or should I be honest?” he says, Zooming in from a hotel room before a show in Englewood, Colorado. “You know, this is a very loaded question.”

The question: “Where does the blues stand in 2022?” It’s a salient one for Nichols, a longtime Wisconsinite now based in Austin, who last fall released his debut record, a largely acoustic set steeped in the history of the genre. The album received generous praise,...

"Don't let the blues die." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for The Torch, the groovy new music documentary about the blues guitar icon Buddy Guy. This originally premiered back in 2019 at the Chicago Film Festival, and is finally getting a release coming up this winter. As an intro: Buddy Guy is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer. At 83, he remains the standard bearer for the blues, an icon determined to see the art form live on for much longer after he's gone. Enter guitar phenom Quinn Sullivan, who has been mentored by Guy since he was a young kid. This stirring documentary, amplified by electrifying musical performances, charts the guidance Guy received from the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf while observing...

Exclusive: Legendary Television is developing a true-crime drama series about the relationship between novelist Norman Mailer and killer Jack Henry Abbott, with Boyd Holbrook set to star.

Narcos star Holbrook will play convicted murderer Abbott in Executioner, which comes from Warrior writer Anthony Tambakis and Minamata filmmaker Andew Levitas.

Set in 1981, the series follows one of the most scandalous events in New York City history, when Mailer helped get Abbott paroled from prison, leading to Abbott killing again, a nationwide manhunt, and the trial of the century in New York.

Abbott, who was serving time in prison for forgery when he stabbed another inmate to death, wrote to Mailer, who was writing about convicted killer Gary Gilmore, alleging that Gilmore was embellishing his experiences in prison. Mailer helped Abbott write In the Belly of the Beast, about life in the prison system. The Executioner’s Song author subsequently endorsed Abbott’s attempts to gain parole.

Austin City Limits has announced the 2021 inductees into its Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. Lucinda Williams, Wilco, and Alejandro Escovedo make up the new class. There were no 2020 inductees because of the pandemic.

Williams and Wilco have each appeared four times on Acl, the long-running live-music series, while Escovedo has turned in five performances. Williams first appeared on the show in 1990; Wilco made their debut in 2000; and Escovedo took the soundstage in 1983 (with his band Rank and File).

The new members will be inducted in a musical ceremony on...

Miranda Lambert pays tribute to her Texas roots in the new song “Two-Step Down to Texas,” a track on her collaborative album The Marfa Tapes, a stripped-down, rustic record with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.

“If you ever get time to two-step down to Texas/find yourself down ’round Austin way,” Lambert sings to kick off the song, which includes a multitude of Austin allusions. She name-checks live-music haunts like the Broken Spoke dance hall, the Continental Club, and the Carousel Lounge, along with venerable Texas artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan...

From the green room at Stubb’s BBQ, a narrow hallway lined by rope lighting leads to the stage. On any other night, the glowing amber string would be merely an accent to guide performers down a dimly lit passage. But last Wednesday, when Black Pumas played the first full-capacity show in Austin since March 2020, it felt like a runway for the relaunch of live music in a city where it means everything — where statues of Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan stand downtown, a stage with a live band welcomes travelers at the airport,...

Spoon’s four concerts for their native Austin City Limits will be the focus of this weekend’s episode, which features an hour’s worth of highlights from the Austin band’s appearances on the long-running music series.

In the absence of live music due to the coronavirus, Austin City Limits has aired episodes dedicated to standout performances from artists’ multiple visits to the Moody Theater. Following a Foo Fighters-centric episode, the “Best of Spoon” will broadcast on Saturday, January 30th, with footage from the band’s Acl debut...

Austin City Limits marks the first six years of its Hall of Fame induction ceremonies with a special retrospective featuring performances by Kris Kristofferson, Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, Los Lobos, and more. The 14-song episode culminates in a salute to Stevie Ray Vaughan with an all-star rendition of “Texas Flood” by Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang, Lyle Lovett, Lukas Nelson, Robert Randolph, and Doyle Bramhall II.

Acl Hall of Fame: The First 6 Years premieres January 2nd at 9 p.m. Et on PBS. It streams at pbs.org beginning Sunday,...

“Wonder Woman 1984” is finally here after a long and winding road of delays. “The fact that we’re going to share it with everybody during the holidays is the best feeling,” Gal Gadot tells me as she awaits the film’s Christmas Day debut on HBO Max. “I’m so happy.”

And she’d be happy to do a third “WW,” even though she insists nothing official is in the works. “We have no idea,” Gadot says. “You never know. I would love to do another one if the story is great and with Patty [Jenkins] of course. But I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see.” Gadot says a third film would be “nice closure.”

One thing we won’t have to wait for much longer is Zack Snyder’s cut of “Justice League,” which will be released as a four-part series in March on HBO...

The Recording Academy knows when to hold ’em, where it’s fun to stay and that there’s a choice we’re making. Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” and USA for Africa’s benefit single “We Are the World” are among the 29 songs and albums added to the Grammy Hall of Fame today.

Also making the cut are seven debut LPs: Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Pearl Jam’s Ten, Patti Smith’s Horses, Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill — the first rap disc to top Billboard 200 album chart — the Cars’ eponymous disc, John Mayall with Eric Clapton’s Blues Breakers and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s Texas Flood.

The Gammy Hall now includes 1,142 recordings. See this year’s full list below.

“We are proud to announce this year’s diverse roster of Grammy Hall of Fame inductees and...

Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons will livestream his sixth annual all-star Jungle Show concert from Austin, Texas, this New Year’s Eve.

For the past four years, Gibbons has convened this once-a-year blues supergroup with Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin, Sue Foley, and Chris Layton to play a couple of special gigs at Antone’s in Austin. While this year’s event will be virtual, the band will still be performing at Antone’s, and the show will air at 8 p.m. in various time zones around the world, including Et...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 4, Episode 9 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired Nov. 26 on Fox.

Paul Anka is thankful for his time on “The Masked Singer,” even though he was the latest celebrity to be revealed on the hit competition series. On a special Thanksgiving airing, Anka was unmasked as the Broccoli. (Scroll down to watch Anka’s reveal from the episode.)

Anka said “The Masked Singer” was the perfect way for him to perform during the Covid-19 pandemic, and also take a break from recording his latest album, which he’s currently producing for release next year.

“I was really locked in a studio and with Covid-19, not socializing or getting out, obviously,” Anka told Variety. “Once I talked to my son and my girlfriend and then some people in my staff I said, yeah I got to get out of here...

In a special Thanksgiving episode, “The Masked Singer” determined the last two members of the final Super Six of season 4. The title of the show said it all: “The Group C Finals – The Masks Give Thanks.” The trio of celebrities still standing in this third group performed once again disguised as the Broccoli, Jellyfish and Mushroom. Only two of them made it through to the semi-finals, which will air on December 4.

Since these Group C contestants first performed on October 28, we’ve been busy trying to figure out their true identities. The one name we are most certain of is the star hiding inside the Broccoli costume. Keep reading for all “The Masked Singer” spoilers for season 4, including who Broccoli is.

Broccoli showed off his strong singing voice first on episode 5 with a medley of “House is Rockin’/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On” by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jerry Lee Lewis respectively.

In a break from tradition, “The Masked Singer” will air a special turkey-themed episode this week on Thanksgiving Day, bypassing its normal Wednesday schedule. On the night of Thursday, November 26, gather the family and join panelists Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Robin Thicke, plus guest judge Jay Pharoah, for the Group C finals. That’s when Broccoli, Jellyfish and Mushroom will give it their all on the stage, with two advancing to the Super Six; the third will be eliminated and forced to unmask in front of America.

See‘The Masked Singer’ flashback: Before he was Serpent, Dr. Elvis Francois sang ‘Rise Up’ with Nicole Scherzinger [Watch]

“The Masked Singer” will still be airing an episode in its regular time slot on Wednesday, November 25 … but it’ll be a rerun. Fox will re-broadcast the Group B premiere that night, which is the episode when actor Mickey Rourke infamously unmasked...

“The Masked Singer” reaches its half point of season 4 on November 4 with the episode entitled “The Group C Play Offs – Funny You Should Mask.” The four celebrities disguised as the the Broccoli, Jellyfish, Mushroom and Squiggly Monster. performed for the second time. These season 4 contestants survived their initial appearances on the show last Wednesday. The fifth member of Group C, the Lips, lost the vote and was revealed to be talk show host Wendy Williams.

We’ve watched those first performances of the remaining quartet of contenders in Group C and have all of “The Masked Singer” spoilers for season 4, including the identity of Broccoli. In his first appearance on October 28, he sang a medley of “House is Rockin’/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On” by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jerry Lee Lewis respectively. Keep reading if you want to know the real name of the celebrity hiding inside the Broccoli costume.

At the top of Wednesday’s Masked Singer, host Nick Cannon promised “a reveal that will break the Internet.” Since you’re reading this, safe to say, it did not.

But the episode did introduce Group C, a new batch of performers that included Mushroom, Lips, Squiggly Monster, Broccoli and Jellyfish. Read on to see how their performances went and to find out who said hello and goodbye within their very first episode.

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“The Masked Singer” sat out last week due to the 2020 World Series, but now it’s returned with an entirely new roster of secret celebrities. Broccoli, Jellyfish, Lips, Mushroom and Squiggly Monster all took the stage on Wednesday night as members of the yet-unseen Group C. This costumed quintet performed their hearts out in front of a virtual audience and panelists Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, but who ended up with the lowest number of votes? And did You guess the unmasked contestant’s true identity?

See Coronavirus controversy: Why isn’t ‘The Masked Singer’ live audience wearing masks for health reasons?

Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Masked Singer” recap of Season 4, Episode 5, titled “The Group C Premiere – Masked But Not Least,” to find out what happened Wednesday, October 28 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about...

Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw-country music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s greatest songs, died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Connie Nelson, a friend of Shaver’s, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone.

Shaver’s hard-lived career classics included “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “Georgia on a Fast Train,” “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” and “Live Forever.” He wrote nine out of the 10 songs on Waylon Jennings’ 1973 outlaw-country breakthrough Honky Tonk Heroes; Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley all recorded his songs; and...

To mark the 30th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death, Austin City Limits will highlight the guitarist’s legendary performances on the long-running music series in a new hour-long special this coming weekend.

Stevie Ray Vaughan 30 Years On focuses on a pair of Acl appearances Vaughan and his band Double Trouble made in the decade prior to his August 27th, 1990, death at the age of 35. Ahead of the special’s October 17th broadcast, Rolling Stone is sharing a performance from each concert: A rendition of “Pride & Joy” from Vaughan...

Austin City Limits has announced the first half of the lineup for its 46th season, kicking off October 3rd with a tribute to late singer-songwriter John Prine, who appeared eight times on the series. Jason Isbell provides the introduction to the episode.

All tapings except for one (with Yola) were filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic without an audience. The 13 new episodes of Acl feature live performances from Rufus Wainwright, in his Acl debut, and Yola, who performs “I Don’t Wanna Lie,” off her album Walk Through Fire, in an exclusive teaser clip.

The PBS live performance series “Austin City Limits” has announced a lineup for its new season, which, perhaps expectedly due to the pandemic, includes a higher-than-usual amount of retrospective programming, but does sport freshly filmed sets as well. The 13-episode 2020-2021 season kicks off Oct. 3 with a retrospective of John Prine’s appearances on the show over the years, along with adding new performances from Rufus Wainwright, Yola and the Mavericks.

The kickoff hour for the 46th season will feature a dozen highlights from guest shots made over the decades by Prine, who was virtually a flagship artist for “Austin City Limits,” and who died of coronavirus-related complications this spring. Prine made his debut on “Acl” in 1978, four years after the series began, and had his final appearance on the show in 2018. A previously unaired performance of Prince singing “Sam Stone” during a 1987 taping will be featured. Jason Isbell, who...

Thirty years ago this week, Stevie Ray Vaughan played the final show of his career when he opened up for Eric Clapton at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. Shortly after the concert ended, Vaughan and three members of Clapton’s crew boarded a helicopter to travel to Chicago’s Midway Airport. It was a foggy evening and the pilot crashed into a ski hill near the venue shortly after takeoff, killing Vaughan and everyone else on board.

Vaughan and his band Double Trouble spent the summer...

“I haven’t picked a guitar up since they canceled me in Arizona almost two months ago,” says Buddy Guy on a recent morning from his Chicago home, where he’s getting ready to put on a mask and head to the grocery store. “I try to follow the rules, man.”

The blues legend, 83, is still adjusting to the longest break of his career. He hasn’t played played live since March 12th in Orange County, California. He tries to remember a longer stretch without a show, thinking to his...

Joe Diffie, a consistent country-music hitmaker throughout the Nineties, died Sunday due to complications related to Covid-19. His publicist confirmed the death to Rolling Stone. Diffie was 61.

With a traditional-leaning voice that drew comparisons to George Jones, Diffie populated his records with honky-tonk ballads and lighthearted novelty tunes, earning the Oklahoma native five Number One singles in the first half of the Nineties. These began with his debut release, the deeply moving “Home,” followed by “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),” “Third Rock From the Sun,” “Pickup Man,” and “Bigger Than the Beatles.

At a time when volunteerism has been crucial to millions of residents of Tennessee, following the tornado and flood outbreak earlier this month and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, country legend Charlie Daniels has revealed that the Volunteer Jam concert will return to Music City’s Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, September 15th.

Currently set to appear alongside the headlining Charlie Daniels Band are a mix of country legends, southern rock acts and relative newcomers including Trace Adkins, Charley Pride, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Justin Moore, Chris Janson, the Gatlin Brothers, Travis Denning,...

At Madison Square Garden last night, Al and Mitch from Saratoga Springs, New York, came prepared. Both longtime Allman Brothers Band fans who had first seen the group in the Seventies, they had their tickets in hand for “The Brothers: Celebrating 50 Years of the Allman Brothers Band.” Yet like everyone around them, they knew this would not be a normal night for music. Al, a Labor Department employee, pulled out a baggie his wife had stuffed with wipes, which he was planning to use to dab his seat.

“Gregg was...

Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons will reunite with Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin, Sue Foley and Chris Layton for their fourth straight Jungle Show, set to take place December 27th and 28th at Antone’s in Austin, Texas.

The idea for the once-a-year supergroup came about four years ago when Gibbons and Flanigin, an Austin-based organist, were tapped to perform at the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame’s induction of B.B. King. By that point, most of King’s staples had been picked up by other artists, so the pair...

Getting 37,000 people to a remote, rural amphitheater in East Troy, Wisconsin, for Farm Aid isn’t hard when the bill features Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Luke Combs, Bonnie Raitt, John Mellencamp, and several other big names. Getting them to stay for 12 hours in a downpour that turned the packed lawn (where the vast majority of people sat) into a sea of mud is much harder. It required a pretty spectacular show, one that left people so stunned they stayed put hour after hour even though most of them couldn’t...

About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-r&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing that echoes the melody for about 15 seconds before receding into the background.

Could it be … yes, it’s a guitar solo!

The solo on Khalid’s album, played by John Mayer, is a way for the genre-hopping Khalid to show off his omni-directional vision. But in 2019, there’s no denying that the flashy guitar-breakout moment,...

Country and Americana music is well-represented in the glut of Record Store Day releases arriving April 13th. These are the 10 we’re most excited about, from rare live sets to essential best-ofs.

Lone Justice, Live at the Palomino 1983

The vaunted Los Angeles cowpunk band rips through 12 originals and covers in this wild-eyed live set, captured at Los Angeles’ famed Palomino and featuring the early lineup of Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni and Don Willens. Included are versions of “You Are the Light” and the snarling “Working Late,” both of...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an overwhelming collection of historical art objects, including a mummy mask from 60 A.D., Greek bronzes from the 8th century B.C. and the original “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting. Starting April 8th, it will also welcome a different type of antiques — from the guitar Chuck Berry used to record “Johnny B. Goode” to the knives Keith Emerson would stab into his Hammond organ during the crazier Emerson, Lake & Palmer days.

In these days of GarageBand and samplers, it’s...