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Liz Brasher Storms Stubb's Stage With 'Outcast'

10:00am March 20, 2018

by Jessie Scott

The Memphis-based Slingshot artist combines the blues with American roots and hard rock. Her enormous voice shines on a performance of the title track from her upcoming debut EP at our 2018 Showcase.

Aisha Burns' Argonauta comes out May 25.

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Aisha Burns' 'Must Be A Way' Will Break And Fill Your Heart

9:00am March 20, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

This world-weary melody announces the musician's upcoming album, Argonauta, with a psychic bruise that never quite heals.

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SXSW 2018 Recap: Hip Hop, Latin Folk and Mexican Barbecue

6:45pm March 19, 2018

NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael and Felix Contreras dish about their favorite new discoveries at South by Southwest 2018 over a plate of barbecue.

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Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras interviews Amara La Negra over lunch.

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Amara La Negra On Her Roots, Miami Reality And Barbecue

4:50pm March 19, 2018

by Felix Contreras

Over a plate of Texas barbecue, Alt.Latino spoke with this fast-rising Afro-Latinx artist from Miami in the midst of her unforgiving South By Southwest schedule.

Stella Donnelly performs a South X Lullaby.

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South X Lullaby: Stella Donnelly

2:47pm March 19, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Surrounded by an art installation featuring wires and woolen yarns, the Australian singer-songwriter's sharp wit stands out in a sweetly quiet song that rages loudly.

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CD Set Offers A Long, Satisfying View Of The New York Philharmonic Orchestra

1:47pm March 19, 2018

by Lloyd Schwartz

The New York Philharmonic celebrates its 175th birthday with a box set dating back to its very first recordings a century ago, featuring some of the greatest musicians of the 20th-century.

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One Year After A Long Sabbatical, Wolfgang Voigt Returns Yet Again As GAS

10:59am March 19, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

The ambient music innovator quickly follows up 2017's Narkopop with Rausch, out May 18.

Dr. Bobby Jones at the BET Celebration of Gospel in 2013.

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The Indelible Career Of Gospel Innovator Dr. Bobby Jones

5:02am March 19, 2018

by Jewly Hight

The choirmaster is known as the "Ed Sullivan of gospel" and has helped launch the careers of artists like Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams.

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Cornelius performs a Tiny Desk Concert on March 6, 2018 (Jenna Sterner/NPR).

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Cornelius: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am March 19, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Cornelius' Keigo Oyamada deconstructs and reassembles music like it's a neon cubist-pop sculpture. On a rare U.S. tour, the Japanese band brought its complex cool to the Tiny Desk.

Trevor Weldon Ingram has been charged with making a terroristic threat.

Reports: Another Explosion In Austin, Texas, Injures 2

11:06pm March 18, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

The blast comes on the heels of three package-bomb explosions that killed two people and injured two more, as well as a bomb threat that canceled a Saturday concert at the South by Southwest festival.