Friday at 2pm. This Austin musician has been playing a lot around town (Blues on the Green, 04 Center, CBoy's, Zilker Botanical Garden, Bullock Museum) but we've yet to see him.
"You and I" is getting rotation on KUTX.
Most of his songs are pretty mellow. "Read the Room" is a little more uptempo.
This is good.
Friday at 2pm on the Tito's stage. According to Wikipedia:
"King" Solomon Hicks (born February 8, 1995) is an American guitarist, blues, jazz singer, and composer. His style of music ranges from jazz, blues, classical, gospel, R&B, funk, Afro-Cuban, and classic rock.
It says he was born in Harlem. He started playing at 13 and performed at the Apollo Theater as a teen.
"Further On Up the Road" is traditional blues.
This is live. In the intro he says Chris Layton plays drums on his new album. Maybe he'll be playing the show.
Good stuff.
Friday at 2pm. File this under the "I'm out of touch" category. According to their website bio:
Adam Fischer and Hunter Glaske launched Night Traveler in 2018 with nothing but a song: no fanbase, no live shows, just their debut single “1984” released into the void. Within a month, it had 100,000 streams.
The music spoke for itself.
Since then, the Austin-based duo has refined a signature sound that draws comparisons to The War on Drugs and The Paper Kites while carving out distinctly their own lane.
They have 178K monthly listeners on Spotify. Their songs have over 3M streams. Strangely, they only have 188 followers on do512 and their last show was in 2024 at Brushy Street Commons. They haven't performed or toured since.
"Missing You" is them live at Parish/Brushy Street. They're more pop/ballads a la Bryan Adams than rock like War on Drugs.
I guess that's why I don't recognize them. I can't find what they've been up to in the interim.
"Damage" is pretty good.
"1984" was their first single.
This was probably my favorite. Good start the festival tunes.
Friday at 1:45 on the BMI stage. This bio says:
Born in Germany to Spanish parents, twenty-one-year-old Elle Coves moved to Ireland when she was thirteen and started writing songs shortly after.
Since finishing school in the summer of 2022, Elle is already making a name for herself, having toured with Niall Horan, Lewis Capaldi, and Del Water Gap, as well as working with some of the biggest writers and producers in the industry and releasing her debut EP ‘Selfishly Inclined’ in March of 2024.
Taking inspiration from Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac, Maggie Rogers and Haim, Elle effortlessly merges personal, self-reflective storytelling with powerful melodies and stadium choruses.
That's a pretty good summary. It looks like she's signed to Sony Music.
Let's check out some songs.
"Hit Me Where It Hurts" is a nice mellow tune. A mix of Maggie Rogers and Phoebe Bridgers.
"Peace" is her most streamed song on Spotify. Very Swifty.
This is catchy. I don't think that's Ireland.
Friday at 1:15pm. This band played SXSW in 2011 (My preview here). According to Wikipedia:
Hunx, real name Seth Bogart, started the band in 2008 after years of performing in the pop group Gravy Train!!!!. The group's sound has been compared to 1960s girl groups and is a blend of punk and bubblegum music.
Since that time Bogart disbanded and reformed the band a couple of times with new bandmates, most recently in 2019. The band now includes Shannon Shaw from Shannon and the Clams (who played SXSW in 2024). They released a new album in 2025 and have been touring for it.
Here is a recent performance on KEXP. I bet Rumble Radio plays them.
"Lover's Lane" is one of their older tunes.
This is the first song they played on KEXP and it's their latest single.
Friday at 1:45pm. Per her extremely comprehensive Wikipedia page:
Faouzia Ouihya (Arabic: فوزية أويحيى, romanized: Fawziya Uwīḥiya, pronounced [ˈfawzija ʔuˈwiːħija]; French: [fauzja]; born 5 July 2000), known mononymously as Faouzia, is a Moroccan and Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, she moved with her family to Canada at a young age.
It says she grew up listening to pop musicians Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Sia, Adele, Kelly Clarkson, and John Legend.
"Tears of Gold" is pretty good.
"Birthday" is a nice mellow tune.
This is her newest single.
Friday at 12:45pm on the Tito's stage. Schedules are out so let the research begin. We're doing weekend one this year so I'll focus on those bands. First up is a local band. This article says:
The 4411 are at their core – a group of best friends from Austin, Texas, making music rooted in shared history and genuine connection. The band’s name itself comes from the street address of their drummer’s parents’ house, where they first rehearsed and wrote together, and that sense of origin still lingers in their sound. Influenced by artists like Hozier, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, and The Backseat Lovers...
Indie folk.
In that article the singer says he was going for a Jeff Buckley sound on "Sweet July". Nice mellow tune.
"Her" has 127K streams on youtube after 1 month. Pretty good. Reminds me of Houndmouth.
This is catchy.
