Great Bands from Texas

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  • Posted: 01/03/2012 15:00
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most of them have been mentioned already. The only ones I've listened to are Spoon, Butthole Surfers, At-theDrive-In/Sparta/Mars Volta, Ornette Coleman, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, T-Bone Walker, Leadbelly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Janis Joplin, some Steve Miller Band, and Pantera (among the larger signed acts at least). The only two I find worth listening to frequently nowadays are Spoon, Ornette Coleman, and Butthole Surfers but every now and then I'll need some blues and Leadbelly and T-Bone Walker are my favorites for those... never got into SRV, but here's a cool statue of him from Austin
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  • Posted: 01/04/2012 03:32
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A lot of these have been listed already, but Texas has the greatest country scene in the country (and, in this case, thereby the world) by far. Austin isn't (or at least wasn't) called the live music capital of the world for nothing:

Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings (R.I.P.)
Guy Clark
David Allan Coe
Steve Earle
Pat Green
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Robert Earl Keen
Lyle Lovett
Shawn Colvin
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Reckless Kelly
Jerry Jeff Walker
Dale Watson
Stevie Ray Vaughan (R.I.P.)

...this will obviously not be everyone's cup of beer.
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  • Posted: 01/04/2012 07:57
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let's not forget Shearwater Very Happy

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...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Spoon
The Sword
William Basinski
Townes Van Zandt
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pantera
At the Drive-In
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  • Posted: 01/04/2012 11:46
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This Will Destroy You


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  • Posted: 01/04/2012 18:08
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Applerill wrote:
monosyllables wrote:
For instance, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, and Guided by Voices are all from Ohio!

Seriously, though, considering that it provides about 50% of America's new jobs, it's sorta surprising that Texas has a crappy music scene. But it's true.

Oh well. At least it has Janis Joplin and Britt Daniels.


They're mostly tech jobs, though, and male tech nerds like to pretend they're tough by listening to metal and rap, while the females listen mainly to pop and classical music (if any music at all). The average business exec lacks imagination and listens to mainstream rock (primarily 70s rock), while the sales folks all listen to pop and dance (they're the partiers). Music scenes are typically defined by small-time local alt-bands, and hipsters are the ones who listen to them, but I'd wager there's a shortage of hipsters in Texas Laughing
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See from what I've heard, the hipsters are ALL OVER Texas. I mean, Austin is supposed to be some kind of hipster-mecca
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Austin is a hipster mecca and it's disgusting. We have quite a bit of music it's just usually not very good and doesn't align with the mainstream. The most diverse scene is probably Austin, with country, blues, and indie rock dominating; San Antonio has a relatively solid metal scene, though I don't know of any band that's really taken off, and there's some jazz here too (mostly big band stuff); Houston has the rap scene, with that chop-n-screw stuff and some mixtapes streaming out of there; I don't know what goes on around DFW or El Paso.
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The fucking 13th Floor Elevators who have the no. 1 spot on my chart!

Also, The Red Krayola are pretty good.
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