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Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Patsy Torres, Little Joe, Dethklok, Gridiron and more
Rootsy rockers Southern Culture on the Skids are also bringing the twangy good times to Paper Tiger.
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Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Alice Cooper, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Thrill Kill Kult
Alamo City badasses Los Juanos and The Texases are also playing gigs this week.
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Bob Dylan finally returning to San Antonio area with Whitewater Amphitheater show
In addition to Dylan, the June show will also include performances by Lucinda Williams and the John Doe Folk Trio — and tickets don’t cost an arm and a leg.
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The Mars Volta to play My Chemical Romance’s San Antonio show this fall
The two bands’ dates only overlap for the Alamodome show, which The Mars Volta described as a ‘major highlight of the tour.’
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San Antonio’s Reese Bros BBQ to open location inside Floore’s Country Store
The acclaimed barbecue joint’s satellite location inside the historic country music venue and dance hall will open Friday, April 17.
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Catching up with ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons ahead of the band’s 2 nights in San Antonio
The long-running Texas blues-rock trio will play the Majestic Theatre this Thursday and Friday.
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Everything we saw as Testament, Overkill and Destruction thrashed the hell outta San Antonio
The pioneering thrash-metal acts brought crushing riffs to SA’s Aztec Theatre on Sunday.
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International musicians to honor San Antonio icon Flaco Jiménez at Tejano Conjunto Festival
Artists are coming from as far away as Japan, Spain and the Netherlands to pay tribute to the conjunto legend at this May’s festival.
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Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Peso Pluma, Testament, IV, The Toasters
California’s The Growlers are also bringing their ‘beach goth’ to town.
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After Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic used AI art in its poster, a Texas artist is pushing back with love
Austin artist Taylor W. Rushing says he hand-created an alternative poster out of a lifelong love for Shotgun Willie and a desire to protect the outlaw country artist’s ‘visual legacy.’
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Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Styx, Santana, Snow Tha Product, Hawthorne Heights
Austin psych-rockers Holy Wave are also coming to town.
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San Antonio-raised author Andy Beta’s new book offers look at jazz innovator Alice Coltrane
Beta’s first book, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, unpacks the legacy of John Coltrane’s wife — an innovator in her own right.
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Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant spotted at San Antonio’s Liberty Bar, other King William locations
The legendary rockstar and his band posed for photos in the historic neighborhood on a day off following their Thursday performance at San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre.
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San Antonio-formed freak-rock band Butthole Surfers releasing shelved 1998 album
After the Astronaut is the long-awaited followup to the group’s surprise hit Electric Larryland.
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Heaven help us, Public Image Ltd. is coming to San Antonio next year
The post-punk band fronted by volatile former Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Lydon — aka Johnny Rotten — is touring the U.S. for the first time in more than a decade. Tickets go on sale this Friday.
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Lil Wayne will play San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center in October
Tickets for the Saturday, Oct. 17, show go on sale this Friday — and, yes, there is presale access.
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Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Robert Plant, Humbe, Zach Bryan, Paisley Fields
R&B vocal powerhouse Leela James is also performing at the Aztec Theatre.
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A tale of two SXSW festivals
Forty years in, Austin’s music, film and tech festival is looking to the future while it’s cannibalized by unofficial showcases nostalgic for the past.
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Joe ‘King’ Carrasco brings his Tex-Mex party vibes to Ukraine for tour, fundraising efforts
The San Antonio-tied musician staged a rock ’n’ roll tour across war-torn Ukraine last year, raising money for the country to buy more emergency vehicles.
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San Antonio bands heavily represented at SXSW 2026
The Alamo City is all over the 40th installment of the multimedia music and tech festival. Here’s a rundown of free showcases featuring acts from our city.