Only a week before the July 1 publication of a cover story I wrote for the Austin-based quarterly Texas Music, with the premise that Shinyribs is the fastest-rising comet on the Texas scene, the band ...

Kevin "Shinyribs" Russell invites you to a share a moment with him. Credit: Photo by Wyatt McSpadden Kevin Russell, also known as Shinyribs, has a bevy of nicknames. Before he takes the stage you can ...

From the sublime to the calamitous, the 37th annual Austin Music Awards show crammed a whole lot of highlights and a handful of low points in just over three hours at ACL Live on Wednesday evening.

Ever since Kevin Russell’s band Shinyribs debuted its first release, Well After Awhile, in 2010, his shows have emanated the energy of a rowdy tent revival. People don’t attend a Shinyribs concert to ...

The sounds, images and themes of Shinyribs' second album span 1,000 miles, from El Paso to New Orleans, with an emphasis on the eastern-most third of that long stretch of Interstate 10. Kevin Russell, ...

A small Buddha and toy cannon jostle on the dashboard of Kevin Russell's Ford F-150, pointed southeast to Port Aransas down Highway 181. Doug Sahm blares on the stereo and Russell sings along to "At ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you go Shinyribs. Texas soul, with opener A-Mac. 8 p.m. July 24 at Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St. Tickets $20-$25. globehall.com He goes by many names: the ...

From outdoor bashes in the heart of the city and on its ranchland outskirts, to cool shows in the clubs with both rising stars of Austin and longtime local legends, New Year’s Eve in the Live Music ...

Nothing screams "Austin" more than migas with Kevin Russell at Cisco's. Best known as co-frontman of iconic Austin jokesters the Gourds, Russell blends right in at the Liars' Club table in the ...

Renowned alt-country band The Gourds are perhaps most well known for their cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice." The singer-rapper of that cover, Kevin Russell, now the leader of eminently popular ...

If you combined the three of the greatest musical genres — Texas blues, New Orleans rhythm and blues and Memphis soul — you’d probably get a band that sounds a lot like Shinyribs. The band originally ...

Editor's note: This concert has been postponed to a later date. Those with tickets can keep them until the rescheduled date or seek a refund through stubwire.com. Austin musician Kevin Russell brings ...