Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

04/11/2025

Last one of the season! Let's gooooo

29/10/2025

It is, it says here, Public Radio Music Day. If you haven’t supported your local public or community station where you hear the show (and most of our stations are public/community stations), today would be an excellent day to do so. Here’s a link to our flagship, K*TX 98.9, but I bet you can find a link for your local station if K*TX isn’t yours.

Tell ‘em Spare the Rock sent you!

The Austin Music Experience. K*TX 98.9 FM 24-hour music is a non-commercial radio station serving the greater Austin, Texas area.

26/10/2025

This is "Hootenanny Family Music 2025 10.24" by Lynette Wiley on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

25/10/2025

We are a community if we choose to be a community.

Here’s most of the performers from last night’s Hootenanny, hosted by us and Mayers Consulting. Thanks to everyone who came out and had a fun time with us and to the wonderful folks at Jalopy. Love you all.

Photo by Diego Serrano.

20/10/2025

20/10/2025

Due to a technical issue, this week's episode didn't air on K*TX 98.9 (it was instead last week's episode, which was fun too). But you can hear it right now on demand! It included your chance to hear new Halloween songs from Esther Crow and DadJoke, plus a new song from Frank Turner—and music from Justin Roberts, The Replacements, Divinity Roxx, Joanie Leeds, and much more!

Like the vast majority of radio programmers receive most music we play for free, and I get into most shows I organize, and some other shows, for free.

03/10/2025

Paul, a core part of The Sippy Cups, was a kind and creative and hilarious guy and I’m sad to hear of his passing.

I haven’t seen him in years but every time I play them on the radio I’d think about the delightful and anarchic spirit he and the band brought to family music. I believe they were the first band to play the No Nap Happy Hour at the Iron Horse and gosh, did that set the bar high.

Our love to his family and friends. His memory will, indeed, be a blessing.

We are shocked and saddened to share that our friend Paul Godwin has left this earthly realm. 😔

Paul was larger than life and always brimming with creativity and new ideas. He was an artist, creator, composer, friend and mentor to many.

Paul brought so much love, light, and big energy to our stage and we will miss him dearly.

We are sending our love to Paul, Ameera, Bodhi and our entire musical community as we mourn this sudden tragic loss.

Fly free, sing with the angels, and sleep with the stars friend. ❤️ You will be missed dearly.

02/10/2025

People of Mankato, Albert Lea, and Austin (Minnesota)! Starting I think this weekend, you can hear indie music for indie kids on KMSU—The Maverick every Saturday morning at 7! Let’s gooooooooooooo

89.7 KMSU 'The Maverick' is your local radio station.

30/09/2025

WHAT. A. LINEUP.

Family music friends, Mayers Consulting and I are gonna be back in Brooklyn in just under a month with these fantastic collaborations, celebrating twenty-ish years of working and playing together. This is a show for grown-ups.

Tickets are available now and you should get 'em. We love you.

https://www.viewcy.com/event/hootenanny_family_mus

29/09/2025

The Austin Kiddie Limits stage at Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) has one of its best lineups in years, and it’s pretty much all killer no filler. But I was asked to pick two acts and so I did! Go see Go Banana Go! (weekend one) and Divinity Roxx (weekend two). And of course go read what all the other nice folks at K*TX 98.9 have to say:

K*TX staff pick their must see and favorite artists performing at ACL festival 2025.

19/09/2025

Hey. What up. We’re on the best radio station in Austin.

The Best of Austin 2025 winners have been revealed!

15/09/2025

As always: if you like what we do, we can do it because of K*TX 98.9, and the best way to show you like what we do is by donating to them, whether you’re local or not and whether it’s a lot or not. Tell them we sent you.

K*T and K*TX are now 100% community supported after the loss of our federal funding. This fall, we’ve set an ambitious goal: 1,000 new members. We cannot reach it without you. Join us today at Donate.K*T.org!