31 Years of Independent Music. Countless Ways to Explore.

Explore more than a thousand artists, hundreds of venues and festivals, music scenes from around the world, and the stories that connect them.

1,006 Artists 542 Venues 478 Hometowns 20 Festivals 551 Reviews 297 Videos

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Artists Bands and musicians documented since day one. Venues The rooms, clubs, and stages that hosted them. Festivals Multi-day events and lineups across the years. Reviews Coverage of albums, shows, and releases. Organizations Labels, promoters, and scene institutions. People The photographers, writers, and scene builders. Videos Music videos and in-the-chair interviews. News Announcements and press from across the scene.

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Decades Ago See what Coyote Music was covering 10, 20, and 30 years ago — explore more than 100 moments from this point in time, across decades past. Explore the Archive Timeline →

Every artist, venue, organization, festival, review, interview, and hometown connects to everything else, making Coyote Music an archive built for discovery.

About Coyote Music

Three decades of independent music journalism, artist promotion, and documenting the people behind the music. Not bad, huh? 3 Penny Opera at Steamboat in '98 The Beginning Coyote Music was founded by Wiley Koepp in Austin, Texas in 1995 as a management…