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    Music Matters

    Alabama rockers go international: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at iFest

    Whitney Radley
    Apr 21, 2012 | 2:00 pm

    The 2012 Houston International Festival musical lineup is meant to focus on the sounds of Argentina, but mixed among the Latin bands and Texas acts is Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, an Alabama band that straddles the sounds of country Southern rock.

    In his soft-spoken Southern accent, Jason Isbell told CultureMap about the origins of the 400 Unit. Most of the group grew up together and re-connected about five years ago, when Isbell left the Drive-By Truckers. Others came from Baltimore.

    The group's most recent album, Here We Rest, is the result of Isbell's return to his hometown — something that more than ten busy years on the road with the Drive-By Truckers rarely afforded.

    The songs are based that homecoming, on reconnections with old friends and interactions with working people.

    The experience reminded him of growing up, says Isbell. The songs are based that homecoming, on reconnections with old friends and interactions with working people.

    The pace of that new, familiar life is set by a mix of bluesy country and soulful rock, especially tangible in "Alabama Pines" and "Tour of Duty."

    And unlike the democratic-style singing and songwriting preferred by his former bandmates, the writing and singing on this album is all Isbell's own. He likes to have this control.

    Sunday's performance won't be Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's first festival appearance in Houston (though his most recent one, he says, was a "shitty" experience), but it is the band's first iFest.

    "Are they gonna have those good steaks like they have in Argentina?" Isbell wondered aloud.

    Guess he'll have to wait and see.

    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will play at iFest on the Americas Stage at Tranquility Park, this Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

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    Oh, Brother

    McConaughey and Harrelson comedy series 'Brothers' premieres this fall

    Brianna Caleri
    Jun 19, 2026 | 2:30 pm
    Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in Brothers on Apple TV
    Photo courtesy of Apple TV
    Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in Brothers on Apple TV.

    Imaginary siblings and real life best friends Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are finally about to bring the joke home with a new Apple TV series, Brothers, out globally September 23.

    The first two episodes will come out together, and one new episode will be added every Wednesday through November 4, a press release says. There will be eight episodes in total.

    In a rumor that gets harder to search for the closer Brothers comes to fruition, McConaughey and Harrelson have leaned into ideas that they might be half-brothers, partially because of their longtime friendship and partially because they have a similar look that gets even stronger in old photos. The topic sprung up when Brothers was in its infancy as a project called Brother from Another Mother, and McConaughey's mom validated it by insinuating that she and Harrelson's father once had a fling.

    In Brothers, a heartfelt comedy, McConaughey and Harrelson play fictionalized versions of themselves living out almost the same drama, with much more serious repercussions.

    When Harrelson's family needs a place to get away after his daughter's wedding falls through, they travel to Austin to accept the hospitality of a friend, McConaughey. But when McConaughey's mother, Ma Mac (Holland Taylor) accidentally reveals that they might be half-brothers, Harrelson becomes obsessed with learning the truth. Simultaneously, McConaughey considers running for Governor of Texas. (Is this getting too real?)

    Other members of the ensemble cast include Natalie Martinez, Brittany Ishibashi, Nolan Almeida, Ella Grace Helton, Noah Carganilla, Highdee Kuan, and Oona Yaffe.

    Brothers is produced by Paramount Television Studios, and showrun and executive produced by Lee Eisenberg, best known for producing The Office. McConaughey and Harrelson are also both executive producers alongside Natalie Sandy, David West Read, Trish Hofmann, Bill Bost, Jason Winer, David Finkel and Brett Baer, and Jeremy Plager, the release says. Multiple episodes are directed by Trent O’Donnell, including the pilot.

    Austinites were keyed into the production early when locals spotted McConaughey and Harrelson with a film crew on South Congress Avenue. Photographers also caught them in different costumes, this time on South Congress and West Riverside Drive, so it seems like recognizable places around town will be on display multiple times throughout the series.

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