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The Good Music Club: Debut Episode

As stated here, The Good Music Club's debut last month at the ND mashed up Austin City Limits and South by Southwest. Now, as promised, comes footage. One of these locals is next week's Music feature, so tune in Thursday for more great live video. Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club 11:19AM Thu. Feb. 9, Raoul Hernandez

Martin Sexton's Not Buying It

A dozen years ago, Martin Sexton was a freewheeling troubadour, spreading singer-songwriter joy across the small clubs and outdoor music festivals he visited over the course of his near-constant touring schedule. Today, life's a protest song and Sexton's on a mission to relive 1968. Catch him Saturday at the Moody Theater. Read More | Comment »

What She Said 10:28AM Thu. Feb. 9, Melanie Haupt

Small Invitations: Catching up with Trish Murphy

Trish Murphy takes part in a song swap with Robyn Ludwick and Ginger Leigh Thursday night at the Flamingo Cantina. I’m sure there are people who only know Murphy as part of the popular covers act Skyrocket, but a decade ago she was a much loved singer, songwriter, and band leader on her own. She hasn’t sung her own songs in public in what seems like a very long time. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 10:06AM Wed. Feb. 8, Jim Caligiuri

The Lijadu Sisters

Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska died last week in Kraków, Poland. My love of her country and culture, meantime, spiked last month with word that my two favorite Polish metal acts, Behemoth and Decapitated, play San Antonio's White Rabbit on April 29 and Emo's May 1 respectively. Szymborska's “On Death, without Exaggeration” suits both: Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 1:53PM Tue. Feb. 7, Raoul Hernandez

The Girls on the Bus

Weekday morning sounded the same as I boarded the bus during third grade in 1962, down in the desolate suburbs of southeast Houston. We lived so far out of town, the road into my subdivision was a one-lane shell road and horny toads ran free in the vacant lots. Today, Sabo Road has its own exit off the Sam Houston Tollway and horny toads are on license plates. Read More | Comment »

Girlie Action 4:05PM Mon. Feb. 6, Margaret Moser

Ladies Train

Don Cornelius died this week. Soul Train, his nationally televised spin on American Bandstand, helped integrate African-American musicians into the mainstream across four decades. I'm glad these challenges are being discussed again, because as many corrective steps as society's taken in said arena, there's still much more to be done. Read More | Comment »

Internal Affairs 2:00PM Fri. Feb. 3, Zoe Cordes Selbin

Jonathan Coulton: “Internet Rock Star”

In 2005, Jonathan Coulton quit his computer programming job and for a year afterward posted a geek-culture-specific pop song per week on his website. That netted him about a half-million dollars in 2010. Who says you need a label? He opens a sold-out show for They Might Be Giants on Friday at La Zona Rosa. Read More | Comment »

What She Said 3:47PM Thu. Feb. 2, Melanie Haupt

Missing Momo's

It’s appropriate Suzanna Choffel was the last act to play Momo’s. It had become her home base even before she began dating Paul Oveisi, the owner. She played there Christmas Eve, a Saturday, and at the time nobody knew it was the final show because the venue was closed for the holiday. Then came an announcement that the next day’s shows were canceled. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 1:20PM Thu. Feb. 2, Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Music Wristbands On Sale Today

South by Southwest Music wristbands go on sale this morning, February 2, at 10am. All advance sales are through the local festival's website. Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 7:01AM Thu. Feb. 2, Raoul Hernandez

Don Cornelius, RIP

Don Cornelius, best known as the TV host of Soul Train, was found dead this morning in his Sherman Oaks, CA., home. An L.A. coroner confirmed he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Cornelius was 75. Read More | Comment »

Girlie Action 10:28AM Wed. Feb. 1, Margaret Moser

The Ballad of the White Horse

With the Chronicle's new club crawl landing on news stands tomorrow, the Saint James Society's self-titled debut comes well timed. The three-mile-wide psych rock of “The Ballad of the White Horse” booms no paean to the East Sixth St. honky-tonk, but a video for the local sextet's “Reflections” was shot at Cheer Up Charlie's. Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 10:11AM Wed. Feb. 1, Raoul Hernandez

Mayor's Roundtable Benefits Austin History Center

Why is there a statue of Molly Pitcher downtown? It’s not. That's a statue of Angelina Eberly, heroine of Texas’ "The Archives War." Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 1, is the Angelina Eberly Luncheon at the Driskill Hotel, 11am. Reservations are still available at $125, with proceeds benefiting the Austin History Center. Read More | Comment »

Girlie Action 11:14AM Tue. Jan. 31, Margaret Moser

John Aielli Back in the Hospital; Stable

KUT has confirmed that John Aielli is in the hospital again. The popular on-air personality suffered a heart attack on Jan. 4. "We are in touch with John and he is alert and in typical good spirits," posted the station just after 10am this morning. Read More | Comment »

Girlie Action 10:51AM Tue. Jan. 31, Margaret Moser

K-NACK Reunion, Night 2

Saturday at the ND, night two of K-NACK's reunion concert weekend, was lighter on the former local radio frequency's station-related activity than Friday – at least for me since I didn’t show up until right before the first band went on. Read More | Comment »

Shuffle 3:48PM Mon. Jan. 30, Michael Toland

K-NACK Reunion, Night 1

I can’t recall if I listened to K-NACK when it was on in the early 1990s. I must have. Any station playing Sugar and the Replacements was my kinda airwaves, and main jock “Raydog” Seggern’s support of local music is still tops. That period, however, coincided with my disgust of commercial radio, so I may have tuned it out alongside KGSR, KLBJ, etc. Read More | Comment »

Shuffle 2:41PM Mon. Jan. 30, Michael Toland

Golf Wang

I was at Domy Books recently when I stumbled upon Golf Wang by rap group Odd Future. It’s an art book, made up of tour photos and essays from the group whose full moniker, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, supplies the anagram for the book title. It’s a sort of hip-hop version of Punk Love. However much I may not enjoy Odd Future, it’s a smart move. Read More | Comment »

Internal Affairs 11:25AM Fri. Jan. 27, Zoe Cordes Selbin

Beetsolonely’s Top 40 of 2011

Following in the footsteps of Jim Caligiuri, I decided to make a Best-of-2011 Spotify mix some weeks ago. Then a nightmarish DIY plumbing disaster intervened. Read More | Comment »

If You Have Ghosts 9:47AM Thu. Jan. 26, Greg Beets

Radio Radio

I’m a radio geek. Always have been. So I tackled Kim Simpson’s new book, Early '70s Radio, with more than a little interest. I felt I knew the subject. Lived it. Simpson, who's speaking on the subject tonight at Book People, 7pm, writes that at the beginning of the decade commercial radio formats numbered in the single digits. By 1980, the tally was 133. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 10:47AM Wed. Jan. 25, Jim Caligiuri

Paper Cuts, January 24, 2012 at the Palm Door
 

Paper Cuts: Not In the Face!

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Paper Cuts 3:31PM Tue. Jan. 24

Hisingen Blues

Far be it from me to do anything today except prostrate myself in the mud to the rain gods. That said, tomorrow's Graveyard show outside at the Mohawk with Radio Moscow and Eagle Claw might not appreciate further forecast for rain. Either way, the Swedish metallic psych band's drummer Axel Sjöberg had one last check-in from our email chat last week. Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 1:50PM Tue. Jan. 24, Raoul Hernandez

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