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Antone’s in, Beauty Ballroom Out

No sooner did Frank Hendrix announce the collapse of talks between his club Emo’s and C3 Presents in the latter’s bid to buy the East Riverside venue than it was confirmed Antone’s will occupy the newly vacated Beauty Ballroom as he’d speculated weeks ago. “Last week is a blur,” texted Herndrix from Las Vegas an hour ago. “I ran away to decompress.” Read More | Comment »

11:37AM Mon. Feb. 4, Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Music Wristbands On Sale Today

South by Southwest Music Festival wristbands go on sale at 10am this morning at wristbands.sxsw.com. They’re $159, including tax. It’s true you didn’t need one last SXSW to catch Bruce Springsteen guesting with Alejandro Escovedo at the Austin Music Awards, but without one, you didn’t stand a chance of witnessing the Boss at the Moody Theater. Read More | Comment »

9:00AM Thu. Jan. 17, Raoul Hernandez

The Ballad of Alejandro Escovedo

Apparently, sharing management with Bruce Springsteen has rubbed off on Alejandro Escovedo. The poetic, corazón-on-his-suit-sleeve Austin rocker staged a four-hour concert at the Moody Theater Saturday night. Survivors are reportedly in stellar condition. Read More | Comment »

6:07PM Mon. Jan. 14, Raoul Hernandez

Barge to Hell, Part 3

In the final of three diaries by local thrashers HeadCrusher, singer Gustavo “Kike” Valderrama gives an epic accounting of the Austin quintet’s cruise to the Bahamas on metal’s Barge to Hell. If I could, I’d book passage to the 2013 edition right now. Read More | Comment »

5:47PM Fri. Jan. 11, Raoul Hernandez

Barge to Hell, Part 2

Yesterday, HeadCrusher bassist Gustavo Calderon detailed his top bands on Barge to Hell’s maiden voyage, a Dec. 3-7 cruise to the Bahamas with metal deities. Here, the Austin thrash quintet’s guitarist David Coloma waxes metallic – to hell and back. Read More | Comment »

4:47PM Thu. Jan. 10, Raoul Hernandez

Barge to Hell, Part 1

Seldom does my inner Swamp Thing rear its head over shows I can’t attend, but that green-eyed monster jealousy coated me like the Grinch upon seeing the Barge to Hell line-up Austin metallers HeadCrusher thickened in December. Given Behemoth, Rotting Christ, and bucket-lister Grave, I uncharacteristically asked for a full report upon their return. Read More | Comment »

5:07PM Wed. Jan. 9, Raoul Hernandez

Rodeo Austin 2013 Music Line-Up

Last year, SXSW Sunday, my dates to the Shins’ Austin City Limits taping cooled their heels while I was uptown at the Rodeo for Glenn Campbell. The Rhinestone Cowboy returned to the Long Center, but maybe sheer perversity’s to blame for forcing the top dogs at The New York Times and Rolling Stone to wait. This year’s line-up is better. Read More | Comment »

8:07AM Fri. Jan. 4, Raoul Hernandez

Gregg Allman: Still No Angel

Last I tried to see the Allman Brothers, they canceled due to Gregg Allman’s liver transplant and Gary Clark Jr. stole the show. So rolled Chicago’s Crossroads Guitar Festival three years ago. Before that, the band crushed the Backyard in 2002. Badly in need of a fix, I fought last night’s cold for the Allmans’ figurehead at the Moody. The wait wasn’t in vain. Read More | Comment »

6:17PM Thu. Jan. 3, Raoul Hernandez

Here Comes KUTX 98.9

Having cleared 2012’s penultimate holiday, Austin braces for another marathon year of abbreviated/not-so-abbreviated music events (SXSW, ACL, FFF). Leading the charge comes KUT, which multiplies on Jan. 2 – KUT 90.5 (talk) vs. KUTX 98.9 (music). Prepping that are local musicos guest hosting the 23 hours preceding Susan Castle’s 5am shift Wednesday. Read More | Comment »

1:27PM Wed. Dec. 26, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Variations on Carol of the Bells

Christmas music trends like any other. Mindblowing roadshow, Austin barn burning, a music doc stoking further exploration – let life’s sonic eddies dictate the soundtrack. Last week, San Francisco surf psychics the Mermen sent me their new Do You Hear What I Hear: A Very Merman Christmas. Already, my wife and I were drunk on Christmas flicks. Read More | Comment »

9:07AM Mon. Dec. 24, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Cheapo Records to Close

Reached minutes after his 11am press release this morning announcing the close of Cheapo Records, owner Jason Shields sounded resigned – sad. “I really don't know how to do anything other than sell music,” he lamented. The music emporium, which opened on St. Patrick's Day 1998, will hold regular business hours through Christmas Eve, its last day. Read More | Comment »

2:17PM Tue. Nov. 20, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

SXSW 2013 Music Keynote: Dave Grohl

How does a music festival encore netting Bruce Springsteen as its keynote speaker as South by Southwest did in March? They score an equally everyman rocker beloved for both Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl's confirmed as the Master of Ceremonies for March madness 2013, doing the keynote honors Thursday, Mar. 14, at the Austin Convention Center. Read More | Comment »

12:31PM Fri. Nov. 16, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton

Joe Perry I'd interviewed before and Steven Tyler seemed like a longshot, so Tom Hamilton became the next logical choice for an Aerosmith chat tied to the band's show Friday at the Frank Erwin Center. Days before the election, politics made for an obvious topic, as did songwriting given the bassist's name on both “Sweet Emotion” and “Janie's Got a Gun.” Read More | Comment »

9:07AM Thu. Nov. 15, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

All We Love We Leave at Auditorium Shores

Just finished editing the live reviews from Fun Fun Fun Fest's first-class Friday, which will be online shortly – including Luke Winkie's dust-up of Massachusetts' metalcore crew, Converge. The best set out of the 21 acts I caught yesterday moved me to pen my own remembrance of the band's fire and brimstone heart attack. Read More | Comment »

10:47AM Sat. Nov. 3, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Amen

At 78 – seven years older than Dylan, 15 more than Springsteen, and 17 months junior to Willie – Leonard Cohen makes everyone else look like a latter-day Louis Armstrong: iconic clown. At Bass Concert Hall last night, the Canadian crooner channeled more than two dozen songs in an undiminished murmur for 3.5 hours. He duplicates the feat there again tonight. Read More | Comment »

12:07PM Thu. Nov. 1, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Wonderfulness

The Austin Record Convention happens this weekend, and as stated on this same forum in 2009, comedy records by Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Cheech & Chong were as common to Seventies LP libraries as discs by Zeppelin and the Stones. Only Cosby remains easy to phone up. Read More | Comment »

3:07PM Wed. Oct. 24, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Celebration Day

Time to retire my boot of Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion concert in London. Tonight, in select area theaters, the film arrives for an evening. Venues, set list, and clips follow, with the DVD/CD arriving Nov. 19, and the band receiving Kennedy Center Honors Dec. 2. Read More | Comment »

2:17PM Wed. Oct. 17, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Ditch the Fest

As stated in “Recommendeds” tomorrow (aka Music Listings), Spider House's HAAM Day feast may have been the best in show. After starting late, all three stages ran like clockwork, with back to back to back sets by Bobby Jealousy, the Bad Lovers, and Foreign Mothers killing it. Here's the time/talent schedule for the venue's triple-stage fest this weekend. Read More | Comment »

3:59PM Wed. Oct. 10, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Him & Her

She & Him’s got nothing on him and her. True, I missed the pairing of Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward at South by Southwest, but a week out from the Austin City Limits Music Festival (now almost as chaotic as SXSW), the best headlining set may have already occurred last night at Bass Concert Hall – with David Byrne and St. Vincent burning down the house. Read More | Comment »

2:28PM Sat. Oct. 6, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Return of the She-King

In 1973, Brendan Perry's family emigrated from London to New Zealand. Birthed eight years on in Melbourne with native siren Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance moved to the UK where the couple alchemized world-pop exotica culminating on 1996's Spiritchaser. Reunited at the Moody Theater Friday for Anastasis, DCD offered up oracle Lisa Gerrard. Read More | Comment »

11:17AM Thu. Sep. 6, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

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