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Yann Tiersen's Live Je Ne Sais Quoi

A musical je ne sais quoi settled over Austin on Friday. As French electronic giants M83 bumped a sold-out audience at Stubb's, their countryman Yann Tiersen played to a considerably smaller gathering on East Riverside Drive at Emo's. Read More | Comment »

3:26PM Mon. May. 21, Abby Johnston

For the Fallen

Tomorrow, the Austin Police Department, Central Texas Harley Davidson, and the Central Texas 100 Club are teaming up to host a free benefit concert for the family of fallen Officer Jaime De Luna-Padron, who was killed on Good Friday in the line of duty. Read More | Comment »

2:23PM Fri. May. 11, Monica Riese

Tennis Anyone?

Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley marrying and then setting off on an eight-month voyage up the East Coast resulted in 2011 pop gem Cape Dory. No seafaring was involved in new sophomore CD Young and Old, but some tough love helped the couple on dry land. Moore, who leads the trio at the Parish Tuesday, spoke with us en route from San Diego to Phoenix. Read More | Comment »

5:07PM Mon. May. 7, Abby Johnston

Shake Your Rump

My dad's not a big hip-hop guy. He grew up around London, wandered towards Southern California, married a girl from the Midwest just over a year after meeting her, and spent the majority of the early Nineties dealing with three kids under the age of four. Read More | Comment »

12:53PM Sat. May. 5, Luke Winkie

Olivia Tremor Control Headlines Austin Psych Fest

Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control speaks with unguarded warmth, answering questions in long, detailed pathways. He of the reunited Austin Psych Fest Saturday headliners is far more forthright than the experimental crowd's traditional aloofness. Here's some of what didn't make the Music Listings in today's Chronicle. Read More | Comment »

9:07AM Thu. Apr. 26, Luke Winkie

Rill Rill

A week after Austin's 40 Acres Fest, Southwestern University in Georgetown one-upped UT with Clusterfest. Previously starring hefty acts like Big Boi and Girl Talk, the local event went under billed this year with proggers Minus the Bear drawing an underwhelming crowd for 40 Acres' 20th anniversary. Clusterfest, meanwhile, delivered Sleigh Bells. Read More | Comment »

1:02PM Mon. Apr. 23, Abby Johnston

Perfume Genius Live

An autobiography's difficult to pen, but imagine reading from it to rooms full of people every night. In recounting a troubled adolescence, Perfume Genius, the Seattle-based solo project of Mike Hadreas, has built a strong following on two LPs for Matador. He hit Lamberts Tuesday night on the first leg of a tour supporting the new Put Your Back N 2 It. Read More | Comment »

1:07PM Wed. Mar. 28, Abby Johnston

SXSW Encore: A Phone-Less Festival?

It was only a matter of seconds that it was out of sight and then gone. There it was, sitting on the back of a toilet in the bathroom of a crowded bar. I stepped out, leaving it behind for one second, and by the time the next person exited it had disappeared. How was I going to do South by Southwest without my phone? Read More | Comment »

1:55PM Thu. Mar. 22, Abby Johnston

SXSW Encore: Charli XCX

“I do hope I see a few cowboys” admitted a bubbly Charli XCX on the eve of South by Southwest. “I know it’s a stereotype, but it’s Texas!” There’s not a scrap of irony in that, just a 19-year-old girl from Hertfordshire, England, who’s suddenly found a lot of internet momentum. Read More | Comment »

9:07AM Thu. Mar. 22, Luke Winkie

Extras Needed for Gary Clark Jr. Video

Gary Clark Jr.'s song "Bright Lights" has been chosen as the featured song for the 2012 NFL Draft. ESPN will be in town filming a promo video, and that's where you come in, dear reader/music lover. This Wednesday, March 7, extras are needed to fill out the crowd and play the role of GCJ superfan. Please click through for specifics. Read More | Comment »

11:52AM Mon. Mar. 5, Mark Fagan

Grimes: Circumambient

The exclusivity of a sold-out show casts a definitive air on any performance. That was certainly the case at upscale BBQ joint Lamberts on Wednesday night as a dense crowd packed the cozy upstairs space. Read More | Comment »

10:15AM Thu. Mar. 1, Abby Johnston

Nora Guthrie: Tourniquet in Cheek

South by Southwest Music panelist Nora Guthrie – coming tomorrow to the print edition of the Chronicle – watches over one of America's most valuable resources: the Woody Guthrie songbook. As foundation director of his archives, she’s collected, researched, and promoted the work of her father (1912-1967), with whom she's totally kindred. Read More | Comment »

9:37AM Wed. Feb. 29, Kevin Curtin

Conditions of Puscifer's Parole

The problem with a rock concert at the Long Center is that when you run to the stage, the venue's personnel either lead you back to your assigned chair or throw you out the side doors. Dancing in front of your seat is the only compromise because few other venues could house the multimedia prop dramedy of Puscifer's Conditions of My Parole Tour last Thursday. Read More | Comment »

12:57PM Mon. Feb. 27, Kevin Curtin

Malkmus & the Jicks/Benny & the Jets

One of the pivotal figures of Nineties indie rock packed out Mohawk Wednesday night, and though 2010's Pavement reunion is but a wistful smile on the faces of those that experienced it, the band's frontman never lost any rock star swagger in leading Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. Read More | Comment »

1:34PM Thu. Feb. 23, Abby Johnston

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 »

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 »

2:41PM Mon. Jan. 30, Michael Toland

Local Band on TV Alert

Austin band The Lennings provides the sonic accompaniment to a crucial scene in tomorrow night’s episode of Parenthood. Read More | Comment »

5:19PM Mon. Nov. 14, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Biff Parker (1962-2011)

The Reivers didn't name him Biff Parker. He created that identity himself. I’m not sure why he chose that name, but I think he enjoyed the reaction from people when he introduced himself. I think he liked that people might not be inclined to take a guy named “Biff” seriously. They were disarmed and in a good mood in an instant. Read More | Comment »

4:07PM Tue. Nov. 8, 2011, John Croslin

Photography, History & Accounting 101

Henry Rollins doesn’t have a work ethic. He has a work metabolism. Coming into Fun Fun Fun Fest Sunday, the singer/poet/author/publisher/raconteur is now a travel photographer, with his new book Occupants establishing him as punk’s great ambassador/multi-tasker. Read More | Comment »

3:41PM Thu. Nov. 3, 2011, Richard Whittaker

Charlie Belle kicks up some Magnetic Fields buzz
 

Kid Powers

Local kid wonders Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds of the band Charlie Belle got a shout-out in USA Today Tuesday for their cover of The Magnetic Fields' "Strange Powers." Read More | Comment »

4:15PM Fri. Sep. 23, 2011, Cindy Widner

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