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Olivia Tremor Control Singer Bill Doss Dies

As Chronicle scribe Luke Winkie wrote in April for an Austin Psych Fest Live Shot, a reunited Olivia Tremor Control proved too much for the sound mix, coming off as imprecise as the famed Athens, Ga., music collective was pinpoint pop on records.

3:48PM Tue. Jul. 31, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Sunday, we encored Wimberley's Blue Hole by buzzing over to Bee Caves' Backyard for Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis & the News. On board was a dear friend's teen sibling, who had zero interest in the bill. Given the talent's combined age of 130, we sympathized. “Still, she'll see an obit one day and say, ‘My sister took me to this when I was 14, 15,’” I told my spouse.

5:27PM Tue. Jul. 24, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Breakout or knock-out, the local trio's gaining momentum

The Good Music Club: The Boxing Lesson

Based on local gigging alone, 2012 is shaping up as a breakout year for Austin's Boxing Lesson. As these three live clips from the ND at 501 Studios demonstrate, the proggy psych-rockers generate big sounds in a tight configuration. Catch them next Thursday, July 26, at Hotel Vegas, headlining a free show with Puraphram and the ever hot Residual Kid.

1:40PM Thu. Jul. 19, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

On Story Premiere Party & Live Taping

KLRU

Gay Science: The Book Tour at BookWoman

The Prom
at ZACH Theatre

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long Center, the frontman talked a mile a minute about Nick Lowe, Bill Graham, Thin Lizzy, etc. For the band's return – Sunday at the Backyard with Joe Cocker – I finally transcribed the second half of our Q&A.

9:07AM Thu. Jul. 19, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Lovejoys Closing

Two weeks ago, Skinny's Ballroom announced its musical cessation on July 28. Sunday, Lovejoys posted to the bar's Facebook page that the frequent music venue closes Aug. 5. Here's that open letter for those without FB.

12:43PM Mon. Jul. 16, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Man With the Movie Camera

As the millennium approached, the Alamo Drafthouse fed the apocalyptic dread by hiring Austin's musical avant-garde to score and accompany live silent film scares Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, etc. Justin Sherburn & Montopolis, matched to Man With a Movie Camera – which screens again tomorrow – offers a series best.

12:02PM Tue. Jul. 10, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Southern Lord Tour

Timmy Hefner laid on me a perfect wedding present: Church of Misery headlining Chaos in Tejas at the onset of June. Five days later, my would-be spouse and I caught the Japanese doom merchants in San Francisco, which resulted in us getting our marriage license there. So when the local booker mentioned Thursday's Southern Lord bill at Red 7, I paid heed.

7:27PM Tue. Jun. 26, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club: Frank Smith

Frank Smith is a band not another local singer-songwriter. And they proved it on Before You Were Born earlier this year. Now comes three TGMC videos.

1:08PM Thu. Jun. 21, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Margaritaville

Tuesday night, Tune-Yards’ Austin City Limits taping redefined “tribal” with a self-sampled monster beat and the free jazz accents of two saxophonists. Her entourage hadn’t left the building when Jimmy Buffet’s crew loaded into the Moody Theater. On Wednesday, his sold-out house made the whole Grateful Dead phenomenon look like a passing fad.

10:55AM Thu. May 31, 2012, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

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