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Winter Soulstice

After weeks of blessed drizzle and rain, the sun shines this morning, the shortest day of the year. Gotta be constructive with all that night, so we're grateful to local punk icon Tim Kerr for emailing us about tonight's Winter SOUL-stice: A Benefit Dance Party for Jonathan Toubin at the ND.

10:01AM Thu. Dec. 22, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Crunk Christmas

Having made it through Scott Weiland's new Christmas coaster, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, I feel like Santa on the cover of this week's Chronicle. Without giving anything away about what's coming down the chimney Thursday, the only differences between that Claus and my state in the aftermath of Weiland is implement and motive.

5:43PM Tue. Dec. 20, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Encore Records Closing

Encore Records, Video & Apparel owner Chuck Lokey was visibly shaken last night when I pulled into the parking lot of his video rental/metal emporium. Encore was closing. Standing in the cold drizzle, two friends looking for the right words, we noticed the rain had temporarily short-circuited the Encore sign above the doorway. We knew a sign when we saw one.

2:49PM Fri. Dec. 16, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

On Story Premiere Party & Live Taping

KLRU

The Prom
at ZACH Theatre

Gay Science: The Book Tour at BookWoman

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Cactus Fest

Prey for Sleep larynx peel Hunter Townsend emailed us about the Texas Metal Collective, banding together tonight and tomorrow at the Dirty Dog for a special cause: “The drummer for one of our bands was recently attacked in a parking lot after already being down from a skateboarding accident. The resulting injuries left him in the ICU for almost a week.”

12:30PM Fri. Dec. 16, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Rock & Roll Never Forgets

Back in April at the Austin Record Convention, I stumbled across a long out-of-print compact disc of Bob Seger’s long out-of-print debut album, 1969’s Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man, a heavy, psychedelic soul affair. Since then, it's been a Bob Seger year for me, including a show in Pittsburgh last month, and come Saturday, another in Dallas.

12:25PM Wed. Dec. 14, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Ain't That Love

Tension. No truly great act ever thrived without it. Saturday at Emo’s East, the tension onstage in Scratch Acid translated into 80 minutes of Austin post-punk history revisited. Given that the band didn’t seem to be enjoying itself particularly, that might be the last time a reunited Scratch Acid rears up with all the danger of boots on a crowd surfer.

5:20PM Mon. Dec. 12, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Jonathan 'New York Night Train' Toubin Badly Hurt

Veteran Chronicle Music writer Greg Beets called our attention to this horrific story out of Portland, Ore., last night involving his onetime bandmate and Austinite Jonathan Toubin, who was run over by a taxi as he slept in his motel room.

12:39PM Fri. Dec. 9, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Peace Sells...

I’m not buying. Mostly because EMI sent it to me, but like most if not all of the box sets reviewed in this week’s Music section, Megadeth’s 25th Anniversary box set of Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying? hawks needless overkill. My apologies to Overkill’s Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth.

11:28AM Thu. Dec. 8, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Freddie King and the Faces/Small Faces Burst into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Either the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame got two out of five or we did. Freddie King in as “early influence” makes three. Inductees, for Pearl Harbor Day: Beastie Boys, Donovan, GNR, Laura Nyro, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Small Faces/Faces.

10:22AM Wed. Dec. 7, 2011, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

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