What do Gossip Girl, The O.C., Mad Men, and Grey’s Anatomy have in common? Aside from sucking away weeks from the lives of their cult-like followers, they’ve all been guided by music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas.

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.

One of our current goals here at the Chronicle is to not only put out a solid and informative print issue each week, but to provide our readers with interesting daily content on our website, whether that be breaking news, a review of the previous night's big show, or a Downton Abbey recap.

While Gregg Turner remains best known for founding late-Seventies L.A. hardcore punks the Angry Samoans, many fans of a certain vintage were also delighted by his wicked writing for Creem Magazine. With new CD Gregg Turner Plays the Hits in tow, he plays the Sahara Lounge Thursday and the White Swan on Friday.

Meet Curtis McMurtry, grandson of one of the greatest writers of our time, Larry McMurtry, and son of Americana music legend James McMurtry.

For nearly 35 years, I’ve obsessed over the Sex Pistols’ show at Randy’s Rodeo in San Antonio on January 8, 1978. Though I’m not a Sex Pistols collector or even that big a fan, the show peeled back the top of my skull and shotgunned everything I believed about music into smithereens. Did this happen to anyone else? I thought so.

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.

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.

How does Roy Moore capture the color and texture of Austin, Texas? "It's just," he says, "a matter of going out and finding it."