Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Bridge Farmers, Sue Foley, and Caelin top our list of recommended shows

"...Bridge Farmers Pull Their Cosmic Trigger Lost Well, Friday 19..."

May 19, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Sagebrush, Friday 11..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...years blowing up Austin rock for brothers AJ, Alex, and Omar Vallejo. Decades of shows, albums, artist development, label..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Austin singer-songwriter is her steel-eyed stare into the vortex of pain and fury, but with an incredibly fierce empathy,..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Ben Kweller hits the Continental Club stage, Threadgill's auctions some history, and more

"...thenoisecompany.com, Friday 7..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

ACL Live Review: Natalie Prass

Seeing the world through Prass-colored glasses

"...the Virginia singer-songwriter to a sticky, sizeable noontime crowd Friday at Zilker Parker. Prass’ chatter had the crisp, bubbly..."

Oct. 6, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Gone Unsane

Unsane bassist just left Austin for Italy, while SXSW eschews Sonicbids to bring their submissions process in-house

"...years, it has been a special place for all of us in the band. We've made good friends there,..."

July 28, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Saving Souls at the Electric Church

New venue the Electric Church converts local psychics, and Samuel Grey Horse recounts his mule variations

"...There, Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary have been canonized as patron saints. Liquid..."

June 2, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t

Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract

"...Last week, members of Mother Falcon applied their signatures to a document every..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Mac's Love Letters

Ian McLagan got that mojo working

"...McLagan, whose credentials include a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction with the Faces, sideman gigs with Bob..."

June 20, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Alamo South in conjunction with its Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards honoring Meat Loaf tomorrow at the Moody..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Local songwriter Johnny Goudie takes the stand while Trailer Space Records preps for Record Store Day

"...Crime and Punishment..."

April 15, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Year's Cheers

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 18th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Three Guys, a Girl, and a Dog Named Friday

Austin film collective Jollyville Pictures on its ingredients for success

"...If you haven't heard of Jollyville Pictures, well, that's probably going to change pretty..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...For the last 16 years, Alejandro Escovedo has been one of America's two or three..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Girls of Summer

Austin's inaugural all-girls rock camp looks out after its own

"...The rolling of eyes. An exasperated look...."

June 29, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Joe Strummer: 'Punk Rock Warlord'

"...were 16 years old, hunched over in the balcony of some century-old firetrap in San Francisco. We shouldn’t have..."

May 15, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Friday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...damned thing anymore," he says. "I used to trip off of the food [for thought] a group like Public..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Lioness in Winter

Eliza Gilkyson finds her roar

"...an intimate scene, Eliza Gilkyson with him, the love of her life. They cuddle on a living room chair..."

April 30, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Can record stores survive the digital age?

"...Jason and Ryan Enright are brothers, homegrown Austinites with an eye..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...two-lane death alley patrolled by Duel-ing semis, maniac truckholes, and Texas state troopers, hang a right at New Braunfels..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...Sarah Bird is coming over for lunch and she's promised to bring her latest production -- the..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Friday PicksALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGE..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"......"

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"..."Life-changing, career-changing -- the best week of my life" is how Kacy Crowley calmly describes her..."

June 4, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...to talk about appropriateness. Griffith can cover Kate Wolf and John Prine exquisitely (as on Other Voices Other Rooms);..."

May 9, 1997 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

One World or Two '97

"...[ This item, which ran in the print edition of the Chronicle, has been removed from the online edition..."

April 11, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sxsw

"...calm down. So what if there are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest conference? You are..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

The Spectre of Swing

Don McCalister's Demon

"...behind his unusually thick wire-framed glasses. There's an air of challenge in his subtle squint and gentle drawl. He's..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature

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