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Checking In: Kydd Jones Focuses

When Jackie Venson landed the opportunity to program essential summer concert series Blues on the Green for TV on Wednesday, she handpicked four local Black performers. Fellow Austin native Randell “Kydd” Jones occupied one of those coveted spots. “Roughly 25 minutes of authentic rap flashed by at the speed of rhyme,” read the Chronicle summation.

10:10AM Fri. Jul. 10, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Video Premiere: Sarah Jarosz Shares “Johnny”

“How could a boy from a little bay town,
Grow up to be a man,
Fly the whole world ’round,
And end up on the same damn ground he started?”
Fourth track on June’s World on the Ground, “Johnny” traces a Hill Country nomad as written and sung by Wimberley-reared folk seer Sarah Jarosz and accompanied by Dadaist visuals.

9:00AM Thu. Jul. 9, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Alex Coke Plays Saxophone In His Driveway

“Tough Texas Tenor” described Dallas native and Austinite since 1977 Alex Coke in a millennial Chronicle feature, the saxophonist responding: “I was born in Texas and I play the tenor, so I guess that qualifies, but it takes a long time to get a sound.” And what a thoughtful, humanist tone that remains – Mondays in his driveway for the hood, and here online.

3:47PM Wed. Jul. 8, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Sweet Pill, Zeta, Equipment

Parish

Friends Trivia
at Waterloo Ice House

Concert in the Dark: Full Moon edition w/ Will Taylor & Ryan Murphy (the Beatles tribute) at ATX Unplugged

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Checking In: Ley Line Needs Their Sisterhood

Kate Robberson, Emilie Basez, and twins Madeleine and Lydia Froncek blend Brazil, Latin America, West Africa, and Austin as Ley Line. Multi-lingual single “Ciranda” ebbs a Brazilian “choral arrangement accompanied by a bass drum and a circle dance” in tribute to ocean goddess Yemanjá. It’s the third song advancing this fall’s We Saw Blue.

10:10AM Tue. Jul. 7, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Shirley Zhu Gives A Fuvk

“I answered these as best I could, but very sorry if it sounds like I’m filling out a college app,” emails Shirley Zhu of lush bedroom pop project Fuvk. “I have trouble with informal writing!” Actually, as Rachel Rascoe opined of recent, minute-long song “Will I See You Soon” from four-tune Bandcamp EP Singles, “As usual, Shirley Zhu knows just what to say.”

10:00AM Tue. Jun. 30, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: The Teeta Chills

“I had this doomsday scenario that would end in mass anarchy and transition into one government and global economy,” Trenton Anthony (aka The Teeta) told Kahron Spearman for our cover feature on COVID-19 in local music communities of color. “From there, I stocked up on essentials day by day, and took out a lump sum of cash just in case the banks crashed.”

12:22PM Mon. Jun. 29, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: The Saving Graces of Sarah Jarosz

World on the Ground, fifth LP and first since 2016 by Sarah Jarosz, opens “a long, long time ago, in a little Texas town,” where Eve ventures out for a look around and finds music. “Keep following the sound, girl.” Impeccably picked, her natural springs voice stilling the ear, the album and Wimberley-reared, three-time Grammy-winning crier does just that.

11:47AM Wed. Jun. 24, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Pa’lante Superfónicos

From their first notes of self-described Colombian funk in 2014, Superfónicos proved unique in Austin for roots music more South American than Texan. U.S. funk punches at a heavyweight density, but Latin fonk boxes at a lithe welterweight as found on octet’s new single “El Adiós.” Bandleading bassist Nicolas Sánchez Castro steps on the scales.

11:11AM Tue. Jun. 23, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: J Soulja Recalibrates

Locals’ tendency to characterize Austin as a “town” means dire issues of an urban metropolis keep getting kicked down the road. Not true of the brand new album by J Soulja (Jalen Howard), From the Soul, whose smooth flow captures modern ATX starting on Dirty Sixth (opener “The Way”), where street documentarians like he and the Teeta preach “Money Sermons.”

2:30PM Mon. Jun. 22, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

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