Lockhart Western Swing & BBQ Festival Kicks Off the Weekend

Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame centers event’s second year

"...When Al Dressen co-founded the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 1988, the seminal Texas..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Listen to This: Western Youth Celebrates a “Wild Heart”

New single from roots rockers honors late songwriter Chris Porter

"...Four years since their excellent eponymous debut LP, Western Youth is finally delivering a few new singles. Earlier..."

June 21, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Western

"...manages to cover only about seven miles of road, Western is set in and around Brittany on the French..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Western Ghost House Record Release/Attendance Records Benefit Show

Ashley's pick for tonight.

"...live music. Satisfying those two cravings tonight will be Western Ghost House's album release show at 29th Street Ballroom,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Events Post by Ashley Nicole Hardy

All Quiet on the Western Front

Shocking, graphic, and mournful adaption of the World War I epic

"...All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Faster Than Sound: Ryan Bingham Warms Up His Western Festival

Onetime local Americana star inaugurates his fest on a chilly day in Luckenbach

"...events. Fighting unseasonably chilly weather and harsh winds, the Western Music Festival was inaugurated Saturday, April 13, at the..."

April 19, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...kept adding instruments and improvisation, came to be called Western swing...."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

The Mystic Western Game Jam Looks to the Stars

Local game collective Juegos Rancheros needs you to pick your favorite

"...The impetus for the most recent mass exploration of Western themes and motifs in the field of video games..."

July 5, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

A White-Knuckle Western

Co-directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks aim to Kill or Be Killed

"...Meeks were in the middle of filming their dark Western Kill or Be Killed...."

Feb. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Western Vinyl

Beautiful Noise

"...Just ask Brian Sampson, sole owner and operator of Western Vinyl Records, who was audited April 2006...."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

One in a Crowd: Far Western

New documentary wants to bring Japanese Country and Western home

"...Country music in Japan, in their new documentary Far Western...."

Sept. 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Western Zing

With all the right ingredients, has chef Robert McGrath found a trailblazing blend of the robust and bold? Virginia B. Wood finds out.

"...exciting to review them. The Roaring Fork, an American Western bistro developed by chef Robert McGrath, is a very..."

July 18, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Full Western Dress reviewed

"...The Derailers Full Western Dress (Sire) What goes around comes around. Back in..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Heavy Western

The Derailers

"...Saturday night at the Continental Club. Wall to wall. Western shirts and hats sliding past taffeta and lipstick, high..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All-Woman Western Swing Trio Tells Texas Republicans It’s OK to Vote for Beto

O sister, where art thou?

"...day before. The draw: Babes in Betoland, the Houston-based Western swing trio usually called Babes in Wonderland that's made..."

Oct. 21, 2022 News Feature by Jen Hamilton Hernandez

Peacock Politics in Western Travis County

Handful of holdout ranchers expected to sell their family spreads in name of what some see as suburban sprawl

"...the next five years, most of the ranchland in western Travis County will disappear...."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Being Dead’s Wild Western Chase and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Nemegata, EXOTIC FRUITICA, Quiet Light, and more

"...they command of their titular bison, before their unassuming Western chug-a-lug transforms into a distortion-laden cry: "You killed them!"..."

June 23, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Austin FC Defeats Western Conference Rivals LAFC

"...“massive win for this organization,” Austin FC soundly defeated Western Conference rivals LAFC, 4-1, at Q2 Stadium on Friday,..."

Aug. 29, 2022 Photo Gallery

Austin FC Outlasts Minnesota United in Gritty Western Conference Clash

The Verde remain undefeated at home this season

"...sheet lifted Austin FC to a 1-0 win over Western Conference rivals Minnesota United...."

April 11, 2022 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Paradise is an Outlandish Tropical Western Band: Spliff Kazoo & His Fronds

Tiki quintet bring their “slow conga line” and excessive fog to Kinda Tropical on Thursdays

"...their Hawaiian shirts and white polyester pants, plays tropical Western music – think Marty Robbins' exotica phase – interspersed..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Watch: Big Cedar Fever’s New Western Swing

Barnstorming Hill Country swing trio drops new EP and video

"...Fever has emerged as the hottest new thing in Western Swing. Georgia Parker, Ian Lee, and Nick Lochman are..."

June 18, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Aztlan Dance Company's The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep Fried

In the troupe's latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied

"...heels, right where you are, and party. The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep FriedSanta Cruz Theater, 1805 E. Seventh Aug...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Pop Goes the Western

Bob Boze Bell Gets Graphic About the Old West

"...if not out-right melodrama, in Bell's deft use of Western iconography. Take a look at Wyatt Earp, which begins..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Qmmunity: Quntry & Western

DJ Boi Orbison lassos queer country nostalgia with Neon Rainbows

April 28, 2023 Column by James Scott

The Road to 10-1: Western Additions

Add two more – Districts 8 and 10

June 24, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Stars Advance to Western Conference Finals

Jamie Benn takes Texas one step closer to the Calder Cup

May 14, 2010 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

PUC Gathering the Western Wind

A new source for electricity is on the wind

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Going Up

A profile of Austin’s pre-eminent honky-tonkers, the Derailers

"...discuss the impending release of their Sire debut Full Western Dress and a few heroes of their own...."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

American Outlaws

"...Kathy Bates. “Bad is good again,” reads this tweener Western's marketing tagline. Nope, sorry gang, bad was never good,..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

With Ti West In a Valley of Violence

Director on PTSD, Westerns, and the world's greatest dog

"...The Western is a forgery. There are white hats and black..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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