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Lady Horns Come Up Short No. 4 Baylor (33-1, 17-1 Big 12) still has the number of seventh-ranked Texas (28-4, 15-3 Big 12), earning yet another Big 12 Championship – with a 79-63 win on Monday – to go along with their regular season title. Just never quite able to get over the Baylor hump,…

by Kahron Spearman

Soccer Watch

The Major League Soccer season opened with a bang Sunday, with all 20 teams in action in 10 games. Orlando City led all clubs with a crowd of 60,147 – the fifth highest attendance in the world over the weekend. The league-wide average of 26,152 fans put MLS sixth in the world for the weekend,…

by Nick Barbaro

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Nine Mile Records Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room Austin imprint Nine Mile Records, celebrating 10 years, unloads an impressive local soundtrack to start SXSW. Patrick Sweany represents the only act outside Austin, the East Nashville-based songwriter bringing his unique bluesy and soulful roots sound to last year’s perfectly eclectic seventh LP, Daytime Turned to Nighttime. Austin’s…

by Doug Freeman

The Bumpy Road to SXSW’s Online Harassment Summit

Last October, South by Southwest Inter­active admitted they made a mistake. Shutting down panels featuring speakers that had been targeted, threatened, and harassed for their views was the wrong thing to do. To make amends, SXSW announced a daylong Online Harassment Summit that will take place Saturday, March 12. The activists involved hope to use…

by Nina Hernandez

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Amplify Philly The Main Looking for a decadent slice of brotherly love? The Main (originally Emo’s) amplifies Philly, a loaded and diverse selection of the latest and greatest from the country’s fifth-most populous city. Melodic alt-folk duo Vita & the Woolf, led by Jen Pague’s haunting vocals, sound much larger and grandiose. Taking cues from…

by Kahron Spearman

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

IMI Chile Friends Chile, on the southwestern edge of South America that borders the Pacific Ocean, boasts a thriving music community. Independent Music Industry Chile, its first countrywide trade group, focuses on those working independently, encouraging partnership and cooperation. Boraj, a septet from Santiago, combines ambient electronics, soaring harmonies, and folk melodies into aural soundscapes.…

by Jim Caligiuri

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Felte + Part Time Punks Presents Barracuda Arriving from Brooklyn, birthplace of the now-Los Angelean Felte label, Public Memory (Robert Toher) kicks things off with some severe, doomtempo EDM (eletronic death music), all shudderscapes and blighted love. Next to the “Helm” is Ritual Howls’ lunacy-inducing, post-industrial darkwave, a rough trade mating of early Einstürzende Neubauten…

by Marc Savlov

Staying on Message With the San Antonio Spurs

At first glance it seems like an accident. Navigate to the Twitter directory on the San Antonio Spurs’ website and a few mistakes stand out. A player here and there still listed despite no longer playing for the Spurs. A link to an unverified Kawhi Leonard Twitter account, whose bio simply reads “Kawhi Leonard does…

by Beejoli Shah

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Teklife X N.A.A.F.I. Barcelona On this showcase stacked with two of the leading labels in footwork electronic music, Teklife and N.A.A.F.I. curate a hybrid group of DJs. From the Teklife crew, there’s juke Brooklyn duo Tripletrain, plus DJ Taye from the birthplace of the fancy footwork (Chicago), where he’s known for frantically cut-up samples, and…

by Chronicle Staff

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Chicken Ranch Records Valhalla Founded in Ruston, La., in 1994 by Mike Dickinson, Austin’s Chicken Ranch Records herds freaky sounds. Impeccably dressed local openers Mr. Lewis & the Funeral Five chronicle debauchery and deceit through juiced-up cabaret revivalism on their high-water mark, Delirium Tremendous. Puckish Austin supply-side punks the Yuppie Pricks lambaste Obamacare and celebrate…

by Greg Beets

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

“If my feet could fit a railroad track I guess I’d been a train” – Billy Joe Shaver, “There Ain’t No God In Mexico” In mid-February, Ethan Hawke was in town for a two-night berth at the Austin Film Society, screening a 35mm print of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Sidney Lumet’s last…

by Chronicle Staff

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

France Rocks Trinity Hall Before its showcase Wednesday night, the foreign-tongued France Rocks gets an early debut. Austin-via-Paris quartet Hooka Hey warms up this cultural immersion with sludgy blues and sweat-soaked riffs. Patchwork quartet Joon Moon formed between Kansas City and Paris – trois femmes et un garcon – and expects a new pop EP…

by Abby Johnston

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Metal Dirty Dog Bar Open Hand’s union of grunge dynamics, prog riffs, emo intensity, and soaring melody had few analogs when it debuted on 2005’s You and Me. Now, the Hollywood quartet preps comeback Weirdo, produced by Bill Gaal of Nothingface. Playing synth pop with a rock & roll attitude, Them Guns makes electronica you…

by Michael Toland

Autonomous Cars Are Coming! Is the Public Ready to Relinquish Control?

There are some good reasons to get excited about self-driving cars. Like you could pass your road time on Netflix, safely text “OMW,” or eat a Whataburger Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit without getting the steering wheel all sticky. But as C3 president, longtime auto-industry journalist, and SXSW Interactive panelist Doug Newcomb points out, there are…

by Ashley Moreno

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Jimi Hendrix’s parents refused to buy him a guitar. Niagara Falls flows at about 100,000 cubic feet per second. Almost twice that amount is diverted from the Niagara River for electric power generation. According to Sky News, American police killed about 1,000 people last year, many of them unarmed. Many U.S. forces adopt what is…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

D.C. Showcase Scoot Inn Like the transient nature of the Capital District itself, the D.C. showcase demonstrates revolving door range. Central focus throughout the 15-act run is hip-hop and down-tempo electro, particularly the brands embodied by both the Ski Beatz and Ninja Tune rosters of the last decade. Proof of the former manifests in the…

by Chase Hoffberger

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Welcome to the City of Austin Sidewinder Two stages, nine local music ambassadors. Outside five woman-led acts present different versions of howdy. Austin Music Awards Musician of the Year last year, Gina Chavez followed with an incredible year of support for breakout LP Up.rooted, continental Latinate falling somewhere between Lhasa and Lila Downs. Charlie Faye…

by Jim Caligiuri

Lust for Life

Return to Austin High might have been the most important set at the Austin Music Awards since the Big Boys shared the bill with the Fabulous Thunderbirds at the second-ever Austin prom – Thursday, March 8, 1984. Last year’s AMA centerpiece, a reunion of next-generation live music natives – Gary Clark Jr., Eve Monsees, Shakey…

by Raoul Hernandez

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

SXAméricas: Zona Indie Sledge Hammer Family-friendly pop en Español, California-born Raymundo brings his upbeat, radio-friendly rock to this showcase highlighting the best of the best in Latin indie. Adding synthpop to the mix, Chilean group Wentru performs its smooth dreamscapes from latest EP El Lado Salvaje (The Savage Side). Ecuadorian fivepiece Los Detectives Helados mix…

by Chronicle Staff

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

Huw Stephens/PRS for Music Latitude 30 British Music Embassy, open – no passports required. Kamikaze single “Pro Procrastinator” puts Kent boys Get Inuit on the guitar rock map, fusing fuzzed-up riffs and sing-along choruses with monster guitar breaks. Belfast’s noise pop Girls Names started as a stripped-down duo, but as a quartet they’re diving deeper…

by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy: Briefly

The 2016 edition of South by Southwest Comedy will feature more than 100 comics over nine days. Here’s a quick tour of highlights. Live But It’s For TV SXSW Comedy builds on its success with 2015’s stand-up specials for Showtime by taping two new shows for the channel, hosted by Natasha Leggero: Sat., March 12,…

by Robert Faires

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

RADIO Jack Elysium Online producer/DJ showcase Radio Jack presents a night of international dance mixes. Tokyo’s Texiyama specializes in mixes fast and frenetic, while Virginia DJ DZZ shows an affinity for J-pop, and UK import Sega Bodega demonstrates a more universal preference. Hokkaido’s Parkgolf also paints in J-pop via last year’s debut Par. Austin, meanwhile,…

by Michael Toland

Tuesday SXSW Showcases

ATX Hip-Hop Showcase Flamingo Cantina From introspective rhymesayers, political fodder wordsmiths, or party lifers, hip-hop is alive and well in the local music mecca. Donned in his Supreme gear, 19-year-old Kenny Gee’s blunt, twisted rhymes get crowds loose like his wunderkind counterparts Rae Sremmurd. Mindz of a Different Kind find comfort in throwback sounds to…

by Alejandra Ramirez

Everybody Has Some

Every South by Southwest, we rack our brains to come up with creative ways to cover as many movies as possible. But this one was a no-brainer. With Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, slated to open the Festival; his nine-time collaborator (and Austin native) Ethan Hawke appearing in two…

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

David Joseph: APD’s Internal Affairs presented its administrative conclusions concerning Officer Geoffrey Freeman’s fatal Feb. 8 shooting of 17-year-old David Joseph. Chief Art Acevedo will meet with the Office of the Police Monitor’s Citizen Review Panel in executive session today, Thursday, March 10, at 7:30pm. Any disciplinary decision would be made public after that. Freeman…

by Chronicle Staff

Scam Your Way to the Top

“Someone recently asked me, ‘Do you realize that you’ve written a playbook on how to fool people?'” In The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time, psychologist and author Maria Konnikova explores the universal mechanisms of deception that govern everything from three-card monte scams to email hoaxes from “Nigerian princes.” The book…

by Dan Gentile

Quote of the Week

“I would be curious to see how many times a pure, sober sexual assault happened.” – Myra Crownover, R-Denton, speaking at a House Committee on Higher Education meeting on March 8 (ironically, International Women’s Day)

by Chronicle Staff

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