“Definitely more tame and chill this year, not really Chaos per se,” emailed Chaos in Tejas promoter Timmy Hefner from New York recently. Could’ve fooled us. Naturally, a fraction of the crust punk, death metal, and DJ-oriented experimentalism going viral after Memorial Day weekend every spring can’t constitute the total CiT experience, so the local booker’s dubbed May 28-June 1 “A Weekend in Austin.” From Russian and Chilean Satanism (Pseudogod, Diabolical Messiah) to San Franciscan songcraft (Kelley Stoltz), the pit’s shrunk for sure, but it’s no less of a dome-ripping rush.

This article appears in May 23 • 2014.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.