Mouths are gonna hit the fan when the results of this year’s Austin Chronicle Music Poll come out the night of the Austin Music Awards. The sea change in the local club scene is reflected in the face lift of “It” acts as voted by our readers. It’s appropriate, then, that the Chronicle‘s picks of up-and-coming music acts playing SXSW 03 are also part and parcel of the new Austin paradigm. Times aren’t just a-changing. They’re being totally reinvented. Welcome.

This article appears in February 28 • 2003.

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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.