In the interest of seeing how many mentions some of Austin’s musical “media darlings” have garnered recently, the Chronicle‘s online services director did a search to see how many times their names came up in the Chronicle (this figure includes club listings).

BAND VOL.16 VOL.17
Ana Egge 135 77
Derailers 183 115
Damnations 156 168
Paul Minor 17 16
Sixteen Deluxe 80 49
Don Walser 337 216
Reckless Kelly 187 127
Bruce Robison 62 48
Alejandro Escovedo 92 55
Fastball 58 44





This article appears in February 27 • 1998 and February 27 • 1998 (Cover).

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