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2012 chugged past the halfway mark this week, but locally, midpoint album lists remain a joke wholly because almost no one’s heard even a fraction of the recordings avalanching daily since March. This week and next, then, the Chronicle empties its music cupboards, accumulating CDs since well before South by Southwest. Some of the year’s Austin Top 10 lurk amongst 5,000 combined words.
This article appears in July 6 • 2012.
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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. More by Raoul Hernandez
