11am, Austin Convention Center, Room 10A

Editor’s note: Earl Dolifka isn’t a Chronicle freelancer. He’s a real-live Austin musicgoer – for longer than half the paper’s Music writers have been alive! Merely living in Austin is a conflict of interest for many locals, so we went for a man-on-the-street take on the new Austin Chronicle Music Anthology, being hashed out this morning on a panel. Thanks, Earl. See ya stage front.

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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.