Radio On

'Austin Music Minute' maven Laurie Gallardo takes her time on KUTX

"...Four nights a week Gallardo hosts a three-hour block of programming, 8-11pm, playing a mixed bag of..."

June 28, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TCB

No clues in Joe Bates' murder and other tales from Austin's music jungle

"...Bates would call him at Aaron's and talk for hours, remembers Stockton, but the two seldom met face to..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...www.fb.com/KOOPRadio, Thursday 13, 7pm..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Violators Will Be Punished

"...Was Janis at the Soap Creek Saloon, or the Armadillo? Cornell Hurd at the Hole in the Wall? Nah,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...women's bathroom: blues great Freddie King bloodied by an armadillo exiting his chest cavity. A sight to behold, but..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Nelson and places like the Broken Spoke and the Armadillo we kinda got them to sit down and enjoy..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Let's Build a City

All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards

"...and the Jury contest winner the Bright Light Social Hour takes the Zilker Park stage like an afterparty at..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...started planning the paper. This group would meet for hours and talk about the paper and argue about the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...(punk rock) standard, a staple of the band's now-mythic four-hour jam sessions at their dawn-of-the-decade Saxon Pub Monday night..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...On December 30, 2010, with less than 48 hours in the year, Artly Snuff slowed to make a..."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Noise Ordinance meeting is postponed, as is the ultimate fate of the Austin Music Network. Happily, the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is back.

"...Hard to believe that the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, which began in 1976 (you're looking at..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...Austin just hasn't been as much fun since the Armadillo World Headquarters closed, blah, blah, blah... " Jeez, why..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Austin's Holiday Art Bazaars Are Still Bringing Good Cheer

Who wouldn't love a creative gift by an area artist or artisan? Here's where you can find them.

"...plants – on our Chron Events Holiday Bazaars page. Armadillo Art Conciergewww.artconcierge.armadillobazaar.com..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...Austin was a whole lot darker at night," says Armadillo World Headquarters co-founder and current day Threadgill's owner Eddie..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...With both bands, he played probably four or five hours. It was the first time I'd gone to a..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...show, talking up Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale's upcoming Armadillo show. I already knew Austin's resident ex-Velvet, Sterling Morrison,..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...The only problem with MoPac is during rush hour(s) when it slows to a crawl as do all..."

July 13, 2001 Column

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...of July, 1992. Crossing over through El Paso 72 hours earlier, this native San Franciscan rolled into San Antonio..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

They Got Nothing on Lacresha

"...the emergency room. Of course, it'll take about an hour to rescue you, because Bike, Roller-Derby, Skateboard, Tricycle Days..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...just to the west and Memphis less than an hour across the Tennessee border. It's a legacy he carries..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

It's four days 'til

"...mist makes it feel like it's been dark for hours, and it's only 6:30. I'm trying to get home,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Column

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...the Austintatious mural on the Drag, served in the Armadillo World Headquarters' Armadillo Art Squad, and painted the massive..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Southern Comfort

The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.

"...Eddie Wilson bought Threadgill's after having founded the fabled Armadillo World Headquarters. Since then, Eddie has written a cookbook..."

March 3, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...outrageous (and apparently last-minute) one-off. For well over two hours, Oakenfold, clearly relishing the chance to bring his melodic..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

There's Something About Shelley

"...she only had it on a tape from a radio show, so that's all I had to go on...."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Riding With Bob

"...AC:It sounds like being a radio deejay and only having an hour to do your..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Do Right Woman

Polly Parsons, only child of Gram Parsons, comes full circle in Austin with the Hickory Wind Ranch, sober living for women

"...way Gram Parsons did. The nature of Top 40 radio always allowed for country hits; the Beatles picked 'n'..."

July 31, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...their businesses. Juke joints were strictly cash businesses whose hours of operation could change daily depending on the success..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I heard State Rep. Elliott Naishtat on the radio. He said that he was planning to file a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

Never Mind the Bollocks

Ray Benson decides to cut a solo album

"...Be a) Cosmic Cowboy" the previous year, while local radio outlet KOKE-FM soon became the flagship station for what..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

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