Day Trips: Coupland Inn and Dance Hall

Something’s new at the old dance hall and eatery

"...The Coupland Inn and Dance Hall looks like a red..."

May 18, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

No Joker: Steve Miller

Classic rocker clears the air tonight on public education

"...In the pre-SXSW insanity, I spoke to Steve Miller, who’s in..."

March 5, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Willie’s Picnic Reboots Virtually, Glitches and All

Star-studded, 7.5-hour livestream proves a real feat

"...meant to reset Willie Nelson’s annual July 4 Picnic. The daylong fest scheduled a return to his Luck Ranch..."

July 6, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Robert Plant Crowns Austin Music Awards

Fortune teller to unspool vintage Twine Time at local Grammys

"...Led Zeppelin oracle Robert Plant will perform on Wednesday at the Austin Music Awards in a special closing segment..."

March 15, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Abracadabra

Steve Miller brings the magic at Texas Medal of Arts

"...had to sing for his supper, so to speak, at the 2013 Texas Medal of Arts awards Tuesday night...."

March 6, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: Queer Alt-Country Trio Next of Kin Debuts New Single

Be part of the country collective this Friday at the Continental Club

"...are manufactured by executive management but a few have the distinction of organic origins. Such was the start of..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Column by James Scott

A Very National League Preview

Our own John Razook brings us his insights on the year ahead for MBL's National League

"...Hey, smell that? That funk drifting through the air, equal parts stale..."

April 5, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

$liding Home

Austin slide guitar sovereign Cindy Cashdollar steps out from the side

"...The first thing you notice upon entering her apartment, deep..."

April 9, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Nine Essential Albums From Willie Nelson’s 90 Years

Wishing the Texas outlaw icon a Willie nice birthday

"...Born Willie Hugh Nelson on April 29, 1933, the singer’s late-night birth wasn’t recorded by the courthouse in..."

April 28, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Johnny Gimble 1926-2015

The first name in Texas fiddlers

"...Over the weekend, Texas lost one of its greatest musicians. Renowned..."

May 11, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: 2015/16 Austin Music Awards

Robert Plant crowns magnum opus roots pull

"...Thematically, the 34th Austin Music Awards boasted “Deep Roots, Living..."

March 17, 2016 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Lust for Life

The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania

"...Return to Austin High might have been the most important set at the Austin Music Awards since..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Identity Crisis

Looking back at the highlights of Austin's music scene in 2000.

"...and nowhere was this ongoing drama -- more soap operatic than The Sopranos, but less so than wrestling --..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

Crossing the Final Path

"...The image of Paul Sessums that keeps running through my..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Austin’s Record Store Day Picks

Local releases and where to get 'em

"...Music freaks and fetishists mark their calendars annually for this coming Saturday – April 18..."

April 15, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up

Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind

"...Tickets hit the streets at 10am, and the curtain’s now up. Festival..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

ACL Encore

Highlights and observations from the fest

"...That strong breeze shaking trees around town is the collective..."

Oct. 12, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Top Books to Make Sense of a World Breaking Down

Jay Trachtenberg's top reads of 2016 explore a planet in crisis in Israel, rust-belt Ukraine, and the Antarctic

"...My favorite read of the year was Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in a..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Ballet Austin

Before revving up the jackhammers to renovate its downtown dance center, Ballet Austin is inviting the public to go Dancin' in the District

"...That revving of jackhammers you hear is another cultural construction..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Moonlight Mile

"...Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Middle-aged commercial real estate agent Benjamin Floss (Hoffman) asks his attorney why his..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Insomnia

"...Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt and Paul Dooley. The question of how maverick filmmaker..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twenty Years Ago Today

The 2001/2002 Austin Music Awards

"..."Set the Way Back Machine, Sherman."..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Fast Train to Hicksville

Reissuing the Rosetta Stone of alt.countrypolitan

"..."I missed out on all the hippie stuff -- Haight Street was practically boarded up!..."

July 13, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...scholar Michael Corcoran with fellow Austinite, pioneering punk musician, illustrator, and music folklorist Tim Kerr. The DIY pairing first..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

2015 Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup

Foo Fighters, Drake, the Weeknd, and Deadmau5 top fall fest

"...ACL Fest stole its own thunder when the official website inexplicably posted, then deleted, the 2015 lineup..."

May 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Loving Cup

The Whiskey Sisters' single-malt harmonies

"...Let's take a look at the results of March's Austin Music Awards, shall we?..."

May 17, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...Randy "Biscuit" Turner mopped the sweat from his forehead and leaned into the toilet..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Waltz Across Texas

Is the Broken Spoke being edged off South Lamar?

"...About five dozen men and women boot-scoot across the sawdust-free dance floor of the Broken Spoke early on..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gary Nicholson

For the Sake of the Song

"...to his Texas roots with a big assist from Asleep at the Wheel. Not the smoothest singer, Nicholson remedies..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Homegrown

Austin acts at ACL Fest Weekend Two

"...Asleep at the Wheel Fri., 12:15pm, Honda stage Will the..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

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