Off the Record

Recapping 2007 one list at a time

"...Climbing up 10 spots from last year, Austin's C3 Presents ranked No. 13 among promoters on Billboard's..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Dancing About Architecture

Grab the End of the Poll

"...is your last chance to vote in the 1997/98 Austin Chronicle Music Poll. Find it on p.15 of this..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Column

We Have an Issue: Verde! Listos!

Inside our Austin FC season preview package; plus the return of the Austin Music Awards and the Chronicle's SXSW day party

"...Some great things came out of Austin FC's inaugural season: a new stadium, a devoted fandom,..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

R.I.P. George Reiff

Cancer steals extraordinary bassist and producer

"...George Reiff, the beloved Austin bassist whose masterful, in-the-pocket playing was a fixture on..."

May 22, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Talking Shop With Curran Nault

The Polari artistic director on programming to bridge divides

"...Curran Nault and I met over a table of Austin queers discussing the prospect of a new celebration (which..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

Counting down 2008 in lists and casting the first ballot for the annual Chronicle Music Poll

"...Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (Motown) Top 10 Austin..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Media Clips

The world’s major corporations have realized that the media can be big money, and they have invested heavily.

"...of the media can be seen right here in Austin -- especially as our population keeps growing, making us..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Playback: Ringo Deathstarr Awakens the Force

Ringo Deathstarr achieves a Pure Mood, Lench anthem decries Eastside gentrification, and a Pink Floyd scion takes root in Austin

"...Austin Chronicle: What was your favorite song off 1997's famed..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Passionate Kisses

2013/2014 Austin Music Awards: Lucinda Williams plants one on Margaret Moser

"...Water­loo Records' facade. Inside, rising like cornstalks among the music racks, Austinites. Every size, shape, age, race, class. All..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Lovers Rock

Announcing the Austin Music Awards and more Valentine's Day mash notes

"...bands led by romantic couplings have proven that with music and relationships, everything comes down to chemistry. For Valentine's..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Breaking Barriers With Christ and Rock

A reprint of an Austin Chronicle Q&A from 1982 with U2's Bono Hewson and Adam Clayton.

"...a group spirit rarely seen in larger concert halls, Austin rejoiced with the four young men from Dublin. Chronicle..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Street Cred to Burn

The 1996-97 Austin Music Awards

"...Two things happened to Austin music in 1996: Minus a single transcendent, galvanizing band..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Local Encounters of the Gift Kind

Five Austinites share the stories behind their greatest gifts

"...spirit of the holiday season on our mind, the Chronicle asked five locals – a punk icon, a film..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Chronolog Post by Beth Sullivan

We Have an Issue: A Home of Its Own

In this week's cover story, Robert Faires previews classical music station KMFA's stunning new $11 million facility in East Austin

"...Arts Editor Robert Faires is as enthusiastic a classical music supporter as anyone; he's been covering the beat for..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Make the Yuletide Gay

The best way to spread queer cheer is giving thanks, supporting QTs who keep Austin queer

"...the here and now – for Q readers, for Austin's queer and trans fam, and for the QTs like..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Off the Record

The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest

"...include the Monarch, the multievent center located in central Austin's Lincoln Village complex, between I-35 and Highland Mall. DAG..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Hey Sailor, Pt. 2!

More of Austin's GLBTeratti welcomes you with open arms and tells you what's hot about our town

"...Welcome to Austin, you good-looking travelers! As you will see, Austinites are..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...aficionados -- that the white blues scene that gave Austin its reputation as a blues town is gone...."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

We Have an Issue: Check It Out

In this week's issue, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez reflects on Checking In, his Q&A series chronicle musicians' lives under COVID-19 lockdown

"...into the pandemic that we've carried into another year, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez launched a Q&A series with local..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Daniel Johnston-inspired rock opera Speeding Motorcycle rolls into town with Kathy McCarty riding shotgun, Transmission Entertainment gains another foothold on Red River, and the Black & White Years get Real! In Color! with the Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison

"...in April. Rumor has it that a Hot Water Music reunion is also in the works for an unofficial..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Postmarks

Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...No.2]) correctly pointed out many clubs' dependence on their Chronicle listing as one reason they felt no need to..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...from that, then it’s time for some real country music.”..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Margaret Moser Award: Behind-the-Scenes Concert Wiz Rosa Madriz

The talent buyer and Margaret Moser Award winner discusses her career shift and influential decades in Austin music

"...Army knife on the ground floor of so many Austin institutions. As the longtime director of talent buying with..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Longtime Morning Host Jason Dick Laid Off from 101X

Final half of Jason & Deb updates on their departure

"...nearly two decades of radio activity that brought multiple Austin Music Awards, Jason Dick – the ribald and irreverent..."

Dec. 12, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Playback: Heaven and Hell and Scott H. Biram

Scott H. Biram gets bloody, UT gets KUT's music library, and Macaulay Culkin pisses me off

"...Austin Chronicle: Does Nothin' but Blood refer to your accident?..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Rod Kennedy's 80th birthday

"...his 80th birthday. "It's amazing, especially being in the music business." Judging only by the numbers, the Texas music..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Red River Valley

Red River, home to Austin's real live music venues

"...thing happened while a throng of shirtless rabble-rousers turned Austin's Mardi Gras celebration this past February into fodder for..."

June 22, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Java Amping

Austin's Coffeehouse Circuit

"...Austin, despite the deadly summer climate, has become a huge..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...Former Sound Exchange employee/current Chronicle Listings Manager Mark Fagan says Johnston was a regular..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Represent Texas

Austin Music Awards 2009-10 Hall of Fame inductee Denny Freeman gets a second chance to deliver his induction speech

"...the most common question about the workings of the Chronicle's Austin Music Poll, and the answer I love most..."

April 2, 2010 Music Feature by Denny Freeman

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