Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Some selections to help you cool down as summer heats up

"...LPs, with the posthumous Etc. compiling unreleased and non-album tracks in 2002. Each album showed a marked progression in..."

July 13, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Boy George’s New Life

Culture Club frontman relives the Seventies

"...Austin Chronicle: You’re calling from Australia, where you’ve spent quite..."

July 4, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Gimme Shelter: A Song for Margaret Moser

A stoned soul picnic of Rolling Stones for Wattser

"...next morning at the office. That singular Sunday in Austin music history proved a certifiable blur for locals given..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your handbook for a happy Friday and Saturday

"...the wave of October release Three, Phantogram returns to Austin after a powerhouse year of headlining visits to Middlelands,..."

July 7, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

ACL Review: Haim

“Less talk, more rock, motherfuckers!”

"...Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U,” the bassist’s cheesy dance moves preceding her singing into her sister’s face like..."

Oct. 10, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Boyfrndz

"...soaring melodies tightly across widescreen canvases. Guitars sweep, rhythms dance around standard 4/4, and Scott Martin's high wail floats..."

May 27, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 23

"...annual artifact of live recordings marks year 23, benefiting Austin's SIMS Foundation and the Seton Fund. A host of..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Playback: SXSW News and Sightings

Polaroids, print, and dance funk – can they survive SXSW?

"...You're familiar with Bilheimer's work. The Austin-based visual artist has designed every one of R.E.M.'s album..."

March 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Listings

Blurbing Sunday ACL

"...into Divine Fits, August's They Want My Soul, the Austin quintet's eighth, traverses the full landscape of Spoon's previous..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature

The Realities of Virtual Reality

Locals look into virtual reality and see more than video games

"...same technology found in the average smartphone, the Rift tracks head orientation and renders 3-D worlds that surround users..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Breakout Pummels Cheer Up Charlie’s

Oi!-influenced ATX hardcores grip Chaos in Tejas day show

"...off two-minute Molotov cocktails of heavy, unpolished hardcore, the Austin crew proved unrelenting throughout its 30-minute set, the songs..."

June 2, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mo' Music: February 28

Stop, drop it like it's hot, and rock n' roll

"......"

Feb. 28, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Swamp Dogg Lotions Up

After midnight at the Continental Club Friday & Saturday

"...Austin Chronicle: You’ve written and recorded some sweet love songs..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...deliver a legit message and still sound like a dance line ("Satellite"). Discourse arrives a bit less directed on..."

July 26, 2013 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

The AggreGAYtor: January 11

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Cory Booker. We’ll make butternut squash ravioli and watch Dance Moms...."

Jan. 11, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

"...Heart" rang open Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' first Austin arena appearance in nearly a decade. 2006 Austin City..."

May 11, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

deEP end

deEP end

"...delinquency of At the Drive-In's "One Armed Scissor." The Austin quintet's six-song sophomore effort, Be Vigilant, offers a caterwauling..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

The Bright Light Social Hour

"...Those rolling echoes across Austin throughout 2010 came from the townies, all those musicians..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Music Review by Margaret Moser

My Education

"...Friends of Dean Martinez (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari): Austin's DIY film score contingent slays the silents. My Education..."

April 30, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Girlie Action

Girlie action

"...punch, but her "Run Into the Sun" has been dance-mixed as a bonus track and adds gypsy violin over..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

It Came From Down Under

Aussie films swarm SXSW 09

"...if the U.S. is ready to trade lowbrow laugh tracks for a subtler brand. However, current caustic comedy sensations..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Record Review

"..."cloudy as Cocteau," rampant as Jim Carroll – writhes Austin's Prince. The Cured melodicism of opener "2 Sinners in..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Double-Barrel Beautiful

Texan sweetheart of the 1960s folk rodeo, Carolyn Hester

"...Dallas high school production, Hester's performance of "The Kerry Dance" impressed a PE teacher, who introduced the aspiring vocalist..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Octopus Project Reviewed

"...Austin instrumental quartet the Octopus Project has evolutionized electronic textures..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Poor Man's Fortune/The Tea Merchants

"...share their talents freely. Exhibit A: two branches of Austin's Celtic tree, Poor Man's Fortune and the Tea Merchants...."

July 13, 2007 Music Review by David Lynch

Day Party Crawl

"...in the digital age, Indierect Records, KVRX 91.7FM, and AustinSound.net stirred a fresh batch of local talent at Spider..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

For the Sake of Swing, Strings, and Soul

Dance, Adam Ahrens, Never Frae My Mind, Band of Heathens, and Letters in the Wind

"...bass, lap steel, guitar, and tenor banjo. Their debut, Dance (Rubinchick), neatly captures their enthusiastic rhythms on eight tracks..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Fest Live Shots

Saturday, Sept. 16, Zilker Park

"...high-singing dude ever lacked huevos. In short order, the Austin-based Observatory cleared the air of remnant Centro-matic jams wafting..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Transcendentalism

Shearwater soars out from under Okkervil River

"...you're off in an exhilarating whirlwind of chatter. This dance of exclusion and engagement isn't limited to conversations: It's..."

May 12, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Have a Little Faith

James Hand might just get out of this country music business alive

"...It's a crisp Austin Saturday night and cars are sprawled up and down..."

April 7, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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