Playback: Next Big Buzzes at SXSW 2018

Forecasting this year’s breakout acts

"...Every year, a couple of acts arrive at the Festival in relative obscurity, then the next time we see..."

March 9, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Thu. 15, Flatstock Stage, Austin Convention Center, 12:30pm; Thu. 15, Lamberts, 9pm Bifannah conjures..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: SXSW Mission Statement

Six lists to get you through SXSW 2015

"...Of course, there's Kanye West's ego-mandated mid-March appearance in Austin, but that's become commonplace...."

March 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Half Step Garners Top Industry Nom

UPDATED: Chris Bostick hoping to take home 2014 Spirited Award

"...has been nominated for Best New American Bar in 2014 Spirited Awards from top industry fest Tales of the..."

June 6, 2014 Food Post by Gracie Salem

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...Child, proves the band's equally capable of bleary-eyed ballads. Austin Powell Paper Lions..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Playback: Red River

Hit-and-run leaves two dead

"...taped off between Ninth and 11th, and listened as Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo broke the news: an allegedly..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?

Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them

"...Sitting in the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians office last summer, waiting for an eye exam,..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

Culture, Arts, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Don't let the heat get you down

"...a most delightful time thanks to the Queertowne podcast. Austin’s favorite – okay, maybe my favorite – queer comedy..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Los Cogelones, PickleStock, Lady Dan, and more recommended Austin shows

"...ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in Austin? Find our concert picks here...."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Can Dirty Sixth Be Cleaned Up?

City Hall, the bars and clubs, and now a big developer say, “Maybe?”

"...Based on past experience, Austinites can count on a public outcry to clean up..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Chad Swiatecki

SXSW Comedy: Doug Loves Movies Podcast Recording

Doug Benson and friends give South By a fond, filmic farewell

"...Movies, the second of this year’s SXSW, was a festival ending full of the easy joy of a couple..."

March 18, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires

How Rooster Teeth Became an Online Phenomenon

9.5 million YouTube subscribers can’t be wrong

"...funny videos riffing on the game Halo, is now Austin's biggest online content production house...."

May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Best Wishes and Bon Voyage, Brandon Watson

Chronicle Food editor sets sail, Jessi Cape assumes helm

"...Watson is leaving us for a spot at CultureMap Austin, where he’ll be casting his exacting eye on a..."

Sept. 14, 2017 Food Post by Kimberley Jones

Friday SXSW Picks

"...SXSW vet's stirring set at Central Presbyterian Church in 2014 remains a festival high. – Neph Basedow..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Food-o-File

Opening ceremonies

"...street level of the 360 condominiums in May of 2014...."

March 6, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Unleashing the Fundraising Power of 'Inframan'

Drafthouse screening Hong Kong sci-fi classic for Stephen Romano

"...Romano is an institution in the Austin literary and genre scenes, having translated Joe Lansdale's "Incident..."

June 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...that envisions a paranoid, hyper-connected reality that's fast approaching. Austin Powell The Boxing Lesson..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Punk Plays Nice and Writes a Symphony

New film features local musician's road to symphonic success

"...For Nathan "Noise" Felix, an Austin indie/punk musician, the dream was to compose a symphony..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

News/Print

Terrible awards and exciting new projects

"...An Austinite wins a Bulwer-Lytton Award, and Veronica Mars goes literary...."

July 17, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

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