Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...were pulling out of towns across America, heading to Austin. We speculated on not just the motor vehicles but..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Off the Record

Handicapping the decade in Austin music and playing favorites for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...Top 10 Events That Defined the Decade in Austin Music..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two

South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell us to relax.

"...Film, and the week after covers not only SXSW Music but also includes the annual Austin Chronicle Austin Music..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

We Have an Issue: “Free Wrapping Paper Since 1981”

"...year, Art Director Zeke Barbaro has combined two quintessentially Austin somethings – bats and tacos – for a design..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Making Their Marks

Austin loses two legends in one week

"...dear friend Luke Zimmermann died this week. Tuesday night, Austin legend, promoter, brigand, highwayman, and constant swashbuckling lead in..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...One of the things Austinites fear most, while this conservative-leaning government is in session,..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Column by Louis Black

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: Under Construction

Time to roll up the sleeves and start rebuilding our democracy

"...All Know and Love: SXSW announced Wednesday that country music icon and weed entrepreneur Willie Nelson will deliver a..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

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

Page Two

Smart Growth and other millennial hallucinations ...

"...trouble. Most had a great time, listening to the music, hanging in the crowd, just being downtown. And what..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...New Times staff writer David Holthouse's piece on an Austin resident, Meat Puppet Curt Kirkwood, was so powerful and..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Good cops, bad cops, in the booming city.

"...responsibility to the community to expose them. Recently, the Austin Police Department has been taking it on the chin:..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

The next four days will be the hardest three weeks of the year.

"...Already, Margaret Moser and I are working on the Music Awards Show lineup, while she is tooling up the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

The oddest part of the next week or so is not how much will happen but how very little really will.

"...is one hell of a great party -- a musical salute to this century and the next century hosted..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...to plan from that - that the residents of Austin, the angry folks in the soon-to-be-annexed areas, the suburban..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Brass Bands, Russian Circles, Swindlers, and More Crucial Concerts

Get out and get loud

"...A virtual early 2000s Austin supergroup, Heavy Meddo features Bill Baird and Jordan Johns,..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

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

Faster Than Sound: KUTX Beacon Jay Trachtenberg Retires

Jay Trachtenberg retires from KUTX, Rick Carney steps down as Music Commission chair, and Johnny Bush ascends to honky-tonky heaven.

"...which had just begun internet broadcasts and spun off music frequency KUTX in 2013...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Ramones Signer Seymour Stein Visits Local Mentees Residual Kid

Plus Casey Monahan's exit interview, James Petralli's new side project, and SXSW's 547 additional acts

"...spot them." "There are only two labels that define music: good or bad."..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Sound Bleed

As Interactive kicks off SXSW, its bookings merge with Music

"...SXSW Interactive/SXSW Music..."

March 7, 2014 Music Column

Off the Record

Austin Music Poll winners are just going to have to wait until the Austin Music Awards, plus a closer look at SXSW's international acts

"...of South by Southwest, the results of the Chronicle Music Poll will not be published in the SXSW Music..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

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

Off the Record

Announcing the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards lineup and sneaking past the velvet rope at Pangaea, while Andrew Kenny trades American Analog Set for the Wooden Birds

"...Austin's psychedelic torch will be handed down at the 2008-09..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCB

"O Death, where is thy sting?" – 1 Corinthians 15:55

"...something when the scythe cuts close to home, which, musically speaking, happened plenty in 2006. It was nearly impossible..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...DAVIS McLARTY AGENCY PRESENTS: ... three Austin acts the former Ely drummer, forever Booze Weasel-turned-booker books:..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...by Todd V. Wolfson Few things are certain about Austin's Music Class of '98, those local artists releasing albums..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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

Residential Address: Africa Night's Food, Dance, and Storytelling at Sahara Lounge

Musician Ibrahim Aminou brings West Africa to East Austin every Saturday

"...might actually be the best deal in town for music and the open buffet of spicy halal meatballs and..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

We Have an Issue: Wow. It's Owen Wilson on the Cover (Finally).

In this week's issue, Austin's adopted son discusses his new IFC Films comedy about the joy of painting

"...It's been ages since Owen Wilson called Austin home – famously, he met his Bottle Rocket collaborator..."

April 7, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

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