The French Connection

Golden moments at Austin Week in Angers, France

"...young soul – not entirely unlike its sister city: Austin, Texas...."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Review: The Arcs

Another “Dan band” delivers at the post office via Samsung

"...Thus, the setting and scene preceding the Arcs’ first Austin appearance – opening for the Strokes at the annual..."

March 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hate Eternal = Multitasking

Famed metal producer and frontman Erik Rutan can’t sit still

"...Austin Chronicle: You just released the best Hate Eternal album..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Let the Music

Garage punk Orville Bateman Neeley III crosses over

"...That drive defines Orville Bateman Neeley III, Austin garage-punk polymath and one of the scene's most gifted..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

¡Pachanga! Picks

Pachanga Fest preview

"...Austin's annual Latino music festival at Fiesta Gardens crams into..."

May 15, 2015 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Playback: SXSW 2015: Turnt Up & Dialed Down

SXSW Music 2015 – that's a wrap

"...recent past. SXSW has long been considered "Christmas" for Austin's Downtown service industry...."

March 27, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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

Extreme Heat

"...vocalist Bruce Spelman ("Voices") and bassist Mike Roeder ("Survivor"), Austin's Eighties-vintage band of Texas-style funkateers layers chunky guitars from..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Thinking About Stephen Bruton

There’s just no getting over some people

"...Margaret Moser’s cancer diagnosis gave me reason to throw..."

May 14, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Saturday Picks and Sleepers

"...expanding sound that's led them to the top of Austin's indie scene. Fourth LP Last Looks courses with even..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...garage rock explosion. Since onetime Rhino Records producer James Austin already delivered the grail with 1996's Cowabunga! The Surf..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...be. Not the wild, mind-bending guitarist, who was to Austin's Eighties what Junior Brown became to its Nineties and..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

The Golden Boys

"...in spirit, rifling through dirty R&B, outlaw country, and vintage pop, Austin's the Golden Boys embody every great idiom..."

April 13, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

7 & 7 Is

7 & 7 Is

"...which was a raging success for these two young Austin indie bands. Pop-power trio Marmalakes bashes out its slow,..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Peter Gabriel/Youssou N'Dour

"...tour remains a global kiss-the-sky crossover. Gabriel performed both vintage So-journs in Houston two nights prior to N'Dour's lithe..."

June 24, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...was a week away, the final music festival of Austin's yearly marathon, but Saturday night, Oct. 30, settled springlike..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...enough for Adrian Quesada. The latest project from the Austin guitarist and composer is a stunning set of sun-drenched..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Finntroll

Finnish metal returns to Emo's for a sequel

"...28 minutes. Barren Earth, more Helsinki hellions, comes to Austin correct, with Peaceville Records’ debut Curse of the Red..."

Feb. 3, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...long oaken table – splintering it. Erupting alongside avalanche guitars, which undercurrent a monstrously disfigured garage descendent of maybe..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Swampadelic

Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers

"...Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Austin's godfather of funk Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne share the..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

Sunday ACL handicapping

"...11:20am, Austin Ventures stage..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

Old Guy Radio

Dick, Elvis, and more

"...their rightly praised first disc. Tunes like the frisky “Guitars, Whiskey, Guns and Knives” and the fast moving “The..."

Sept. 9, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

My SXSW

"...in Pflugerville – a green musician with my first vintage instrument. By the time I turned around, the place..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Freedy Johnston

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

One last night of band blurbs!

"...8pm, Headhunters Austin's answer to My Bloody Mary Chain has taken to..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Page Two: Wild & Free

Surveying the SXSW landscape

"...One of the great pleasures of living in Austin was getting to know Doug Sahm. I became a..."

March 6, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Off the Record

Mining the vaults of Austin City Limits, navigating the SXSW grid, and hanging with Jenny Wolfe After School

"...Since the South by Southwest grid went public late..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The Sword and Metallica ride the lightning at Ozzfest, while Kanye West and Hope for Heroes lend a helping hand to U.S. veterans

"...band's eponymous black album, Metallica electrocuted two hours of vintage thrash metal that featured land-mine explosions for "One" and..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

I See Dead People

The Black Angels conjure Austin's psychedelic renaissance

"...Huddled outside Austin Music Rooms, a 24-hour practice studio off South First,..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Troublemaker

Ed Ward's first-hand account of Willie Nelson's Complete Atlantic Sessions.

"...In June, Rhino Records issued a 3-CD box set..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...FRIDAYBeto & the Fairlanes Noon, Austin Ventures stage..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

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