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Brittany Howard, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and More Austin Blues Festival Reviews
Standouts from the Antone’s organizers’ Waterloo Park return
"...one-day 2023 tryout doubled to two days of on-point blues-and-beyond curation in the second year of Austin Blues Festival...."

April 29, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Blues Festival Announces Set Times for Jimmie Vaughan, Brittany Howard, Robert Glasper
And warns of a ticket price increase this Friday
"...Austin Blues Festival is back to help you plan your..."

April 9, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

W.C. Clark, the Godfather of Austin Blues, Has Died
The Texas Soul standard mentored Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others
"...Austin musician W.C. Clark, known as “the Godfather of Austin..."

March 2, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park
Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later
"...John Lee Hooker himself headlined the 1st Annual Antone's Blues Festival at Waterloo Park in 1999. Los Lobos did..."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: Blues for Clifford
Men are remembered not for what they had, but for what they gave
"..."People in Austin are spoiled to so much good music, but when..."

May 26, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Brittany Howard, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and More Austin Blues Festival Reviews
Standouts from the Antone’s organizers’ Waterloo Park return

May 3, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Blues Festival 2024 at Waterloo Park
"...one-day 2023 tryout doubled to two days of on-point blues-and-beyond curation in the second year of Austin Blues Festival...."

April 29, 2024 Photo Gallery

Austin Blues Fest 2023
"...Clifford Antone organized the first-ever Antone's Blues Festival at the turn of the century. Thanks to..."

May 1, 2023 Photo Gallery

This April, Antone’s Brings Blues (and More) Back to Waterloo Park
Austin Blues Festival invites Los Lobos, Adrian Quesada, and more
"...Clifford Antone, eponymous owner of the famed Downtown blues club and a patron saint of Austin live music,..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Blues Boy Hubbard Passes at 85
Guitarist and bandleader elemental to Eastside music history
"...Henry “Blues Boy” Hubbard, a one-man institution of Austin blues whose..."

Nov. 25, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Eight April Music Festivals In and Around Austin
From Rancho Alegre to Austin Blues, April offers ample opportunities
"...not alone. Alongside longtime players like Old Settlers and Austin Reggae Festival, a wealth of first-time and returning events..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

From Country to Blues, Check Out These Austin-Area April Music Festival Lineups
Peruse new 2024 plans from Eclipse Utopia, Two Step Inn, and more
"...With October’s Austin City Limits and Levitation behind us, promoters have begun..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

DAIISTAR, Pussy Gillette, S.L. Houser, Walker Lukens to Play the Austin Music Awards
Tickets on sale now for the Feb. 25 concert at Antone’s
"...Forty-second time’s the charm! Over four decades in, the Austin Music Awards rounds up a jam-packed concert showcase of..."

Feb. 1, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Infinite Hellscape Brings Austin Eclecticism Into Focus Under West Texas Stars
Camping at the first-year Austin/Marathon/Ft. Davis fest
"...and then cool pitch darkness, the intense setting boosted Austin familiars to play the best I've seen from them..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Here Are Your Winners for the 42nd Annual Austin Music Awards
Austin’s favorite albums, artists, and instrumentalists of 2023
"...details wiggle around annually, the meat-and-potatoes mission of the Austin Music Awards sticks. The Austin Chronicle celebrates the year..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by The Music Team

Point Austin: Going Down Slow
The fading numbers of Austin's African-Americans
"...My introduction to Austin night life was a 1977 Antone's performance of Junior..."

June 27, 2014 News Column by Michael King

We Have an Issue: Spring Treats, Fantastic Comics, and Best of Austin Finalists
In this week's issue, we celebrate Austin's comic book artists and authors, and reveal the 875 nominees up for Best of Austin Awards
"...of the comic book authors and artists living in Austin. One of those featured talents, John Gholson, drew this..."

May 5, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Austin FC Enlists Black Joe Lewis to Announce 2022 Schedule
Tickets go on sale Friday
"...A new video from Austin blues, soul, and rock combustor Black Joe Lewis accompanies..."

Dec. 15, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Austin @ Large: Canary in the Data Mine
Profile of the 2002 Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project
"...the time is right for ... big-picture talk about Austin Tomorrow. After a few weeks of post-election lull, with..."

June 28, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

True Blues
Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.
"...more prone to tooting its own horn than Texas blues, and with good reason. Alan Govenar's new book, Texas..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dead Man Blues
7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.
"...The Jinx The blues is you're 43 and dead. The blues is when..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Confessin' the Blues
Soul Man W.C. Clark
"..."Blues is sufferin' music."..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows Announced
More ACL means more aftershows – in four different cities
"...C3 Presents announced its cache of Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows this morning, and, like..."

Aug. 20, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Summertime Blues
Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!
"...as a stage inside the King Seabrook Chapel at Austin's historic and predominantly black Huston-Tillotson University have met only..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Blues
Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane
"...the parking garage into his East Oltorf apartment, Henry "Blues Boy" Hubbard looks me over and warns, "If you..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

ACL Interview: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Your basic sweaty rock & roll revival
"...been a long time since we heard the primal blues-punk of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Why? For one,..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Blues on the Green Cancels 2024 Season, Citing Cost Hurdles
“Austin, please know that we wish it wasn’t so”
"...Blues on the Green, the long-running free concert series that..."

Jan. 18, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin
The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)
"..."Austin was boring in 1975," snarls Billy Bill Miller, Roky..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Varsity Blues
"...are the company's two most prominent predecessors of Varsity Blues). You'd think with all the video directors the network..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blues on the Green Returns with Gary Clark Jr.’s All-Star Revue
Four free summer shows kick off next Tuesday
"...two-year absence from Zilker Park, iconic free concert series Blues on the Green returns...."

July 19, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

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