A Mardi Gras Pre-Party, Improvised Intimacy, and More Recommended Events

Allow us to help sort your weekend out

"...and mothkind. Giant visuals. Epic music, from Kiss to Bach and everything in between. Storytelling mixing familial tales with..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Live Music Recommendations for the Week Ahead

Get to know your shows

"...and mothkind. Giant visuals. Epic music, from Kiss to Bach and everything in between. Storytelling mixing familial tales with..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Levitation, a Cumbia Halloween, Jazz Hall of Fame, and More Crucial Concerts

From spooky to undead and beyond, these are the shows to see

"...technique and exquisite sensitivity colors pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, and more. Unmissable, especially in..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Let Us Help You Pick Out the Perfect Live Show This Week

Our writers pick the best live music for the week ahead

"...vibey, majestic choir music from Craig Hella Johnson, J.S. Bach, Eric Whitacre, and more. The storytellers will present four..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

A Comic Con, Drag Birthday, and More Recommended Events

Party hard this weekend

"...birds out there an event of their own. Kelly Bach and partner Snugg will facilitate a soundtracked yoga dreamscape,..."

July 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...We Strangers Director/Screenwriter: Anu ValiaProducers: Olivia Wingate, Alex Bach, Zach Spicer, Joy Jorgensen, Miranda Kahn Rayelle Martin, a..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Deerhoof at Wizard Rodeo and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Austin acts El Combo Oscuro and sleep well. both host album release shows

"...artfully couples his own music with the works of Bach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Charlton Singleton, along with original transitions..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Felt Out Follows Their Shape-Shifting Pop Intuition

A rename and shared chemistry propel the Austin duo's new album

"...Composition degree from UT-Austin. The duo cites both Western (Bach, Stravinsky) and Indian (Kishori Amonkar, Rashid Khan) masters of..."

April 28, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Overcoming Fear With Deon Taylor

How covid and the George Floyd protests shaped his new film

"...drove from New York. T.I. drove from Atlanta, King Bach from LA, and we all descended on this lodge..."

Feb. 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fear

Pandemic horror is overshadowed by better films about fear

"...Joseph Sikora, Annie Ilonzeh, Terrence J, Ruby Modine, King Bach, T.I., Jessica Allain and Iddo Goldberg...."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

ACL Interview: On the Shoulders of Giants, the Huston-Tillotson University Jazz Collective Makes ACL Debut

All-student ensemble shares alma mater of jazz legacies

"...jazz troupe skips the stuffy classics – of the Bach and Beethoven variety, anyway – and opts to fill..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Summer travel opportunities and news from all over Texas

"...Luckenbach news. This just in from the good folk carrying..."

June 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Faster Than Sound: Nine Records That Inspired Austin Author Fernando A. Flores' Valleyesque

From Pauline Oliveros to Big Boys, sounds behind the surreal South Texas-rooted story collection

"...two stories in Valleyesque were partly drafted this way." Bach: The Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould..."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Film Review: Dio Dreamers Never Die

Biography of the metal master reveals a quiet, gentle man

"...bandmates, members of Black Sabbath, and fellow metalhead Sebastian Bach, among other rock royalty. Together, they detail his childhood,..."

March 18, 2022 SXSW Post by Robert Penson

Faster Than Sound: Wait, How Does SXSW Music Work Again?

Breaking down the basics, and some favorites, after three years away

"...topics: Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler and Skid Row's Sebastian Bach discuss "the enduring power of metal," Chic co-founder Rodgers..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...The one who painted a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach to hang in his home studio. Searching for a..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Ethan Azarian, Soccer Mommy, OUTlaw Pride Fest, Fuckemos, Playboi Carti, and Dr. James Polk & Centerpeace

"...Anthem" for example, with its bewitching chemical mixture of Bach Halloween favorite "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" and..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Pho on the coast, statuesque women in Dallas; June is time to hit the road

"...Bach Festival June 8-12, Victoria, www.victoriabachfestival.org..."

June 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Greenland

Gerard Butler brings back the classic disaster movie

"...Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, King Bach and Holt McCallany...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Jerry Jeff Walker Brought the Magic

"Mr. Bojangles" author catalyzes the Seventies progressive country movement.

"...recorded live in Hondo Crouch's Hill Country hideaway of Lucken­bach, became the hallmark of a distinctly Texan style: rowdy..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

This Is Who We Are #3: A New Year's Conspirare Classic

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...smoothly ascended the scales. Reger's 20th century evocation of Bach then gave way to the real thing: Johann Sebastian's..."

May 6, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Levitation Interview: Lingua Ignota

Kristin Hayter on academia, catholicism & the complexity of violence

"...a piece of architectural writing from Le Corbusier and Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, then assigned each note to a word..."

Nov. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

In Austin, Bushwick Bill Found his Musical Playground

Late Geto Boys rapper’s penchant for stage crashing was legendary

"...looked like they'd rather be listening to Beethoven or Bach,” Bushwick Bill recounted of his first time crashing a..."

June 10, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Qmmunity: Austin Sparkles With Black Pride

ABP's fourth annual Pride Weekend, dykes you should know, and more events for your Summer of Pride

"...Bulimianne’s UnBEARable Bach Party! She's getting hitched! Thu., June 6, 10pm. The..."

June 7, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

No more pencils, no more books, just tons of fun for everyone

"...Bach Festival June 1-8, Victoria, www.victoriabachfestival.org..."

May 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Dance and Classical Joys of 2018

In this year’s dance and classical offerings, extraordinary depictions of loss and suffering continue to haunt

"...6) BACH N' BEATS (Austin Symphony Orchestra) ASO proved that classical..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Conspirare Sings at Matthew Shepard Interment

Austin choral ensemble performed at National Cathedral service

"...concert, it's worth noting their upcoming programs: the concert Bach Plus on Sat., Nov. 17, at St. Michael's Episcopal..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company

In this short works program, the troupe explored the solace and thrills in the company you keep

"...a few minutes, the first piercing, familiar notes of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor came across as..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Concert/Opera Bach: Mass in B Minor, Panoramic Voices Carmen, Austin Opera..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

"...high school championships are this weekend, April 18-21 at Birkel­bach Field in Georgetown – games pretty much all day..."

April 20, 2018 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

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