Playback: Antone's Resurrected

The return of Antone's, Free Week, and the Austin Music Poll Ballot

"...Austin music cognoscenti, and at least one rock star (Billy Gibbons) – were welcomed by longtime greeter Ilse Haynes..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Van Wilks

"...First, Austin guitar slinger emeritus Van Wilks n-a-i-l-s Billy Gibbons' ranchero drawl on 21st Century Blues opener "Strange..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Blues Lessons with Eve Monsees

Guitarist starts at Jimmy Reed and ends up in New Orleans

"...took her so long to own one. She bends strings on a Silvertone “that’s tuned open and sounds pretty..."

Dec. 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

After the Flood, Before the Flood

As the area recovers from the Memorial Day flood, El Niño looms

"...reported last year that due to Congress' tight purse strings "more than 160 homeowners in Austin's highest-risk flood zone..."

Aug. 14, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Strawberry Letter 23

Cult soulman/guitarist Shuggie Otis returns from decades of mystery

"...nearly every instrument. It's intricate yet airy. Layers of strings, synths, harps, horns, flutes, and vibraphones weave together a..."

July 10, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

KGSR’s Blues On the Green: Antone’s All-Star Revue

"...Three guitarists times six strings: (l-r) O’Brien, Freeman, Monsees..."

June 4, 2015 Photo Gallery

2014-15 Austin Music Awards

"...Return to Austin High participant Warren Hood accepts Best Strings...."

March 19, 2015 Photo Gallery

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Listings – Second Weekend

Blurbing a final day of ACL 2014

"...with Lone Star sensibilities. This summer, the trio added Billy Bright's mandolin to the mix of banjo, guitar, and..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Feature

Roy Orbison

"...touches sound like his band ELO – tons of strings, massed acoustic guitars, and a Danelectro baritone axe twanging..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Even Flow

The Wounded Warrior Project and MSNBC bring the war home via an Austin connection

"...the day I visited the Flow compound, score composer Billy West was busy working on the soundtrack of the..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

DVDanger: NSFW

The return of Eurosex with 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Under the Skin'

"...the improvised dialogue to a low murmur. Then Levi's strings skitter and glide over the top, like a praying..."

July 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wednesday SXSW 2014 Showcases

Stay planted for an evening

"...Someone should have thought twice about booking Billy Joe Shaver into a club called Shotguns, since Waco's..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

ZZ Top’s Pincushion

Flyin’ high and fast at a sold-out Moody Theater

"...Pressure” blitzkrieged as heavy and inevitable as crude oil, Billy Gibbons’ first oozing verse met by Dusty Hill’s piquant..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

There’s a Blue Note in Each Song That I Sing Since You’ve Been Gone

George Jones, 1931-2013

"...named Elvis Presley, and cut a number of excellent rockabilly sides of his own – including a raw take..."

April 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...members last year to record Tlaquepaque. – Greg Beets BILLY JOE SHAVER..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles

"...in a room writing music on a ukulele. Four strings being blistered in fraught, slicing strums. Happy tones turned..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Variations on Carol of the Bells

Mermen, movies, and Whitney pulled me under for Christmas

"...pedal steel effect that mimics whale sounds, its weighty strings and cymbals summoning something heavy out of the mist...."

Dec. 24, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...Duke Ellington, the Rolling Stones, T-Bone Walker, Mance Lipscomb, Billy Eckstine, Albert Collins, Count Basie, and countless blues and..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...Wild-eyed rockabilly veteran Ray Campi wrote his first song on the..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan

"...broken-morning counterpoint to her party nights, while the latter strings an ephemeral instrumental. Both are exceptional. Expected artists pay..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Review by Doug Freeman

AFF: 'Strings'

Locally-lensed relationship drama ramps up the sense of brooding

"...bind, familial and otherwise, are at the heart of Strings narrative, which follows the misfortunes of Billy (Billy Harvey),..."

Oct. 25, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Film Flam

Preserving Mondo's archive, Fantastic Fest first wave, farewell to Sherry Mills, and what's happening with lots of local productions

"...as interim executive director... Ben Foster and Mark Dennis' Strings took home an audience award and the Best Song..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday night blurbage of SXSW

"...him to collaborate with Jim James, Sarah Jarosz, and Billy Bragg. The Kentucky native's Learning To Bend was hailed..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...Esbe Da Bully, flexes lyrical strength akin to M.O.P's Billy Danze. They'll either clown ya or clock ya. –..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...an independent world of it’s own, fighting to survive. Billy's Birthday Director: Thomas Wohlford It's Billy's Birthday. BUNNY BOY..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Recent 'Rockpalast' Avalanche

"...the spotlight like the pick flicking across his bass strings as he surveys the open-air crowd with the smoky..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...People like Billy Gibbons and Bob Dylan hid in the Rome's dark..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...Splendor incarnate, last Tuesday evening in Cleveland Heights. A hillbilly wedding in the birdsong mountains of West Virginia had..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...and viola and has worked with Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy. London's classically trained, harmonium-playing Olivia Chaney mines a similar..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

David Garza maps The Road to ACL, inside Ghostland Observatory's new crash pad, and other strange insights into this weekend's festival

"...Fastway [led by Flogging Molly's Dave King] opening for Billy Squier."..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

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