Brittany Howard, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and More Austin Blues Festival Reviews

Standouts from the Antone’s organizers’ Waterloo Park return

"...created the Moody Amphitheater, which wound up being primarily booked by Live Nation, we’re especially grateful for the homegrown..."

April 29, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

“Music America” Exhibition Makes National Debut at LBJ Library

Exhibit details American music history through memorabilia and sound

"...belonging to Thomas Edison and a 1771 hymnal from Boston. Among the modern mementos are Taylor Swift’s six-string and..."

Feb. 14, 2024 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Album Review: je'Texas

je'Texas

"...time to 1969," and sounds as if they're singing about last summer. "On My Way" starts with a vibey,..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Hank Erwin

ACL Interview: The Broad, Brilliant, Beautiful Musical Universe of Jon Batiste

"We take you on a journey through Black American music history, ragtime to trap."

"...guitar leads, three harmony sirens, and Batiste manning a boxy Bo Diddley guitar, alto sax, and main instrument the..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Raoul Hernandez, Not Like Everybody Else

Outgoing Chronicle Music editor on 27 years of pure emotion

"...entered the newspaper industry at age 10, as a paperboy. With characteristic storytelling flair, he deems himself the last..."

July 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...year, Luke the Drifter-like covers LP Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza encored: "I think there's an over-emphasis on original material,"..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ed Ward Unleashes His Second Volume on The History of Rock & Roll

First-generation rock critic visits Teen Pan Alley

"...second installment of his series for New York's Flatiron Books. Dedicated to late Chronicle scribe Margaret Moser because "she..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Raconteurs

"...and a hash pipe. Opening the Detroiters' third LP, "Bored and Razed" echoes Cheap Trick, while "Live a Lie"..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Satan & Adam

The personal and musical impact of a Harlem friendship

"...the title) and the much younger, Ivy League-educated white boy Adam Gussow, who initially achieved minor celebrity together during..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

16 Experimentalists to Help You Get Weird at SXSW

"...intensive editing whiz by in the orbital upbeat BPM bounce...."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rick Weaver

Eight International All-Stars at SXSW Music

"...quintet from Leicester, UK. Frontman Murray Cameron plays trumpet, keyboards, and – for better or worse – raps over..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Steve Cropper Recalls Rhythm & Blues History Through Six Strings

Chatting with the most egoless guitar hero in history

"...Missouri-born Steven Lee Cropper, 77, remains the most crucial guitarist..."

Feb. 21, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Our picks from the usual onslaught of live music options

"...percussion. The group’s live guitarist, Michael Seyer, produces lonely boy alternative soul from home too. He supports after New..."

July 6, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Meet the Women of Austin R&B

Spotlighting five formidable soul vocalists

"...In fact, given the face of Austin's hyperactive changes, both economic and social, these women are in something of..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Playback: Saving Souls at the Electric Church

New venue the Electric Church converts local psychics, and Samuel Grey Horse recounts his mule variations

"...their parish flourish into one of Austin's most talked about "underground" music venues...."

June 2, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Live: Showtime Presents Nick Waterhouse, Grandmaster Flash

Waterhouse sets the stage, Flash torches it

"...coming from a mile away like a Hulk Hogan boot to the face. No longer hiding the pop, “Shake..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Kahron Spearman

Friday Free Week Stoner Jam: Duel

“Free Week is a magic window of time”

"...frontman Tom Frank fielded our five queries. “Lucky for both of us my edible just kicked in,” he emailed,..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...Dury proclaiming the titular vices "all me brain and body needs" remains his most enduring anthem. – Tim Stegall..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

10 Questions for Geezer Butler

Bassist’s questionnaire for Black Sabbath’s final U.S. concert

"...Austin Chronicle: Bo Diddley was famously bitter he couldn’t collect royalties on..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Review: Lincoln Durham

Post-blues tug of war between God and the Satan

"...flapjack – parent rock traded for digital youth – both quotients have backslid. That didn’t stop ATX’s one-man wrecking..."

Oct. 8, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Meet Your Death

"...their new vehicle Meet Your Death, the pair's latest collaboration after a 2014 acoustic collaboration in Dead Mall Blues..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"...The 72-year-old guitarist bookended a buoyant two-hour interview with a 40-minute deconstruction of..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hideaway

A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone's House Band? For three decades now, believe it!

"...rare blues double-header: My regular Thursday happy hour at C-Boy's Heart & Soul with Paul Oscher – Muddy Waters'..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

Sideshow Tragedy, Duncan Fellows

"...his town? Drummer Jeremy Harrell pounds out a beat both Neanderthal-like and full of finesse. Nathan Singleton, meanwhile, owns..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Syl Sylvain & the Sylvains

New York Doll assembles local all-stars Friday at Hotel Vegas

"...Among the myriad accomplishments of Syl Sylvain – born Ronald Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine’s Day 1953..."

Aug. 12, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"..."The World's Biggest Pedal Board" appeared on Facebook Dec. 30, courtesy of ex-Cult/Guns N'..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Pawn Shop Rock

In hock? We've got just the ticket!

"...that or sell drugs," he smirks. "Sometimes we did both. My apologies to all the parents in the world."..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Bob Log III Q&A

One-man guitar orgy crams into Mohawk on Thursday

"...Bob Log III’s best gimmick isn’t his flamboyant getup of..."

July 21, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Strypes

"...applying blues forms to modern living. Judicious covers of Bo Diddley ("I Can Tell"), Willie Dixon ("You Can't Judge..."

July 18, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

When the Clock Strikes 12

Bill Haley died for rock & roll – in Harlingen

"...the first rock & roll single to top the Billboard charts and sell a million records wasn't even inducted..."

May 16, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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