Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...contrast, improve with age. They translate into invaluable sources of history by inconspicuously molding the past and the present...."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Residential Address: Jon Dee Graham and the Snakes of Central Texas

Wednesdays @ Continental Club, 9:30pm-close

"...behind William Harries Graham rolls through the open doors of the Continental Club and out onto South Congress on..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Texas Blues in the NBA

"...rebounds per game. With that, Thorpe didn’t have much of a choice. Down goes Durant, down goes Durant. After..."

March 3, 2008 Sports Post by Andy Denham

Performers Find Unexpected Side Effect of Pandemic: Attentive Audiences

Intimacy and reverence endure at socially distanced shows

"...evening, Jonathan Horstmann surveyed the canopy on the University of Texas campus under which he’d been booked to perform..."

Oct. 5, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Ivan Cornejo, Steve Wynn, Cardinals, and More Reviews From Thursday of SXSW

Sonic dispatches from Ireland, Mexico, and the Afro Diaspora

"...Day four of South by Southwest Music felt especially global...."

March 14, 2025 Music Post by Kyra Bruce

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...A choice bit of little-known Austin music history: Guitarist Johnny Copeland lived here..."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...He’s a founding member of Durand Jones & the Indications – that’s his falsetto..."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...A short line of duplexes and fourplexes, each in various states of disrepair,..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Playback: The Return of the Austin Smoking Ban

A decade after the initial smoking ban, local health group hopes to stomp out smoking patios

"...smoking is forbidden and prohibit cigarette smoking on patios of restaurants and bars...."

July 22, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Two

The anti-smoking ordinance is an unconscionable social experiment in an already sketchy economic environment; the Place 5 run-off boasts two good candidates, so no need to get ugly; and we report the news, not slurs.

"...come across sounding like those who advocate the legalization of marijuana only for its medicinal uses rather than due..."

May 30, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Hideaway

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

"...It's Dec. 31, 2015, and I've got a rare blues double-header: My regular Thursday happy hour at C-Boy's Heart..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...keynotes and featured speakers announcement – meaning a ton of celebrities, including Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, and Sydney Sweeney,..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Record Reviews: Christmas

"...Brown wisely sidesteps over-trodden Christmas standards and includes nine of his own tunes on this 17-track compilation - collected..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Review

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...than about 50 families, but it was a hotbed of blues players in the Thirties and Forties, producing not..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

ACL HOF WOW

Sold-out awards show shucks off TV tropes and triumphs

"...no one’s written jokes for. Olympian musicians reading lyrics off a huge teleprompter. Pretending it’s New Year’s Eve, because..."

Oct. 13, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...Despite the local proliferation of music schools, teen bands are considered a novelty. True,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...major-label types want to know where this dramatis personae of aspiring MCs is repping? Try the jersey shortcut. Hip..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Transforming Herself

Sissy Spacek's Most Memorable Movies

"...Clyde, Holly is swept away by the expansive charms of Kit Carruthers (Sheen), but she could have just as..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Music Recommended

Fiddle Fete

"...share the bill with fiddle masters Claude Williams (jazz) of Kansas City, Brian Marshall (Texas-Polish), Rufus Thibodeaux (Cajun), Jose..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Music Feature

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...Cogent and considered recollections of older black men from Texas and the broadly American..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Untapped Austin Releases Full Beer List

Forget about 2016 with 334 brews

"...With the presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, the deaths of Prince and David Bowie,..."

April 28, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Before the Lights Go Out

One last local look

"...Man.” Forget about trends, the Nortons are angst-free Texas blues-rock for the over-50 set. Dead Pyrates Society Tempus Fugit..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...Five decades in, Nils Lofgren maintains a full musical life. Besides long-running partnerships with..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Live Shots

"...In recent years, Austin has seen a strange herd of non-traditional instruments take to its rock & roll stages,..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...to worry about -- and it's not his state of mind. We'll leave those details to the lovely Tanya..."

July 5, 1996 Music Review

Checking In: Rochelle & the Sidewinders Realize Something Good

Hard blues band singer + guitarist combo splits at Prince & Barney

"...19 tracks on Something Good, Rochelle Creone splinters the gut-bucket with one swift boot,” I wrote last week. “Second..."

Sept. 29, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Beck

Live Shot

"...school auditorium didn't look like a scaled down version of Bass Concert Hall, either. Nevertheless, it was Beck's white..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Wrestling the Mic From Colt Cabana

Underground wrestler-turned-podcaster slams SXSW

"...eight years, Chicago-based wrestler Colt Cabana has been one of the top names in grappling podcasting. Before strapping on..."

March 17, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...Austin's brilliant vagabond songman (1949-1989) would require six feet of shoveling. Instead, loaded into the show's thematic thrust of..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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