Off the Record

Forsaking the Song, the final chapter

"...marketing director for Houston's Justice Records with no prior booking experience. Fresh from UT orientation on Monday afternoon and..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

KUT announces a new Cactus Cafe manager, plus this week at the movies

"...and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, scored Comedy Central's new series Big Lake, and landed English Teeth's "Invasion"..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The Dawg Days of Summer: Introducing Cameron Smith and Austin Backstage Live

"...Imagine every Central Texas tourist attraction cobbled together into one giant theme..."

July 23, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...showcase that highlights the diversity of musica Latina in Central Texas. Three-time Grammy winners Little Joe y la Familia..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest

"...to include the Monarch, the multievent center located in central Austin's Lincoln Village complex, between I-35 and Highland Mall...."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Handicapping the decade in Austin music and playing favorites for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...in June 2005 and formed Transmission Entertainment – a booking and promotion enterprise with Mohawk owner James Moody and..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...R&B. That's the comfort afforded by 30 acres of Central Texas Hill Country, nearly an hour removed from Austin...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Food-o-File

How 'bout them apples?

"...far as I know, they're only for sale at Central Mar­ket ($2.99/lb), and there's no guarantee about how long..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Gay Place

Where the queers at? SXSW!

"...3:30-4:45pm, Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC (badges); showcase, 11pm, Central Presbyterian Church (wristbands or better). www.myspace.com/whokilledamandapalmer...."

March 20, 2009 Features Feature by Ash Bell

I'm Eighteen

Thoughts on the Next Up teen band series

"...- Austin could use some sort of booking agency or resource center for these bands, who would..."

Nov. 17, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Ben Kweller saddles up in Austin, Willie Nelson and company share one last night in the Backyard, and Bavu Blakes and others gear up for election night

"...Grant Park, home of Lollapalooza. Representatives from the local booking concern declined to comment...."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Can the Bands Play On?

The Live Music Task Force tunes up to protect Austin's claim to fame

"...the thin profit margins on out-of-town gigs. Once slacker-friendly, Central Austin is no longer affordable for a singer-songwriter eking..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Rockin' Solutions: A Four-Piece Combo

Highlights of solutions emerging from the four Live Music Task Force subcommittees

"...subcommittee has identified: new affordable housing, preservation of older central-city apartment complexes, business-side coaching and services for bands, more..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Lasting Commitments

The 2008 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...Show With David Letterman, NBC's Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central's Laugh Riots stand-up competition, and more. Coyle has befriended..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir

'Austin, 1972,' an excerpt from Joe Nick Patoski's new tome, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life

"...elegant fiddle-dance instrumental "Westphalia Waltz," which paid tribute to Central Texas's German heritage. Collins fiddled with perhaps the best-known..."

April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Page Two: South by Simplicity

The plain truth behind the Festival's origins

"...was then working for the Chronicle. Managing bands and booking clubs, Meyers didn't work for the Chronicle but was..."

March 14, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Band on the Run

ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury, represents another new paradigm of indie music exposure in the post-label era of the music industry

"...really like doing all this other stuff. All the booking, all the promotion just takes so much time. It's..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

TCB

That's the news, and I am outta here

"...a marketing ploy to lure yet another corporation to Central Texas, or otherwise fatten its tourism coffers, the music..."

June 29, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Food-o-File

Lambert's Barbecue's big debut and, yeah, more gingerbread

"...a long-established brand identity coupled with their enthusiasm for booking local music didn't generate the kind of numbers needed..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...was corporate welfare, back-room deal making, the gentrification of Central and East Austin, not to mention dramatically increasing property..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...Veteran musicians are flocking to Central Texas the way jazzmen migrated to France in the..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TCB

A rock out, a rock opera, and a rock show. Must be Rocktober.

"...problem to have. Some groused that the Rock Out's booking was a little too tilted toward the 710/Headhunters side..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

The Hole (birthday) enchilada, record store bargains, and Scott Weiland's screed

"...working. "The pressure's off," says Paul Minor, who's been booking the Guadalupe venue for the past few months. "We..."

May 21, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...Show Bar -- previously the Black Cat -- were booking live music, too. As Henry "Blues Boy" Hubbard looks..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Hills Are Alive

The Hill Country is teaming with Austin songwriters.

"...Country is rife with those and their names bespeak Central Texas' German heritage and Lone Star images: Gruene Hall,..."

May 9, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Marshmallow Love

The 31st annual Kerrville Folk Festival

"...as the word gets out about them, especially the booking and management part of it. There's a huge demand..."

May 24, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Food-o-File

It seems like forever since I've written a column but that's just because so much has happened in the past two weeks.

"...trip to Austin next summer to check out the Central Texas barbecue trail. We'll just have to overcome some..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Righteous readers respond to recent rape reportage, and our Best of Austin issue garners a kudo or two.

"...to indicate that we had taken responsibility for the booking and content of the Awards Show. Staples actually ran..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Reasonably Offensive

Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.

"...wished. But APD Commander Harold Piatt, who heads the Central West command unit, which patrols both Red River and..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Straight, No Chaser

Brannen Temple, aspiring to be Austin's Max Roach

"...name. It was just that I was the one booking the gigs. 'Well, whaddya want to call it?' somebody,..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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