Afternoon ACL Acts Worth Waking Up For

Get the most out of your pass with these nine artists

"...Brooklyn duo Chairlift now claim a decade-long career, but the ethereal..."

Sept. 28, 2016 Music Post by The Music Staff

SXSW Tuesday Showcases

Park your hiney at a Tuesday night SXSW showcase

"...Viral sensations Jungle bring back memories of Technique and Chicago House, its double A-side debut, "Platoon/Drops," catapulting the enigmatic..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Mountain Goats have been in existence. Last year, the duo released their first album, Martial Arts Weekend, on Absolutely..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...as Maryann Price and Chris O'Connell, this Catfish Records duo jumps easily between cocktail country, bluesy bluegrass, and jazzy..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Lemon Twigs, Obongjayar, the Zombies, and Ambré Added in SXSW 2023’s Second Lineup Drop

With a whopping 301 musical artists

"...The genre-spanning announcement includes glam rock Long Island brother duo the Lemon Twigs, smooth and lounge-y Taipei indie rock..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Second SXSW Lineup Installment Adds Over 300 Acts

KT Tunstall, Shamir, Sunflower Bean, and Circuit Des Yeux highlight

"...reveals the COVID-era relocation of Cambridge, MA-launched Sub Pop duo Sweeping Promises to Austin...."

Dec. 8, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Reveals First 2020 Artist List

Music from all over the map … literally

"...impressively composed bedroom pop of Hachiku and intimate dream-pop duo Htrk. From the UK, there’s ambient/psych/folk/Krautrock indie mogul Jane..."

Oct. 16, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Last night of SXSW 2011 and still plenty of one-venue hang time

"...young Australian talents. Adelaide rockers Wolf & Cub went underground a bit after their 2006 debut Vessels and re-emerged..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Your Satori Mind

Japanese guitarist and Boris collaborator Michio Kurihara, 'a mixture of science and feeling'

"...embodies Tokyo's psychedelic renaissance of the late 1980s, an underground movement that redefined the concept of heaviness...."

July 23, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...and Question?, whose Rehab dropped last May and blends underground lyricism with big Texas style. The League of Extraordinary..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

Thursday

"...brass from last year's The Ken Burns Effect. Gypsy-folk duo A Hawk & a Hacksaw, back in New Mexico..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Showcases

Turnstile Presents, 2k14 SeoulSonic, Metal Injection, Womex, Sounds From Colombia, BBC Introducing, Ground Control Touring, M for Montreal, Western Vinyl

"...in anticipation of the new Year of the Snake. Chicago psych/prog/black metal sorcery blackens the sun in the claws..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...with massive singles like "Velvet" and "Dominos." The London duo recently released its highly anticipated follow-up, Future This (4AD)...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...impact on the collective's aesthetic as Pedro Bell. The Chicago P-Funk fanatic contacted the Mothership in the early Seventies..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...Close Memorial Research Center deep within the bowels of Chicago have yet to, and may never, isolate an improv..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...YAKUZA: Chicago jazzcore junkies Yakuza create some interplanetary kind of Zorn/Tool..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Dayton, Ohio, since the Deal sisters skipped town. The duo's painfully honest homemade indie rock is quiet in an..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Temple Stone

Japanese psych warlords Ghost won't be as illusive as their name suggests after Saturday's show at Mohawk

"...only the torchbearer for the country's second generation of underground psych music. It's the reason so many of these..."

May 15, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...trio is rooted in the garage, but the Velvet Underground/Sonic Youth buzz that girds their interplay sets them apart...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Eleventh Dream Day Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)

"...is where the enigmatic trio demonstrates why they've been underground figureheads of the Chicago rock world for so many..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Roll 'Em

March

"...find themselves colliding in some real-life misadventures in the underground scenes of L.A. and Las Vegas. (Mar. 26)..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Crammed With Grammys

"...Conversation" by Lyle Lovett; Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal, "Little Bit Is Better Than..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Column

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Black Fund Awards, a Moon Mullican tribute, S.G. Goodman, and more recommended live shows

"...exploration enthralled him. After forming the mysterious label group Underground Resistance alongside "Mad" Mike Banks, Mills' solo production via..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sean Wheeler, a KVRX house party, the Southside Psychout, and two Hole in the Wall extravaganzas

"...You are definitely slacking as a underground music nerd if you haven't drunkenly "whoa-oh-ohhhh'd" along to..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Third Man Records Releases Ghost Wolves 7-inch

Austin duo pair up with Jack White’s label

"...up by a rock star from another matrimonial guitar-and-drums duo...."

Sept. 6, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Gay Place

1, 2, SXSW is coming for you

"...A Queer Riot Festival Brand New Key, Landers/Marshall Duo, and more play this fam-friendly fest. Created by Juno..."

March 9, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"... After spending the past few years alternating between pop duo She & Him with Zooey Deschanel and rootsy supergroup..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday showcases

Bulked up: Thursday night SXSW showcases

"...Island – high schoolers use their tunes as therapy. Chicago's Maps & Atlases tops the bill with the liquid..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Pride Piper

Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table

"...The duo has chosen to be British for this interlude. As..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIF! Friday night insight to SXSW 09.

"...has been a welcome addition to Austin from her Chicago/Louisiana/California upbringing. Her soulful, funky, righteous vocals decorated Michael Franti..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

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