Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back to my fourth day in Texas:..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

BoomBaptist and the Art of Crafty Self Promotion Schemes

Instrumental hip-hop mastermind sells us his world

"...Though technically a CEO – overseeing the delectably named Cream Dream Records – Thaggard's no pastry impresario. He's BoomBaptist:..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...Chronicle for additional day parties and in-stores. IN-STORES Backspin Records WEDNESDAY: Dr. Delay (2pm), Percee P (3), Bird Peterson..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

The More You Learn About God, the Further Away from Him You Move

mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss likes a good question, but finds some answers easier than others

"...oeuvre, and especially its latest for Tooth & Nail Records, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a..."

June 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Gospel According to Lee Fields

Soul man tells it all ahead of Saturday’s ice cream social

"...Saturday’s Ice Cream Festival boasts an after hours lineup of sweet soul..."

June 22, 2018 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Reissues

"...BEG, SCREAM & SHOUT: THE BIG OL' BOX SET OF 60'S..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"...with veteran garage rockers the Explosives at Threadgill's Ice Cream Social; anchoring a SXSW panel on the 13th Floor..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...Jac Holzman, the one-time founder and president of Elektra Records who is actively running Discovery Records, died in 1993...."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Don't Let Me Fall

One ancient, cracked 45 opens the doors to the church of the Relatives

"...It's 104 degrees, and the ice cream truck is stalled. Kids run around the faded blue..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Power of Three

With ZZ Top mowing down the Backyard this weekend, the power of three – trios – comes into play

"...quintets the configuration du jour. In 1967, both Fresh Cream and Are You Experienced hit America, making superstars of..."

April 13, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...fed on art. Their closer, "Heather," centered around repeated, screamed goodbyes from Gordon, but the real goodbye came in..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...Tito and his crew of six tore into one screaming blues-rock scorcher after another. The third guitarist, who alternated..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...acoustic session of pastoral, Swedish folk for the Ice Cream Man's Road Trippin' Web series...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...City Illinois' Rubberoom, whose Architechnology just dropped on 3-2-1 Records, and their Atlanta-based labelmates, Micronauts. Following a set from..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...wall opposite the door. It's the cover artwork to Cream's Disraeli Gears album, and its psychedelic neon burn fairly..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Keep on Growing

Derek's main Domino Bobby Whitlock settles in his legend in Austin

"...and keyboardist for Derek & the Dominos, Eric Clapton's post-Cream wrecking crew that gave the world seven breathtaking minutes..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Playback: Still Weary

Weary Boys reunite, Red River vies for cultural district designation, and MusicMania to close

"...within other business, like JuiceLand's recent vinyl annex Exploded Records in Hyde Park, which specializes in electronic LPs, or..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"..."Dreamt about a reefer 5 foot long...."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...with any training or even any desire to do records. I really came into recording as a performer who..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Not Necessarily Stoned but Beautiful

Are you experienced? The answer lies in Sony Legacy's new Jimi Hendrix reissues.

"...the Experience the prototype for trios as much as Cream and metal-framed the mold with "If 6 Was 9"..."

May 14, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...pulsing on No Exit with the trashy ska-pop of "Screaming Skin," which should scare the bleach out of Gwen..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...the holy grail equivalent for anyone who dares to dream of a world free of fatuous guitar wank-a-thons. Classic..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...the film), blends synth loops, long forgotten Cornish folk records, violin drone and live vocals. Expect the unexpected with..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Working Class Hero

Stephen Doster

"...producer Jim Rooney (John Prine, Arlo Guthrie) and Rounder Records. They didn't do too bad...."

Sept. 26, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fall On Me

Three fall Austin music perennials.

"...at record chain Sam Goody, drooling over the newest Cream, Monkees, and Small Faces. One Christmas season I worked..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...KINDERCORE SHOWCASE: Athens, Ga.-based indie Kindercore Records recently supplanted their Romper Room-style logo with a version..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...all-star sets with every possible living legend is The Dream Come True...."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Profiles

Jody Denberg talks to Patti Smith

"...with any training or even any desire to do records. I came into recording as a performer who was..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Those Were The Days

Fond remembrances of a culinary giant

"...restaurants – now and to come. Such was the dream of visionary restaurateurs Peggy and Ron Weiss and namesake..."

May 18, 2012 Food Feature by John Kunz

Over the Wall With Will Sergeant

Rob yaks with Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen

"...who come to see us. I haven't played them records since we did them. The only time I hear..."

May 7, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

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