La Doña, Geto Gala, the Queen of Christmas, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in live music

"...14 years, everything from thrash to electronic frippery to records that scream, “Ask me a Zappa trivia question, literally..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Geto Gala, Two Step Inn, and a 420 Smokeout Headline Our Crucial Concerts

From country to hip-hop to sludge metal, get some ideas for your week in live music

"...shopping and overall good vibes” – plus free ice cream for the first 30 folks. We’d be sold on..."

April 19, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

LookOUT Fest, Circle Jerks, Holy Fawn, Bernell Jones II, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and a Buddy Holly Birthday tribute

"...Shoegaze, dream-pop, and slow-moving, emotionally tilted post-metal are probably the most..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Ever have a dream where one of the dearly departed is alive and..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

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

Your Queer Guide to SXSW

Keeping things kweer in 2018

"...GTZ Records Showcase, 9pm, Cheer Up Charlies, Free..."

March 2, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

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

"...wit da Hoodie Bronx-born rapper, snatched up by Atlantic Records last year, casts his melodic street flows over big,..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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

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

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

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...plus the sound guy docked us for getting whipped cream in the monitors, but it was our best payday..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

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

Off the Record

A curated survival guide to the Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...• Antone's Records co-owners Eve Monsees and Mike Buck were married last..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

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

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

The Black Angels Telephone David Letterman

Austin’s psych evangelists offer a late night 'Phosphene Dream'

"...The band’s new album, Phosphene Dream, not only got a huge plug from the host..."

Sept. 9, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

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

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...Rhino Records' regal 4-CD hatbox, 2003's One Kiss Can Lead to..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...most recent album, As the Tide Turns, on TKO Records. I've been confined to a van alongside: Trae Dog..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

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

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

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

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

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

"...to rely on their day jobs to fuel the dream, that remind us what this festival is all about,..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...remember baking a fair bit. Becky had gotten her dream stove ... heavy as hell, gas. Two ovens, I..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

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