Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?

Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters

"...Scary Monsters, which flirted with such sounds using pre-MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) electronics. [inset-1-left]..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists Announced

Mix of blockbusters and indie faves top the list of noms

"...The ceremony is set to be hosted by popular Irish YouTube personality Séan "Jacksepticeye" William McLoughlin and..."

Jan. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King characters. It's accompanied by a roar of rushing words that goes something like,..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Siempre Selena

Game changer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez prompts Corpus Christi's inaugural "Selena Fest"

"...March, 1995, Austin. Change hung in the air. South by Southwest moved to the new Austin Convention Center. KOOP..."

April 10, 2015 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Blood Over Texas Gets Fleshy

Eighties horror celebrated at the North Door

"...of Evil Speak to the killcrazed workout equipment of Death Spa, it seemed like malevolence was cast into every..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cavatina Duo

The performance by this guitar-flute duo was equal parts intensity and grace – with rich and complex musicianship

"...The Cavatina Duo takes its name from a musical form characterized by simple song – one with a..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...whimsical, psych-pop upholds those traditions nicely. – Michael Toland Bobby Patterson..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

'Long Gone Lonesome'

A new play tells the true story of a Scottish fisherman who was also a great country singer

"...Considering how bowled over local audiences were by the National Theatre of Scotland's touring production of Black..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...vocalists in town, she's coming out about her real musical love, dance music. And LZ Love has something else..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...rivals the Police's "Every Breath You Take" for naked musical need, only no one's lurking under your window, and..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star

Austin's now generation comes of age in Suzanna Choffel

"...video filmed locally at ME Television studios, was posted by Choffel's manager in response to a YouTube casting call..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Saturday Sleepers

"...their name from the Mountain Goats' "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" (Satan's Fingers and the Killers..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar Grinches about the crappy Christmas decorations on Congress Avenue and relates to one Nomi Malone

"...decorations on Congress Avenue – especially the horrid tinsel musical instruments that line the Ann Richards Bridge. They were..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...Joe & The Fish's 'Section 43' and make obvious musical connections between the Big Brother's raw blues, the Airplane's..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

After a Fashion

Stephen and the rest of town remember Clifford

"...REMEMBRANCE Last Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of the death of our beloved Clifford Antone. A special mass was..."

June 1, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Lion King

The cast of this touring production of Disney's The Lion King performs with such skill and fullness of spirit that the show soars on an uplifting freshness

"...A young prince, blaming himself for the death of his father, abandons his homeland and royal birthright...."

March 16, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...SIMS does. SIMS has been serving the Austin community by providing low-cost mental-health services to musicians since its inception..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Column

Return to Sin City

Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left

"...Fallen Angel, an impressive new documentary about the life, death, and cult of Gram Parsons, his stepsister Becky Parsons..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah

John Roecker on 'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!'

"...black body-bag humor and anxiety. Expect mid-to-light shrieking followed by nervous but giddy laughter of the cathartic kind, with..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Badass

The Meat Purveyors' whip-cracking guitarist Bill Anderson: Austin punk veteran, AMA Hall of Famer, and yes, total badass

"...the butt of oh-so-many barbs and over-the-top jokes hurled by DiMond and singer Jo (formerly Walston, now) Stanli Cohen...."

July 30, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for mechanical royalties on a million seller is incorrect by almost 10 times. The current statutory royalty rate is..."

April 9, 2004 Column

Rise of the Machines

Marc Bianchi takes his Space Holiday here in Austin.

"...you know it, five, 10, 15 years have gone by, and you never did write that book, get that..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

King of the Swing Fiddle

Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble

"...played and recorded with some of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...to people worldwide. The Manor airport dies a natural death, but the Bergstrom option saves the day. Austin finally..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Woodshock, forever turbulent.

"...and freeform craziness that grew from the Sharon Tate's Baby's Backyard Jamboree on Nueces the previous year. Woodshock, the..."

June 1, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Willie Nelson, not burnt down

"...being the one posed to me earlier this week by a frantic woman at the office: "Is it true..."

May 25, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...emcees like the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, career-making performances by Janis Joplin and the Who, and the famous footage..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life

"...loud the passage under discussion, and then prompts discussion by asking a sort of loaded, open-ended question. Only the..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday -- each season indicative..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Celebrated for the Least of Reasons

Chronicle reviewer Tom Doyal has took to writin' just like Larry L. King, the playwright behind The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (and much more, Doyal reveals, in his review of King's new book of letters).

"...Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eyeedited by Richard A. Holland..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

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