Last Week in Live Music: Annabelle Chairlegs, Doom Side of the Moon, Bright Light Social Hour, and More

"...November 28, 2018 during Live Life Longer Fest at the Mohawk..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Photo Gallery

Playback: My Top 100 Austin Records of 2018

Kevin Curtin picks his favorite local sounds of the year

"...The Bible, which I've never actually read, says we judge..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 National Albums of 2017

National themed lists

"...1) Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound (Southeastern)..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...A surge of lightning flickers as thunder cracks above the rumble of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Playback: Top 100 Austin Albums of 2017

Top 10s? Feh! Multiply that by 10 – locally.

"...The Top 10 list is nonsense. That obligatory tally of..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Revamping the Austin Music Poll

Here's how Playback's voting

"...read this, Chronicle staffers are poring over 20 years of online Austin Music Poll results for evidence of Russian..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Can the Earth Be Saved?

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

"...At long last, on April 19, the University of Texas at Austin is honoring the legacy..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Douglas Brinkley

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...A sonic hiss slithers poisonously from the right channel to the left and..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

'The Guardian' Recommends

Who better than the Brits to handicap SXSW UK?

"...de Ville Technically, Still Corners hails from many corners of the world – England, America, and Australia – but..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Rosie Swash

Playback: Straight Outta Calcutta

Sitar maestro Indrajit Banerjee, stoned synching Doom Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, and a bigger Breakaway Records

"...Even in the informal realm of a rehearsal space, Indrajit Banerjee resonates..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"..."People call it Jeremiah, like Jeremiah from the Bible, but it's not really the frog's name," clarified..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live Music to See This Weekend

For the next three days, live a little.

"...a high note with our team’s genius recommendations. Keep the party going Saturday through Sunday. Cheers...."

Aug. 4, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Crowdfunding Kyle Shutt

With Sword on hiatus, guitarist plots solo album

"...Six weeks after the Sword dropped the H-bomb – “hiatus” – on their..."

Oct. 23, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback – Lukas Nelson: Real as Promised

Lukas Nelson is a chip off the ol' Willie

"...The 28-year-old son of Willie Nelson backs Neil Young, hangs..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

My Gear: Bob Mustachio

An annotated look at the equipment behind the A/V experimentalist

"...Austin's pre-eminent conjurer of surrealist concert visuals, Bob Mustachio, continues redefining Texas psychedelia...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Shred for Bread

Guitar “Shred-Off” winner takes home $1,666

"...At the climax of 1986 film Crossroads, Ralph Macchio engages in..."

Sept. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Roger Waters and Erin Lee Carr to Keynote SXSW 2020

Also appearing: Phoebe Robinson, 50 Cent & Bon Appétit Test Kitchen

"...on as South by Southwest Music’s first keynote speaker of 2020. The singer, bassist, and activist served as the..."

Nov. 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Kevin Curtin

Doom Side of the Moon

"...Sixties disillusion and the Seventies paranoia of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners

Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you

"...BEST OF THE YEAR Best Austin Band..."

March 1, 2019 Music Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Ten months of social distancing hardly lends itself to hands-on community volunteerism,..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ex-Melvins Confederate Mark Deutrom Achieves Artistic Equilibrium

Longtime local learns The Value of Decay

"...The Melvins fused to Austin at least as far back..."

June 22, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Second Coming

Tia Carrera's Jason Morales takes out the Lysol and sprays down the Melvins

"...There are dimensions of the mind that only music and..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...The Parliament-Funkadelic experience remains as much visual as musical, and..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

No. 1 Troublemaker

The guts and the glory (don't forget the gory)

"...came to Austin to do Machete, I took two of my partners with me," says Danny Trejo, laughing at..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...and goth-rock godhead proved once and for all his ethereal pipes have aged better than Bowie's. The world has..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Playback: RSD in ATX

Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them

"..."There are two sides to Record Store Day," contemplates Exploded..."

April 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Kick-Off

Even after Levitation’s cancellation ... the shows went on!

"...If you checked social media Thursday night, you’d think the Reverb Appreciation Society had declared war on its fans..."

April 29, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...A toast, please, to the 170-plus artists and creative projects recognized in the nominations..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...with Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny. For once, the hype is right on the money. Kids is an..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

1   2     NEXT ›    2 »