Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...combos nail the trumpet messiah right in his clammy, key-klacking paws. While purists may buck and whinny at versions..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

My Fair Ladies

"...new markets." There will, however, be one Austin act taking the Lilith Village Stage; cling will play a short..."

July 31, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...its mediocrity. This guy, who shall remain nameless, employed nearly every trite melody and tired lyric he could possibly..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Review

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Learn something new and explore what's out there this fall

"...Mann’s 80 Ranch, where he earned his nickname. While working for Mann as top hand, Wallace took $5 of..."

Nov. 2, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...honky-tonk hero in the Seventies, but back in the early Thirties, Milton Brown and Bob Wills were thinking the..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...Among the marquee guests are the king of the reigning lord of legal thrillers, John Grisham,..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Unveils List of Brews

77 ways for you to capitalize on the celebration of suds

"...It’s time to break out one of my favorite yearly beer stats, which isn’t really a stat at all,..."

Sept. 10, 2018 Food Post by Eric Puga

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...King Sunny Adé (4/1/83)..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Beale Street Dynasty

Historical overview of Memphis' legendary music row

"...Music writer Preston Lauterbach breezes through nearly a century of the booze-saturated history of Memphis' infamous..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Untapped Festival Austin Untaps Beer List

Check off your brewery bucket list in one convenient location

"...such as Austin Beerworks, Hops & Grain, and Jester King; as well as Texas brewers who have been elusive..."

March 30, 2015 Food Post by Eric Puga

Playback: Rap Reigns at SXSW

Snoop Dogg crowns SXSW hip-hop as keynote, the Cherubs may have topped Heroin Man, and Sparkplug becomes part of musicians’ shared economy

"...Jewels, Big K.R.I.T., Joey Bada$$, Twista, Wale, Rae Sremmurd, Earl Sweatshirt, Trae tha Truth, Madlib, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah...."

March 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Screamadelica

Austin Psych Fest 2014 drops its lineup

"...brings Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, the Boogarins represent Brazil, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard come from the land..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...guitarist donning chocolate brown, and the seated tabla player rocking red, the West African quintet looked like superheros onstage..."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...8:30, Stubb's Formed in post-punk's early Eighties, the Meat Puppets remain a surrealist staple in..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Off the Record

Carolyn Wonderland ties the knot while Gary Clark Jr. gets pulled up to the majors and a sea of SXSW news

"...While there's talk of a live record, Clark's currently working on a new studio album with Doyle Bramhall II..."

March 11, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Songs in A&E: Recovering from the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival and revving up for the third annual HAAM Benefit Day

"...the plunging rhythms of drummers Teresa Nervosa (standing) and King Coffey (sitting) and bassist Jeff Pinkus...."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Miss Understood

Carolyn Wonderland through the looking glass

"...and Carolyn Wonderland's promise sometimes reflected darkly through Austin's looking glass. Maybe it needed viewing from another angle. Imperial..."

May 2, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

This week your Style Avatar makes the Red Carpet Scene at the premiere of 'Sahara' and Robert Rodriguez's 'Sin City' and remembers DeLorean

"...I didn't realize it until I tripped on it, nearly careening headlong into the star of the evening, Matthew..."

April 8, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...cheaply and easily fixed. For example; if you were walking on the north side of 38th Street going west,..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Naked City

Happenings

"...Martin Luther King Jr.'s actual birthday was Jan. 15, but Monday, Jan...."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...good idea of their intent. The Spiders are currently working on the follow-up to their hard-hitting 2000 debut, Sex..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...WILLIE KING: Mississippi-born bluesman Willie King may not be the next..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Bush's balls drop.

"...see Destiny's Child regardless. And who knew that Larry King was so music-savvy? Breaking away momentarily from an interview..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Public Notice

From race riots in South Florida to the MLK Day March in Austin, "Public Notice" reflects on how far we've come and how far we've yet to go.

"...could set our spanky new Christmas Timex with the real-looking thick brown leather "hippie" band to those nightly jaunts..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...shot heard round the clubs sounded almost a decade earlier in 1981 with Grandmaster Flash's seminal "The Adventures of..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.

"...reported last week, there was a press conference and groundbreaking ceremony at Southpark Meadows last Wednesday, as high muckety-mucks..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

1999-2000 Award Winners

"...13. Robert Earl Keen..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...format. Two words: cello and tabla. Along with talented picking and a strong lead vocalist, these non-typical instruments put..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: Down-Home Gusto

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...brazen, irreverent point of view. Book writers Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and composer Carol Hall have gone..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

The Lunch's Last Supper

"...set, especially for one that almost didn't happen; their booking agent, who had missed some important bits of information,..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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