30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week

Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial

"...post-punk tradition, the Manhattan-formed fourpiece invites listeners into an ecstasy-soaked aesthetic feast on 2023 EP phantasea pharm. Gothic standout..."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

Review: Ramsay Midwood, Manchaca Eyeball (Live From Sam’s Town Point)

Reveling South Austin live nugget pinpoints a place and time

"...with the supreme tightness of the band, a reveling ecstasy that must have been extraordinary to experience in person...."

Feb. 16, 2024 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Recommended Austin Events

Highlights for your week in music, arts, community, and more

"...a teenager in Alcoholics Anonymous who becomes a sober ecstasy dealer for raves, a child of deaf parents who..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grace Sorensen, and More Highlights From Sunday at ACL Fest

From The Breeders’ sustaining cool to GloRilla’s unfazed flow

"...R&B and neo-soul heroes, Sorensen bounced between heartbreak and ecstasy with equal expertise, weaving with ease between romantic regret..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 29 - October 5

"...unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Review: DAIISTAR, Good Time (Fuzz Club)

Quartet's debut fleshes out counterculture ethos with shoegaze lilts and industrial guitars

"...Capistran croons on the chorus, carrying forth the momentary ecstasy that DAIISTAR champions right there in the album title...."

Sept. 22, 2023 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...Mike Daisey (his presentation of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, about the labor conditions under which..."

Aug. 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Malik Baptiste’s Statement of Self and Four More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Holy Wave, Explosions in the Sky, and more

"...meets vintage Radiohead. Drum slap, key viscosity, and axe ecstasy populate "Ten Billion People," whose organic grandeur blooms immense..."

July 28, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Where to Eat When It’s Late (or Early) and You’re Broke

Downtown food for every occasion

"...back into the fray.406 Walsh St., 512/645-0786betterhalfbar.com Stumbling Toward Ecstasy: Late-Night Eats..."

March 17, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 10-16

"...I like Margot Anand's The New Art of Sexual Ecstasy. 3) Ask your partner(s) to teach you everything about..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Lifelong Student Fennec Finds a Home in House Music

The multi-credentialed producer who wrote an admissions essay on Girl Talk

"...– all in service of a single night of ecstasy, and later, a million hazy memories of life at..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 16-22

"...was a demanding task. He careened between torment and ecstasy. "I put my heart and soul into my work,"..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...to take away the kids who've done too much ecstasy."..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

AFS Celebrates Culture-Defying Movies With Film as a Subversive Art

Revolution in the cinema

"...a landmark depiction of female sexuality in cinema, 1932's Ecstasy...."

July 15, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: Angélica Rahe

Autorretrato

"...Tú Me Vez" suspend like gravity, crescendo in high ecstasy, or stretch syllables to eternity...."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...Ecstasy, still legal in the late Eighties, came easily procured..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

To Oblivion and Beyond: A Breakdown of the Bands at Oblivion Access

Translating the scrolls at Austin’s most interesting festival of the year

"...disintegrated.  – Michael Toland Full of Hell Blows Trumpeting EcstasyThe Belmont, Friday 13, 2-7pm Vio-Lence Relives Eternal NightmareEmpire, Saturday..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: How Two Years Off Made Oblivion Access Festival Even Better

An interview with the truly independent booking duo on their landmark lineup

"...Hammer; Full of Hell performing the entirety of Trumpeting Ecstasy; a rare Texas reunion of death metal band Massacre...."

May 6, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Queer Workout Queen Invites You to Erica’s First Holy Sh!t

The agony and the ecstasy of Erica Nix

April 29, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Thursday

Young Thug in the park, icy French experimentalism, and more

"...YSL Records founder. The tall vocal chameleon began with “Ecstasy” and largely refrained from performing his hits. Barter 6..."

March 18, 2022 SXSW Post by Derek Udensi

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 11-17

"...CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right..."

March 11, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...Ready to pull the ripcord on stockpiled repressed ecstasy is the fivepiece punk crusaders of Surfbort. Visceral frontwoman..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...Maybe there's a reason why ecstasy is the young person's synthetic molecule of choice. MDMA's..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 4-10

"..."Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquility." Instead, he said that meditation..."

March 4, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Tomorrow, “Safer Together” Concerts Bring Awareness to Overdose Deaths

Free shows at Mohawk, Empire, and the Green Jay fundraise for SIMS

"...“The pills of ecstasy, the lines of coke and meth, the downers, the..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Concourse Project Brings the Raver Spirit Back to Austin

High-capacity event space looks to diversify their sound

"...of 20,000 – local law enforcement happily used the Ecstasy Prevention Act of 2001 and existent "crack house" statutes..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Post Animal Elevates Levitation Fest with a Psych-Punk Score

“In a world where rock is dead..." Post Animal returns to Austin

"...had audience members throwing their heads back in vibration ecstasy that the headliner was gifting out in droves...."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Post by Mars Salazar

Jon Batiste Closes Down ACL Fest with Musically Elastic, Spiritually Ecstatic Revue

A vibrant soundtrack to life coming back

"...shorts, and sequined cowboy hat rode it to festival ecstasy for 59 minutes. You don’t lead a late-night TV..."

Oct. 11, 2021 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Come for the dodgy CGI fighting, stay for the ... rom-com?

"...Their relationship is rather Cronenbergian at times: cars, wreckage, ecstasy sans James Spader...."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Arrebato

Addicted to filmmaking in this newly restored Spanish horror

"...of beloved childhood artifacts, poppers, sadism, or the strange ecstasy of the camera, it's all the same fix...."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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