Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...All roads lead to Austin come March 13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023 invites..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio, itchy-O, Fontaines D.C., Ash Lauryn, Nas & Wu-Tang, and more

"...Stateside at the Paramount, Sunday 25..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall..."

May 14, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020

It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings

"...Mere months ago in the wildly fluctuating temperatures of late February, the plan..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Video Festival Reaches 5

Local DIY videos mingle with the big leagues, Austin Music Commission forecasts 2020, and Federico Pacheco leads KOOP into its next quarter-century

"...a decade ago, Anthony Erickson and Jeremy Roye launched the Austin Music Video Festival as a multi-day gathering to..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...In a way, his dance (Re)current Unrest began with Beyoncé,..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...Shoegaze melancholy and churning punk percussion meet in Philadelphia's Suburban Living, whose debut..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

The Mystic Western Game Jam Looks to the Stars

Local game collective Juegos Rancheros needs you to pick your favorite

"...Nothing fires the imagination quite like the American West –..."

July 5, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

J. Scott Brownlee's Requiem for Used Ignition Cap

J. Scott Brownlee's first full-length poetry collection brings him back to Llano, powerfully

"...J. Scott Brownlee may live in Philadelphia, but he's never far from Llano. You can..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gay Place: Do You Feel So Used?

Well, OK, if it's aGLIFF, sure ...

"...Well, add to that "discarded." Now you know how the items at Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival's..."

April 17, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night blurbs – hip-hop Picks and slept-on Sleepers

"...The Copper Gamins 6pm, Mexican American Cultural Center The pride..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...When it comes to putting together SXSW's Midnighters schedule, "I program a lot with..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2013 Round Two: More Bands Announced

Big year for Bogota bands with a heavy playlist from Colombia

"...Reminding you that the clock is ticking before Downtown becomes..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

All Down the Line

Forget the Exile on Main St. reissue. Here's the 1972 Stones in all their cinematic glory, plus a 1981 bonus to make it a double feature.

"...Falling between this year's crossfire PR hurricane for 1972 Rolling..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Good vibrations courtesy of the Roots, Distant Lights, and the Sword

"...In a matter of weeks, the Sword departs for an..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

TV Eye

Two legendary ladies, Betty White and Lena Horne, made news last week

"...grande dame of comedy, hosted Saturday Night Live, to the delight of that generation of TV viewers who watched..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...subject to change. WEDNESDAY PICKS FOUR METAL HORSEMEN OF THE ATX Iron Age..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

In the Game

For her first museum work, Jade Walker steps up to the plate and swings big

"...When you step into the space holding the large installation that Jade Walker..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...History is important, but timing is everything...."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Gather 'round children and listen to the tale of how Eight Is Enough factored into a big family reunion

"...CHRISTMAS 1977 In her Dec. 19, 1997, "TV Eye" column in The..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...FRIDAYBeto & the Fairlanes Noon, Austin Ventures stage..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Thank you Mr. Black for using some common sense when writing about the "Open Government"..."

April 21, 2006 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...CALVIN OWENS BLUES ORCHESTRA1pm, Town Lake Stage @ Auditorium Shores..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Oh, Give Me a Home

The 20th 'New American Talent' exhibition reveals a country struggling with isolation and power

"...Arthouse invited the New Museum's senior curator at large, Dan Cameron,..."

July 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

The Goose & the Gander

The Rise and Recover and what it's like to live like a rock star – sometimes

"...on Friday night, and school is out. Teenagers clad in black hoodies and tight jeans kiss the brick wall..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...times subject to change. Please check www.sxsw.com. Rhymesayers8pm-2am, Emo's Main Minneapolis-based hip-hop powerhouse Rhymesayers has been racking up the..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I'm just now getting around to accessing the Chron via the Internet in..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...'TV Eye's Folly..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in 'Chron'..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...The Reasons Behind the Attack..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

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