Album Review: Jackie Venson, The Love Anthology

Blues guitarist breathes life into improvisational jam sessions and soul-searching meditations

"...While most are working toward their resolutions in the new year, Jackie Venson spends her..."

April 11, 2025 Music Feature by Catalina Perez

ACL Preview: Chicano Soul Artist Midnight Navy Steps Into the Light

The sax man expands his sound in ACL debut

"...saxophones – will make an appearance at local Chicano soul artist Midnight Navy’s first ACL show. Multi-instrumentalist Francisco Jose..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

The Off Beat: Freedom Day(s)

Early-bird celebrations pepper the lead-up to a midweek Juneteenth

"...Onstage at the Historic Victory Grill Wednesday, June 12, Scott Strickland marveled..."

June 21, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Thursday

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

"...Every year during South by Southwest, there’s a point in which you see gaggles of staggering..."

March 18, 2022 SXSW Post by Derek Udensi

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...Aaron Frazer is pulling a rare double-header at the 2021 Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

Black Pumas Backline Lauren Cervantes and Angela Miller Maintain 20 Feet From Stardom – On Purpose

Respect and admiration remains the key to their success as co-frontwomen and backup singers

"...During the 2013 press blitz for Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Heroine of The Roxy Letters Fights to Get Austin's Groove Back

Mary Pauline Lowry's quirky novel looks for the city's soul

"...You know the routine by now – it's so common, it might..."

April 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tomar Williams Hones Four Decades of Soul

Breakout of his family band, the performer seizes on his pop, soul, R&B, and hip-hop successes and failures in Tomar & the FCs

"...is a singer, which is to say he has the unique ability to meet each person where they stand,..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Huey Lewis & the News, who play the Long Center Wednesday, might be..."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'A Tickle In Your Soul'

Chely Wright talks about Atticus Circle, allies, and more

"...Atticus Circle, the Austin-based, national agency that encourages straight people to stand..."

Jan. 25, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Julie Gillis

Austin Heart and Chicano Soul

"...Ruben Molina, the Los Angeles-based author of Chicano Soul, will be at..."

June 4, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...So your plane just touched down and the pilot said, “Welcome to Austin: the Live Music Capital..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Soul Searching with Jim Lauderdale

Nashville song whisperer needs a deadline

"...Strange Brew on Thursday, he’s out promoting new LP Soul Searching. Talking to one of Nashville’s most experienced singer-songwriters..."

Jan. 6, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Keepin' Up With the Jones Family

The Jones Family Singers hear the spirit speak in Austin

"...September 2005: Hurricane Rita is threatening to postpone the fourth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival. At the..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long Center, the frontman talked..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Down in the Delta

"...Directed by: Maya Angelou. Starring: Wesley Snipes, Esther Rolle, Al Freeman Jr., Mpho Koaho, Mary Alice and..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Net

"...Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller and Diane Baker. The Net is the first of several new movies that..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Pumas Bring Down the Hammer Behind Powerhouse Singer Eric Burton

The frontman might not admit it, but he's a professional

"...Black Pumas are producing a music video for electric psych-soul single "Black Moon Rising" in the large back room..."

June 21, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Playback: And the Armadillos Went Wild

Threadgill’s World Headquarters goes the way of its predecessor, the Armadillo World Headquarters, plus Black Fret offers more than just money

"...Days before Threadgill's World Headquarters permanently shuttered last Sunday, the joint packed out with lunchers consuming chicken-fried pork chops..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Meet the Women of Austin R&B

Spotlighting five formidable soul vocalists

"...Lodged just beneath the national mainstream, R&B and its ever broadening spectrum enjoys..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Slow Death of R&B

In the face of the Austin Urban Music Festival, where’s the love?

"...There’s always the question about whether the falling of trees..."

Jan. 14, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

The Giver

This movie based on a Newbery Award-winning novel presents teens in a dystopic society that's a manmade invention born of good intentions.

"...Teenage dystopias may seem to be all the rage in movies these days, as demonstrated by the..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...here in 2010, but he’s impressed huge swaths of the local music scene. Jazz heads upstairs at the Continental..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

They Killed the President

Dallas soul man Bobby Patterson once counted Jack Ruby a patron

"...a sunny Friday afternoon in late November 1963, young soul singer Bobby Patterson hit a roadblock on his way..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Lone Ranger

The legend of Jerry Lynn Williams

"...at Warner Bros. Records. It's dated 8/22/84, and at the top of the j-card is written "Shangri-La." There are..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"..."[Blues music] was (and is) the lament, the comment, often mocking or ironic, of the..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A Juneteenth celebration, Taméca Jones, the Howdy Gals' Pride Celebration, Mad Professor, and more recommendations for the week

"...The free third edition of the Juneteenth celebration Stay Black..."

June 17, 2022 Music Column by Derek Udensi

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...ringer. But old heads and backpackers grouse not! Even from a Triple A vantage, Maxo Kream's journalistic eye remains..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sean Wheeler, a KVRX house party, the Southside Psychout, and two Hole in the Wall extravaganzas

"...Sean Wheeler & the Reluctant Messengers..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Riders Against the Storm Hit Their Stride With Flowers for the Living

Three-time winners of the Austin Music Awards' Band of the Year honors keep building community and creativity

"...reference to not only his own musical endeavors, but the unappreciated depth of Black talent in the Texas capital...."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

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