Plan Yourself a Hell of a Summer

Holy-moley, this is one smokin’ hot Summer Events Calendar

"...story of a French courtesan and her penniless poet lover stays the same, but the song catalog expands to..."

May 16, 2025 Features Feature by Chronicle Staff

Lucy Dacus, a Gary Floyd Retrospective, an EXTC, and More Crucial Concerts

Sounds all over town and all over the musical spectrum

"...et lumière experience, a brand-new score for Rupert Julian’s epic and sumptuous adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s tale of terror..."

May 9, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Crucial Concerts to Enjoy as SXSW Wanes

Embrace the anarchy or wait for the masses to depart

"...release and signing of Lonesome Drifter. No badge or cover required, but each Waterloo purchase of Crockett’s album earns..."

March 14, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Punk, Noise, and Dolly in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Shows to see this weekend and beyond

"...applied to a procession of health and political tumult over the past five years. But if there’s one person..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Jess Williamson, Stay Black & Live, Babestock, and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the week in Austin

"...of the year on tour, but her specially named “Deep in the Heart” leg returns her to her home..."

June 14, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Terry Allen, ericdoa, and More Crucial Concerts

Essential Austin gigs in the coming week

"...while last year’s impassioned “>one” partnered with the video game Valorant. With less electronics than his tourmate, Los Angeles’..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Recommended Austin Events

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

"...through July 2, and celebrate the opening at a reception this Thursday, which will include a panel discussion at..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

"My Energy, How I Move": Blakchyl's Evolving Hip-Hop Embodies Austin's Eastside

The 78702 rapper on exploring beyond her comfort zone

"...fans of the artist's studied, tough-edged, but evolving hip-hop discover the connecting themes: various collaborators, that wisely mellow voice,..."

July 14, 2023 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Horror Writer and Folk Musician Carter St Hogan Finds Relief in Discomfort

"Everything is so much grosser than anyone talks about"

"...2021. Hogan, who uses he/they pronouns interchangeably, self-produced the concept album, reimagining the story of the 14th-century St. Wilgefortis..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...come March 13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023 invites over 1,400 artists to play on more than 75 stages..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Unofficial Parties & Free Shows to See During South by Southwest

The Chronicle’s recommended concerts for the coming week

"...to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music.” New Orleans Takeover Sat 18, noon, Luck Ranch $75+..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...the massively successful TTRPG (that's table top role playing game). There have been big-screen takes on D&D before, but..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Y2K Exits Stage Left & Turito Enters the Scene

Local queer DJ puts out first and last EP under the Y2K name

"...With their new EP, Game Over, released at the same time as their..."

Jan. 5, 2023 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Qmmunity: Entering a New Era

Austin's queer scene enters a new era of great shows, genuine artistry, and good music

"...something that was always going to happen," Turito explains over email. "The Y2K persona was conceptualized as a Femmebot..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by James Scott

We Have an Issue: Vote Now in the 2022-23 Austin Music Poll

Readers make the call in our annual survey of the best in Austin music

"...Game Over: Local queer DJ Y2K tells Qmmunity why they're..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Point, Ben Buck, and some holiday options highlight this week's recommended shows

"...instrumental homage to Houston hip-hop godhead DJ Screw. New EP Berto's Banquet – which finds Montesinos (a prodigious upright..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Ten Chronicle Music Writers on Their Favorite Austin Albums of 2022

Almost 100 albums we loved this year

"...Whereas past years' isolated listening lent to long hours replaying LPs, more albums overall earned moments of my attention..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

The 2022 Gift Guide for the Music Head on Your Holiday List

Let local merch supply your holiday presents

"...Charley Crockett Keychain$5 Represent Charley Crockett's self-referential record label title (alluding to his..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A few fests, Nineties Brits, AfroTech, and more shows worth seeing

"...and Deezie Brown spin alternative takes on hip-hop. Punk fivepiece the Pinky Rings rounds out the lineup with thrashing..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Column by Kriss Conklin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, Kady Rain, More Eaze, Pusha T, and more non-ACL shows

"...13th Annual Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Seven Essential ACL Fest 2022 Recommendations

Heavyweight hand-picks from the Chronicle Music team

"...one era. In truth, UK's neon New Wave traveled over in two phases. There's the stuff that aged immaculately,..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Cha'keeta B Goes From Running Track to Running Tracks

Multifaceted rapper/entrepreneur looks to take names

"...program called Texas Heat – a program he still oversees today in retirement – that kick-started his daughter's promising..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Review: KindKeith's Don’t Talk to Me >:(

A compositionally dense, sonically warped, and fun EP of electronic R&B with jazz impulses and flexible vocals

"...smoke. "Eeeleven, eeeleven, eeeleven, eeeleven," Keith Galloway robotically intones over arpeggiated synth notes that sound like little bubbles rising..."

July 8, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol Stays Hungry

A serious band with a silly name and an all-in mentality

"...a fun, playful, carefree aesthetic – possibly including some deep, imaginative lore: a Rickshaw Billie's extended universe with colorful..."

June 24, 2022 Music Feature by Robert Penson

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Girl Ultra, Nori with strings, Maxo Kream, Mudhoney, Little Mazarn, and more recommended shows

"...meet them." Today, 26-year-old Mariana de Miguel prefers to discover people on her own. Her music, ostensibly as rare..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"...zoomers and younger millennials, the entrance of the video game Rock Band into our childhood homes is not a..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Spaceflight Records' Nonprofit Clears for Takeoff

An ambitious vision for debt-free record deals attracts notable music industry interest

"...The Spaceflight Records takeover of the annual open-to-the-public Auditorium Shores stage on Thursday,..."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Three Music Writers Descend Into the NFT Craze at SXSW

One NFT-fatigued, one NFT-Curious, and NFT-skeptical

"...Is the Awkward Part Over Yet?..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts SXSW Week Edition

Our favorite showcases and unofficial parties for the rest of the week

"...Cymande has existed in relative obscurity, their music was covered by bands from Panama to Jamaica in the Seventies..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...De La Soul to the Fugees. The band's 1972 eponymous debut remains the landmark, a crate-digging classic of Afro-Cuban..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

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