Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

Including three weekend-two-only performers

"..."High Horse" pop beats that net the trifecta of Grammy, CMA, and ACM Album of the Year awards. – Doug..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature

10 Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

And concluding the first weekend ...

"..."High Horse" pop beats that net the trifecta of Grammy, CMA, and ACM Album of the Year awards. – Doug..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

Levitation Announces 2019 Fall Lineup

John Cale, Angel Olsen, and Kurt Vile highlight fall fest

"...thrash menace Power Trip, Swedish doom hammer Monolord, and Grammy-nabbing metal warlords High on Fire to name the most..."

April 24, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Ryan Bingham Warms Up His Western Festival

Onetime local Americana star inaugurates his fest on a chilly day in Luckenbach

"...Alongside an Oscar, Grammy, and a role on television's Yellowstone, Americana star Ryan..."

April 19, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Cracking the SXSW Music Algorithm

If my phone broke and clickbait subsided, where would bring me joy at SXSW?

"...Pumas, soulful R&B partnership of singer Eric Burton and Grammy-winning local guitarist and super producer Adrian Quesada, signed to..."

March 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...LP, Go Farther in Lightness, nabbing four ARIA Music Awards including Album of the Year and Best Group. –..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback – JMBLYA 2017: Trapper’s Delight

JMBLYA garners the third largest concert audience in Austin's 2017

"...about flipping drugs and beating up pussies, the wholesome Grammy collector now stood as the saint among sinners. Beyond..."

May 12, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Keynote: Garth Brooks

Country music standard talks up songwriters

"...toe-to-toe with Brooks’ biggest albums. Selling full albums also awards songwriters larger royalty checks and keeps them working in..."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Bryan Rolli

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...and Chrissie Hynde shocked the 35th annual Austin Music Awards into virtual nirvana with a surprise appearance on Sunday..."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Biggest Austin Music Stories of 2016

Looking back on the biggest Music news headlines of the year

"...thematics resulted in Billboard-topping soundtracks and a pair of Grammy nominations. Survive also dished a fourth LP, RR7349, with..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...Production Fund (launched in 1996), the AFS Grant program awards various monies to Texas filmmakers' production, post-production, equipment, and..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

The Magic Kid

Hayes Carll trades in his drunken poet's dream

"...the Year nomination from the Americana Music Honors & Awards. The wrenching "Chances Are" garnered a 2016 Grammy nod..."

April 8, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Wednesday SXSW Picks

"...grew up, in particular bassist/singer Diego Navaira, son of Grammy-winning conjunto artist Emilio Navaira Jr. If Los Lobos worshipped..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Saturday SXSW Sleepers

"...Street Courtyard Cory Henry's day jobs include playing with Grammy-winning fusionists Snarky Puppy and producing everyone from P. Diddy..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Gay Place: All Thumbs

HavenCon launches this weekend

"...Chavez Day Yes! An entire day for Austin Music Awards Musician of the Year (and "Gay Place" fave). Thu.,..."

April 3, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Playback

Neil Young premieres his director's cut of Human Highway at SXSW, while Graham Reynolds brings Marfa to the Festival

"...six-stringer like Volkaert, who just won the Austin Music Awards' Best Guitarist and was elected by popular vote to..."

March 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film 2015 Coming Into Focus

Ava DuVernay and RZA to deliver keynote kickoffs

"...in the spotlight lately as the director of the awards-grabbing Selma, a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic..."

Dec. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: ACL Fest Platinum

Lucky 13 marks the biggest ACL Fest yet

"...13-year-old convergence. Collectively, those five artists account for 89 Grammy nominations and 29 awards. For the two top-tiered rap..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Jimmy Scott: Always All the Way

The legendary jazz singer died last week at 88

"...the collection was released in 1992 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Jazz Vocal Album of the Year,..."

June 19, 2014 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Sondheim: Side by Side – by Side

Austin gets a triple scoop from the musical master: 'Company,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and 'Assassins'

"...this trifecta offers audiences unfamiliar with the Tony-, Oscar-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize-winning songwriter – who celebrated his 84th..."

April 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Russell M. Dembin

Eruption

Church on Monday guitarist Jake Langley transcends jazz

"...with organist Joey DeFran­cesco, nabbed a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) and a Canadian National Jazz award, and settled in..."

March 28, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Lily Tomlin, Citizen of Austin

The comedian on our town, Ann Richards, and getting hitched

"...30 Rock. For her part, Tomlin has the Emmys, Grammy, and Tonys, but still lacks the Oscar, though she..."

Feb. 27, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Reelin' in the New Years

Where you gonna be when the clock strikes 12?

"...mucho mucho champagne are promised in accompaniment of Austin’s Grammy winning Latin groove orchestra Grupo Fantasma and one of..."

Dec. 31, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sarah Jarosz & Gary Clark Jr. Nominated for Grammys

Local youths step further out into the national spotlight

"...weekend? One paralyzed by Antarctic temperatures at that? The Grammys! Business as usual for the award avatars, contemporary flavors..."

Dec. 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Saborcito

Latin melting pot fuses into Pachanga Fest

"...dancefloors for more than a decade and earned a Grammy for 2010's El Existential. – Thomas Fawcett Como Las..."

May 10, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Wednesday Showcases

"...won Best Alternative Pop Album at Uruguay's Music Graffiti Awards for his third LP, last year's El Podador Primaveral...."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Austin Songwriter Symposium

Keynote Eliza Gilkyson leads the ‘Beauty Way’

"...won numerous Folk Alliance honors and Chronicle Austin Music Awards, plus she received a Grammy nomination for 2006’s Paradise..."

Jan. 23, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Local Gaming News-Bites

With Austin Wintory, Replay Games, Gl33k, and other notable game folks

"...soundtrack to Journey, which has been nominated for a Grammy. It’s the first video game nominated in the Best..."

Dec. 13, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Day Trips

The collection of photos, clothes, and trophies at the Selena Museum are a reminder of a voice silenced much too early

"...In the center of the museum glows the 1994 Grammy Award that solidified her title as The Queen of..."

July 20, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback

Dreaming up the Young, smokin' with Snoop

"...has been elected to the Texas Chapter of the Grammy's Board of Governors. The Austin-born rapper, producer, and public..."

June 8, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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