Mandy Mercier, Force of Nature in the Austin Singer-Songwriter Scene, Died on Her 74th Birthday

Fiddler/guitarist played with Lucinda Williams and Blaze Foley

"...died due to Parkinson's disease, worsened by a case of COVID-19 last year. The Austin artist spent her final..."

March 31, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...founding seminal Eighties Austin group the Dicks as one of the first openly gay singers in hardcore music. Dicks..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...output in literature, summarizing: "Their silence is the silence of centuries."..."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback – Nonprofit Holidays: The Cult of Black Fret and More

Homegrown music nonprofits that need your holiday cheer

"...Just kidding, of course, but the well-heeled crowd filling the Paramount Theatre..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: A Time of Peace and Light

Snapshots for swiftly passing days

"...keeps accelerating. This is the first in a series of columns that will pace the end of this year..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Flight of the Conchords

The reality about Aussie and Kiwi acts

"...really just a joke, though, because it's the premise of a TV show, and if you have a TV..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

In Support of Sheehan

"...Bush welcoming you. There are also flashing lights warning of heavy traffic. I was there for a rally for..."

Aug. 18, 2005 Postmarks

Twist Music for the Hard-of-Hearing

Big Drag

"...they first skulked in from San Antonio a couple of years back, the laconic trio has brought with them..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Music Feature

The Oral History of Austin Beerworks

How the local brewery became the heir to the aluminum throne

"...pluckiest. From the shoestrings that budgeted the original 30-barrel brewhouse came the additional half-dozen new fermenters overlooking their modern..."

March 10, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?

Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters

"...albums spring from dire political climates. They're an expression of fear, but also a rallying cry. Sixties folk strummed..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...bassist Steve Terebecki – has honed its compact juggernaut of grimy, psychedelic soul and maximum R&B. That's the comfort..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Man of a Thousand Faces

Maverick filmmaker Vincent Gallo takes a time-out and turns his attention to music

"...I spent 3½ years making a movie, losing my house, losing my girlfriend, going to the hospital twice with..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

Two of a Kind

Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh, Austin's new George and Tammy coupling, more or less

"...leveled at Jesse Dayton's head. Inside the rusting heap of a trailer, Dayton is still asleep, sprawled, hung over,..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Zen of Revolution

Career sideman Michael Ramos steps out with 'Charanga Cakewalk'

"...Michael Ramos bears not a single distinguishing characteristic of the revolutionary. He's a quiet, unassuming, trim, and well-dressed..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...is Asleep at the Wheel, the merry (revolving) band of musicians from both coasts who moved to Austin 30..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

The Spirit of Improvisation

"...energy still pulsed in the smoke-filled air as scores of dazed fans shuffled through the door and back out..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

ACL Interview: Meet Snõõper, Nashville’s Thrashing “Wiggles of Hardcore”

The propmaking punks bring their “mosh-quito” puppet to ACL Fest

"...set keeps getting faster because we keep practicing the songs more, so we're like, 'Damn it! We're two minutes..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Qmmunity: The Queer Adoration of Robyn

Plus Halloween-inspired drag and QTAPI storytelling

"...for the first time, pondering the universal queer adoration of Robyn and her epic anthem "Dancing on My Own"..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Go South of the Border With These 15 Latinx Acts

"...Center, noon; Fri. 15, Parker Jazz Club, 10:35pm Both of Cuban singer-songwriter Eme Alfonso's parents are founding members of..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Playback: Biggest Austin Music Stories of 2016

Looking back on the biggest Music news headlines of the year

"...Death of Fun Fun Fun, Birth of Margin Walker..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

Self-produced eighth LP swings looser and more comfortably

"...studio LP from Lukas Nelson and his formidable Promise of the Real band feels intentionally re-emergent. Following the contemplative..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...was pretty big. Austin became a music capital because of it. I respected the cowboys. I don't know what..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Cult of Nick Curran Remembers His Guitar Genius

From rhythm & blues to rockabilly and punk, the late Austin shredder lived to subvert genres

"...that his groundbreaking group the Stooges plied a version of the blues aimed at disaffected white teens. Pity he..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"..."Been in the dark/ All of my life/ Waiting for the Wake/ Of the Red..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Lee Harvey Oswald Was a Friend of Homer Henderson

"...Homer Henderson's assassin ode "Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine" stands alone in Lone Star lore. The sympathetic..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: What's Your Point of View?

For Halloween, some beastly releases of the haunting month

"...stories and short films are the arguably native form of horror. Just long enough to draw the audience in,..."

Oct. 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Old House

"...One of the main tenets of the interviewing process is that..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Art of Dying

May Bookshelf

"...not sure if comparing Evita with Elvis is more offensive to his memory or hers, yet I cannot resist..."

May 16, 1997 Books Feature

The Best Albums of 2018 by Genre

Hip-hop, metal, pop, and more picks from our critics

"...8) Charley Crockett, Lonesome as a Shadow (Son of Davy)..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Beatles

"...and in minute detail the methodical experimentation and network of support resulting in the Beatles' über ambitious, sonically multifarious,..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Review by Abby Johnston

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