Saturday Sleepers

"...bittersweet harmonies, bringing their sound beyond the Who. – Jim Caligiuri Care Bears on Fire..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

You Made Me Love You

What is this thing called crush? Specifically, what makes us swoon over people we've never met? The creative minds at the Blue Theater have gathered over two dozen actors, musicians, artists, writers, and puppeteers to create art, wall-writing, and short performance pieces to address that very question in Celebrity Crush.

"...Or VH1's doing a Behind the Music on Leif Erickson, and you're kind of ... looking forward to it...."

March 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...D: Jim Jarmusch; with Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, the Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, and Edgar Bergen -- got their..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...enough to produce Polish fiddlers, film scores, and Santiago Jiménez Jr. Not surprisingly, the roots of Rubin's approach reach..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

SX3 (South By Cubed)

"...what they're contractually obligated to do," says former SRV/current Jimmie Vaughan manager Mark Proct, but he asserts that indeed,..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

1997 Texas Book Festival Program

"...Children's Author Illustration Demonstration Felicia Bond 1:15pm Special Signing: Jim Lehrer 1:15pm Games People Play: Writing About Sports Moderator:..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Books Feature

Raul's in Overdrive: "Have a Good Time, Get in Free, and Drink Some Beer"

Enter 1978, when Austin punk meets San Antonio’s the Next and Dallas’ the Nervebreakers

"...influences were Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, and Jim Morrison. But Skip had just got back from England,..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...Theatre Company & Salvage Vanguard Theater Will Gibson Douglas (Jim Fingal), The Lifespan of a Fact, Jarrott Productions Nate..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

28th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners

"...Red Sauce 1st Place: Anders Dowd 2nd Place: Shasta Erickson 3rd Place: Dallas Milton Green Sauce 1st Place: Dan..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Food Feature

Faster Than Sound: Austin Terror Fest Crosses Over

Two birthdays and a dark christening

"...The day after Integrity closed with Roky Erickson's "Night of the Vampire," Dorthia Cottrell and Panopticon's Austin..."

June 14, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Hot Sauce Festival Winners 2018

The judges – and the people – have crowned their local hot sauce royalty

"...Individual 1st: Anders Dowd 2nd: Shasta Erickson 3rd: Dallas Milton..."

Aug. 27, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Best WTFs of ACL Fest Weekend One

The good, the bad, and the myriad Tom Petty covers

"...like a half-empty dive bar by comparison. A divine Jim Eno beat ushered Hot Thoughts single "Do I Have..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

Never before published list of all Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees

"...Roky Erickson (83)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Playback: Austin Musician Union Overthrown

Local 433 hangs in the balance, a new hit for Fastball, and End of an Ear begins its new lease on life

"...beats for everyone from Jerry Jeff Walker to Roky Erickson...."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Friday SXSW 2014 Showcases

Make like a shrub and plant yourself for Friday night SXSW showcases

"...Remnant, a Big D trio in the Stryper mold. Jim Caligiuri Nashville Night8pm, Parish Underground..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Passionate Kisses

2013/2014 Austin Music Awards: Lucinda Williams plants one on Margaret Moser

"...a gust of Texas Tornados. Bandleaders Augie Meyers, Flaco Jiménez, and Shawn Sahm, drummer Ernie Durawa – Louie Ortega,..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...swing bands like Jesse James & All the Boys, Jimmy Heap & the Melody Masters, Doug & the Falstaff..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...for a walk-on to Lou Ann Barton's set by Jimmie Vaughan, joined thereafter by Eric Johnson. Barton barking out..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...Producer and shepherd behind Roky Erickson's triumphant True Love Cast Out All Evil, Will Sheff..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...getting worse, but rock & roll understood. Lead singer Jimmy Hall sported a head full of Robert Plant Greek-god..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tell Me True

2009-10 Austin Music Awards

"...his octet of mostly locals, including jug band progenitor Jim Kweskin, granulated old-timey acoustic folk blues into a fine..."

March 26, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Handicapping the decade in Austin music and playing favorites for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...9) ROKY ERICKSON'S RESURRECTION..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Room 710 prepares to shut its doors, Amy Cook goes under the lens, and introducing The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology

"...Outhouse), and rarities such as R.E.M.'s interview of Roky Erickson and a Butthole Surfers review written from the perspective..."

July 31, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...of Texas rock & roll in the 1960s. Roky Erickson delivered his mighty yawp at the age of 18..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Out of the Mouths of Children

The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!

"...eye, though he cropped up in documentaries on Roky Erickson, the Flaming Lips, and Daniel Johnston. In the latter,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...World HQ: 6th Annual Ice Cream Social with Roky Erickson, Thurston Moore, The Black Angels, And You Will Know..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Alejandro Escovedo scores his own life and Man From Plains, Backspin Records relocates, and UT's Center for American History archives Tary Owens' legacy

"...with the director on the score to Demme's new Jimmy Carter documentary, Man From Plains, collaborating with Nigerian violinist..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

What's Happening?

Ruta Maya toasts the Summer of Love

"...Stax Records in Memphis, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix in the UK – these places were founts..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Longford

"...projects to be "character-driven." So, it's no surprise that Jim Broadbent chose to play the film's title role, Frank..."

June 15, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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