The 2020/2021 Austin Music Awards Came Bearing a Pandemic Stimulus

Hop in the Winner Wagon and see who we surprised with this year's unique awards

"...Austin Music Awards is a no-brainer. No tradition's worth risking the health of people we care about – not..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Don’t DM Me, Vote in the Austin Music Poll!

The Austin Music Poll is open all month. Go vote – online!

"...O King Electric..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

All-Star Austin Contingent Gets Out the Vote Covering R.E.M

A. Sinclair, Jana Horn & Royal Forest cover “scathing satire”

"...Looking to create a timely voting reminder, Justin Douglas –..."

Oct. 13, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Wilson Marks Finds Beauty in the Random

Seela serves up whimsical illustration in “Only a Train” clip

"...pre-pandemic,” he continues. “I believe in the beauty of making things and letting them go so you’re free to..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Horror Director Larry Fessenden Gets Depraved

Indie cinema's king of fear on creating a very modern Prometheus

"...As indie cinema's king of fear, Larry Fessenden has made a career finding..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ray Bonneville

"...a voice just rough enough to bleed experience. At King Electric picks up groove as it progresses, with "South..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Review by Doug Freeman

ELO Calling America

Playlist to mark UK prog-pop legends’ two summer Texas shows

"...This week, the Electric Light Orchestra announced it would be Calling America next..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Playback – SXSW Recap: Love, Hate, Garth & Trump

Final love / hate SXSW listicles

"...refreshingly manageable – the hallmarks remained: secret shows, celebrities walking among us, electrifying hype surrounding young buzz acts, and..."

March 24, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Refugees Record for Free at SXSW

ATX studio donates recording time for displaced musicians

"...corporate sponsorship dried up this year, Douglas, owner of King Electric Recording Co. (formerly Shine Studios), resolved to apply..."

March 14, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The Future of Austin Recording Studios

Studio owners look at different solutions to surviving in an increasingly expensive city

"...doing this job shouldn't be anyone's goal. It's about making a band's record that they're fucking psyched about. Nothing..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Solider of Fortune

Thin Lizzy's “Still Dangerous,” just ask its anchoring guitarist Scott Gorham.

"...its third album Night Life, a neon shard of electric R&B. Harmonizing with mercurial Scottish axe murderer Brian Robertson,..."

April 23, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Bad Joy Backlog

Cleaning out the wax

"...Fune included former Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Nervosa alongside King Coffey, perhaps a warm-up for the group's reunion this..."

May 29, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Making the Energy Grid Smarter

New nonprofit pushes energy providers for efficiency via high tech

"...new nonprofit organization, the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technology – a unique conglomeration made up of investor-owned..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...them numbers? So, while we know the clock's already ticking, take a few minutes to get the inside scoop..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...Thursday night, or the Grand Royal showcase at the Electric Lounge in the same time slot? And what about..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Not Necessarily Stoned but Beautiful

Are you experienced? The answer lies in Sony Legacy's new Jimi Hendrix reissues.

"...Electric Ladyland (1968)..."

May 14, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...group was Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, which received eight nominations. Three shows captured seven..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...to the genre's bombastic tendencies. The Eighties found him looking simultaneously forward and backward, recording the electro-flavored "Rockit" as..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...Click here to jump straight to the brewery rankings...."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...The past sure is tense. Thinking back amid the knotted exposed-nerve gratings, atonal mewlings, bent..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

On the Lege: TXU Meltdown

TXU says FU, then backs down

"...the "new" TXU had hoped by now to be basking in the glow of a successful image-building ad campaign...."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...septet included a trumpet-trombone-sax front line along with an electric piano and DJ Apollo, a deft (and, indeed, def)..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...chant EXCELSIOR into their craft beer megaphones from the parking lot at the mere suggestion of extremely limited $40..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Bill Campbell: Blues Me or Lose Me

Remembering the late, great guitarist

"...had no use for. Instead, he wanted to spread electricity from the bandstand out into an audience like he..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020

It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings

"...as the world began to run out of beer packing vessels. That parlayed locally into a spat between Gov...."

Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...moods without new age sappiness. Same with the out-of-body fingerpicking closer "Another Place," dedicated to the late great British..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...Central Texas -- Smithville, Taylor, Elgin, Lockhart -- and making something of a name for himself. After graduating from..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...JOHNNY DOWD: Looking for something disturbing yet entertaining? Then this Fort Worth-born..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...African a cappella choirs, no Philharmonic orchestras, no tricked-out miking jobs to make the music sound 40 years old...."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Cleaning Up Economic Development

Greens and the Chamber of Commerce join hands for renewable energy in Austin

"...very popular City Hall mantras: generating economic development and making Austin the nation's "clean energy capital." Supporters of clean..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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