New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Archival Neil Young releases come to mind – contemporary unearthing of prehistoric manna – and perhaps something more twisting..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

2020’s Hot Sauce Festival Music Acts

Get sweaty in the privacy of your home with these performers

"...Como Las Movies is an indie cumbia-pop quartet from Austin, which NPR described as "...a colorful, cultural..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Food Feature

Checking In: DJ Chicken George Rolled Out Coconut Air Fresheners

“Rather than let [it] get the best of me I shifted to hyper creative mode”

"...Poets, on June 19 along with two different vinyl LP offerings, T-shirts, embroidered hats, and CDs. For my brand,..."

Aug. 26, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Slabs, Screw, and Stories from the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County

Candy Blue Like Screw reclaims Texas rap heritage

"...still calls Devin. "When we were kids and I started to take off a little bit while EC was..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...sections of it to nine musicians who tracked their parts without the knowledge of what any other contributor played...."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...by Tracy Anne Hart..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Edith Frost Returns

Austinite once again, Edith Frost offers first new songs in over a decade, plus Natalie Jane Hill's debut and Red River Cultural District requests

"...1996, she cut a swath of country-influenced minimalism among artists like Cat Power and Jason Molina, as well as..."

May 22, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re spending time with

"...the locals' brand new single also features homegrown folk quartet Ley Line. It's a dense track with 11 players..."

May 8, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Star Parks Album Review

The New Sounds of Late Capitalism (Modern Outsider)

"...notes the niche as a reference for his sophomore LP as Star Parks, employs a similar Instagram filter to..."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Listen: Manifest Destiny’s Child Veers Down a Dark Path on Rojo

Noise-rock crew gets witchy on double single set

"...Drummer Kaylin Martinez now joins the noise-rock crew, continuing presence on 2019..."

March 27, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Hair of the 3-Legged Dog SXSW Day Party Lineup Announced

Dallas Acid, Go Fever, Being Dead, and Mike Melinoe soundtrack

"...Until the city says otherwise, the Chronicle’s day party is still on...."

March 5, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

I Just Watched Megafauna’s New Video and Now I Can’t Remember What Life Is

Absorb their trippy, animated “Fluorescent Super Moment”

"...DMT and received visions of an alternative history of Earth’s civilization...."

Feb. 17, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Peacemakers Cap a Decade at Evangeline Cafe

Evangeline Cafe keeps rolling out South Austin roots, the Coconut Club brings dance and DJs Downtown, and the newly improved Austin Music Poll drops

"..."It started out just for fun, and then morphed into this..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Rolling Stones

"...of its original UK poster, facsimile lithographs of album art proofs, and a hardbound book featuring Ethan Russell photos..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Levitation Live Shot: High on Fire, Power Trip, Devil Master, Creeping Death

Sold-out metal four stack kept widening the mosh pit

"...band reaching back 20 years to its debut The Art of Self Defense, perhaps as a reminder that its..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Faster Than Sound: Falling Into Levitation

With a new autumn time slot, Levitation finds footing as a Downtown “gaggle of bands,” Angel Olsen chimes in on new album All Mirrors, and more music events

"...Central Presbyterian Church, Elysium, and Symphony Square. Sarkis, who helped run both lost fests, says the decision was made..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

ACL Live Review: Rosalía

Spanish flamenco queen makes a splash

"...Tu Mirá,” from last November’s instantaneous convert and second LP El Mal Querer (Bad Love), fairly burst out of..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Class Conscious Honky-Tonk of Croy & the Boys

Corey Baum’s crew nails the zeitgeist of 2019 Austin

"...I was stuck on for a long time was Art of Talking Shit," laughs Corey Baum as he slides..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Levitation Adds Flipper, Flaming Lips & David J

Mercury Rev, Cherubs, Windhand, and Vagabon also set for November fest

"...Austin Psych Fest, and is coming off April’s fascinating LP, King’s Mouth...."

July 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Cutting Up on Tuesday

Queer nightlife gets a new clubhouse, SIMS Foundation faces spiked membership, Spoon’s greatest hits, and more

"...I was drawn in by a clip of resident artist Adiean bringing Haley Heynderickx's indie-folk "Oom Sha La La"..."

June 28, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Raging and Reflecting With Glassing’s Ambient Metal

Letting just a little light in on new album Spotted Horse

"...We the Gra­nada (which included future Boyfrndz frontman Scott Martin), played a show with the latter's New Orleans band,..."

May 17, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Music Interview: Moritz Simon Geist

German musician creates robotic electronic music

"...For his debut LP, Robotic Electronic Music, he only used robots he built,..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Local punk supergroup gets all Dickies

"...frontman Mike Wiebe – whose energy level remains too off-the-charts to be contained by Riverboat Gamblers, Ghost Knife, High..."

March 8, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Tori Amos's Boys for Pele

The cult of Tori Amos and how to navigate a life of writing

"...Chronicle style columnist and Amos-lover unpacks the singer's third LP in an unflinching memoir and cultural analysis. By questioning..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend

Your weekend soundtrack to new fall beginnings.

"...over 40 of your favorite DJs and dance music artists. Headliners include Austin’s own Kingdom Nightclub resident DJ Barbuto..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Playback: That’s the Breaks

In studio with Confucius and Fresh, hosts of KUTX’s first ever hip-hop specialty show

"...guest, Austin rapper Teeta, who looked every bit the part in dark sunglasses with a mouthful of gold teeth..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Jump on It

Eastside hip-hop summer series moves to the Expo Center; plus, musical robots with personality disorders and more music news

"...that are often ambiguous interested me," says the Austin-based artist, who in the past has created automated versions of..."

June 15, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: CodeNEXT and the Austin Music Scene

How might the update of Austin’s land development code affect the musical landscape?

"...references to "music," studied those sections, and talked to parties involved. Austin Music Is Defined..."

June 8, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend

JMBLYA, a conjunto fest, and more weekend sounds to keep you busy

"...to the subject of the three-decade-old North Carolina indie stalwarts’ viciously political new album, What a Time to Be..."

May 4, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Live Music Recommendations for the Week

Here are a few good reasons to go out on a school night

"...album Boarding House Reach, which debuted at the top chart spot on Billboard. That explains its schizophrenia. Nevertheless, whether..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

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