Playback: Austin’s Rarest Vinyl

Want exclusive vinyl for Record Store Black Friday? Check out some of Austin's rarest wax.

"...vinyl at a garage sale and sold a single LP from it on eBay for $175...."

Nov. 24, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...influences command attention, but what sets this Melbourne, Australia, quartet apart is the soulful vocal stylings of guitarist Nai..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Thursday Picks

"...again, for the queen, and that's when it all started getting a bit 'through the looking glass.'..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Teeta's discography promptly reveals a region dear to his heart. So much so that the Northeast Austin rapper titled..."

April 23, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Pre-Eminent Local Producer Danny Reisch Moves South to Lockhart

The challenge as he moves is to maintain the same creative space and energy

"...of music obsessives drifts through opinions about everyone from Art Tatum to Ray Manzarek. The easy atmosphere is an..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...steered the industrial wheel as hard as their Chicago counterparts in Revolting Cocks, the two camps teaming up for..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...the bleak chill of Newcastle, down through the sonic heart of Madchester, until finally, and always, to London, here..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...out his bizarro fantasies. Dr. Dooom stashes mutilated body parts in his dingy apartment, Black Elvis cruises the cosmos..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...campfire with Thin Lizzy. As for Deer Tick, the quartet left SXSW last year with Rolling Stone's David Fricke..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...which sit an ashtray, a planter, and a small sculpture of a bird as smooth and clean as the..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...look for the teenagers in these local bands to start grabbing headline slots and press attention. Way too young..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...it thrown out, then reinstated, then (for the most part) superseded by the courts and the Legislature, even as..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...the bands of Lou Donaldson, Kenny Dorham, J.J. Johnson, Art Farmer, and Art Blakey, and recorded with Freddie Hubbard,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...all. While the track could have landed among the art pop on her previous pair of discs, the rest..."

May 21, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Ben Kweller hits the Continental Club stage, Threadgill's auctions some history, and more

"...October release of new album Circuit Boredom, his first LP since 2012's Go Fly a Kite. Friday marks the..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...sneers lurking just beneath the surface. (Also: Sat., 9pm, Blackheart) – Greg Beets..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Wednesday Showcases

"...The showcase is sponsored by the Islamabad-based Foundation for Arts Culture and Education (FACE), a U.S. State Department-funded organization..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...coughed up, but her soulful pipes are anything but middle-Earthy. Rose Elinor Dougall is a Mancunian whose breakout track..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Natrix Natrix

The Basement Tapes

"...Natrix Natrix also produced its first cassette compilation, featuring artists that Whaland and Turnbough met through intimate shows at..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...the world's first Jewish gospel album. – Dan OkoTHE TUNAHELPERS8pm, Habana Calle 6 Patio Another genre-busting act on Trey..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...samples. I think of jazz as being a sampleable art form. – Jay Trachtenberg DEVIN THE DUDE12:30am, Back Room..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

A Cultural Imperative

"...independent label, Chicago's Delmark Records has produced hundreds of LPs and CDs over the past five decades. Their catalog..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Reissues

"...attempting to capture the complete work of several key artists, it rightfully approaches soul as a singles-driven medium, which..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...Red 7, 9:40pm Latest LP Welcome New Machine (Dirtnap) checks in with this Austin/Denton..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...of Down South rap heroes. Bun B of Port Arthur's UGK provides as fitting a match as any, linear..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Identifying the Impulse

"...Art Blakey In their search for neat, storybook tales, Hollywood..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Chappell Roan Says ACL Performance Is Her Last of the Year, and More Surprises From Weekend Two

The heat lingered at sets from Vince Staples, Dua Lipa, Jeezy, and more

"...off the first day of ACL Fest’s second weekend. Starting off with a rendition of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” the..."

Oct. 14, 2024 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Friday SXSW Picks

"...in the elements comes headlined by the New York quartet that made it cool for '00 kids with floppy..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday SXSW can't escape the blurbs!

"...trio Capsula made the Raveonettes looks like puffs. Frontline Martin Guevara (guitar/vox) and Coni Duchess (bass/vox) rattled pure VU,..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Off the Record

Paying tribute to the Texas Tornado, working out at the Music Gym, and Trail of Dead's Justice for all

"...South by Southwest commemorates the 40th anniversary of the LP with a panel featuring the quintet's Augie Meyers, Frank..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

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