The Laziest Girl in Town

Asleep at the Wheel's feminine ideal is pregnant with possibility

"...Columbia, Md., where, in 1970, a newly minted country band called Asleep at the Wheel coincidentally played its very..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sometimes the Bride

Greezy Wheels vocal point Lissa Hattersley steps out

"...Greezy Wheels owned Austin back around 1974, the band a hugely popular fixture on the scene at hard-partying..."

June 12, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Monk-Think

It's Black Monk Time – again. Shave your head!

"...Burger currently resides, "by accident," in Turtle River, Minn., population 77, as mayor. He recalls his Monk..."

April 24, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Kingdom of Days

Bruce Springsteen doesn't call E Street pianist Roy Bittan "Professor" for nothing

"...Rockaway Beach comber in service of Springsteen's E Street Band...."

April 3, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Could Be So Happy

Heartless Bastards vocal quake Erika Wennerstrom moves The Mountain from Austin

"...The words sail across the intersection of Red River and Seventh, as Erika Wennerstrom's walking one way and..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything

What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!

"...at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel that same day, the band discovered they weren't opening for Prince. They were his..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...7pm, Austin Music Hall Today's pop bands have taken a centrifuge to a list of influences..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Saturday

"...is a straight-up insomnia- and alcohol-fueled rock & roll band. James Stevens' gruff southern voice over Jacob Schulze's "I..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

I'm New Here

Smog descends on Austin in the guise of Bill Callahan

"...South by Southwest, Callahan felt a distinct affinity for River City and the people he met here. So he..."

July 1, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Almost Famous

Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road

"...the sacrifices its individual members have made for this band are on the cusp of paying off...."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

TCB

A rock out, a rock opera, and a rock show. Must be Rocktober.

"...Even before the Red River Rock Out got under way last weekend, the biggest..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Steady as She Goes

Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart

"...and pearl-snap Westerns. The Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Band ... LCT is comfortably worn...."

July 2, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...lush instrumentation and warm sonic whimsy. Dayton, Ohio, two-man band Swearing at Motorists fetch wadded-up confessionals out of the..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

TCB

Austin from A to Z

"...Cotton is the man to see south of the river, stocking the Saxon Pub with 78704's finest institutions and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Hills Are Alive

The Hill Country is teaming with Austin songwriters.

"...Its unassuming appearance hardly suggests the nights of hog-wild abandon onstage or the caliber of celebrities it attracts, but..."

May 9, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips

San Antonio's Texas Folklife Festival

"...of delectable delights, while some of Texas' favorite regional bands crank out lively dance music under colorful tents. Scattered..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...OKKERVIL RIVER: Austin trio Okkervil River take old-time music from the..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...WOODWORK: Self-described as a jazz-influenced "acoustic soul" band, Austin's Woodwork puts a new twist on the acoustic..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Rock. A tour with Alabama Thunder Pussy won the band plenty of praise from the stoner-rock brethren. Tummler records..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...Little hands clapping, children are laughing. Little hands clapping, all..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...Wyoming is a wild and very sparsely populated place. Little dusty towns, hundreds of miles apart from one another..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...this was status quo. Unlike so many "modern rock" bands, Spoon delivers the goods live, and last year's dynamic..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...by the Electric Lounge too early to catch the bands, and during our stopover at Blondie's, the audiotape ran..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Like a Hurricane

Jim Jarmusch + Neil Young + Crazy Horse

"...with snatches of interviews with individual members of the band, some backstage and on-the-road flavoring, and fragments of Crazy..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

"...was still damn near impossible to find his old band's albums at the local diskomat. Fortunately, noted master of..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

Ivan Cornejo, Steve Wynn, Cardinals, and More Reviews From Thursday of SXSW

Sonic dispatches from Ireland, Mexico, and the Afro Diaspora

"...opportunity to play SXSW. Their chemistry with their backing band was electric as the dogged quartet jumped and twirled..."

March 14, 2025 Music Post by Kyra Bruce

Ten Chronicle Music Writers on Their Favorite Austin Albums of 2022

Almost 100 albums we loved this year

"...Wilson's uncertainty, then full-length debut Sir Woman sees the bandleader fully illuminated: basking in self-love and sharing it. Lush..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

SXSW Music: Lucky No. 7 List

Action Bronson, Deerhoof, Laura Marling, and 160 more

"...Africa, specifically Kenya, brings in house/disco songcrafters Just a Band...."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Got My Mojo Workin'

Paul Oscher used to blow harps for Muddy Waters

"...guitar lines from an old Harmony hollow-body. Then thick-toned Little Walter lines from a rack-mounted harmonica. Eventually, he moves..."

June 27, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Headhunters Closes

Headhunters shuts down, Psych Fests both successful and contentious, and Wayne 'The Train' Hancock recuperates while Sons of Fathers call it a day

"...reopen the business. The two-story building at 720 Red River, which the county tax collector last appraised at $394,308,..."

May 9, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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