In Between Days

At the Crossroads of the 1999-2000 Austin Music Awards.

"...cursory glance at the genres mined by this year's Austin Music Awards performers, you'd scarcely realize the calendar changed:..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...by Todd V. Wolfson Few things are certain about Austin's Music Class of '98, those local artists releasing albums..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Most Memorable Moments of Sunday’s ACL Fest

Spoon, Buffalo Nichols, and Paramore’s devotional nostalgia

"...at ACL Fest packed Weekend One’s highest concentration of Austin-sourced acts into an excellent afternoon. Texas-launched and beyond, here..."

Oct. 10, 2022 Music Post by Christina Garcia

After a Relapse Into Addiction Quietly Broke Up Street Sects, the Duo Has Exorcised Their Demons

The Gentrification V 7-inch hit last week, but Austin experimentalists are focusing on a balanced existence instead of rushing anticipated third LP

"...a shared house that nauseated him, and in a band whose canceled tour dates meant no distraction from an..."

May 27, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Surviving COVID-19: Ray Benson Lives to Tell

Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor

"...Asleep at the Wheel. Entering the rarified arena of bands lasting a half century uninterrupted, Austin’s Western swing legends..."

July 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Local Music to Livestream, Download, and Otherwise Enjoy Digitally

What we’re watching and listening to

"...ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From TexasNetflix Imagine seeing the most enduring of all..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...1988, during the second annual South by Southwest, original Austin beatnik Tary Owens (1942–2003) informed me Erickson had hit..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Playback: Bob Dylan Goes Electric – Again!

Fifty years ago, Dylan and the Band went electric at Austin's Municipal Auditorium

"...Lost amongst Bob Dylan's many landmark moments of the mid-Sixties,..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...Langley of Toronto may be a relative newcomer to Austin, having moved here in 2010, but he’s impressed huge..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Steady As He Goes

From cosmic cowboys and Americana to punk rock and legacy acts, Freddie Steady Krc keeps the beat

"...do." The next year, he saw his first live band, the Sir Douglas Quintet, performing at the Lee High..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Safe. Mutual. Respect.

JD Samson (wo)mans up for the Gay Place.

"...favorite prom date, JD Samson, who is bringing her band MEN to Austin. MEN play the Beauty Bar Thursday,..."

March 30, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Cindy Widner

Page Two: Having a Riot

The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards

"...story of some of the early years of the Austin Music Awards. It is not a complete or annotated..."

March 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Solider of Fortune

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

"...Yank musician Lizzy embodiment Phil Lynott ever entrusted his band to – from ’74 all the way to their..."

April 23, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...23], APD will remain the most dangerous gang in Austin because no one can stop them...."

March 2, 2001 Column

Cautiously Optimistic

Fifteen Hopefuls Make Up Austin's Musical Class of 2001

"...day job because people know you're in a touring band and bound to split. Luckily, the frustration is over."..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...speaks volumes about the evolution within underground music in Austin and beyond. Headlining act Mudhoney would represent the long-faded..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dancing About Architecture

"...at Warner Bros. has so far been kind to Austin-friendly WB VP Bill Bentley, who has been promoted to..."

July 21, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...South by Southwest reconverging physically this March likewise resurrected Austin's annual poster-palooza, Flatstock. When the city canceled its flagship..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, the annual Austin celebration of movies from across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...Frazer is pulling a rare double-header at the 2021 Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

A Giant Dog Teases Impending Concept Album

Austin punk quintet transports partygoers to “Avalonia”

"...The band had been working on said album for “a couple..."

May 24, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...Every year, Austin's film festival highlight some of the best up-and-coming filmmakers...."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terror Fest Review: Panopticon, Alcest

Final day headliners add to the Sunday night storm

"...Austin music fanatics tremble at the prospect of witnessing a..."

June 10, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...boasts dozens of LPs both solo and with his band Grin, and a notable summit with Lou Reed. Sample..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Playback: Waterloo Music Festival vs. Eastside Kings Festival

Austin music’s fall festival opens with a double-barrel bang

"...of the name "Waterloo," this inaugural congregation of jam bands at Carson Creek Ranch happens daily this weekend, 11:30am-1am...."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Depeche Mode Saves

UK electro survivors assuage COTA’s masses

"...Last time Austin hosted Depeche Mode, mist shrouded their first weekend set..."

Sept. 21, 2017 Music Post by Lauren Modery

Chasca Oinks Like Gods

Local crazies’ superstentialistic origin story

"...floor. Like Chasca frontman J.T. Martin’s backstory on the band. Here’s what he sent us:..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Rhiannon Giddens Reanimates Black Feminism

Antebellum bandleader untangles African-American music history

"...Rhiannon Giddens had a crazed look during her Austin City Limits taping Monday night. In a black polka-dot..."

April 26, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Gypsy Son

Former Zeros front punk and True Believers co-captain Javier Escovedo circles back to Austin

"..."When I was a teenager, the band I loved was the New York Dolls."..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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