The Best New Year’s Eve Concerts Happening in Austin

Eleven live music options to ring in 2024, from Snail Mail to Gary Clark Jr.

"...Valentine. A recent Thurston Moore collaboration – via a Lou Reed cover, no less – officially passed the proverbial..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Art-Punks Transy Warhol Carve the "Space to Figure Everything Out"

Quartet seeks Control in transphobic Texas on gushy, unabashed debut

"...Mar's call, before current guitarist Adri Hullet and bassist Louise Montalvo jumped aboard. Transy Warhol Mach 1 lasted a..."

May 12, 2023 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Water Damage, TisaKorean, a tribute to Mandy Mercier, and more recommended shows

"...plays off traded leaded vocals – Phillip Niemeyer's scouring Lou Reed deadpan to Mikila Zaorski's ennui-soaked, twanged trill. Layered..."

May 12, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, Simon Rex, Sebastian Arroyo, Christopher Reed Brown, Audra McDonald, Judith Light (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"..."We were young, fast, and loud," drummer Billy Blackmon asserts these days regarding the Skunks,..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Raul's in Overdrive: "Have a Good Time, Get in Free, and Drink Some Beer"

Enter 1978, when Austin punk meets San Antonio’s the Next and Dallas’ the Nervebreakers

"...as "not like the Ramones ... They were fast, loud, and tight – no solos and all the rest."..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Angela Strehli's Comeback Ace of Blues Revives Antone's Records

"At Antone's down in Texas, my friends call me the queen"

"...Albert King, baby-faced gunslinger Stevie Ray Vaughan, and sanguine Fabulous Thunderbird Keith Ferguson reanimate all around her in a..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What We’re Listening to This Week

Angela Strehli, Quentin Arispe, and an improvisation supergroup

"...1987 and the much-heralded Dreams Come True with Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, and Marcia Ball in 1990. Ace of..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Column by Jay Trachtenberg

Austin Punk Chronicles: "Hard, Fast & Unapologetic" – Raul's Shifts Into Fourth Gear

In the wake of the one-night debut of the Skunks and the Violators, Austin punk begins in earnest in Chapter 5, Part 2 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...covers, and a brace of originals that sound like Lou Reed outtakes is one definition of "punk rock," isn't..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...2610 Guadalupe bore several different monikers. These included Touchdown Lounge, Pink Lizard Lounge, Buffalo Gap, and the Hungry Horse...."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Bigg Robb, Weedeater, the return of Lou Ann Barton, Mike Sailor's Good Time Orchestra, and more

"...steel guitar ace Bob Hoffnar, Grupo Fantasma percussionist Sweet Lou Holmes, Progger axeman Matt Muehling, and master trombonist Andre..."

July 1, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...Hot Chili Peppers, the Eagles, Patti Smith, Muddy Waters, Lou Reed, King Crimson, Butthole Surfers, BB King, Tom Waits...."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...band midtour at Houston's airport in 1971, sick of Lou Reed's machinations. He eventually joined Austin party band the..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Paul Wall, Why Bonnie, Jim Keller, El Combo Oscuro, and a Punk Rock Lottery lead our recommended shows

"...riding the guitar verve of David Hidalgo, inhabits Bob Dylan/Lou Reed territory with smokily poetic lyricism. Keller buddies up..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by Julian Towers

The Velvet Underground

The originators of alt music get the artistic biography they deserve

"...that visual noise – split screens, manipulated stock footage, Lou Reed and John Cale’s static Warhol screen tests contrasted..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...whose muse is mostly Iggy Pop with a few Lou Reed quotes in there. I'm Not There is essentially..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Denny Freeman, the Graceful Guitarist Who Made Everyone Sound Better, Has Died

Masterful player had a foundational presence on Austin music

"...Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall, Paul Ray, then Stevie, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, Clifford Antone, and many others. Derek O'Brien..."

April 25, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...George's "I've Been the One" with Meg Baird). Amid Lou Reed's "Rooftop Garden" and Hank Williams Jr.'s "OD'd in..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Songbook, his idea of the genre encompassing both Jimmy Reed and Jimmie Rodgers. Upon corralling his local cast and..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...powerhouse vocals demand, "There's a price you pay for freedom called responsibility," and calls to task a system of..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

How I Won the War Against Stress With A Little Help From Vinyl & Tequila

Giving praise before the altar of the turntable

"...Even so, I knew naught of The Most Fabulous Object in the World™. Are You Ready for the..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Sweet Spirit Alights to Trinidad

Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell

"...Being in a crowded room at a loud sweaty live show is like lovemaking. Performing a livestream..."

May 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Israel Nash Sets the Hill Country Reeling

Potent C&W psych alights despite global downturn

"...IN: I’ve been listening to a lot of Lou Reed lately. I’ve loved Lou since I was introduced..."

May 5, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...glitter," affirms Munoz. "It's the same fucking thing: really loud, obnoxious music made by people dressed outrageously."..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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

"...a decade with Marcia Ball, Mike traveled with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Bradley continues his years backing Gary Clark..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Larry Seaman

"...Harrison ("Coming Around," "Spring Comes") and a cover of Lou Reed's "Venus in Furs," which somehow makes the Velvet..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Levitation Live Shot: Wolf Eyes Music, Shit & Shine, Skeleton, King Coffey

Atemporal accents and random acts of aggression and oblivion

"...melody maker, and the saxophone’s brass surface and double reed squeaks supplied high and low textures underneath the modular..."

Nov. 11, 2019 Music Post by Rick Weaver

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...cast his initial Ziggy Star­dust spotlight upon proto-punk influences Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Mott the Hoople. Doug Sahm..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators

Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles

"...Miraculous...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...with his band Grin, and a notable summit with Lou Reed. Sample wares from the D.C.-raised dynamo, 67, on..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

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