Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back to my fourth day in Texas:..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...Maybe Mars Records..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

From Austin to Neptune

Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite

"...creator of one of television's hottest cult dramas, Veronica Mars (UPN). But no matter how circuitous a path might..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...not even losing national distribution from Touch & Go Records has slowed PPM's underground momentum. Olympia, Wash.'s Gun Outfit..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Hi, How Are You Day: Wayne Coyne

Flaming Lips’ singer talks Daniel Johnston ahead of Tuesday megashow

"...Moody Theater. Coyne screens his 2008 film Christmas on Mars Wednesday at Beerland with bandmate Steven Drozd...."

Jan. 21, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...OK, three-quarters an enchilada. Maybe four-fifths...."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sonic Pathos & Antipathy: Gregg Turner

Angry Samoan turned critic gives into his goofier side

"...electric autoharp, much as he played it for the Mars Records 45 of Roky Erickson’s “Starry Eyes” and later..."

Jan. 8, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Hagins, all grown up with Grow Up, Tony Phillips; Mars director Geoff Marslett’s romantic tragedy Loves Her Gun, scripted..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...funk group from South London, Cymande cut three unforgettable records that have been sampled by everyone from De La..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Record Reviews

"...with the necessary internal gauges to read situations, people... maybe even the future. Something, that inner water rod perhaps,..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...acts as Japancakes, Drums & Tuba, Matmos, Mouse on Mars, To Rococo Rot, and the ever-influential Labradford...."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Dram Shop Girl

Native daughter Carson McHone comes a courtin'

"...could get past the door guy, but her father, Marshall, owned Hill Country Brewing. They brewed Balcones Fault Red..."

July 31, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...Twist video bar featured the likes of Dublin's Quadrophonic Records basso profondo stable, Cut Chemist, and Q-Burns Abstract Message,..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...KISSING CHAOS: Rising from the ashes of Deep Elm Records' Pop Unknown is Austin's Kissing Chaos, consisting of the..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...addition to running the seminal Olympia, Wash. label K Records. Then again, what's the point of starting a record..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Leave No Stones Unturned

Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf on vinyl, hip-hop's roots, and record labels

"...Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records), director Jeff Broadway (Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

Cream of the Tech-Top

The Year in Multimedia

"...American icons as the Walt Disney Studios, Windham Hill Records, and Sony Corporation of America with outstanding sound, graphics,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Screens Feature

Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...envisioned as an earnest, acoustic guitar-wielding Austin singer-songwriter. Well, maybe "earnest" is the wrong word...."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

"...of that band's master tapes back from Toxic Shock Records, the label that put out most of the Hickoids..."

June 30, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Thursday

Young Thug in the park, icy French experimentalism, and more

"...ensured only true supporters of the Young Stoner Life Records duo made their way in – the ratio of..."

March 18, 2022 SXSW Post by Derek Udensi

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...debut, Sex Is Thicker Than Water (Unscene) for Acetate Records. (The Red Room, 8pm) -- Greg Beets..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW News

"...now, preparing to utter a short acceptance speech, or maybe KGSR's Kevin Connor is using the occasion to present..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...resulted in last year's riotous show at Liberty Lunch. Maybe it's the new songs, or the fact that it's..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Dancing About Architecture

Last call for SXSW entries.

"...Johnny Depp, who by virtue of being one of maybe five people in the audience (and no doubt he..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Liaison d'Etre

"..."Maybe Bob Dylan was right," chuckles Doug Sahm, "maybe we..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jazz Sides

"...but Neill's trippy songwriting makes it cool. Think Branford Marsalis on funky shrooms, toss in some drum and bass,..."

June 12, 1998 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...suffering from that same sort of sterility that often mars the albums of his ex-drummer Chris Mars. Still, there..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Review

The Luv Doc: Trying to Be Attractive

Carefully cultivating a look of masculine nonchalance

"...Wouldn't it be awesome if men spent as much..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Nemegata's Folkloric Futurism Boosts Austin's Budding Colombian Music Scene

Local trio powers up its magnetic roots fusion in new release Voces

"...decibels fool you. Unearthed earlier this month on Spaceflight Records, this isn't rock, post-punk, or even blues-derived. This is..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Boys Club

Female employees say gender discrimination persists at City Hall. Could a new resolution fix the broken system?

"...numbers and the budget; and (citing Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus) women act on emotion, while..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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