Enjoying and Correcting Corcoran

"...Dear Editor, I always enjoy Michael Corcoran's articles about his favorite musical interests, such as..."

Feb. 3, 2014 Postmarks

Austin Music Sucks

Michael Corcoran's infamous 1986 music column

"...This infamous and inflammatory music column by Michael Corcoran ran in the April 25, 1986, issue of..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Corcoran

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...of Texas Music (TCU Press) teams local music scholar Michael Corcoran with fellow Austinite, pioneering punk musician, illustrator, and..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes

Michael Corcoran preserves gospel pioneer Arizona Dranes

"...In a recent interview on NPR, local writer Michael Corcoran commented that seminal gospel singer Arizona Dranes is..."

Sept. 4, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...Louis' face. Louis looked at it again. "Oh yeah, Corcoran. We printed something this week of his." "Print more,"..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Naked City

Local daily's gossip columnist gets his column suspended after offending Texas Monthly publisher with a recent column.

"...Austin American-Statesman gossip columnist and music reporter Michael Corcoran has had his "Austin Inside/Out" column put on..."

March 31, 2000 News Feature by Lee Nichols

This Magic Moment

15 Years of the Austin Music Awards

"...Michael Corcoran: Roky was always a nice little show-off point,..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

All Over the Map, True Heroes of Texas Music

"...Michael Corcoran doesn't love music. Not in the drooling, dogmatic,..."

June 16, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music

Gift guide

"...by Michael Corcoran..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Review by Dan Oko

Page Two

Could the Statesman's Michael Corcoran ever be Austin's Herb Caen?

"...Friday, I got word that the Statesman had suspended Michael Corcoran's column. Saturday was my first day off since..."

April 7, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Imagine There's No Majors

"...newspaper circles lately has been "What's the difference between Michael Corcoran and Chris Riemenschneider? About three hours and $50,000."..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Music Column

Naked City

Austin American-Statesman chooses Jeff Salamon, formerly deputy features editor, to head up its life and arts section and take the helm at its weekly section, XLEnt.

"...Asked how Michael Corcoran -- whom the Statesman publicly chastised in March..."

May 26, 2000 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Off the Record

Exit Music: Nakia leaves The Voice, Corcoran retires, and Mike Wiebe walks the plank

"...Michael Corcoran's trajectory was opposite of most music critics': He..."

July 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Playback: Sanctified Souls

Uncovering Arizona Dranes, remembering Brent Grulke

"...Austin brand writer Michael Corcoran has done his best to rescue Dranes from..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...Sea Tattoo Company about a block from our office (Michael Corcoran lived in the back storeroom). We had arranged..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...1,000-word history of the street by local music journalist Michael Corcoran, painted in white by Big Boys/Poison 13 punk..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

UT Football Season Opener

A new football season and a new UT football column

"..."Hornucopia," will be penned by the one and only Michael Corcoran. If you are new to Austin or perhaps..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

Luv Doc Recommends: All Over the Map Hoot Night

Threadgill's World HQ -, Saturday, October 15, 2005

"...photographs. Certainly that could be said of music writer Michael Corcoran, who for a good part – arguably the..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two

If you have a gossip columnist, have the courage to stand behind him.

"...successful as the opening weekend of SXSW had been, Michael Corcoran's Statesman gossip column that morning contained a cheap..."

March 31, 2000 Column by Louis Black

So, Where Were the Vampires in Before Sunrise?

"...professionalism of Don McLeese and the dry wit of Michael Corcoran, Austin's two biggest music critics. I mean, just..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Column

Dancing About Architecture

Austin Music Commission chair Bob Livingston steps down, no one steps up; Man's Ruin returns to Austin; Michael Corcoran's suspension is puzzling.

"...Then, on Tuesday, came the Statesman's public reprimanding of Michael Corcoran, the man who wrote "Don't You Start Me..."

March 31, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...Michael Corcoran was/is the best writer your self-important rag will..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...dragged myself out of bed to answer. An excited Michael Corcoran was on the line telling me the SXSW..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Michael Hall: We would rent some kind of a condo..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Music Staff: Margaret Moser, Michael Corcoran, Richard Dorsett, Luke Torn, Jay Trachtenberg, Michael Whittaker,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

Playback – AAN Convention: Worth the Ink?

Checking the pulse of print media and music journalism

"...and debated by three generations of the paper's scribes: Michael Corcoran, Andy Langer, myself, and Libby Webster. Hernandez opened..."

July 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun? Thirty Years of Chronicling Austin Music

SXSW panels

"...for past exploits, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez, music-scene provocateur Michael Corcoran, and music-scene historian Margaret Moser surveyed the current..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Bunnies and Bongs

Getting Your Band Noticed: Promotional Gimmicks

"...Michael Corcoran, pop music critic for the Austin-American Statesman, is..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...best party of the year, without a doubt,” says Michael Corcoran, who during his 1985-88 tenure as Chronicle music..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...Sea Tattoo Company about a block from our office (Michael Corcoran lived in the back storeroom). We had arranged..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

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