The Winners of the 43rd Austin Music Awards

The best bands, venues, backstage folks, and more, as voted on by you

"...Austin Music Industry Hall of Fame: Michael Corcoran..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Music Feature

Metal, Hip-Hop, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

BodyRock ATX, Escuela Grind, Grace Bowers, and more

"...the world premiere of a new American soon-to-be classic, Sam Lipman’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein’s On..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Titles for 2024

Releases from Samuel L. Jackson, Talk to Me producer

"...AFF will also have its share of world, North..."

Aug. 22, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jon Muq Album Release, Hole in the Wall Anniversary, and More Crucial Concerts

All manner of sounds for every ear

"...Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven. Secret weapon Sammy Duet, band-founding guitarist, also counts Crescent City metal legacies..."

May 31, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...Glazer will also chat with Samantha Bee, Pamela Adlon, and Michelle Buteau for a live..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Cop Who Killed Mike Ramos Wants Trial Moved to Deep-Red County

Supporters: judge’s ex-husband, Alex Jones-connected attorney

"...want you gringo for the murder of our brother Michael Brent Ramos,” “blue lies matter,” and “stop killing Latino..."

July 28, 2023 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Tuesday

Bartees Strange, Coco & Clair Clair, plus a PinkPantheress misfire

"...Elton John, harmonizing seems to come second nature for Michael and Brian, who blended their airy vocals and meticulous..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Nayeli Portillo

Faster Than Sound: Unpacking Harry Styles' Austin Run With the Professor Teaching a Class on Him

Texas State's Dr. Louie Dean Valencia offers a crash course in the Harry-verse

"...the higher-priced one. They were all released at the same time. If you went for the higher-priced one, you..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Heavy Lifting: The Hammond Organ Has a Special Place in Austin ... I Should Know

Austin's an epicenter for an instrument that stopped being manufactured 47 years ago

"...organ takes on their personality. Even though it's the same instrument, to the listener it sounds like a different..."

April 1, 2022 Music Feature by Red Young

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is full of festivals and flowers

"...“Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher from the Michael S. Sachs Collection,” an exhibit of more than 400..."

March 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

La Doña, Wet Leg, Wolf Eyes, and Chris Patrick Added to SXSW’s 2022 Music Ranks

… along with 302 other acts from around the world

"...(Austin TX) Mercy Bell (Nashville TN) MEYY (Brussels BELGIUM) Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (Calgary CANADA) Miggy & Tje (Austin TX)..."

Jan. 26, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

What We're Listening To Right Now

Kydd Jones, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Rose Sinclair, Carson McHone, and Berkshire Hounds

"...sax guides listeners into another delightfully mellow song, "Harpoon." "Sam's Club" features the aforementioned reigning Austin Music Awards Musician..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Column by Derek Udensi

What We're Listening to Right Now

Beats by Balto!, Hayes Carll, Kiko Villamizar, Ley Line, and Colin Clark

"...bass grooves, and incongruously mellow trombone fills from guest Sam Kulik. If this is fusion, it's fusion from a..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Music Column by Michael Toland

Gunpowder Milkshake

Action concoction isn't stodgy, but it's not that filling, either

"...Ralph Ineson, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett and Michael Smiley...."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...booker/trombonist Mike Mordecai hosting Monday's jam. Tuesday brings back samba vet Sarah Sharp, followed by the Daniel DuFOUR-tet, led..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

The Resort

Idiotic haunted hotel horror can't be heard, isn't worth seeing

"...Taylor Chien. Starring: Brock O'Hurn, Michelle Randolph, Bianca Haase, Michael Vlamis, Avery Pascual, Joaquin Veizaga and Dave Sheridan...."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Jury Awards Announced

The Fallout, Lily Topples the World take big wins

"...Hell Did They Do That?!: Waze & Odyssey, George Michael, Mary J. Blige & Tommy Theo – “Always” D:..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Willie Nelson to Deliver SXSW Online Conference Keynote

Shotgun Willie brings a few hundred friends to the virtual stage

"...Amy Webb and Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab director Dr. Michael Watkins), culture (filmmaker Barry Jenkins, Queen Latifah, Taraji P...."

Jan. 13, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound's Musical Top 10s of 2020

Eleven lists of Austin's best releases, theme songs, livestreams, creative pivots and more.

"...production for "One of These Days" in June. The same month, Kydd Jones crafted "Goblin" overnight while processing the..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

AFF Interview: Taking the Blinders Off

Vincent van Horn takes the scary path to Hollywood

"...Austin, Andy makes friends with his rideshare driver Roger (Michael Lee Joplin, another Austinite now in Cali), but then..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...Winner: "Just Hold On" D: Sam Davis, Rayka Zehtabchi “A lovely little documentary with a..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Travis County Early Voting Results for the March 3 Democratic Primary Election

Numbers DO NOT include election day or non-Travis Co. votes

"...de la Fuente: 17 (0.02%) Robby Wells: 15 (0.02%) Michael Bennet: 55 (0.06%) Uncommitted: 807 (0.85%)..."

March 3, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Ed Ward Unleashes His Second Volume on The History of Rock & Roll

First-generation rock critic visits Teen Pan Alley

"...home, commingling with stray volumes of his earlier book, Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Tons of Texas travel news for the dog days of summer

"...is again making headlines in San Antonio. Descendants of Sam Maverick, the Texas iconoclast who refused to brand his..."

Aug. 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Is Everyone on TV Gay?

Plus Contrast Film Fest, Frida Fridays, and more queer magic

"...Society, Stranger Things, and Jessica Jones. From Grizz and Sam on Society to Robin – the newest member of..."

July 19, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Critics Table's Grand Tales

The winners of the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Credit goes to the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes, an original member of the Table who made..."

June 4, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Table award process this year were the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts) and Andrew J. Friedenthal (theatre); the Chronicle's..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Council: Put on Your Hard Hats

City Council, staff get to work

"...worked on Red River and experienced some of the same problems. Commissioner Sam Holt asked what the city could..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...a century. Most of the categories have remained the same, recognizing the work of individual artists and performers and..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Holiday Viewing: Krampus

How to avoid being dragged away on Krampusnacht

"...If you're wondering exactly where those Samhain strictures come from, they were set down in Michael..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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