Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...words that, once he gets ahold of them, hop over one another, bleed messily into one another, and are..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

The Rules Have Changed

Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.

"...record labels in a new century. Given that Austin’s music community has produced dozens of classic albums over the..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Triumph in River City

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

"...smaller than the theatrical one in the current Austin Musical Theatre production of The Music Man. When the citizens..."

May 19, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Never Mind the Mayor

"...fuss about how stringent he was about screening the music his kids hear and then proceeded to play a..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Cum On Feel the Noize

The New Dessau Music Hall

"...George Devore photograph by John Carrico The Dessau Music Hall used to stand in the middle of nowhere...."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

"Fire"-man Arthur Brown The God of Hellfire

"...borrowed, appropriated, and outright stolen by scores of popular musicians - with glowing admissions of larceny coming from Genesis,..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Music Feature

Checking In: Tara Bhattacharya Stages Interference Fest – Women Making Noise 2020

Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class

"...“Over a decade in Austin, [tonal producer] Tara Bhattacharya invited..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Go-Go's put our distinctive stamp on the arrangement and music...."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl

Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news

"...a system to prioritize Austin artists, the onetime Google Music exec said no, but was open to the idea...."

April 20, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Spatula City Limits

Austin music journeys to the desert – and you're not invited

"...a secret tradition amongst a certain sect of Austin musicians and venue workers. In late March, after the manic..."

April 6, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Red Fang Sinks Its Hooks In

Oregonian hard rockers can’t let up

"...Red Fang has risen steadily over the last decade. Credit the Portlanders’ goofy videos, a..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Local Acts at ACL

Homegrown music at its finest

"...What's ACL festival without some local music? Here are the homegrown acts you can't miss out..."

Sept. 28, 2016 Events Post by Thomas Danh

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...involuntary response conditioned by decades spent listening to barroom cover bands. Staying in the same chord progression, the songman..."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Q&A: Ryley Walker

Folk guitarist extraordinaire has nothing bad to say about ATX

"...2014, it heralded a distinctive new voice in contemporary music. That impression sustained widespread reinforcement on March’s masterful follow-up,..."

May 8, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Playback

Last chance to vote in the Austin Music Poll!

"...Live and die by Austin music? Here's your shot at local immortality. As you'll grok..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback – 2014: Keeping the Dream Alive

Reviewing ATX music 2014

"...and garage roots guitarist John Schooley. Call it a musician's holiday bonus, but it felt more like a tithing..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

For Those About to Rock: Um, Can I See Your ID?

Celebrating all-ages music venues

"...the 1970s, if you were under 18 and a music fan, you could forget about most live shows. We..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Features Feature by Anne Harris

Jamie Stewart: The Sent Down Boy

Rob yaks with Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu

"...of their upcoming Austin show, I chatted with Jamie over the phone...."

May 14, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...of the Fifties in his hometown, so in his mind the Magnolia Cafe on South Congress is still Flossie's..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...phenomenon, but their frontman touches every level of the music business. We spoke for an hour, Lewis overflowing stories...."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...and his more recent, third-billed turn in Jamie Foxx’s music video “Blame It” (but seriously: what range). Nope, we’re..."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Freddie's Place unplugs, crate digging for Record Store Day, the second coming of Arc Angels, and sitting stage left at Austin City Limits

"...The Day the Music Died..."

April 17, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Quintessence

Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud

"...His voice comes over the line like that of an elder: convincing, tried..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

City Hall Hustle: Singing From the Hymnal

Library and music advocates still looking for official harmony

"...library, the other presenting the findings of the Live Music Task Force – shared a hidden connection: What wasn't..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Keep On Chooglin’

John Fogerty talks past, present, and future

"...loving way) playing at this weekend's Austin City Limits Music Festival is John Fogerty. I’m a life-long fan –..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

The British and Transmission Entertainment invade SXSW, Speeding Motorcycle rides into Zach Scott Theatre, and Spot opens Trailer Space

"...focus on what I know best, and that's local music." Representatives from Austin's more established retailers, including Waterloo Records,..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...picked up by jazz bands and danced into popular music. No song better evoked the languorous image of life..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

My SXSW

Music fest diary

"...looking out from the ninth floor of the Radisson over the bridge toward the Hyatt. Groovers dotted here and..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Robyn Hitchcock

Sergei's Big Score

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

"...Great films deserve great music. When a movie is able to captivate us with..."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Everyone is retiring or dying.

"...including exhaustion, advancing age, and the need for a long-overdue vacation, Kerrville Folk Festival founder/producer Rod Kennedy announced last..."

May 31, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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