Black Fret Wants to Pay You $500 to Play for Workers on Zoom

Nonprofit reimagines the corporate gig in the age of COVID-19

"...such, a certain type of corporate gig – where musicians perform exclusively for the workers of a company –..."

June 12, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"...moved from Providence, R.I., to Austin and began hitting music at house parties and community centers. Local spinner Eddie..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Cable Access Hero “DaveTV” Exits ATX

Prewitt brought the club to your couch for three decades

"...home. Some brim with video masters containing local live music footage from the Eighties and Nineties. Inside others are..."

Aug. 19, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback Punches Out

After six years and 388,000 words, "Playback" hands off the music column

"...My life, and my relationship with music, has changed immensely since I began writing this column..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback – Nonprofit Holidays: The Cult of Black Fret and More

Homegrown music nonprofits that need your holiday cheer

"...concert gala, where patrons in satin rubbed elbows with musicians in denim, saw $220,000 in grants awarded to Austin..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Permitting Nightmare Precedes SXSW

SXSW events permitting induces promoter panic, the Austin Music Hall receives a stay of execution, and there are two last Austin Music Poll categories to vote in

"...South by Southwest Music still looms a month away, but a recent permitting..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Metaldom Will Miss Red 7

Closing club moshes this final week

"...Monday last, I relished a final show at Red..."

Aug. 24, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Graceful Dead

Almost 50 years of Jerry Garcia worship comes full circle

"...roll combo. In Texas, that slot of high-octane psychedelic music had already been filled by our beloved 13th Floor..."

June 30, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Council: No Place Like Home

Council returns to City Hall in the wake of 10-1 election

"...regulation on parkland from Parks & Rec. to the Music Office...."

Oct. 31, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Margaret Moser Exit Interview

No Cassandra complex for Austin’s senior music journalist

"...who I can let in.” That’s me, the youngest musician she ever invited to play the Austin Music Awards..."

May 22, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Blist'ring Strings

This summer the Austin Chamber Music Festival really brings the heat

"...a state legislator. No, I'm talking about our classical music scene, which, at the rate it's been heating up..."

July 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Austin Music Poll winners are just going to have to wait until the Austin Music Awards, plus a closer look at SXSW's international acts

"...of South by Southwest, the results of the Chronicle Music Poll will not be published in the SXSW Music..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

'Hat' Trick

The Austin Chamber Music Festival gets you as close to opera as can be

"...Imagine that grand form of music drama, the opera. Now lose the three-story sets and..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

"...As the largest confluence of music, trade, and media, SXSW is all about being seen..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Alas, Lord Is Upon Me

Adam 'Nergal' Darski, frontman for Polish metal titans Behemoth, talks English, Polish, and Slayer

"...AC: Behemoth played here in 2008, with Dimmu Borgir..."

Jan. 7, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Inquiring into the city's new music program manager position, trick-or-treating with the Butthole Surfers, and introducing Thenewno2

"...a new generation, fusing warm and playfully experimental pop music with post-Kid A electronics and Bristol trip-hop beats. "It's..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Mayoral candidates sound off on the future of Austin music, Scott H. Biram gets back on his feet, and unveiling the lineups for the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Pachanga Latino Music Festival

"...the Austin sound ordinance in regard to live outdoor music at restaurants has reiterated, music is politics here in..."

May 1, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...and 20 years with Johnny Cash ("A Honky-Tonk Song," Music, December 24, 1999), Earl Poole Ball had recently exited..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Daniel Lanois confirms as SXSW keynote, Springsteen cancels, and another club -- the Six of Clubs -- closes. Biz as usual, in other words.

"...to get serious about the business side of the music industry. This week, the final application deadline for SXSW..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...Texas Music On the Road..."

May 10, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin music scene benefits the Red Cross.

"...lousy. Either way, a study of the role of music in Austin's economy, commissioned by the city last year,..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A View From the Cheap Seats

"...illustration by Jason Stout..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Dancing About Architecture

The Party Never Stops!

"...prize: a gratis weekend getaway to that well-known "Live Music Capital of the World," Branson, Missouri. Gone are my..."

April 3, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...Todd V. Wolfson Few things are certain about Austin's Music Class of '98, those local artists releasing albums this..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Bernie, Casar Lend Support to YouTube Staff on Strike

Google, Cognizant accused of illegal union-busting

"...Local YouTube Music workers on strike have won powerful national allies this..."

Feb. 21, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...one can localize the magical interplay behind Voxtrot's timeless music. At center, Srivastava, the romantic overthinker – each dense,..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Spaceflight Records' Nonprofit Clears for Takeoff

An ambitious vision for debt-free record deals attracts notable music industry interest

"...Behind the scenes, the event marked the first time musicians were paid $200 per individual for each hour spent..."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Raoul Hernandez, Not Like Everybody Else

Outgoing Chronicle Music editor on 27 years of pure emotion

"...The equal-opportunity music evangelist would go on to pen music criticism for..."

July 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Sun June’s Emotional Landscapes

Songwriter Laura Colwell discusses atmospheric sophomore effort Somewhere

"...native of New York's Hudson Valley says the city's musical prospects hid "way far in the back" of her..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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