Playback: HAAM-er Time

Being a musician doesn't always come with a choice, and rarely includes health insurance, so HAAM Benefit Day remains paramount

"...bills. No one in the band had insurance. Few musicians do...."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Seeking refuge at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater before the return of Joe 'King' Carrasco & the Crowns

"...In this blistering Texas heat, Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater has been..."

June 24, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...bruised tailbones to prove it -- but fortunately for Austinites, it's the exception and not the rule. In our..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Stay Gold Goes Long, Hard Luck Turns Sunny, Sway Is Hopped, Spread & Co. Gets Woodsy, TFM Celebrates Blackness, and – Oooh, Free Cheese?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s some of what’s happening in Austin’s culinary scene during this first week of February...."

Feb. 3, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hotel Project Sparks Downtown Skirmish

A proposed hotel complex at Eighth and Congress has had a particularly dramatic saga en route to Council

"...criticized for its swiftness, but the saga of the "Austin House: The Hotel of Texas" has taken a particularly..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I'm adamantly against turning South Austin roads that have already been paid for into toll..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I needed more time to make up my mind ["Austin@Large," News, July 23]. He said this was confusing to..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Column

Violet Crown Amphitheater Plans Proceed With “Some Changes”

It's been a rocky road for the planned development off Highway 71

"...a planned development including condos, offices, and a 20,000-plus-capacity music venue off Highway 71 in Southwest Austin, has claimed..."

July 1, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Copper Closes, Oasthouse and Asahi Expand, AFWA Grants Locals, Holiday Dining Recos, and – what’s this about a Bloody Mary Festival?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s some of what’s happening in Austin’s culinary scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words..."

Dec. 15, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Unlocking Oblivion Access

Leaving the Austin Terror Fest title behind, Oblivion Access partners Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi reach for new horizons

"...Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi, Saturday of the final Austin Terror Fest presented a test case...."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Heard at Wine and Swine

New venue was the perfect setting for porky party

"...The Austin Food & Wine Alliance's annual Wine and Swine event..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival

In Austin's newest festival, stand-up finally gets top billing

"...It isn't that stand-up gets no love from Austin's festival scene. Comedy and the jokers who make it..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Do the Right Thing

Call me Commissioner

"...great deal of fanfare, I was appointed to the Austin Music Commission...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

Meanwhile Brewing’s National Beer Day at Loro; C-C-Cake Club Congregates; Fojtasek Everywhere You Look, So Very Very Much Sushi, and How About That Sweet Live Fire Action, Hoss?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here's some of what's happening in Austin's culinary scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words..."

April 6, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines

The Massachusetts transplants debut their dream-pop LP, Daniel Johnston's NFT dustup, and more music news

"...dispersed. Throughout college, the quintet formed an orbit of musical projects to play university parties. Time spent apart inspired..."

April 16, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Checking In: Johnny Nicholas Moans in the Moonlight

Venerable Hill Country bluesman digs into Cherry Springs

"...intimacy, and downhome truth, LPs like this launched the Austin tourism industry...."

Oct. 28, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Re-HAAMing

HAAM needs you to re-up, Ian McLagan's been gone a year, and Hotel Van Zandt playroom Geraldine's restores our faith in hotels co-existing with live local music

"...ignoring those texts you've been receiving from the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians...."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Happy Hundredth Birthday, Paramount Theatre!

Austin's original vaudeville stage announces Lyle Lovett and more

"...after a 99-year absence, to celebrate the centenary of Austin's greatest stage: an anniversary year that will see a..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Great Expectations

Sarah Jarosz returns to her roots – the Old Settler's Music Festival

"...The Charlie Daniels Band headlined Old Settler's Music Festival that year. Any Texas kid would've known "The..."

April 11, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...New Voice for Local Music..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature

Off the Record

Forsaking the Song, the final chapter

"...about forcing a changeover in management than any possible revenue shortfalls calculated by University Unions Executive Director Andy Smith...."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Sound on Sound

"...While the designation of the Music Department and its charge of developing infrastructure foreground the..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Off the Record

The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward

"...giant mosaic that is the annual South by Southwest Music Festival is quickly coming together. One notable piece that's..."

March 7, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCB

"O Death, where is thy sting?" – 1 Corinthians 15:55

"...something when the scythe cuts close to home, which, musically speaking, happened plenty in 2006. It was nearly impossible..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...have not lost faith in the Chronicle or in Austin for that matter, even though in what is supposed..."

March 4, 2005 Column

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW begins

"...week. And Spring Break week. And Rodeo week. And Austin Record Convention week. And so on, and so on...."

March 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Off the Record

Scaling the Wall of Sound Festival in Fort Worth, paying respect to late blues great Gary Primich, and readying for the second annual HAAM Benefit Day

"...Fort Worth presented itself as an alternative to the Austin City Limits Music Festival. With 40 bands on three..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Rio Rita Moves to Badlands

Was Chicon venue pushed, or did they jump?

"...It seems like too many of Austin's clubs and bars are either closing or moving because..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Heavy lifting: No Control radio expands, hardcore punks hit the Monolith Training Center, and the Stocktons celebrate 10 years at Beerland

"...Control's been rewarded with its own channel, KLZT 107.1HD2, Austin's first 24/7 headbangers' ball. "It's going to be a..."

July 8, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

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