Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

George Clinton, Caramelo Haze, Hulder, RippleFest, and more local shows worth seeing

"...Haute Spot, Saturday 23 The Motet, Soul Rebels, and Pimps of Joytime open..."

July 22, 2022 Music Column by Julian Towers

The Soul of Nathaniel Rateliff

Sold-out Austin City Limits warmup prompts a dance sprawl

"...Some say soul music comes from the catharsis of pain. No question..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Girl Ultra, Nori with strings, Maxo Kream, Mudhoney, Little Mazarn, and more recommended shows

"...Torch(song)bearer for Mexican R&B en Español, Girl Ultra said she leaned..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Courtney Barnett, Kid Cudi, Butch Hancock, Marisa Nadler, Robert Earl Keen, and more

"...Here & There Festival: Courtney Barnett, Indigo De Souza, Ethel Cain..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Column by Alejandra Ramirez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Chris Conde and Third Root, Bully, Robert Ellis, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, Molly Burch, and Pulkingham Layne

"...The Little Darlin’, Saturday 18..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Column by Clara Wang

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Eddie Taylor's 100th birthday, Dry Cleaning, and Terry Allen highlight our recommended shows

"..."Ladies and gentlemen, this is Eddie Taylor, the man that made all the great Jimmy Reed records,..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

This week's recommended shows include mini-fests celebrating rockin' girls, Latinx talent, and Christmas shopping

"...Twelve months ago, the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar faced the same reality as planet..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

TC Superstar, Swass Night, Tune-Yards, and more recommended shows

"...A mini synth-pop fest transpires at the Mohawk this weekend, headlined both nights by a band..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Column by Christina Garcia

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...The Bubble Club Vol 1: A Prayer for Peace..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

GAyCL: Making Austin the Queer Music Capital of the World

The alternative showcase provides the queer answer to ACL

"...As Austinites prep for the second weekend of that music festival on the..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Checking In: Johnny Nicholas Moans in the Moonlight

Venerable Hill Country bluesman digs into Cherry Springs

"...Nicholas boasts his own stage, but that didn’t level the pandemic playing field when releasing Mistaken Identity, a leather-warm..."

Oct. 28, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Gospel According to Lee Fields

Soul man tells it all ahead of Saturday’s ice cream social

"...Cream Festival boasts an after hours lineup of sweet soul music topped by soul survivor Lee Fields, 67. His..."

June 22, 2018 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Scandalous Summer Soul Playlist

Scandal Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas explains

"...Ready for some uptown/downtown soul music? Are you prepared for the..."

June 17, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Music News: De La Soul, J Balvin, and T Bone Burnett Headlined Hump Day

Music happenings yesterday and today

"...Obviously, SXSW Music is now in full swing. Wednesday found bigger crowds..."

March 14, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Bo-Keys’ Memphis Soul

“The collision of gospel, blues, jazz, country”

"...The Bo-Keys have carried the torch for Memphis soul music..."

April 28, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

The Sapphires

Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.

"...Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film tells the story of the 1960s..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Old Soul

Emily Elbert's bright side

"...The biggest surprise at last month’s Old Settler’s Music Festival..."

May 21, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

These Are the Breaks

Checking in with Austin's new R&B boys and girls.

"...vintage green suit and white alligator skin shoes. It’s the kind of getup that would make most people look..."

Feb. 5, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...In a metropolis where music does the talking, words buoyed the 2017/18 Austin Music..."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Old Settler's Music Festival Wrap

Increased ticket sales, musical diversity, and buzz bands

"...Escaping Austin’s orbit to relax in the grassy fields of Driftwood for the Old Settler’s Music..."

April 14, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Community Commences as Skylark Lounge, Closed Since the Pandemic Hit, Finally Reopens

Eastside music joint picks up with three nights of Soul Man Sam

"...It wasn’t an inevitability for any music club to reopen after pandemic closure. So..."

Nov. 8, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Trumpet Clarion Ephraim Owens Sits at the Piano

Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope

"...it’s Ephraim Owens. Backline mainstay in this century’s stand-ins for the Allman Brothers, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the local..."

April 17, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Johnnie Taylor, Soul Man

Johnnie Taylor's Live at the Summit Club gets released.

"...If you have ghosts, Roky Erickson once posited, then you have everything. I’m borrowing that lyric as the..."

March 9, 2007 Music Post by Greg Beets

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

Afro-Colombian funk crew connects disparate dots of diasporic music across the Americas

"..."I always wanted to put together a Latin thing," explains the ringleader bassist for Afro-Colombian..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

The Man

Bobby “Blue” Bland (1930-2013) made me one too

"...Bobby “Blue” Bland is The Man. There’s no other way to think about the..."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Kickin’ the Mud Off My Sneakers

A pretty good weekend in Geezerville

"...I’m not like most of the folks who attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Illusionist

Surprisingly, this atmospheric movie starring some of the greatest actors of our time is a dull and enervating bore.

"...Eddie Marsan. Surprisingly, this atmospheric movie starring some of the greatest actors of our time is a dull and..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music Interview: Robert Glasper

"Jazz musicians, we feel the need to always educate people.”

"...Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Robert Glasper plays his music, his way. Whether the..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

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