Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...my cousin's a world-class hand surgeon and he helps musicians. I'm gonna hook y'all up.'"..."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity

We spent election day with local percussive rebel

"...and displacing artists. He name-drops Mosaic Sound Collective, SIMS Foundation, HAAM, and the Musician Treatment Foundation – his cousin..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Managed Health Care

The SIMS Foundation helps local musicians, and finally, itself.

"...sales of its annual Broadcasts CD to Austin's SIMS Foundation, a nonprofit health care organization providing low-cost mental health..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Council Watch

The delicate business of funding substance abuse programs for musicians.

"...Austin musicians ... leaders of our "live music capital" economy? Or..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Suicide Is No Solution

The S.I.M.S. Foundation

"...is the most under-diagnosed disease there is. And with musicians, lacking a support line they can turn to, it's..."

June 28, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Jimmy LaFave in the Present Tense

Honoring the local musician’s commitment to life

"...in Cleveland in 1996 to benefit the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...."

May 12, 2017 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Growing Chorus

Sex, Drugs & Hepatitis C

"...Hepatitis C is not a "musician's disease." Only a fraction of the people who have..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...artwork bought him health insurance, and the cost of treatment was prohibitive. Too proud to take the help available..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...perspective on this one unifying theme," the film's original treatment proposed. "Diverse, rugged, unforgiving and beautiful, the Texas land..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Hand-to-Mouthville

Health and Legal Services for Musicians

"...more fortunate, winter finds many social services and nonprofit foundations trying to keep the homeless and poor from freezing..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Tit for a Tat

Five Snapshots in the Struggle Against Breast Cancer

"...death, Nancy founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Since that time, the Foundation and its associated organizations..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

TCB

SIMS and Alejandro Escovedo on the mend, plus more hip-hop and SXSW for your shoulder-to-shoulder

"...ready to hear a lot more from the SIMS Foundation in coming months. The local musician-support nonprofit is launching..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...and a powerful pop aesthetic to their contemporary folk foundation. Jackopierce who? (Fat Tuesday, 9pm) -Andy Langer..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Garth Brooks to Keynote SXSW

DMC, Warren G, and T.I. also added as conference speakers

"...album producer and Roxy Theater co-owner Lou Adler, Grammy Foundation president Scott Goldman, and actor/musician/Portlandia co-creater Fred Armisen, who’ll..."

March 2, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

You Can Leave Your Hat On

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

"...Rarely does a musician have the privilege of attending his own Antone's tribute,..."

July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Sxsw

"...Jesse Dayton has the indelible stamp of a Texas musician: little bit country, little bit rock & roll, little..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

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

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

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Amplify Austin 2015: Mental Healing

Bringing action to mental health awareness

"...reasons they can be difficult when it comes to treatment and education. Fortunately, with the push from Amplify Austin,..."

March 4, 2015 News Post by Tamar Price

TCB

Austin mayoral candidates give new meaning to "Rock the Vote"

"...number of things to be proud of, but its treatment of the elderly has never been one of them...."

May 2, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...from Exxon/Mobil (source: www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/4211), and the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (one of the top four conservative foundations, whose largest..."

April 4, 2003 Column

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...contend with applicants crying to them about their ill treatment (real or perceived) at the hands of the panels..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...and again and again, Bob Dylan, are given reverential treatment both acoustic and electric. And side by side, LaFave's..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Election Ticker: From the Council Dais to Round Rock

Endorsements are rolling in for March 2020 Primary

"...drug offenses are down. And diversion to effective drug treatment programs is up." She adds pointedly that Moore has..."

Jan. 24, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Off the Record

Dale Watson's got Tiger Airways by the tail, and more music news

"...Watson either. He's just released a travel guide for musicians called Road Warriors' Guide to Roommate Etiquette and a..."

July 29, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...will follow up on its (not quite a) Million Musician March, which happened during South by Southwest, with another..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...BALLCLUB: Respected for both his recorded output and reverent treatment of Jimmie Rodgers-style folk/country/western music, Nashvillian Burch is also..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Node Exit

What ails singers

"...making music is first and foremost a physical activity, musicians are also prone to any number of afflictions concurrent..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...The Cartier Foundation approached Sylvia Reed with the idea of a reunion..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Record Reviews

"...Sangare, but capable instrumentalists including, in addition to African musicians, ringers such as saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis of James..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...Q-&-A approach to documenting punk, the mag would question musicians and fans on the culture they were dumping in..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

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