Glen “Spot” Lockett, In-House SST Records Producer and Former Austinite, Has Died

American punk innovator also explored Celtic and bluegrass

"...Glen “Spot” Lockett, the longtime Austinite who early in..."

March 5, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

Playback: Does Size Matter at SXSW?

A smaller SXSW Music week still satisfies

"...made a big deal of it. South by Southwest's Music week experienced significant shrinkage in 2018...."

March 23, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star

Austin's now generation comes of age in Suzanna Choffel

"...thinks they have a chance at becoming famous has music on MySpace. It's a beautiful thing, and it's a..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...-- at times he almost looks Filipino, or maybe Native American -- keep time with the tall man's talking..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Playback: The Greyhounds Hoof It

Groove-mongering R&B duo the Greyhounds get mule-headed, S.S. Hangover floats Laguna Gloria, and the Austin Music Commission overlooks music hub

"...many days clomping down Austin's trails and sidewalks alongside Native American spiritualist Samuel Grey Horse, better known as the..."

April 13, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Live Shot: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Rodney Crowell, Lucinda Williams, Shakey Graves

Americana Music Association showcase finds the sweet spot

"...The average age of those showcasing for the Americana Music Association Friday night hovered around 47, but everybody..."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

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

Li’l Band O’ Gold

Li’l Q&A with LBOG’s C.C. Adcock

"...with Chris Gray turned into an all-nighter with our native driver, guitarist C.C. Adcock, who took us nightclubbing with..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Can you hear me now? Local musicians and OTR get some much needed hearing aid while Jody Denberg signs off from KGSR.

"...21, 2006), OTR visited the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians' third hearing clinic this year on Monday at the..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCB

The bottles and cans keep piling up, but two venues catch green-building fever; a local pirate plunders the music business; and Kelly Clarkson now employs the entire Austin music scene in some capacity

"...the resurgent environmental movement is slowly seeping into the music biz. South by Southwest went carbon-neutral this year, and..."

May 25, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Gary Floater: A Hero Never Learns

Owen Temple lookalike pretends not to care but does, no joke

"...I first met Gary Floater at February’s International Folk..."

April 1, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Misses Real Jazz

"...Editor: Dear Prentiss [Riddle] ["Postmarks," Oct. 31], KUT music programming does not cut it for me either. I..."

Nov. 3, 2003 Postmarks

Gina Chavez Tour Diary 4: Mexico!

Passport panic gives way to thanksgiving with Our Lady of Guadalupe

"...decided to make a pit stop. Jacob – our American Music Abroad tour manager who’s been with us since..."

April 22, 2016 Music Post by Gina Chavez

Levitation Live Shot: Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback

Canada’s Native American Richie Havens

"...No spring chicken, Willie Thrasher has made music since the mid-Sixties, when he drummed for the Cordells,..."

May 9, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey

Record review

"...Fahey expanded the boundaries of acoustic guitar beyond folk music. In fact, "folk" seems too limiting to describe someone..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...success, but the New York filmmaker's impact on modern American horror, both artistic and personal, is indelible...."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

5 Minutes with Jimbo Mathus

Mississippi picker talks William Faulkner and Fat Possum Records

"...Levon Helm, James “Jimbo” Mathus embodies the spirit of American music. Coming from a lineage of Italian bootleggers and..."

July 18, 2013 Music Post by Derek Van Wagner

Getting Help for Art Venues ASAP

June 29 meeting tells artists how to tap $200K in space aid

"...In his 2016 Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus Resolution, Mayor Steve Adler called..."

June 27, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

ACL Live Shot (Second Weekend): The Preservation

Kinksian harmonies mingled with Americana psych-pop

"...like she’d just stepped from the pages of the Native American Flapper fall catalog, complete with bobbed hair, a..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Music Post by Melanie Haupt

Off the Record

Snapshots from Free Week on Red River

"...batting cage. OTR knocked off the rust at the Alternative Softball League's happy hour with a torrential, tribal noisetrack..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...through Sunday's showcases, there will be some form of music happening somewhere on Austin turf at any given moment...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...6406 N. I-35, and the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River. Tickets and info at cinelasamericas.org/film-festival...."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...coast hatch a plan to lure a batch of American woman into their clutches for matrimony in this bittersweet..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...& Wally Gagel (Folk Implosion, Eels). Really, it's the music -- Beck, Elliot, Cibo Matto -- the whole studio..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...To your average American, even if he is an aficionado, one for whom..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Realms of Inspiration

Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin

"...well ... Russian, Scandinavian. In a way, Erik Hokkanen's music is like Rojankovsky's art...."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

Tell It Like It Is

Cyril Neville holds nothing back

"...Gras Mambo." Considering the full extent of their world-renowned musical legacy, it's only fitting that the majesty of the..."

April 28, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

The Pearl King

Formed through irritation, time, and friction, yet gorgeous, imperfect, and universally valued: Oliver Rajamani

"...This doesn't sound odd coming from an Austin musician – unless said multi-instrumentalist was born in rural India...."

May 4, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

If You're a Viper

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

"...generation: During the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thousands of native Mexicans moved north across the Rio Grande, many settling..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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