Texas Platters

"...Long Walk Back (Curb)..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Review

No Flies on Waylon

An Outlaw Who's Not Angry?

"...Metallica, just several of 'em. Pride and Joy, you never heard of them? I love what they do. I..."

July 26, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Thursday SXSW Live Shots

Thursday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...capacity crowd, her words carried through clear to the back. The sacred setting created a pregnant, hushed reverence that..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

Still a Good Thing

Lady sings the blues

"...of her time until the mid-Eighties, but she's come back strong since then. Her new album, Hot Night Tonight,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Southern Comfort

The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.

"...a taste of Austin's rich Southern heritage. Y'all come back now, y'hear? --Virginia B. Wood..."

March 3, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...bloody eardrums every time they roll over on their back and kick up their hooves in mid-Eighties indie rock..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

"...ska all-stars playing jazz tunes to ska rhythms, then backing up the Godfather of Ska, Laurel Aitken. The combination..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...aural agony return with, well, a whole lotta switchblade, switchback slaughter. Expect dead puppies to rain from the sky...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...Other Rooms); she can cover Guy Clark's "She Ain't Goin' Nowhere" just fine, which she does for Blue Roses'..."

May 9, 1997 Music Review

The Last Don

Bob Bullock: The Crusty Boss of Texas Politics

"...from Hillsboro is also a political survivor. He has never lost an election, and despite two grand jury investigations..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)

A Valentine's Day mix for KOOP

"...With Peppy's funding campaign titled #TwoHeadedDog it circled back to my KOOP mix because that's the one song..."

Feb. 14, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

100% Texan

Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.

"...it is another bar, even older as it dates back to 1700s Louisiana; a third one across the room..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

War movies are back ... but they don't make them like they used to.

"...War movies are back. Cinema has achieved an explicitness of expression and technique..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

A Boone to Austin Theatre

In 10 years of leading Frontera productions, Vicky Boone has touched many lives and changed the community.

"...of Austin theatre look like if Frontera Productions had never existed?..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck, King of the Segue.

"...it's worth, the trick was to sneak around the back). I'm told even Mayor Kirk Watson took a memorial..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live Shots

"...with a combination of old and new material like "Goin' Nowhere," "Wicked Game," and "Somebody's Crying." Just as the..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Feature

A Jukebox Musical, Chicken Tips, and More Weekday Events

Don't pretend like you don't need chicken tips

"...we’re waiting on the next pirate flick that may never come, at least we can dress up like them..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A tribute songwriting Legend Cindy Walker, Daikaiju, A Giant Dog & Go Fever, Sonic Movidas with Carrie Rodriguez, and Temple of Angels

"...to play Walker-penned Roy Orbison hit "Dream Baby" and "Goin' Away Party" – one of her father's favorites. –..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Billy F. Gibbons on the Death of Dusty Hill and the Future of ZZ Top

“Nobody else could sound like The Dust!”

"...Austin Chronicle: I wrote that ZZ Top was never flashy, the way so many loud rock bands steeped..."

July 30, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Hit Brewery Row to Choose Your Own Austin FC Home Match Beer Adventure

How to get a little matchy-matchy with the city's first top-tier sports club and its many superb beer options

"...athletically, Austin’s own Brewery Row is tasked with tracking back to cover the club’s superbly energized fan base with..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Puga

Garth Brooks Packs Into Gruene Hall

Promotional tour takes tiny town by storm

"...locking down the third date, before the sextet rolled back into a string of familiar standout singles...."

Sept. 24, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Meet J Wagner

‘Californication’ fan: ‘Keep writing, keep touring, be thankful’

"...finished it in about six hours. I’d just come back from interning as a Park Ranger in Joshua Tree..."

Dec. 23, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Blood, Sweat & Murder

Redemption for Austin's definitive one-man band? Just don't ask Scott H. Biram what the 'H' stands for.

"..."I'm goin' fishin' in heaven," Biram continues unabated, full of Pentecostal..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Capricorn Jesus

Sometimes outlaws walk on water

"...You held his 33-rpm-sized cardboard image as you listened flat-backed on the hardwood floor in front of massive stereo..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Feature by Melinda Hasting Wheatley

Off the Record

Charlie Sexton and Stephen Bruton hang with the Dude, and Haunting Oboe Music's calender year

"...conclusion. "There's a certain amount of the Dude that never goes away." The Arc Angel is writing and producing..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: A Living Constitution

The promise of liberty, unedited

"...in Newmarket and Brooklyn, in Missoula and Tempe, but never in sacred prayer devoid of all support but faith,..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Record review

"...as the "King of Western Swing," Bob Wills was never much for labels. The Kosse-born fiddler/bandleader didn't consider himself..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Dancing About Architecture

American Idol comes to town, the Funk Bros leave -- a little poorer for the musical wear and tear.

"...think local musicians fronting a conglomeration of Motown's original backing band, the Funk Brothers, would be spectacular. That's what..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"..."Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," even as another original, "Never Be Mine" glows between "Down in the Flood" and..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...been out of business for 10 years, is coming back to life under the power of Sony Nashville, and..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

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