Audio Snapshots

America's premiere archival roots label celebrates the big 4-0.

"...ever. That collection opened up an entire universe of new music -- music that surprised and delighted knowing folkies..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Dancing About Architecture

Stevie Ray Vaughan box set hits stands and controversary

"...doing by working with his latest discovery, 17-year-old blues rocker Tyler Hilton, who's just completed work on his debut..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The war betwixt Dynamite Hack and Vallejo escalates, in truth and in fiction; Watchtower gears up to rock Germany's ass off; Hank's Roadside Cafe bites the dust.

"...Aug. 1 release of their next album, Into the New, Sony drops the band...."

June 23, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...the fall of 1993 to go on tour with New York-based scum rockers G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies...."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Bands seek out SXSW, SXSW searches for places to put them; the late (Liberty) Lunch gets later; plus all the news that gives us fits...

"...bands in consideration for showcases are many of those Austin-cum-New York bands I've mentioned here before, including Vanduro (Mary..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Big Sweet Life

"...catharsis for Graham, it was his metamorphosis from ex-punk rocker, New Sincerity alumnus, and prized session man into fully..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Scanlines

Risky Business

"...girl named Lana (Rebecca De Mornay), driving his father's brand-new Porsche into Lake Michigan, and a high-speed chase with..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature

Texas Platters

"...Rio" was so beloved that many parents named their newborn daughters after the song. Now, after a 20-year recording..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Review

Reissues

"...the lavishly packaged Beg, Scream & Shout is the new box set standard, if not the definitive box set...."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The Mighty Four

"...local indie label Watermelon Records -- but we all knew that. The new issue of Billboard, however, brings up..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...-- with Améde Ardoin's 1929 recordings, made in a New Orleans hotel room. The tree then branches to Améde's..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Blind in Texas or: Ken Don't Know Dick

"...here I come stumbling around the grounds of Clark's new Austin restaurant, the American Bandstand Grill at 183 and..."

June 6, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Archaic Relics of Music Biz Past

The Death of Vinyl: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...Pye Studios, Glen Cove, New York, November, 1996: Cheap Trick have almost broken a..."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

Dance With the Devil

Getting Austin Artists in Step With Their Audience

"...Mardi Gras in New Orleans will be a little different for the Krewe..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Family Circle

Charlie and Will Sexton

"...off as both a blues guitarist and a post-wave rocker, performed onstage with his idol Tom Waits earlier this..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Live Shots

"...it. Austin finally gets its first proper glimpse of New York's great punk hopes, D Generation, five gents with..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...don't care, why should 30 people fresh into a new semester at UT? Not that this stopped the skinny..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature

A Room of One's Own

Austin's Newest Record Stores Carve out Their Niche

"...Pat, who crammed it with wooden racks full of new and used albums, and a rack downstairs for 7-inchers...."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

Recommended

"...Terence behaves, this one will be great. At a New York City show this past summer, D'Arby plowed through..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

Hot Summer Nights Reviews

Free music fest cools out record hot summer

"...riffs – evocative of Grover's other current outfit, Magic Rockers of Texas – are BG's M.O., and they permeated..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Now Streaming in Austin: I've Got Issues

Steve Collins' melancholic comedy comes home to VOD

"...A woman is told by everyone that a local rocker, who looks suspiciously like Stevie Ray Vaughn, is a..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Live Music Recommendations for the Week

Here are a few good reasons to go out on a school night

"...Austin City Limits taping that same year, Detroit’s favorite rocker abides. – Raoul Hernandez Lloyd Cole..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Playback: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

But you can still put your arms around Margaret Moser

"...in 1981 when he served the Chronicle's first internship. Rocker/writer Tim Stegall considers Moser his mother after 25 years..."

June 16, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Vagabon

Infinite Worlds (Father/Daughter)

"...come and go on Infinite Worlds. Instead, the Cameroonian New York dweller threads a singular narrative obsessed with the..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Javier Escovedo Record Review

Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)

"...if she's still around?" over a piano pounding out New York Dolls-style punk on "Downtown," it's impossible to discern..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Yard Dog Turns 20

Dream Syndicate and Mekons frontmen art – rock

"...She became interested in folk art while living in New York City and visiting the Hand-mad gallery in Hoboken,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Prez for Life & Beyond: Lester Young

Tenor sax king helped put Kansas City on the musical map

"...hot rock ever produced. The former, like a punk rocker that went against the grain, floated lightly over the..."

Aug. 27, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Mike Flanigin Record Review

The Drifter (Black Betty Records)

"...Wife." Then "Fit to Be Tied," a rampaging Rolling Stones-meets-New York Dolls rocker, uncorks brutal guitars and a snotty..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Brent Grulke, 1961-2012

What SXSW Creative Director Brent Grulke meant to the music business

"...His history in this town is such that the news of his loss stunned the music sector emotionally and..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...Spheeris' classic slice of SoCal disaffection, Suburbia, every punk rocker, real or fauxhawk, who ever appeared in a movie..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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