Ten Chronicle Music Writers on Their Favorite Austin Albums of 2022

Almost 100 albums we loved this year

"...of pandemic-recorded albums around a flurry of returning live musical activity, local music in 2022 felt like a plurality...."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Three Music Writers Descend Into the NFT Craze at SXSW

One NFT-fatigued, one NFT-Curious, and NFT-skeptical

"...I’m not slowly backing away from someone in the music world talking to me about NFTs. Roughly one-third of..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: The Austin Music Awards Rise Again

Tickets on sale now for the 40-year tradition, March 8 at Emo's

"...suits to keep the 40-year tradition of the Austin Music Awards running...."

March 4, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

IV, III, II, I... Contact! The Latest in the Williams Country Music Dynasty is Keeping Things Warm in Some Very Long Shadows

Coleman Williams talks moving forward with an open mind

"...in a genre” is a familiar mantra amongst young musicians. No true artist would want to be limited to..."

Nov. 23, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

I’m Not Okay: LA’s Weathers Discuss Mental Health and Writing Music During COVID

An interview with the soundtrackers of millennial burnout

"...before their show at Empire to talk about their musical inspirations, being creative during COVID-19, and their band coming..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Post by Clara Wang

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...first album, 2011's Roll the Bones, and if you're holding it at waist level before slipping it onto the..."

April 30, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Comprising 118 portraits of Austin musicians taken between March and August 2020, the book documents..."

April 9, 2021 Music Feature by Annie Lyons

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...performing, and recording all instruments himself for the first time. Perhaps that explains the LP's newfound calm. Opener "Fire..."

March 26, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Even on an LP thriving with music diversification, Exhalants' secret weapon remains powerful, multipart breakdowns. They..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Seeking Stress Relief at Austin’s Center for Music Therapy

What the opposite of anxiety sounds like

"...Humans have been making music for at least 40,000 years. Hope Young contends that,..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Lucinda Williams, Ray Prim, and Curved Light lead the pack

"...triptych following Williams' aforementioned second album: Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World, and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Two..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Grapples With Reopening & Protests

Civil unrest erupts nationwide as Austin clubs begin reopening

"...by civil unrest locally and nationally, Austin bars and music venues continued to reopen last weekend. Broken Spoke, Stubb's,..."

June 5, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: DJ Shani Unites Black Women in House Music

Also the search continues for missing musician Brenden "Chameleon King" Foster, and increased afterhours sound enforcement impacts local venues

"...in Austin like to dance and drink to house music, they just don't know what it's called.' First I..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice Meet at New Story Festival

Three-day mash-up offers holistic approach to change

"...behind the New Story Festival, a three-day mash-up of music, spirituality, art, and environmental and social justice activism that..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Live Music to See This Weekend

Unpacking Christmas in July

"...FRIDAY White Denim..."

July 14, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

Is Lockhart the Live Music Suburb of the World?

A growing wave of musical expats heads south

"...know," remembers Fox, now director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in New York. "Lockhart was dirt..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Playback: Your Austin Music Poll Ballot

Armadillos for sale, Free Week, and an Austin Music Poll primer

"...a second-story room neatly arranged with commercial antiques and music ephemera. For owner Eddie Wilson, that "upstairs store" was..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Think 'New' Music

eighth blackbird helps Texas Performing Arts change how we regard classical

"...shows more concern for dated formalities than for the music itself. I don't know, those two may be lovely..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sad Music for Somber People

Toasting My Education and its dearly departed

"..."It's sad music for somber people," deadpans violist James Alexander, 45, at..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

"...punk rock spirit, the Devil Makes Three breaks down old-timey styles – including jug band, rural blues, and ragtime..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature

Murder on Music Row

Nashville, we have a problem.

"...At the 1999 Country Music Association awards, former Entertainers of the Year George Strait..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...with their familiar hats-off to Buck Owens. It's country music with an edge, combining influences, and running it all..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...that adores her, absolutely worships her -- plus 6,000 music-hungry tourists who aren't about to miss this sight. This..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Phil Music

"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Video stores killed the revival houses. Video and the old movie channels on cable TV. It wasn't intentional. No..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

The Strip Club: Spending Time With Gino, Tinos, and Lord Purrington at Plaza 183

Exploring the far northwest strip mall for good eats and more

"...mint, and basil plants growing outside. Inside, Greek folk music accompanies sea-blue murals of Aegean vistas, one with the..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

Crosstalk: Jason Dick Rejoins the 101X Morning Show, and More Music News

The Devils reunite at Giddy Ups, and Wizard Rodeo snags Deerhoof

"...Jason Dick, the radio host known for tongue-in-cheek commentary..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Crosstalk: The American Analog Set Due for Numero Group Reissue Treatment, and More Music News

Blaze Foley’s Outhouse online & Broken Spoke's historic marker

"...From Our Living Room to Yours, and 1999’s The Golden Band – complete with singles and unissued tracks. “Numero..."

April 6, 2023 Music Post by Austin Powell

Austin Music Office Expands Musician Payment for Certain City-Sponsored SXSW Events

$200/hour rate newly applied to DAWA and EQ Austin showcases

"...at a standard rate of $200 an hour per musician for acts playing the festival’s expanded 2023 roster of..."

March 17, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

We Have an Issue: Last Week to Vote in the Austin Music Poll (Plus Some Exciting News About the Austin Music Awards)

Tickets are now on sale, and a pretty stellar performer lineup is announced

"...midnight, it'll be pencils down for this year's Austin Music Poll, but you'll probably want to get to work..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

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