None of the Hits, All of the Time

Austin's Real "Alternative," KVRX

"...Ina Hendricks and Jenn Garrison Thursday nights on KVRXphotograph..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Music Reviews

"...The Gold Experience (Warner Bros/ NPG)..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Review

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...real, big city-style department, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment (ACME). After years of performers, administrators, boards,..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lifelong Student Fennec Finds a Home in House Music

The multi-credentialed producer who wrote an admissions essay on Girl Talk

"...It's Fennec's first time at East Sixth Street's BLK Vinyl. The 32-year-old producer..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...word: "the presence of God everywhere at the same time." Charlie Pierce possesses such an Old Testament voice on..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Online, however, behold a nonet straight outta the Stax/Volt annals: three pieces..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...the Greyhounds' fifth formal full-length swiftly afoot. Co-composed with onetime T-Bird & the Breaks leader Tim Crane (soon aka..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Music Lab Explores Consolidation

Rehearsal space’s Oltorf location posted for sale; Hi, How Are You Day draws the Flaming Lips; and Esme Barrera tribute launches Girls Rock El Paso

"...Music Lab's Oltorf location, a default rehearsal space for Austin..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Food and Music Strike a Chord With These Austin Chefs

We explore the link between the culinary and musical in anticipation of Hot Luck

"...Now, music is back in Franklin's life in a big way...."

May 25, 2018 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Playback: Revamping the Austin Music Poll

Here's how Playback's voting

"...staffers are poring over 20 years of online Austin Music Poll results for evidence of Russian interference. Meanwhile, a..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...to somebody who had ambition in show business or music. It was always a sleepy community."..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom ‘Cutz’ New Music

Chris Searles revisits the cult local trio’s salad years

"...Searles explains. “I came up with the name as musical onomatopoeia during a particularly boring class at UT, and..."

Dec. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Playback: Empire of Music

Even a new Pope couldn't top SXSW

"...the Nirvana drummer explained how multitracking on a "crappy old handheld tape recorder" at 13 taught him his most..."

March 22, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Why Chamber Music?

For the folks who play it, it's the intimacy and democracy and unity and fun

"...Summer is their season to migrate, the time when they wing across the country, landing briefly in..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: A Little Light-Rain Music

A holiday meditation

"...or hurt my body have all chosen the same time to rest. I'm playing a CD, given to me..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Austin Symphony: Everything Old Is New Again

The Austin Symphony's local premiere of Kevin Puts' 'Symphony No. 2': 'Island of Innocence,' evokes the cultural shift after 9/11 in a dramatic score

"...as UT assistant professor of composition, living and writing full-time in New York. "Kevin uses the events of 9/11..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Battling for Music, History, and Learning

Juneteenth Battle of the Bands competition harkens back to days when marching bands enjoyed a celebrated place in Austin's black community, and creates opportunity for greater future African-American involvement in school bands.

"...As they swagger-stepped in from the end zone, the gold tassels on their royal blue uniforms fluttered, their gold..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Old Man River

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw: The Return of Steven Fromholz

"...trilogy's sequel or even likely to be similarly regarded anytime soon, but by way of contrast, its author calls..."

April 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...gospel evangelists would be an evening well spent any time, but the reason behind this Ballroom revival makes it..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...would be the hit. It's an album that never sold and I can't imagine it boasts much of a..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Body Is the Music

The Beginnings

"...with cycles. In my opinion, this dance is very old. It stems from fertility religions. It is that ancient,..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Where Live Music is Dead

Welcome to Sixth Street

"...While the club's original plans called for live country music four nights a week, after just over one year..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin Chamber Music Center Chamber of Diversity

"...by Ken Hunt The office of the Austin Chamber Music Center sits atop a hair salon in an unassuming..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

No Badge Necessary at These Live Music Recommendations

Crucial concerts for the week ahead

"...Lainey Gonzales, and sleep well.   – Carys Anderson Time Zero..."

March 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Off Beat: Overflowing With Artifacts, the Texas Music Museum Asks City for Storage Space, Preservation Funding

Eastside gallery memorializes Black and brown musicians

"...Guiding a tour of the Texas Music Museum one Thursday, President Clay Shorkey pontificates on the..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

The Week in Recommended Live Music

Narrow Head, Pussy Gillette, the Nude Party, and even some innuendo-less acts to see

"...Houston act Narrow Head play at their hometown’s Bayou Music Center – opening for Interpol. A recent reissue of..."

May 3, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Crosstalk: Music Returns to Cosmic Coffee, the Golden Horn Replaces Burger Tex, and More Culture News

And we say goodbye to a former Chronicle art director

"...captured beloved figures of the Eighties and Nineties Austin music scene, from Clifford Antone and Asleep at the Wheel..."

April 26, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

No Beyoncé, Lots of Jelly Roll, and More Takeaways From the CMT Music Awards

Best and worst moments from the ceremony’s uneven Moody Center return

"...year’s notable move from Nashville to Austin, the CMT Music Awards presented a not-always-cohesive collage of ideas about the..."

April 8, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Music Industry Hall of Fame: Poster Visionary Jim Franklin

The iconic artist reflects on armadillos, self-unemployment, and his influence on Austin culture

"...helped cement a Fillmore-like association between art and live music in Austin. A familiar sight to concertgoers for his..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Jackie Venson to Play Guitar With Alanis Morissette at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday

Austin blues star joins CBS broadcast of “You Oughta Know”

"...Following decades in Nashville, the CMT Music Awards take over the Moody Center for the first..."

March 28, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

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