Keeping the Peace

Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.

"...of intense public debate over the city's proposed new noise ordinance would end in five minutes of silence...."

May 3, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Peace in the Grove?

Opponents & developer hammer out PUD compromise

"...not be as contentious as feared, say BCRC neighbors and developer ARG Bull Creek Ltd...."

Dec. 4, 2016 News Post by Michael King

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Veterans Leading the Charge

Psychedelic healing around Austin and beyond

"...air inside the maloca, an octagonal hut, was heavy and wet. Gould felt saturated by the jungle, its heat,..."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

News Roundup: Endings and Beginnings

Out with the old City Council, in with the new

"...longer to get married, another protest takes place Downtown, and more...."

Dec. 15, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

The Life and Times of an Emotional Transient

Poetry Festival Salutes Albert Huffstickler

"...the world of the living, pulsing with the fury and mire of human veins. Yeats was a grand old..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

True Love and Lawsuits in the Wedding Capital of Texas

'Til death do us party

"...All Gregory George wanted was some peace and quiet. In 2013, the 41-year-old former Texas General..."

April 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Chappell Roan Says ACL Performance Is Her Last of the Year, and More Surprises From Weekend Two

The heat lingered at sets from Vince Staples, Dua Lipa, Jeezy, and more

"...Two saw Willie Nelson sit in with Chris Stapleton and Orville Peck, Dua Lipa bleed Burnt Orange, and Chappell..."

Oct. 14, 2024 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy

Overcoming grief and exploring sobriety, Tim Showalter finds himself In Heaven

"...of Davis' colossal 27-minute "Great Expectations." One movement ends and another begins; as the color drains from a contorted..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It

The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.

"...Travis Heights, sits an enormous house with a porch and a tire swing hanging in the front yard. Enter..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Explosions in the Sky, Kim Gordon, Dinosaur Jr., and More Reviews From Austin Psych Fest 2025

Alternative nation packs the Far Out Lounge

"...Right as rain (pun intended), Austin Blues Festival and Austin Psych Fest braved spring showers and humidity when..."

May 2, 2025 Music Feature by The Music Team

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Austin's melodic-rock class, due in part to the cello and steel sounds of Frank Kammerdiener. Such airy elegance is..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Peace Offering

"...Less Self Is More Self (Ecstatic Peace!)..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Walker Lukens’ The Last Walt and More Crucial Concerts This Week

From Explosions in the Sky to CAPYAC’s Far Out Fest

"...Austin this week? Check out the Chronicle music team’s handpicked “Crucial Concerts” below or in the paper every Thursday...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Musician Panels, a Band of Horses Live Set, and More Reviews From Wednesday of SXSW

John Fogerty, Tom Morello, and Andrew McMahon get chatty

"...its own high with performances by Aughts-era indie rockers Band of Horses and Featured Session conversations with Tom Morello,..."

March 13, 2025 Music Post by Carys Anderson

A Surreal Party, a Dead Parade, and More Recommended Events

Liven up your weekend with these undead events

"...quite “window”-opening. An immersive experience, Undead utilizes pro theatre and dance artists to create mature-audience-only style creatures and scares...."

Oct. 25, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Shoegaze, Synthpop, Hip-Hop, and More Crucial Concerts

Whatever your genre, we got you

"...career, it seems, was built specifically for my childhood and teen years. Unlike the cartoons of the West, Japan..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

"Rachel Wolfson Smith: Midas" at grayDUCK Gallery

The vehicle crashes in this solo exhibition, artfully drawn in graphite, manage to contain both peace and a madness

"...Wolfson Smith's "Midas." After some struggle, I came to understand that this is because the threads are multiple. They..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...headliner Tom Waits, who the longtime local deejay, writer, and music scenester had helped lure to the conference in..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

SXSW Profiles

Jody Denberg talks to Patti Smith

"...the Chronicle his conversations with performers like Lyle Lovett and Tom Waits, produced for promotional interview discs. For the..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Record Reviews

"...only features one of Mali's most interesting young vocalists and composers, Oumou Sangare, but capable instrumentalists including, in addition..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

Playback: Dale Watson's Ameripolitan Dream

Outlaws wanted (for Awards), God calls back Gean West, and SXSW wristbands back on sale!

"...Country music's a crazy, gold-diggin' whore, and Dale Watson wants a divorce...."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Jawbreaker, Last Band on the Titanic

Saving lives decades on

"...Nineties were a simpler time, an age of Clinton-era peace and prosperity, when artists delivered emotion without irony, punks..."

July 14, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Patti Smith, Backyard, July 21

"...From the sky deck of the Backyard, Patti Smith and band, lit in blues and greens, only looked like..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Patti Smith Gung Ho (Arista)

SXSW Records

"...Ho (Arista) Blazing out of a foxhole of loss and dour contemplation, Patti Smith unfurls the flag and raises..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Kate X Messer

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...Twenty-five years and counting can't slow down SXSW Film. As the festival..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Beaten by Wackenhut

A former Travis County inmate alleges that Wackenhut Corporation bears responsibility for his prison beating.

"...is a state jail, then administered by Travis County, and under a subcontract from the county it was being..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reasonably Offensive

Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.

"...stereo equipment. Then he tried to drown out the noise coming from one of his neighbors...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Explosions in the Mind

Thurston Moore brings Ecstatic Peace! above ground

"...If a tree falls alone in the woods, and it does in fact make a sound, Thurston Moore..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Postmarks

World affairs and more Critical Mass mess missives

"...I've read the Chronicle for many years and although I am not always impressed with the caliber..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I've been working on a photo project in Kosova and Macedonia. Just before I left the U.S. in mid-September..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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