Qmmunity: Hot & Spicy Homoscopes

Pride Month predictions for what queer events you'll end up enjoying

"...With a little over a week left in National Pride Month, there's still time to follow the hottest..."

June 23, 2023 Column by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, Kady Rain, More Eaze, Pusha T, and more non-ACL shows

"...versus corporate (produced by a local label, not Live Nation), cheap versus expensive (costing some $130 less per day),..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A Juneteenth celebration, Taméca Jones, the Howdy Gals' Pride Celebration, Mad Professor, and more recommendations for the week

"...Sweet Spirit to A Giant Dog, while newly expanded alt-pop trio Flora & Fawna conjure sleek, faraway grooves. Gothess..."

June 17, 2022 Music Column by Derek Udensi

Misery Business: The Cathartic and Unexpectedly Joyful Trend of Emo DJ Nights in Austin

Welcome to the Black Parade

"...Also entering the Austin emo night fray is the national promoter Emo Night Brooklyn, which has staged nearly 200..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Nearly 50 Food, Music, & Arts Festivals to Keep You Busy This Spring

From barbecue to burlesque, something for every Austinite this season

"...Epic Fun. April 7, noon-5pm Barton Creek Square Mall National Grilled Cheese Day Celebration..."

April 3, 2019 Events Post by Alyssa Hiarker

Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend

JMBLYA, a conjunto fest, and more weekend sounds to keep you busy

"...Watching in disgust as the electoral college handed the nation over to a maniac, songs began pouring out. It..."

May 4, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Playback: Austin Angles for BMI

Music leaders court performance rights organization, plus a requiem for Draylen Mason

"...no mistake, from newly minted indie groups to platinum pop trios, every act seeks some sort of professional help..."

March 30, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?

Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters

"...LP and second set of originals on Seattle's Sub Pop, came out, President-elect Donald Trump's path to the White..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Playback: Sound on Sound Gets Medieval

Sound on Sound’s über headliner: 23 acres of Sherwood Forest

"...experience. Whereas FFF staged decidedly urban, SOS offers a destination event where you truly break Austin's orbit. It took..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...Big Bill Pureeing nasally New Wave and garage-y power-pop into a neon green mush, Big Bill eschews conventions..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Gay Place

Through a queer lens, brightly

"...Y'all or Nothing The Carry Nation, Big Dipper, Normaling, Francine Thirteen, Christeene, Biz Vicious, and..."

March 20, 2015 Column

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Listings – Second Weekend

Blurbing a final day of ACL 2014

"...California's AFI have been the heaviest, most gothic of pop-punk outfits since arising from their crypt in 1991. Launched..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Feature

Playback

You thought SXSW was the spring festival end-all/be-all? You thought wrong.

"...space-age R&B vocal loops ("Kindle to Your Fire") and college-radio-pop gems ("Dear Someone"). Lyrically, Lukens remains a sad bastard...."

April 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

ACL Music Fest Friday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2009

"...year on Justice Records. The locals' polished brand of pop-rock receives an easier, more acoustic touch on new EP..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...of Love." On our South Seas sanctuary of the imagination, the Three Degrees – "When Will I See You..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Outlaw Onda

If Tejano music isn't on the radio, does it still exist?

"...– he respected those musicians, those small-town deejays, those mom-and-pop record-label owners, and the others who didn't let the..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Kinski

SXSW records

"...KinskiAirs Above Your Station (Sub Pop) Methinks it was not the narcotic sound sculptures that..."

March 7, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...elders, too, evident on the new, Buckwheat Zydeco-produced Funky Nation, a grease-sopping fan-boat ride through Creole country circa 2000...."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature

Christmas Records

Celtic Christmas Iv

"...(as well as Captain Lou Albano) on an unsuspecting nation of MTV tune-ins and prisoners of Top 40 radio...."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Review

Cubanisimo!

Ray Barretto and the Roots of Afro-Cuban Jazz

"...for a while. In 1930, Louis Armstrong recorded a popular Cuban tune, "El Manisero." Six months later, Cab Calloway..."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Record Reviews

"...cry for help. With the insane daily turnover of pop stars in Britain, it's easy to love the sardonic..."

May 8, 1998 Music Review

Archaic Relics of Music Biz Past

The Death of Vinyl: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...with a big hole, issued on Seattle's storied Sub Pop label...."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...before finally catching up to the more fickle U.S. pop market nearly a year after its release. Michael Cretu,..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Music Review

SXSW Announces More Speakers for 2024 Digging Deeper Into AI and the Future of Work

Dylan Mulvaney, Chuck D, and Uber CEO all added as speakers

"...to adapt to meet the needs of a changing nation. Through their experience as doctors, media correspondents, and business..."

Oct. 24, 2023 SXSW Post

Veracruz All Natural's in L.A., Jack Allen's in Our Hearts, Otoko's Got Kaieki-Ryori, Austin Food + Wine Festival Releases Tickets, and More …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...All across the country – across This Great Nation of Ours, as the patriotism-pandering politicos like to say..."

Sept. 1, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moody Center Groundbreaking Promises the Finest Arena in the NCAA

Nashville act soundtracks Erwin Center replacement kickoff

"...combined effort of UT, Oak View Group, C3 Presents/Live Nation, and Matthew McConaughey to make the Moody Center more..."

Dec. 4, 2019 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Will Texas Patch Up TABC Before It Bursts?

If ever an agency needed to be scorched by the state’s Sunset Act, it’s the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Com­mis­sion

"...Stepping back into the policy perspective, neither progressives, nor populists, nor free-marketeers, nor social conservatives are super-convinced that TABC..."

Feb. 1, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

After Two-Year Hiatus Levitation Hits the Clubs

Droning on with Slowdive, Electric Wizard, Ian Svenonius, and Bedouine

"...following their 1995 album Pygmalion. After a generation of dream-pop bands reintroduced them to younger audiences, the group reunited,..."

April 27, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Top 10 National Albums of 2017

National themed lists

"...Isabella Castro-Cota (Pop)..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Playback – Austin Record Convention: The Greatest Record Store on Earth

ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight

"...45s, 78s, cassettes, and CDs in what remains the nation's largest recorded music sale. The combination record store/flea market/music..."

May 5, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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