Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...It’s Thursday night over at Sam’s Town Point, the most off-the-beaten-path..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

How Austin Transformed Danny Brown

The Detroit wild card on getting his shit together (and finding H-E-B)

"...influence. It was a strange way to spend his birthday...."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Six Great Breweries Off the Beaten Path

In tumultuous times for Austin beer, these undersung gems are worth seeking out

"...in 2011. He notes that brewery growth peaked in 2017 at +1,673. Other issues like supply chain disruptions, steel..."

March 1, 2024 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Faster Than Sound: How Two Years Off Made Oblivion Access Festival Even Better

An interview with the truly independent booking duo on their landmark lineup

"...rock, punk, hip-hop, electronic, and experimental. Expanding to four days, May 12-15, Oblivion Access adds over 50 acts from..."

May 6, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Spaceflight Records' Nonprofit Clears for Takeoff

An ambitious vision for debt-free record deals attracts notable music industry interest

"...The Spaceflight Records takeover of the annual open-to-the-public Auditorium Shores stage on..."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Raoul Hernandez, Not Like Everybody Else

Outgoing Chronicle Music editor on 27 years of pure emotion

"...the mob." His print breakthrough arrived at a post-collegiate record store gig, when the publisher of a Bay Area..."

July 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Roky Erickson Tribute Books A Waterloo Records Release Party

Black Angels, Eve Monsees, Charlie Sexton, and more sign vinyl July 18

"...Bill Bentley, then a senior publicist at Warner Bros. Records, the collection of covers manifested with the intention of..."

June 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Love Wheel Records Rolls In

Austin music mainstay Mike Nicolai retails vinyl and Indoor Creature parties at the Ballroom

"...Just off Burnet, North Austin stop Love Wheel Records opened in late April nestled between a nail salon..."

June 18, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...In 2017, Sarah Jarosz became the second recipient of the FreshGrass..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...www.antonesrecordshop.com..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...BEST TEXAS RECORDINGS..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...BEST TEXAS RECORDINGS..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Hip-Hop Artist of the Year: Magna Carda Best Texas Recordings..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Spirit Adrift's Nathan Garrett Lands His Astral Metal Rocket in Bastrop

Ride into the light

"...Friday, June 21, 2019: Summer solstice tilts our overcooked globe..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Debut on North Carolina indie royalty Merge Records and third LP overall for the raw, glammy Austin..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Roky Erickson Ascends to the 13th Floor (1947-2019)

Psychedelic pioneer clocked 71 Earth years

"...on a new LP. Explosives drummer Fred Krc said today that Roky had been rushed to the emergency room..."

May 31, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Infinites Get Loopy at the Intersection of Jared Leibowich and Dan LeVine

Zoltars' frontman and Ghetto Ghouls' guitarist come together in the hypnosphere

"...which prompted Leibowich – unsolicited – to send makeshift recordings of himself singing over the tracks. LeVine hesitated until..."

May 10, 2019 Music Feature by Libby Webster

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...In one week, I was shown the Fall, the Birthday Party, Mission of Burma, and the Urinals. I didn't..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Industry Awards Grow Into Emo’s

Berkshire Hounds back a piano-smashing good time, non-Spring Break SXSW needs more volunteers, and Bayonne brings his piano home

"...If getting ribbed by Waterloo Records owner John Kunz is a local rite of passage,..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...chiller Us will be this year's opening night movie, today the festival confirmed it will close with the new..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...Friedkin re-enforced that link with another movie about possession, 2017's The Devil and Father Amorth. Yet rather than a..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo Turns 50

The landmark album spins at the Moody Theater via two of its makers and their virtuosic friends

"...LP's 50th anniversary. Stuart's excited for November 10, the day the tour pulls up to ACL Live at the..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Death Watch: Rockwell Schizophrenic or Faker?

One execution stayed, another set for Oct. 24

"...execution on Oct. 10, was granted a stay just days before in light of the Supreme Court's 2017 ruling..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop

Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America

"...One day, you click on a Facebook event from a fellow..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Feature by Clara Wang

The San Marcos Music Scene Runs Deep

ACL Fest hip-hop headliners Brockhampton might just be the tip of the iceberg from our neighbors south on I-35

"...town where Stevie Ray Vaughan once sequestered himself to record has begun defying narrow city limits with raw talent..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Music Feature by Jeremy Steinberger

Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl

Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news

"...This is Austin's first major record pressing plant...."

April 20, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...off-kilter instrumental ambience. Sadness3, released last year via Sports Day Records, is six tracks of chugging, lo-fi melodics with..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?

Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.

"...Sonic Transmissions fest pushes experimental free jazz, Church on Monday's residency at the Continental Club Gallery remains holy, saxophonist..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...They're not the only directors with Austin roots in today's massive lineup drop: PJ Raval has his latest short,..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...Nonetheless, the singer was upbeat last Friday when speaking by phone from his home in Waller,..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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