Playback: RSD in ATX

Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them

"..."There are two sides to Record Store Day," contemplates Exploded Records at JuiceLand operator Andrew..."

April 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Crosstalk: Hi, How Are You Mural Lasts a Long Time Despite Building Demo, and More Music News

Record Store Day and an Ice Cream Factory Studio workshop

"...the friendly frog in 1993, commissioned by Sound Exchange record store. In 2018, Johnston told the Chronicle: "I always..."

April 21, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: The Spiritual Side of Quentin Arispe

Plans for Pride Month, Resound concert promotions, and IRL record store day

"...rooted the artist locally, while a prolific run of recordings – including 2019's Fruit with prominent cumbia producer El..."

June 11, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Austin’s Rarest Vinyl

Want exclusive vinyl for Record Store Black Friday? Check out some of Austin's rarest wax.

"...thinking. What are the most valuable, rarified, and coveted records that have sprung from our city limits?..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back to my fourth day in Texas:..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Waterloo Records Owner John Kunz Saves His 42-Year-Old Baby – By Selling It

With new partners in tow, the pioneering record store moves up Lamar

"...at Sixth and Lamar sold. Targeted for redevelopment, Waterloo Records’ literal foundation for three full decades suddenly entered turnaround...."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Person to Person

The New York ensemble subgenre gets some fresh air

"...a dozen storylines over the course of a typical day in the city, Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Michael Agresta

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

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...in spandex and Olivia Newton-John headbands milling about, pawing records, throwing out obscure band names, and talking about their..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Playback: Ramsay Midwood Buys the Bar

Ramsay Midwood co-acquires Sam's Town Point, record store news, and Spoon teases upcoming Matador Records LP.

"...cult classic Shootout at the OK Chinese Restaurant, Vanguard Records flew his band in from California only for them..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Steady As He Goes

From cosmic cowboys and Americana to punk rock and legacy acts, Freddie Steady Krc keeps the beat

"...the Gulf Coast town of La Porte, listening to records in his room. He treasured the round vinyl discs,..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...What is Free Comic Book Day? Imagine record store day, but for comics. Oh, and..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Defying Gravity

Wilco burns across America

"...Trying to Break Your Heart, a documentary about the recording of 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which almost saw the..."

April 22, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Can record stores survive the digital age?

"...Until recently, they owned Jupiter Records, a new/used store in Hancock Center that closed Christmas..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...Had it not been Labor Day – and had we not been trying to hook..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Endtroducing

Record Store Day: Don't forget the actual record store, America's 'musical town square'

"...I live for music. I'm at shows, in the stores, on the streets following the sounds. I'm with you,..."

April 20, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: School’s Out for Dayglow

Nineteen-year-old Sloan Struble leaves UT for the bedroom-pop big leagues, while two new area record stores make their debuts

"...The day before moving to Austin for college last summer, Sloan..."

June 21, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

A Room of One's Own

Austin's Newest Record Stores Carve out Their Niche

"...the better part of my adolescence. Home being the Record Cellar, on not-so-bustling Bustleton Avenue, where, according to the..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

Playback: Black Friday? End of an Ear!

End of an Ear's new digs thrive just in time for Black Friday

"...Love Black Friday shopping, but hate bare-knuckle boxing soccer moms at Wal-Mart..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Skip Big Box Shopping and Spend Your Black Friday Dollars Locally Instead

Austin businesses need your support more than ever

"...While the day after Thanksgiving – shorthanded as Black Friday – is..."

Nov. 24, 2020 Events Post by Kimberley Jones

The Return of ... the Cassette

The Walkman revolutionized portable music. Can their fodder – cassettes – jump the shark?

"...Seattle, he gets downright evangelical about his Minner Bucket Records putting out "handmade experimental music" on cassette. Like many..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...Friday 3 -Saturday 4, House of Torment..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Cinco de Mayo, May the Fourth (Be With You), and More Recommended Events

The week in community happenings

"...Thursday 2, Z’Tejas Avery Ranch..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Week in Recommended Live Music

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

"...Thursday 2, Cheer Up Charlies..."

May 3, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Vinyl Nation

Reports of death of physical media have been greatly exaggerated

"...Vinyl Nation opens with a line. It’s Record Store Day, the international event when vinyl-selling shops see..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Faster Than Sound: Ukeme Maps the Music Genome

Multidisciplinarian Jason Ikpatt ponders community across arts and sciences

"...readily available DNA coding used for his research to prerecorded sound downloads. Among his many projects, music rose to..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

How I Won the War Against Stress With A Little Help From Vinyl & Tequila

Giving praise before the altar of the turntable

"...swing over, and touch the needle down on the record. Then, out of the speakers, comes the music."..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Exit Interview: Trailer Space Owner Spot Long

Choosing happiness – even when going out of business

"...its exit, Austin loses a unique asset: an all-in-one record store, music venue, and clubhouse...."

Oct. 15, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Cheapo Records to Close

Black Friday comes early for one Austin record store

"...press release this morning announcing the close of Cheapo Records, owner Jason Shields sounded resigned – sad. “I really..."

Nov. 20, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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

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