1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...album is an outstanding collection of songs that inject rock & roll lifeblood into folk and country structures, beautified..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6

"...cell phones, and fortunately, girlfriend had one. With 18-wheelers rocketing past at knee cap's length, oncoming darkness wasn't going..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place

The Gay Place goes back to her roots, just south of the Wild Side and a hair shy of a Moonage Daydream

"...THE BOWIE PROJECT: A ROCK & ROLL SOUND­PAINTING Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre, the Super..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Shoot Copper Tod A. has put out the best rock album of this still-young year. The wildly over-the-top Ponzi..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...decadelong Austin scene veteran to fully embrace brooding indie rock, full of guitar nerd solos and power chord bursts..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...the end of the utterly charming "Watching the Clouds Roll By." When she sings, "Drop-kicked and sucker-punched a couple..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...came from; "Don't Forget About Me," "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi De Ho)," and the scrumptious "Breakfast in Bed"..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...will be here, seeing the band that invented punk rock and featuring rock & roll's most death-defying frontman preview..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...than an old drum machine, Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks sure do take their time in the studio. Long-awaited..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...second, Drawing the Circle, records Bozzio playing tongue-on-the-floor tom rolls, cymbal splashes, and snare snaps over recorded-live ostinatos. It's..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...beats gather tension behind desperate and sobering narratives. Girl rocker quartet Potty Mouth offers a nostalgic Nineties take on..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

Thursday Picks

"...their already-astounding collection of country, Delta blues, and classic rock, blending them into a Texas-sky hue. – Darcie Stevens..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Drive-In Concerts ATX..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...another guitar or a violin, with the scabrous glam rock band Buick MacKane, and with the Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra...."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...with 2013's sixth LP Big Hits!, an intergalactic indie rock disc with major-label polish and self-assurance. The locals' melodic..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...LATINO ROCK ALLIANCE PRESENTS: Another SXSW Rock en Español showcase, another..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...Recent works HEART (2013) and The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting (2014) have earned Critics Table Awards...."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

International Bands

Thursday

"...(Fri., Fuze, 11pm) Lua Watty's crystalline vocals lead the alt-rock way from Madrid...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...come from Texas. Half honky-tonk hero and half outlaw roots-rocker, Ely rides a hard road into the sunset with..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...By the winter of 1977, when the Rolling Stones entered EMI's Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris to..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Antone's monthlong 46th anniversary rolls both sides of its legacy this weekend. New Orleans..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...the World, it adopted a simple enough name: "The Rock Club." And it was, especially during the era celebrated..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine

Support local business while maintaining your social distance

"...Black Rock Coffee Bar Drive-thru is open with local goods from..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...Aires follows with lush electronic tango before Molotov proves rap-rock didn't die, it moved south of the border. Fellow..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...From the city of celebrity drugs and $1,000 baby strollers come Amanda Barrett and Abby DeWald, the L.A.-based duo..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...year through a mutual love of Crazy Horse, psych rock, and Tito's Handmade Vodka, these four esteemed local warriors..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Texas Platters

".... If Southern rock is dead, it's the Crowes that are poised to..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Review by Your Side

Rocket 808

"..."Rocket 88" is Ike Turner's contribution to the birth of..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...has stepped deeper into her role as a full-fledged rock goddess. It came to a head with October's Roulette,..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Saturday Preview

"...of Slick Rick, the 1988 masterpiece wherein the London-born eye-patch-rocking Ruler raised storytelling over beats to an art form...."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature

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