Playback: Waterloo Music Festival vs. Eastside Kings Festival

Austin music’s fall festival opens with a double-barrel bang

"...Waterloo Music Festival, Friday 7-Sunday 9..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...course of one night, SXSW's "Krushed" showcase reflects this festival's strongest and most ambitious hip-hop effort yet. Keeping in..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Fathom

Austin filmmakers travel to where the whales sing

"...Fathom, which debuted this week at the Tribeca Film Festival before debuting on Apple TV+ next Friday, took Xanthopoulos..."

June 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...Intact on Mud "a stripped down indie crush party" (Rolling Stone), "hopelessly seductive" (Spin), "a sonic version of X-Ray..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...like the Wayans of Canadian music. What with dad Loudon's meandering and oft-interesting long recording career, brother Rufus' self..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

ACL Fest Drops Sunday Headliner DaBaby Following Homophobic Comments

October festival promises “lineup update coming soon”

"...a recent controversy over homophobic comments, Austin City Limits Festival dropped DaBaby from its lineup. The rapper was booked..."

Aug. 3, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Panel: The Hip-Hop Bubble That Popped Culture

Long ignored, the genre now takes industry to the next level

"...president of Audible Treats; Tariq Cherif, co-founder of the Rolling Loud Festival; and Ghazi Shami, founder of Empire Distribution,..."

March 15, 2019 SXSW Post by Derek Udensi

Tyler, the Creator Answers ACL’s Call

Hip-hop great delivers a solid, if anticlimactic, performance

"...replace DaBaby as a marquee 2021 Austin City Limits Festival headliner...."

Oct. 4, 2021 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Austin’s Harry Edohoukwa and Lesly Reynaga Booked for Lollapalooza, and More Music News

Rolling Loud's SXSW dropout and the Long Center's 3D-printed stage

"...Lollapalooza announced the lineup for the August festival, notably including two Austin names on the poster. Harry..."

March 23, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Housecore Horror Live Shot No.4 – Grand Finale

Goblins spook life into a long last day of extremes

"...on the final day of the film and music festival, I’m the walking dead...."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...speaker list for the conference side of this year's festival (running March 10-19) may be its most star studded..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...photograph by John Carrico Austin has more annual music festivals than Willie Nelson has picnics. On this particular weekend,..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Old Settler's Music Festival preview

"...Clapton, Vince Gill, and Eric Johnson (guesting at the festival perhaps). Sam Bush (Sat., 8:30pm, Hill Country Stage) is..."

April 15, 2011 Music Feature

Second Big SXSW Music List

Nile Rodgers, Modern English, Cool Kids, and 204 more added

"...programming – headlined by the local granddaddy of all festivals' second 2017 Music keynote: Nile Rodgers...."

Nov. 15, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week

Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial

"...The protesting acts – many of which cite the festival’s U.S. Army sponsorship, as well as the event’s ties..."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...Festival films have a life cycle. Some drop by for..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...can provide: advance information on over two-thirds of the festival's showcases. Already, in the last two issues, somewhere in..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...Their pre-Plimsouls set at SXSW '96 was a definitive festival highlight that belied every negative connotation about reunions within..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...Brothers are the "World's Tuffest Country Band," proclaimed in loud type to be "Chicago's #1 Wasted Swing Band." Self-generated..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...the weather on the second night of the music festival was so crappy, and since "solo drumming" and "popular..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Playback

Ian McLagan died Wednesday

"...Tuesday, first-call Rolling Stones sideman Bobby Keys died from cirrhosis two weeks..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Austin at Large: Lowrider Knows Every Street

Digging deeper on the Eastside car club story reveals both our past and our future

"...spot for the same car culture found here at Festival Beach and Chicano Park, now viral after Texas Monthly..."

April 2, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

You Can Lead a HORDE To Water...

"...you looking for bands to complain about being too loud (if you're not at Aqua Fest) or too quiet..."

July 26, 1996 Music Column

Film

Film Reviews

"...its world premiere in March at the SXSW Film Festival where it garnered some of the event's biggest crowds...."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...Rolling into “I Can’t Wake You,” McCall would stare intently..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

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

"...With the same swagger as the Rolling Stones, the Black Crowes introduced their classic rock to..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...improv metal trio has been one of the leading (loudest) lights of Austin's Red River scene. Their psych-infused jams..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...prime aesthetic torchbearers for the label's attempt at a louder, edgier rebranding. The quartet eschews the twee for a..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Arista out of Austin?

"...Latin is closing," says Randle, May 1. "They'll be rolling a portion of the existing roster into BMG [Arista's..."

April 17, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Raul's in Overdrive: "Have a Good Time, Get in Free, and Drink Some Beer"

Enter 1978, when Austin punk meets San Antonio’s the Next and Dallas’ the Nervebreakers

"...as "not like the Ramones ... They were fast, loud, and tight – no solos and all the rest."..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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