New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...So wrote late Chronicle Music godmother Margaret Moser in a 2011 cover story about..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Local Music to Livestream, Download, and Otherwise Enjoy Digitally

What we’re watching and listening to

"...distinct lack of grainy live performances, and a couple music videos. A paucity of such materials necessitates animated narrative..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Lucinda Williams, Ray Prim, and Curved Light lead the pack

"...Texas Music HoFer, five-time Grammy winner, and former Austinite by way..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

Including three weekend-two-only performers

"...year's rollicking Loner traded twang for punchy pop. Her music now barrels through synths, organs, and bright melodies, barbed..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature

Snapshot: Free Week 2019

David Brendan Hall talks with 10 Austin bands about what it takes to feel musically "free"

"...From a musician's perspective, is it possible to interpret the "free" aspect..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

12 Must-See Saturday Acts at ACL Music Festival

Key Zilker Park sets for Saturday weekend one

"...inquiries from media, management, and labels alike, eschewing the music industry (save for their booking agent) in favor of..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

10 Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

And concluding the first weekend ...

"...brutarians from the English seaport town of Bristol stormed SXSW the past two years with tuneful barbarics – intelligent,..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

Faster Than Sound – Sex Bomb to Sister Ray: Recapping Levitation’s Second Downtown Go-Round

Scenes from Austin’s marquee independent music fest

"...first and coldest night of Levitation, carefully arranged myriad music scenes like puzzle pieces on the Downtown map. Berets..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Elisabeth Moss Might Just Be Her Own Character

The actor headlines SXSW in opening night film Us, and probes the cost of fame in Her Smell

"...eagerly awaited opening night film, Jordan Peele’s Us, Moss’ SXSW schedule includes a conversation between herself and longtime friend..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Danielle White

Faster Than Sound: I’m Just Not Into Labels

CD Baby brings DIY Musician Conference to Austin, Sidewinder won't be ready for SXSW, and PledgeMusic withholds Fastball campaign funds

"...Relocating from Nashville, independent music distributor CD Baby imports its annual gathering to Austin..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Checking In: Young Jazz Lions Atlas Maior Double Down

Bandleader Joshua Thomson forges a pandemic soundtrack

"...quartet seemingly dreamed about a nexus between Middle Eastern music, Latin groove, and jazz, then created it instead of..."

Dec. 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Patty Griffin on Her Battle With Breast Cancer and New Album

Local songwriter rises through the fire

"...of Waterloo Records following an in-store kicking off her SXSW earlier this month. "It wasn't a small tumor, and..."

March 29, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Harry Edohoukwa Climbs His Mountain

Personal and creative growth manifest on debut LP

"...I witnessed Harry Edohoukwa perform – at a February 2019 showcase put on by KUTX hip-hop culturists The Breaks..."

Dec. 9, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Behind the Beerland Strike

Legacy punk club and labels in limbo amid owner money issues

"...Red River live music venue Beerland has been closed since Tuesday. The shutter..."

May 31, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Film Review: The Wall of Mexico

Border tensions from a new perspective

"...Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak, whose Maya Dardel premiered at SXSW Film 2017, makes a return to the Fest in..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Checking In: Little Mazarn’s Lindsey Verrill Bought a Kayak with Her Stimulus Check

How to stay afloat when there is no Plan B

"...for Chronicle photographer David Brendan Hall’s extensive mapping of musicians and their animal muses, Lindsey Verrill’s image beat out..."

Dec. 1, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: KVRX Launches the Largest College Radio Festival

KVRX station manager Gab Soong starts the largest ever student-run radio fest, national phone theft ring uncovered from ACL Fest, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek settles down outside the city

"...financing, the two deejays are debuting the nation's largest music festival solely organized by a student-run radio station. Barbin..."

March 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fleetwood Mac Goes a New Way at Frank Erwin Center

Slow start aside, don’t dream it’s over

"...When Fleetwood Mac rolled through Austin in 2015, Lindsey..."

Feb. 11, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

19 Post-Punks to Bounce Around To

"...year, these defining NYC No Wavers offered their first music in a decade. 1980 Manhattan club hit "Too Many..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Checking In: Alesia Lani Hermits Happily

Powerhouse live presence ramps down

"...“Like Mary J. Blige or Jazmine Sullivan, she invite(s)..."

June 2, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Go South of the Border With These 15 Latinx Acts

"...editor of She Shreds magazine and guitarist for fellow SXSW showcasers Sávila – carved out the time remains a..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

P1nkstar and Y2K Roll Out the Queerdo Carpet for CYBERBABES

Local SXSW showcase serves queer, femme realness

"...Qmmunity, of course, has got you covered with our SXSW guide for when you want to go where everybody..."

March 8, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Faster Than Sound: Renovated Beerland Opens, Dozen Street on Its Way Out

Rounding up 2020 venue news plus all things Hi, How Are You Day

"...shutter (revisit "Ryan Garrett Assumes Beerland Lease," Oct. 18, 2019). The venue, with no website yet, is open daily..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Last September, Late Iron Age Sonic Architect Wade Allison Spoke About Composing a Crossover Metal Standard

Eighteen days after the death of Power Trip frontman we uncover an unseen interview with the late guitarist

"...junior high and high school years to nurture his musical ambitions. "I feel like being in a band was..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

"...PHOTOS: See more archival photos of Daniel Johnston..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Lance Bass Relives an Astounding Fraud in The Boy Band Con

Manufactured pop meets true crime in this documentary about Lou Pearlman

"...Ponzi scheme. It’s the story of Lou Pearlman, the music manager who took the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC to..."

March 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Austin Musicians Brace for Public Shutdown

Dispatches from the week the music died

"...Pullout from corporate sponsors and private parties cost local musicians thousands of dollars before the official activities ever ceased...."

March 20, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Q&A Hole: Unwilling Alien Espionage

Billie Buck: “Teleport me to the cheese factory”

"...pose this query to five unsuspecting artists from Austin’s music scene: Billie Buck of independently wealthy garage punks Sailor..."

Aug. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

What If Your Contact Lenses Could Change with the Light?

Acuvue debuts Oasys with Transitions, all eyes breathe a sigh of relief

"...I went to a thing at SXSW this year...."

April 3, 2019 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Stacey Abrams, Without Concessions

Now and for her whole life, the rising star finds her own path to victory

"...had planned, we might not be seeing her at SXSW this week. "I would be working to put forth..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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