1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...could hear it in her show at Jovita's during South by Southwest, where the local singer-songwriter debuted her new..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Page Two

The agony and the ecstasy of SXSW 2002

"...Tuesday, March 12, 2002, about 3:20pm: I've ducked back into the Chronicle offices from..."

March 22, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Austin Music Awards

"...taste of what music in this town is all about. Okay, so there were some problems. This is a..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...BOYS: The young Garza brothers, age 20-24, are straight outta San Angelo, bringing exciting onstage antics and good-time, conjunto-infused..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Mountain Style

Chatting with Dr. Ralph Stanley, a pioneer of bluegrass music before there was such a thing

"...it's with every bit of sincerity he can squeeze out of his weary bones. When he sings gospel, it's..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...unlike anything I had ever heard: frantic bluegrass songs about junkies in the street and country love songs in..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...scream, Americans supply Israel with weapons. Will the Chronicle shout about who provides the Palestinians with ammunition and recipes..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...had paid for it. "It's like the crank predictions about the end of the world, which we read from..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Blow Up Your Video

MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!

"...Twenty years and a day after MTV signed on, outlets for music television have grown exponentially even as ownership..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dancing About Architecture

Woodshock, forever turbulent.

"...So much for stinking up the great outdoors. After much hoopla and general commotion, this weekend's Woodshock..."

June 1, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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

"...on a deserted stretch of Highway 71 45 minutes south of the Austin airport, my companion and I stared..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Make Your Mama Proud

The Gospel According to Bill "The Mailman" Martin and Chester Baldwin

"...Almost as important, however, both do what they do out of devotion to someone nearly as influential as God..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

It's a salmagundi of responses this issue, with bits regarding dolphin bacteria, word use, national politics, and Marc Savlov's cinematic taste (or lack thereof).

"...were making a transportation commercial, it might not be about light rail. It might be about what Bogota is..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...most votes opposed to light rail came from the outlying hinterland and already isolated suburbs, the practical solution would..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...he was a barbed thorn in the government's side, outspoken about the hypocrisy, theft, and violence that has plagued..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

Before They Get Stupid

Grand Champeen eschew Minneapolis for Austin even though they just want to rawk!

"...hasty slug from his beer and leans in to shout in my ear. "I'd heard they did this,"he says..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Suzanne Vega, One World Theatre, May 20

"...way of enticing the rapt, full house to call out requests. "In New York, they just shout it out."..."

May 26, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Ideas Through Movement

Political and philosophical issues aren't just topics for writers and dramatists. Several Austin choreographers are using themas subjects for dances. Toni Bravo, Jeffery Bullock, Lisa Fehrman, and Andrew Long explain how they see ideas through movement.

"...In the Austin dance community, a number of choreographers routinely investigate philosophical, political, and social questions through their dances...."

March 3, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fivehead

Indie rock accoring to Austin's Fivehead

"...from an indie rock band of 29-year-olds, they talk about parties from their college days, their day jobs, the..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Y2Klean!

Follow Lorne Opler on his New Year's quest to make his laundry A-okay for A2K!

"...A clean wardrobe in my closet will only last about a week before I start to reverse my underwear..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Lorne Opler

Four Tops Lost & Found: "Breaking Through" (1963-1964) (Motown) / Marvin Gaye Lost & Found: "Love Starved Heart" (Expanded Edition) (Motown) / Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Lost & Found: "Along Came Love" (1958-1964) (Motown) / The T

Reissues

"...America" was what Berry Gordy Jr. called it. Stamping out Fords on the Motor City assembly lines in the..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...The Austin Chronicle -- had already reached a conclusion about this agency before the article was published. For example,..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck, King of the Segue.

"...to march forward. An estimated 6,000 attendees made it out to the old airport for last Friday's rave, er,..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...school story than the one you're used to reading about these days. The story I have to share with..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

Postmarks

CSC: It's a Good Thing

"...Black, We find your editorial ["Page Two," Vol.18, No.30] about the city's CSC proposal to be completely off the..."

April 2, 1999 Column

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...Splatter Puss and Anal Graveyard, took to the giant outdoor stage at Stubb's Wednesday night, the first night of..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...can bring in a little bit o'soul and come out swinging like the illegitimate spawn of ? & the..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...-- like Lucas' 1970 sci-fi drama -- is futuristic without being formulaic. In "What Mama Said," the British string..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

The Sweet Science

"...think epitomize boxing. I am frustrated at the constant bad-mouthing this sport receives from those quite ignorant of "the..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Column

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...police powers no longer exists, though it is still touted in high school civics textbooks as a hallmark of..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

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