This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...Editor’s Note: You often don’t know you’re witnessing history in the moment you’re..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk culture, written by veteran journalist Tim Stegall...."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...was pretty big. Austin became a music capital because of it. I respected the cowboys. I don't know what..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Screamadelica

Austin Psych Fest 2014 drops its lineup

"...Topping the seventh annual rite of spring are a handful of UK headliners: veteran Scottish..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Black, Brown & Blue: Must-See Music

Brownout, Birdlegg, and Geto Boys anchor the week live

"...be overwhelming. Allow me to plan the latter half of the week for you...."

Sept. 9, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Anarchy in S.A.

The Sex Pistols return to San Antonio!

"...big a fan, the show peeled back the top of my skull and shotgunned everything I believed about music..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Playback

'Good Day Austin' anchor Joe Bickett says adios, the Scottish Rite Theater, Good Music Club, and Spider House say hello again, and Emo's owner Frank Hendrix goes cable

"...broadcast, Austin loses Bickett to his old stomping grounds of Reno, Nev., and for that, we are sad...."

May 25, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Nuff Said, Wear Red

What do rockabilly cult figure Johnny Legend, women's health care advocate Marcia Ball, and hit-and-run victim Slim Richey have in common? This weekend.

"...down south in the county, except for the flock of sheep I nearly drove into while returning home from..."

March 30, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...all, Emo's East now rises up from the side of the tracks where the majority of local live music..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Hercules on Two Wheels

Could bicycling be bigger than baseball again?

"...takes place over three weeks through roughly 2,000 miles of countryside there. Hear me out...."

Nov. 12, 2011 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...romantic pop is a family affair for the members of Minneapolis' Lynhurst. Brothers Matt and Jake and sis Mari..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Sons of Hercules

"...Sons of HerculesA Different Kind of Ugly (Saustex Media)..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

Bluebonnets and bluegrass: the Old Settler's Music Festival, still picking, still grinning

"...the Old Settler's Music Festival has marked the arrival of spring to Central Texas as surely as bluebonnets alongside..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature

Cheapo Man

Down on the Street turns her camera on.

"...our scene thrive. Today's the first in a series of profiles on local record store clerks. Meet Jeff Pettit,..."

Jan. 28, 2008 Music Post by Shelley Hiam

TCB

Ever health-conscious, TCB talks allergies with Claritin pitchman Bruce Robison, delves into the Music Genome Project, and observes the highest holiday of the most sacred herb

"...songs down to chromosomelike components. Radiohead, for example, consists of "a vocal-centric aesthetic, extensive vamping, and a dynamic male..."

April 21, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Critics Poll

Chronicle critics size up 2003

"...Lynch: Hot Club of Cowtown, Continental Club..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Meow? Meeee-oooooowww? Where is Miss Kitty??? And is Stephen going all punk rock on us?

"...what she calls her "dress flip-flops," a distinct contradiction of terms), I joined her for dinner at Opal Divine's...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

TCB

Punk rock synchronized swimming and eating ribs with Snoop Dogg: What do people in other cities do for fun?

"...The real story, clarifies Higdon, is, "I'm using Peek-a-Boo profits to buy a mansion in West Lake." That's not..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Witnesses

"...living in Dallas in 1978. He is now publisher of The Austin Chronicle...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...Playing their third show in four days, the third of only seven dates in the U.S. -- six of..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Top 10s

"...8. The Sons of Hercules, Right Now (Suprema)..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...no respond-to address. He certainly has chutzpah. For those of you who are not from New York, "chutzpah": "Self-righteousness,..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...into ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead by 1999. Otherwise, the decade's other signature bands..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...2. The Sons of Hercules..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...Seventies Did Texas garage rock die between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of punk? Well, that..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Greg Beets

All Attitude

"I'm a very nice girl -- who happens to be completely amoral," says cult queen Mary Woronov. She'll present two films -- Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School --at the Rolling Roadshow's Rock 'n Roll Drive-In this Saturday.

"...exudes a presence with which one should not trifle. Often clad in leather (as in Death Race 2000) and..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rock ’n’ Roll Drive-In With Mary Woronov

"...the evening's program is music by the Pallbearers and Sons of Hercules beginning at 6pm. The films begin at..."

Nov. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sons of Hercules

Record Review

"...The Sons of HerculesRight Now (Suprema) For their fourth full-length, this..."

April 26, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...had Patti Smith out here, but the bluegrass stomp of Split Lip Rayfield, stately chamber rock of Alejandro Escovedo,..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

More club shakeups, this time Ruta Maya and possibly Stubb's

"...it's Stubb's and Ruta Maya that are the subjects of the chatter. Charles Attal at the former confesses that..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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