Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...This is what Sagebrush was made for. The South Congress honky-tonk is full to the brim. Dancers swirl..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man

"...of Fame induction ceremony takes place the Thursday before South by Southwest, but Austin Film Society deferred the big..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hardcore for a Cause, Gary Clark Jr., and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the coming week

"...As if boasting some of the lengthiest day-to-night South by Southwest lineups weren’t enough, Hotel Vegas’ birthday annually..."

March 8, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Unpacking Emperor Jones’ Esoteric, Career-Launching Label Catalog

The late Craig Stewart released early works by the Mountain Goats and more

"...Stewart, who also worked for South by Southwest, died of complications from COVID and dementia..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Music Feature by Joe Gross

Rooster Teeth Cancels RTX 2024

No annual convention for the local streaming studio

"...an underestimate that somehow mimicked the opening year of South by Southwest, that inaugural RTX sold 600 tickets. The..."

Dec. 20, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...rap hit" (revisit "I Am a DJ," Feb. 6, 2004). He went on to DJ at KAZI 88.7FM, the..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Tuesday

Bartees Strange, Coco & Clair Clair, plus a PinkPantheress misfire

"...Day two of South by Southwest Music fired on all cylinders, with long..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Nayeli Portillo

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...All roads lead to Austin come March 13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023 invites over 1,400 artists to..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The House That Built DJ Shani Hébert

Decades in the making, The Groove Temple arrives on KUTX

"...the day before. He made his way from the South to Chicago, eventually finding Hébert's mother, playwright Tsehaye Geralyn..."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Love and Cinema: Janet and John Pierson

Texas Film Awards honorees and indie cinema's fairy godparents Janet and John Pierson look back on 40 years at the movies

"...middle ground between the underground and the arthouse, facilitated by a new infrastructure of distribution and criticism, funded by..."

March 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Oyster Festival Is Shella Fierce, Progress Coffee Is Back in Black, Girl Scouts Are Out for Blood, La Condesa Is Gonna Try Hard, and Who’s Putting All That Queso on the Verde?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Remember Progress Coffee, founded by that Josh Bingaman back in 2004? Remember how much..."

Feb. 22, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin at Large: Don’t Go Away Mad, Just ...

If legislators want to break up with Austin, they should at least put their backs into it

"...hills." (This was about 15 years after the first South by Southwest and 20 years after Dell was founded.)..."

Nov. 25, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Legendary Austin Rock & Roll Deejay Johnny Walker Has Died

Known as the vibrant host of afternoons on KLBJ

"...and grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is survived by his son, Tyler...."

Nov. 22, 2022 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

What We’re Listening to This Week

Charley Crockett, Flora & Fawna, the Black Angels, and more

"...at producer Bruce Robison's studio, the Bunker, and mastered by Jim Wilson, the lightly conceptual trot through our Southwest..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...rhapsodic 20 seconds in Aughts indie – is left by his girlfriend for "America's biggest Belle and Sebastian fan."..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

LookOUT Fest, Circle Jerks, Holy Fawn, Bernell Jones II, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and a Buddy Holly Birthday tribute

"...its unpredictability. After playing their second-ever show in Austin (South by Southwest 2000 at Club de Ville), the Album..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...a cyclone chorus of his inked and illustrated iconography. South by Southwest reconverging physically this March likewise resurrected Austin's..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

After 22 Years, It’s a Wrap for East Austin Stories

UT RTF brings the long-running documentary shorts initiative to a close

"...unique culture of East Austin. However, it was inspired by Garrison's experiences outside of Texas, as a lecturer in..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Interview: The Cellar

How Brendan Muldowney brought fun and family into his horror

"...The feature, which received its world premiere at South by Southwest this week, stars Elisha Cuthbert as a..."

March 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Rise and Fall of Jason Dusterhoft (and His Frenemies)

A trip down APD's Memory Lane, from the Chronicle archives

"...2004: May 28: Sgt. Jason Dusterhoft figures in a kerfuffle..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature

Austin Hip-Hop Pioneer Tee Double Perseveres

Holding the vision through institutional racism, isolation, and a double transplant

"..."He submitted a couple of times for South by Southwest," remembers Walker, who booked hip-hop acts for..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...1895, 21-year-old Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi unlocked mass communication by creating the first substantial radio transmission system. Now, 125..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...people actually from College Station." What did you mean by that?..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...the system for his role in bootlegging generously discounted South by Southwest wristbands during the 2002 conference. The picture,..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...By their own accounts, the Beastie Boys never spent much..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Music Lab Explores Consolidation

Rehearsal space’s Oltorf location posted for sale; Hi, How Are You Day draws the Flaming Lips; and Esme Barrera tribute launches Girls Rock El Paso

"...locale provides a frequent setting for band origin stories, South by Southwest celebrity sightings, and late-night musicmaking thanks to..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: The Indestructible Mr. Lewis

The trials and tribulations of Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5, plus a UtopiaFest report, and the passing of Seth Gibbs

"...When Iggy Pop performed on Sixth Street during South by Southwest 1996, he ran to a nearby payphone,..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop

Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America

"...benefiting from the local scene's DIY accessibility and hamstrung by the lack of its larger industry infrastructure (revisit "Hip-Hop..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Feature by Clara Wang

Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...but the morning arises serene. As Horne enters the lobby of an orthopedic practice, the receptionist presents him with..."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Is the Net Neutrality Repeal Another Blow to Tex-Mex Musicians and Broadcasters?

Bidi bidi bom bom

"...Last December, the Federal Communications Commission, led by President Donald Trump's chairman designee Ajit Pai, voted 3-2..."

July 6, 2018 Music Feature by César E. López Linares

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