35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...Delta-derived national uprising, one obviously more mainstream than the underground-by-definition punk proliferation spreading throughout the state, country, and world...."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Bros. gloss. With Lewis' croon, you can't go wrong. – Abby Johnston..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Page Two: Don't Move Here

We're Number Three!

"...It includes only four magazines and is limited to 2011 issues that I have on hand, which is about..."

June 17, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Off the Record

Sifting through the Austin sound ordinance, paying final respects to Pinetop Perkins, and catching up with Explosions in the Sky

"...Joyce DiBona describes Jovita's issues with the city during South by Southwest as "a comedy of errors." Despite years..."

April 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Pete Principle

The star of TBS' 'The Pete Holmes Show' is a poster boy for SXSW Comedy's impact on a comic's career

"...wasn't long ago that the local comedy landscape scraped by without the embarrassment of riches it enjoys today. But..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

Playback

Fun Fun Fun Fest reels off some greatest hits and more

"...Tuesday night, confirming its success and rising national popularity by bringing back some of its own greatest hits. Most..."

July 12, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

The Hamburg Sound: OTR retreats to Germany's Reeperbahn Festival as Frank Hendrix sells Emo's

"...Hamburg, Germany, is famously credited for the Beatles' "baptism by fire," a double entendre for the sexual liberation afforded..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

First-Time Champion

Austinite Berndt Mader wins DIFF's Texas Filmmaker Award

"...Five Time Champion, a coming-of-age drama shot in nearby Smithville, world-premiered last month at the 2011 South by..."

April 9, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

On the Move at SXSW

Get everywhere, no car needed

"...Did that local friend you only talk to during South by Southwest neglect to pick you up? Just because..."

March 11, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

Carolyn Wonderland ties the knot while Gary Clark Jr. gets pulled up to the majors and a sea of SXSW news

"...to Austin coincides with a flurry of activity during South by Southwest, including playing at a Rolling Stone day..."

March 11, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Saturday Picks and Sleepers

"...started in 1987 and performed at the very first South By Southwest. Although that initial go-round only last two..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...resignation as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's South Central Region (Region 6), where he was in charge..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Playback

Austin Psych Fest and Old Settler's Music Fest headliners Psychograss have more in common than you might think

"...of hallucinatory solos, tranquilizing rhythms, and trippy melodies played by hippies in wolves' clothing. When I look at this..."

April 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Waltz Across Texas

San Antonio rock & roll posters and Central Texas dance halls – preserve them.

"...The notion was fueled by blind faith: Would San Antonio's survivors of the Sixties..."

April 6, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

All the fun fun fun that fits

"...be even more difficult to interview, a process confounded by a translator and the band's enigmatic drummer...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Gay Place

South by So Gay. That's what we like to call it.

"...We'll be covering all three Conferences, on- and off-official South by Southwest propertyness this issue and next, plus in..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

All Politics Is Local at Texas Tribune Festival

Evan Smith leads the fest’s move Downtown and brings national newsmakers to Austin

"...after a social media shitstorm and a talent strike by other high-profile festival presenters. Smith, the co-founder and CEO..."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest's New Look

New location and grass, same Fun Fun Fun

"...grounds, where Transmission Events has held FFF Fest since 2011, first necessitated bandana dust masks, and then a full-scale..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Orbiting SXSW

Return of the Secaucus 7? Try the arrival of a SXSW septet: Dana Falconberry, Shakey Graves, The Eastern Sea, My Jerusalem, Black Pistol Fire, The Preservation, and The Boxing Lesson.

"...of words we'll generate on the music portion of South by Southwest – as begun last week with our..."

March 1, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Blood, Sweat & Murder

Redemption for Austin's definitive one-man band? Just don't ask Scott H. Biram what the 'H' stands for.

"...the Highwaymen. Not Biram. He walks alone, accompanied only by his repute and legend, both stemming from his unlikely..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The lineup for ACL drops just in time for Pachanga and the Midgetmen's nine-year anniversary bash

"...at San Antonio's historic Pearl Brewery, which hosts Pachanga 2011 highlights Chico Mann, Adrian Quesada's the Echocentrics, and Mexicans..."

May 20, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Let's Build a City

All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards

"...May. Jumping, jamming, pounding (keyboards), the band's performance whips by in a trail of long hair and bassist Jack..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...Kidding. An appearance by Austin's brilliant vagabond songman (1949-1989) would require six feet..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Ramsay Midwood Buys the Bar

Ramsay Midwood co-acquires Sam's Town Point, record store news, and Spoon teases upcoming Matador Records LP.

"...food. It's not the kind of place you find by accident – unless you're Midwood (revisit "Frank's Wild Years,"..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Hip-Hop on the Verge

Austin finally cemented a scene, but who will break out nationally?

"...tucked into a corner booth at Magnolia Cafe on South Congress to discuss his progress on a yearlong series..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Omar Souleyman

Syrian wedding singer serenades Justine’s tonight

"...of his first Austin showing at Chaos in Tejas 2011. “It’s less sadness that I address. In my opinion,..."

June 10, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Look Back in Wonder

The fifth Texas Biennial celebrates its past glories

"...was the fact that it was conceived and executed by just a handful of small studios and curators from..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt Sell Out

Betrothed songwriters ready a wild weekend at Wyldwood

"...and Schmidt, who got engaged to one another during South by Southwest, play lots of house concerts – shows..."

June 19, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...8pm, Auditorium Shores By the time the Cult stalked off the Austin Music..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Killing Floor

Another blues singer's called back home: honorary Austinite Hubert Sumlin

"...its last note in Austin in July at Antone's 2011 anniversary show. Sumlin, 80, was already on supplemental oxygen,..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Column by Margaret Moser

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