Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...roots to have matured into its own particular – and particularly American – art form. Moving away from the..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"..."We're gonna play, and some of you are gonna dance. Holy mackerel, it's..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...BELAIRE7:30pm, Emo's IV Everyone loves to dance and smile. Austin fourpiece Belaire is a collaboration between twin..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...8pm-2am, Emo's Annex Point.click.grind, advises Philly's Relapse Records (Relapse.com), and three more suitable commandments never existed for metal in..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Joss Stone headlines as a new generation's Joan Osborne, and opener Kris Kristofferson promises to help you make it..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Pop Beloved

Revisting the Reivers

"...Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling," a-ha's "Take On Me," and who could forget Billy Ocean's "Loverboy"? (Please God, help..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RED DYE #4, THE DISOWNED, THE SNOBS, FORTY SECOND SCANDAL: Over the next few years, look for the teenagers..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...guitar-pop songs festooned with New Wave revival keyboards, harmonica, and even sitar ("Be My Yoko"). Taken as a whole,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...dedicated to the same, an attendant SXSW 2000 showcase, and two booksignings of his new autobiography, What's Welsh For..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...10th year, the other in its first, proved age and experience often have the edge on youthful enthusiasm. On..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

Sixteen Deluxe

"...Imagine a sparkler, stuck in the cool sand of a beach. It flares upon lighting, and in..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Music Feature

The Most Memorable Moments of Friday’s ACL Fest

Cassandra Jenkins, Billy Strings, and SZA on a lighthouse

"...Cassandra Jenkins Ever So Gently Pulls Us In..."

Oct. 8, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

ACL Fest: Austin Kiddie Limits

"...This year’s festival for the pint-sized and underaged among us has an educational bent. Gone are..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Band of the Year: ... And You Will Know Us..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Excerpts From Texas Is the Reason, a Look Into Austin Music's DIY Age

Scenes from inside the weird gold mine

"...In the fall of 1979, Steve and I started classes at the University of Texas, but..."

April 10, 2020 Music Feature by Pat Blashill

Playback: Waterloo Music Festival vs. Eastside Kings Festival

Austin music’s fall festival opens with a double-barrel bang

"...of the name "Waterloo," this inaugural congregation of jam bands at Carson Creek Ranch happens daily this weekend, 11:30am-1am...."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The Big Three

Remember major labels? Meet three underground locals on them.

"...you rarely hear discussion of who's on a label and who isn't – because almost everyone isn't. Major label..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Del Castillo

"...time at album's end as a radio edit, completes (and, by such a designation, apparently tops) Del Castillo's commercial..."

April 17, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Sunday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2008

"...math-rock capital of the world, Chicago's Sybris wraps angular guitars around the halting wail of firebrand Angela Mullenhaur to..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature

No Dominion

A partial roll call of people who died in 2003.

"...the left leg in, the right leg popped out, and ... well, you know the rest...."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...selection from other fests, as well as episodic pilots, and the shorts and music video selections. They join a..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What is Proper Nang? Austin’s Teen Beat

The next generation weighs in on what’s hip in the ATX

"...that may or may not surprise you: Wayne’s World and That ’70s Show have become teen cult classics, many..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...All showcases subject to change Lil Band o Gold..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Roky Road

The 2005-06 Austin Music Awards

"...Roky & the Explosives, feelin' all right; Best Experimental Band and SXSW 06 music fest manhandlers Octopus Project; Guitars..."

March 24, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...This weekend, red wristbands will upstage Lance Armstrong's yellow, because who do you..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Life at the SBOE," Sept. 19] contains more errors and distortions than just the incorrect date (King said the..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...coverage of recent Georgetown political events ["Georgetown Recalls -- and Recollects," Nov. 16]. Numerous articles and editorials have documented..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...good bet it'll sell strong out of the box, and that he will prosper the good old-fashioned way; on..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Two Ton Boa (Kill Rock Stars)

SXSW Records

"...Two Ton Boa(Kill Rock Stars) "My heart is floating in a seasick bag of..."

March 10, 2000 Music Review by Phil West

Whirled of Sound

Tracking down Rob Halverson and Robinson Ear's Little Whirled of Sound.

"...a digital eight-track workstation, surrounded by computer equipment, monitors, and a meticulous disarray of keyboards and other musical apparatus,..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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