Gritty, Groovy, & Gettin' It

What reissues are buried in the bottom of your closet?

"...Willie Clarke. There, beneath a stack of old mixtapes, ranging from radio broadcasts to overdubbed copies of James Brown..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Yo La Tengo

"...Yo La TengoSummer Sun (Matador) Up until last year, Yo La Tengo was..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Music Reviews

"...can probably get a job teaching English in a parallel universe, where all our rules of grammar apply but..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Music Feature

Go South of the Border With These 15 Latinx Acts

"...Eme AlfonsoWed. 13, Radio Day Stage @ Austin Convention Center, noon; Fri. 15,..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Golden Dawn Arkestra

"...The wild melange of Afrobeat, P-Funk, and Sun Ra cosmic jazz proffered by the Golden Dawn Arkestra..."

June 1, 2018 Music Review by Michael Toland

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Fri. 16, Townsend, 10pm Ecuadorian synth-pop duo 1982 sounds straight out of a tropical John Hughes movie. Debut LP..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Live Music to See This Weekend

Unpacking Christmas in July

"...Packing the grotto are White Denim in a rare hometown showing, the local jammers laying down frenetic riffs..."

July 14, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...atop Merge's showcase showdown, and the rest of the sundae ain't bad either. Baltimore duo Wye Oak's third and..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

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

"...pilgrimage faster than Michelins over an armadillo. It was sunset. We were just outside Flatonia...."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...the presidency to Regis Philbin, or the World Wrestling Federation assumes control of municipalities nationwide, it can't be any..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Los Zafiros on American shores. Aside from a single track on one of David Byrne's Cuban compilations, little was..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

The Wages of Fear

"...Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter Van Eyck and Véra Clouzot. One of the all-time great truck movies, The..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Live and Recorded Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Black Pistol Fire, BLXPLTN, Jazz for a cause, and more

"...Telluride, with the Austin duo making its first live appearance in 17 months to a hungry audience, McKeown inevitably..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...blues, taking a louder and dirtier approach to the radio-ready sounds of ZZ Top and the Vaughan brothers. 2011's..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...Kirk Franklin 7pm, PromiseLand Church Fort Worth vocal powerhouse Kirk Franklin..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Tuesday SXSW 2015 Showcases

"...Paypal Music Tech Mashup 7pm, Empire Control Room & Garage HE^RD and Paypal's music-tech mash-up isn't in name only...."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

Golden Dawn Arkestra

"...Golden Dawn Arkestra..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...on The Terror. The horror, the horror ... – Raoul Hernandez MAC DEMARCO..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining musical moment, like Jimi..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...Burning Spear's Winston Rodney photograph by John Carrico..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...say that starting with Wednesday night and continuing through Sunday's showcases, there will be some form of music happening..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Three Kings of “No Kings But Us”

Austin DIY icon Tim Kerr and Houston legends Robert Hodge and Russel Gonzalez create “No Kings But Us”

"...a concert." That's how Houston music producer turned artistic curator Russel Gonzalez describes "No Kings But Us," the collaborative..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Haris Qureshi

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Vandoliers, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Mvtant, Florist, and more local shows worth your time

"..."Music has been a welcome centering piece to cultural resonance in Austin," says Darren Griffin, who oversees membership..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Column by Kahron Spearman

"If These Walls Could Talk" at Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery

The artists in this Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery exhibition get the walls not only to talk but to spin some fantastic tales

"...being shown had voices." But honestly, the art that co-curators Rachel Koper and Win Wallace have assembled in this..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sound Unseen Review: Zappa

or "The Impossibility of a Primer About an Obtuse Genius"

"...Frank Zappa hates this film...."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

Colombian Folkloric Post-Punks Nemegata Drop Four-Star Debut

Local trio finds the fire of the jaguar

"...the face of COVID-19, Victor-Andres Cruz stepped onto the ramshackle stage at East Austin outpost Sahara Lounge draped in..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re spending time with

"...at world famous Arlyn Studios just south of the Colorado, Los Coast's first foray into country music preceded the..."

May 8, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Andrew Cyrille Lays His Declaration of Musical Independence on UT

Rarified improv comes to campus

"...The list of artists with whom he’s collaborated, onstage and in the studio, is truly mind-boggling: Illinois..."

Jan. 16, 2020 Music Post by Michael Toland

ACL Live Review: The Comet Is Coming

Prophecy or promise?

"...While the UK trio certainly draws from the astral oddities of Sixties-era Saturn descendent Sun..."

Oct. 5, 2019 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Golden Dawn Arkestra

"...Golden Dawn or the exponential heights of astro visionary Sun Ra (1914-93), they once again successfully merge Afrobeat and..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Review by Rick Weaver

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