Saxophone Prolificus

Honorary Texas Tenor David Murray

"...a prolificacy that is downright staggering. He has probably recorded more albums for more record labels than any other..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis Step Into Their Third Act

Chronicle Hot Sauce headliners look ahead to the next waltz

"...Full of Love," for Robison's latest entrepreneurial venture. Part record label, part content and promotion platform, and part A&R..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Saturday Showcases

"...Austin duo's eponymous effort for Hardly Art, angling K Records bounce with girl-group sway, earworm melodies always shifting like..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 1

"...New West Records is perhaps Austin's most prominent label, even if half..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

Austin Music Commission chair Bob Livingston steps down, no one steps up; Man's Ruin returns to Austin; Michael Corcoran's suspension is puzzling.

"...an e-mail I received from Casey Monahan at the Texas Music Office, the AMC "is an advisory board appointed..."

March 31, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

"...songs that she intends to use on her next recording. The local chanteuse says she got to write with..."

June 4, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...affiliated local groups, booking collective Hip Hop Mecca, nascent record label Five Finger Records, and the street-style art and..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

A Room of One's Own

Austin's Newest Record Stores Carve out Their Niche

"...the better part of my adolescence. Home being the Record Cellar, on not-so-bustling Bustleton Avenue, where, according to the..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

Faster Than Sound: Austin Imprint Keeled Scales Partners With Polyvinyl Records

New joint office expands the local label landscape

"...Over the past year, Keeled Scales label owner Tony Presley trekked to the post office almost..."

June 4, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...its eclectic, amplified topography through each afternoon and starry Texas night...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...that irresistibly upbeat riddim. With a new album of re-recorded classics and guest stars, True Love, due in May,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Stevie Ray Vaughan box set hits stands and controversary

"...a load of prime Vaughan material himself that the label won't let him put out). Milliken's worries that he's..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Knocking at Your Back Door

Austin's Soak: Not Sitting Around

"...precious little shade at Sunken Gardens, and with the Texas heat going thermonuclear this afternoon, that aforementioned red surface..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Now You See Us

Your Band's First Video

"...just the rockinest tunes ever to come out of Texas, and keeping the guitar player's cats from crapping in..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Music Feature

Steady As He Goes

From cosmic cowboys and Americana to punk rock and legacy acts, Freddie Steady Krc keeps the beat

"...the Gulf Coast town of La Porte, listening to records in his room. He treasured the round vinyl discs,..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: KOKE Is Back

The original KOKE returns to a soda fountain near you

"...was KOKE-FM," says former Austin Sun music editor and record label vet Bill Bentley. "They played everything and had..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...de Ville, a four-part showcase for Los Angeles- and Texas-based electronic artists...."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Back to Babs

Barbara Lynn at Antone's tonight

"...younger music, pop music like Elvis. In fact, I recorded a song of Elvis', “Don’t Be Cruel.”..."

July 29, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Ballad of El Molino

Unearthing one of the great "lost" albums of Texas rock & roll history

"...In Texas, it's damn near impossible to start a band so..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Dancing About Architecture

Doug Sahm returns from beyond, MP3s shake up Austin music, Hip Hop meets R&B, and the Watermelon Saga continues...

"...was a fan of the local-living "State Musician of Texas," there'll be more than a tinge of sadness in..."

April 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...up; the band's only album, Tex-Mex Rock-Roll on Lisa Records (a label named after Carrasco's girlfriend at the time),..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Where Does Margo Price Get Off?

Willie, Billy, Loretta, and Nashville’s crossover queen

"...literacy of country outlaw greats on two Third Man Records releases. She revisits Texas on Tuesday at Emo’s...."

Jan. 25, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Family Affair

Austin's archeological imprint Heavy Light Records uncovers Texas history one record at a time

"...doubled as a family reunion for Austin's Heavy Light Records...."

Oct. 7, 2011 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...black folks he grew up around in Port Arthur, Texas; from bands like the Fabulous Boogie Kings he heard..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Page Two

Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about artistic recognition and creative success

"...but just as accurate is the opposite – how record companies, club owners, film producers, filmmakers, small publishers are..."

March 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...about what he didn't know about Margaret's coterie of Texas Blondes. Margaret's and my paths had crossed only once..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Shooting Star

"...Born in Texas, raised in Sunnyslope, Ariz., Curt and his brother Cris..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Dancing About Architecture

Fire! Fire! Fire!

"...down on audience-capacity limits -- were nowhere near Waterloo Records when the Japanese trio Guitar Wolf damn near burned..."

May 2, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...are plying their Tex-Mex "Nuevo Wavo" in the South Texas cultural wasteland on a Saturday night. The assembled frat..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Tomorrow, the World

Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices has long been world-class; now the world is hearing it

"...choir from the United States to perform. It has recorded its third CD – focusing on the music of..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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