The Afghan Whigs

Zilker Park, Oct. 12

"...Reunited more than 10 years after their distinctly groovy 1998 swan song 1965, Cincinnati's Afghan Whigs..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

ACL Interview: The Afghan Whigs

Friday, 4:15, AMD stage

"..."Hold on, let me turn down the music," is the first thing Greg Dulli says. He's..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

The Pleasure Principle

Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pall

"...Before local clubs started closing, before the war and 9/11, before people got stabbed for enforcing..."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

Flipping Your Whigs

"...Taiter flinched when he saw the Yankee fella ambling towards him. The skinny Northerner had..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

ACL Music Fest Late Night Shows On Sale Thursday

Five days of aftershows, from gospel brunches to Big K.R.I.T.

"...out your credit cards and book your pedicab now: The Austin City Limits Music Festival aftershows have been announced...."

Aug. 22, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Live Shot (Second Weekend): My Jerusalem

Local bad seeds steamroll their ACL debut

"...“It’s weird playing in the daylight,” noted My Jerusalem leader Jeff Klein during his..."

Oct. 13, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

Braver Newer World

The Year in Albums

"...Nineteen ninety-six was the year we remembered the millennium. It came on gradually..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

This Is Not for You

The Politics of Promos

"...to KVRX and you hear "Destroy All Enemies of the Wannabes," a previously unreleased song on the Wannabes new..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...It was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town only two..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

ACL Aftershows

"...Gary Clark Jr., Wheeler Brothers, Stubb's Thursday 11..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature

Stooges at ACL Music Fest 2012

ACL Music Festival lineup announced

"...Last fall, when Stooges guitarist James Williamson told the Chronicle that Detroit's punk pioneers had a local festival..."

May 22, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Kalling Kathy's Bluff

Kathy Acker and the Lucky Ones

"...swipe at experimental writer Kathy Acker's Pussy, King Of The Pirates (Grove Press, $12 paper), critic David Kelly wrote..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

Critics Poll

"...GrulkeFest, ACL Live at the Moody Theater (Hernandez)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature

7 & 7 Is

"...case in point is Drop-O's "Green Eggs and Sam the Man," a one-sided Austin artifact recorded at a Tower..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...7:25pm, Austin Music Hall; Fri., 12mid, Copa Gone are the days of Brownout being the musical stepchild of Grupo..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Playback: ACL Mania

The ACL zeitgeist in review

"...The blow-up doll we found lying in the grass on..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Tributes

"...RETURN OF THE GRIEVOUS ANGEL..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The Lunch's Last Supper

"...it. Liberty Lunch, as we knew it, is gone, the victim of a city that had better things to..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...The following are albums by artists playing the 1997 South..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...For every new disc that appears from Jonathan Richman, there always seems to be one of two problems; either..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Unnecessary Roughness

"...City Rapists member Derek Meyers alleging that he and others had recently been assaulted by bouncers at Emo's (a..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

We Talked About Murder

Texas Platter

"...We Talked About MurderExpecting the Explosion (Has Anyone Ever Told You?)..."

April 11, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Music Critic's Poll 1998

"...Ray Price, Stubb's Luna, Liberty Lunch/ Lucinda Williams, Antone's Afghan Whigs, Liberty Lunch (pre-fight) Cubanismo!, La Zona Rosa David..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

Desert Island Discs

"...2. The Beatles, Revolver (Capitol)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Blow Harder

The use of horns in local rock & roll bands

"...Horn players in rock bands? Next to the electric guitars, keyboards, and sophisticated gadgetry of the average..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...Trail. Don't even think about it, just do it. There's nothing better than getting your hands on the best..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...Pulp's Jacko-bothering Jarvis Cocker has consistently grown as a writer over..."

May 8, 1998 Music Review

Greg Beets' National Top Ten

"...Music Vol. 1: Industrial Show Tunes in Praise of the Products We Trust (Honest-Abe Disc!)..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature