Watch: Kev Bev and Eric Power Haunt the "Ghost Tower"

Spooky animated party preludes band's new album

"...Are you ready to get the funk scared out of you? Then let Austin funketeers..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...own truncated moniker in 2016 for Get Out of the City. The shift allowed the decadelong Austin scene veteran..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

AFF Brings Walter Hill for The Warriors and Then Some

Writer/director comes out to play

"...Walter Hill picks up the phone with a simple "Hello." He jokes that he's..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Evil Triplet Record Review

Otherworld (Super Secret)

"..."Star Ladder," lead-off track on Evil Triplet's debut album Otherworld. A fitting demand since the local trio wastes no..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...explorers to tech investors, musicians to Muppets, and from the joint chiefs of staff to the wrestling ring: SXSW..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Casual Strangers

"...pays tribute to both its principals' recent marriage and the LP that inspired it, beginning with its carefully duplicated..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Hands of Stone

Robert De Niro returns to the ring in this Roberto Durán biopic

"...first: You can’t cast Robert De Niro in a boxing movie without the cinematic collective unconscious reeling from the..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Casual Strangers

"...A funny thing happened on the way to Casual Strangers' follow-up to its eponymous 2014..."

April 8, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Final SXSW List: No. 10

Nas, Vince Staples, Lucius, and 198 more

"...weekly lineup announcements concluded this morning, 11 days before the conference’s music portion commences. The addition of 201 acts..."

March 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Casual Strangers Trip Rhapsodic

Cosmic rock locals premiere “Holocene Dream”

"...from experimental rockers to ambient instrumentalists. “Space from each other, from a recording studio, from the instruments we normally..."

Jan. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hulaland: The Golden Age of Hawaiian Music

"..."For the tourist, not the purist." Perfect PR. Since owning Hawaiian..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lee Michaels

"...If ever there was a box worthy of being scented with patchouli..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Alice Cooper

"...Vincent Furnier didn't spill out of the womb as a spooky, snake-handling, shock rocker. That's clear..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

The Velvet Underground

"...You can practically count every person in the room by listening to the handclaps on this essential..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Bobby Rush

"...flash, and winking burlesque, Bobby Rush remains one of the blues' greatest showmen. The Louisiana native first hit in..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Scott Jordan

Bob Dylan

"...past volumes in Dylan's Bootleg Series, this one separates the casual fan from those more obsessive. In multiple configurations..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Fleetwood Mac

"...by Sandinista!, Zoot Allures waiting decades for quadruple-LP follow-up Läther: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame acts redlining peak..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bruce Springsteen

"...A double album of hellos and goodbyes, 1980's The River juxtaposes cocky romance with grim meditations on death...."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Libby Webster

The Staple Singers

"...up with his band's habitual lack of punctuality in the late Forties, Roebuck "Pops" Staples replaced them with his..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Tennessee Ernie Ford

"...have largely left behind Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991), so the German completists at Bear Family Records service a necessary..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Doobie Brothers

"...Neither could the preposterously-named Doobie Brothers headline ACL Fest nor..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Music: First List

Conference releases initial list of 171 showcasers

"...The Music portion of the Austin’s annual mega-conference, March 17-22,..."

Oct. 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Fantastic Fest 2014: Joe Lynch Guns for Everly

Director of Salma Hayek action flick talks sealed-room rules

"...Joe Lynch learned an important lesson at this year's Fantastic Fest. Never tell a Texan..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Casual Strangers

Texas Platters go mondo

"...peak seems like odd timing. And yet, that's what Boxing Lesson singer/guitarist Paul Waclawsky does with Casual Strangers, a..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Playback: Smiling Your Way to Heaven

Supernatural advice by West Texas sage Tommy Hancock, tears from Billy Gibbons, and Casual Strangers coupling

"..."The most important realization I ever had was that all..."

July 18, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

We Need to Issue a Statement on 'Chronicle' Contributor Luke Winkie

By now, you surely should know why

"...We here at the Chronicle don’t always agree with the thoughts of able-minded..."

June 27, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...BD Riley's Lawrence, Kansas' answer to Husker Dü in the Eighties, with a dash of the Wipers' riffy darkness..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Chronolog Radio

Our SXSWfm local music/news show now available on demand

"...of negotiation between top-secret government officials standing guard over the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Austin’s own South by..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Health Is the New Drug

Boxing Lesson’s must-see music video

"...The Boxing Lesson, touted by critics as “space rockers,” have..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Critics Poll

Our music team weighs in on the year's best shows, venues, and more

"...Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express, Continental Club (Caligiuri)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

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