SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...9pm, the Belmont Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg is the James..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...8pm, Buffalo Billiards Scotland's Simon Raymonde knows the music business. His iconic Cocteau Twins went through the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Pop Beloved

Revisting the Reivers

"...Nineteen eighty-five. What was on the radio in 1985? Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...The last time Jimmie Vaughan sat down with the Chronicle..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...Songs Sung and Played on Guitar at the Same Time (Shockorama)..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The Outer Limits

"...Where were you while all the Big Names were cavorting around town last week? Perhaps..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Interview: Debbie Harry

Blondie debuts at fest with a sit-down and a showcase

"...The only thing standing between me and punk priestess Debbie..."

March 10, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Cosmic Americans

Jumping in with Earl Poole Ball

"...Alongside the guy that manned the keys for Johnny Cash and..."

June 16, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Fest Sunday Picks

"...The Little Ones..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature

A Walking Contradiction

Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley

"...At 39, Blaze Foley left this world with little evidence that he had ever inhabited it. He certainly..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

No Law & Order

"...Thanks to the addition of Wednesday night South by Southwest showcases two..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Geisha and Other Books of 1997

Dusting off the Bookshelf

"...Columbia Pictures, but for God's sake, don't wait for the movie. This is one bestseller that delivers the shamelessly..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Books Feature

Record reviews Reissues

"...THE CONGOS..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

ACL Fest 2015 Friday Listings

Blurbs on the hour

"...supposed to be a farewell. Instead, a decade into the group's recording career, Wolves imagines what hometown heroes Whiskeytown..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...We had a little bit of the Christmas morning feeling when the complete..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Chasing Amy

Painting lamps, chasing elephants, and singing with Alejandro Escovedo: Amy Cook jumps into the pool

"...Amy Cook seats herself on the basement floor of the not-yet-open Hotel Havana in San..."

April 9, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...Tacks, the Boy Disaster..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...Randy "Biscuit" Turner mopped the sweat from his forehead and leaned into the toilet..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...– "Song for Myla Goldberg," the Decemberists..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Spoon

"...SpoonGirls Can Tell (Merge) The best thing about Spoon is..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...WEDNESDAY PICKSHIP HOP HUMPDAY: Since last summer, the place to get live on Wednesday nights has been..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature

Okkervil River

Bloodletting the evil out of acoustic-trio Okkervil River.

"...Despite Renaissance physician William Harvey's medical revelation in the early 1600s that, contrary to centuries of assumption, the..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Blondie + Garbage = Force de Femme

Deborah Harry and Shirley Manson thrash and bellow

"...The original atomic blonde and one of her ginger musical..."

Aug. 14, 2017 Music Post by Abby Johnston

David Bowie’s Auto Memorial: Blackstar

Swan song LP admits “I Can’t Give Everything Away” but almost does

"...birthday – Blackstar comes wrapped in funeral black, excerpting the titular symbol on a white cover. Faced with his..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Unconventional horror for the haunting time

"...Everyone has their favorite Halloween movie. Personally, it's the rock 'em, shock..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jingle Bell Rock and Blues

Two legendary Austin bands reunite for the holidaze.

"...It’s one of my favorite weekends on the town, when the students are gone and the traffic..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007

The Ugly Beats' Bandstand pledge: It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it

"...Joe Emery, frontman for Sixties-flavored garage rockers the Ugly Beats, loves to talk about other people's music...."

March 2, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week

Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial

"...Any Austin-based or Austin-headed music fan worth their salt starts encountering the same line of questioning come..."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...Adam Ant is speaking by phone from the offices of his new, self-owned independent label, Blueback Hussar..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...hip-hop duo Dred Skott and a founding member of the League of Extraordinary G'z – a dedicated rap troupe..."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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