Only the Beginning

Wednesday Night SXSW "Sleepers"

"...Last year, as the Austin Music Awards were kicking off South by Southwest..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature

The Boat

Feting Sixth Street’s 20-year-old live music institution

"...be that obituaries were for old people: octogenarians read them to see which friends had died. But in what's..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Friends Handle the Heavy Lifting for Kent “Omar” Dykes

Howler hampered by flesh-eating arm disease gets benefit

"...crush pineapples,” chuckles Kent “Omar” Dykes. “Now, I got the little skinny arms. I look down and go, ‘Wow,..."

July 30, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Roost Seeks Investors

Northside club closes while looking for new management and partners

"...entertainment-deprived North Austin. Result: After 18 months in business, the Roost has fallen on desperate times...."

July 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Gary Clark Jr. Spotlights Familial Austin Talent in Blues On the Green’s Return

“Everybody is listening to the guitar man”… and his friends

"...Under the stubborn 8pm sun, Zilker Park’s filling up...."

July 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Looking Over the MGs and a San Antonio Benefit

"...and reflect for a moment on Booker T. & the MGs. They returned to Austin for the second time..."

Nov. 15, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Luv Doc Recommends: All Over the Map Hoot Night

Threadgill's World HQ -, Saturday, October 15, 2005

"...Here’s the key to living a full, satisfying life: Take a..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Bigg Robb, Weedeater, the return of Lou Ann Barton, Mike Sailor's Good Time Orchestra, and more

"...With ample sauce in his game to justify the extra Gs and Bs in his name – hell,..."

July 1, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound – The Music Relief Magic Number: $20 Million

Music Makes Austin budget proposal warns full-capacity touring won't return until 2022

"...Austin City Council did not allocate exclusive funding from the first federal stimulus, the CARES package, for local music..."

April 30, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Bombs, Beto, and the Biggest Music Stories of 2018

“Playback” recaps the news, trends, and controversies of the year. Outrage level: high.

"...around Austin. Not since Charles Whitman's UT shooting terrorized the state capital had locals felt so helpless. We were..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Roost

Wells Branch Parkway venue to serve far north Austin

"...Austin’s newest live music venue, the Roost, is scheduled to open before the end of..."

Dec. 18, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Priests of Syrinx

What’s in a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame anyway?

"...When did the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony become..."

May 17, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: The Suburbs

Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary

"...It's a music story – a story of the blues and jazz and even rock – but one..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Trees

Online music trading that "leaves" the RIAA and music industry in the underbrush.

"...and a basic lesson of biology: Trees grow from the ground. Branches grow from the tree trunks. Leaves grow..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In With the New

So Long, Seis Salsas and Green & White's Groceries

"...chips, and handmade tamales could only be purchased at the little, old Tamale House on the corner of First..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Little Station That Could

Austin's AAA station KGSR and its market ascendance.

"...suggested that maybe he'd had a few too many the night of KGSR's recent birthday shindig when he joined..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...Blame the Big Boys, whose scathing punk for a classed-up Austin..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"..."[Blues music] was (and is) the lament, the comment, often mocking or ironic, of the..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...considered recollections of older black men from Texas and the broadly American South below the Mason-Dixon line generally bear..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Roost Crows at Midnight

Steamboat greeter / booker David Cotton realizes the dream of his own club, the Roost

"...early December, Eric Tessmer draws a sad half-dozen at the Roost. Two of the three bars at the fledgling..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

We Are the World

Recapping this year's Austin Music Awards.

"...The Austin Ballroom of the Convention Center bustled with this..."

March 21, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Off the Record

Scaling the Wall of Sound Festival in Fort Worth, paying respect to late blues great Gary Primich, and readying for the second annual HAAM Benefit Day

"...Another Brick in the Wall..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Great music in odd places: punk rock at the Grand, Billy Gibbons' Twin Liquors visit, and 'Rehearsal at the Astoria'

"...excited fan. "Billy Fucking Gibbons!" While we wondered what the ZZ Top frontman's middle initial stands for, a long..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Red River anchorman Frank Hendrix stakes his claim to the Eastside and beyond

"...now expanding into Riverside Drive's former heavy metal lair, the Back Room (1973-2006). The Red River baron is already..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Paying tribute to the Texas Tornado, working out at the Music Gym, and Trail of Dead's Justice for all

"...Dispossessed Men and Mothers of Texas..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall

"...On the Road Again..."

July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Max Dropout's garage-punk festival levels Beerland to Ground Zero; David Letterman hosts a Late Show spectacular at Antone's; What Made Milwaukee Famous grapples with success on second LP

"...Local booker Max Dropout was hired on the spot at Beerland after breaking up a fight at..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...This is the story of a group of people who got together..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Vodkas and Skulls: Talking to Dan Aykroyd

The comedy great talks bottle design and Newfoundland water

"...spends more time than you might guess in Austin. The man known for his comedic masterpieces like Elwood Blues..."

May 10, 2010 Food Post by Wes Marshall

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

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

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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