100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...Bar 96, 11pm Nearly 15 years on, Austin's Ortiz brothers continue to stoke the fires of hard rock and..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...is Preston Hubbard. From 1984-94, I played bass for the platinum-selling, multi-Grammy award-nominated Fabulous Thunderbirds. Besides recording five albums..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Son, You Got a Baggie on Your Head

An almost-exclusive report from the set of the Duplass Brothers' follow-up to 'The Puffy Chair'

"...The editor is the first to speak up. "I never..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Bryan Poyser

Page Two: It's Always Twine Time

Follow the music

"...The radio is dead. The room is silent. Shades are..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Column by Louis Black

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

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Departing Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez passes the reigns [sic] to Kevin Curtin with 10 anecdotes from 27 years.

"..."Barbara Crampton." The first two words I uttered to Margaret Moser fused..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Boz Scaggs Doesn't Mean to Be Argumentative

The Texan parses blues, R&B, and rock & roll ahead of two Austin shows

"...William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio, warming up to the subject of his long career and the blues' impact..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

B.B. King Saved My Life

He played blues so we can find a way through ours

"...They called him “King of the Blues” for the past..."

May 15, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...The bar's gonna be pushed back, and all this is..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

Decade Awards

"...Musician of the Decade1. Stevie Ray Vaughan 2. Davíd Garza..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"..."I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees."..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...Dale Gilmore's "Dallas" and Butch Hancock's "Road Hawg." Even the Clash had to ask if they should stay or..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Oye Como Va

This trio of brothers from San Angelo aren't gonna be lonely for long.

"...It's particularly amusing to watch Ringo Garza, youngest of the Los Lonely Boys siblings, work the Antone's anniversary crowd..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Page Two: More Stars Than There Are in Heaven

Honoring those who helped create, and now tend, the legacy of Clifford Antone

"...Last week was a broken, from-my-heart moan over the loss of Clifford. When I finished writing it, I..."

June 2, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Texas Titles in Toto

"...Of the estimated 3,500 songs written about Texas and Texas Places,..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Up Close and Personal With 'Milo'

Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, and director Jacob Vaughan on their monster Midnighter

"...If Milo has a prevailing theme, it's trouble with intimacy. Accounting drone Duncan (Ken Marino)..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Into Thin Air

The already under way adventures of Austinites at the Dances Sun and Slam, and what they might mean for the local scene

"...question is cut off by a more important call. The post-production house finishing his feature, The Puffy Chair, to..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

CD/DVD

"...Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double TroublePride and Joy (Epic/Legacy) Stevie Ray Vaughan..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"...gives a nod to bassist Roscoe Beck, inviting to the stage local guitarslinger Chris Duarte as vocalist Mike Cross..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Rembitika

Blues ain't just Greek to Johnny Nicholas

"...His 6pm Wednesday sets at the Saxon Pub have been standing room only since they..."

July 20, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

To C-Boy, With Love

Continental Club maverick Steve Wertheimer pays tribute to his mentor – with a nightclub

"...People make the place. Consider the Austin music scene, where a hideous..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Page Two: Having a Riot

The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards

"...Good and bad, I define these terms..."

March 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

Ken rants about moving under the Congress Ave. bridge.

"...not alone, it seems. My rant last week about the hell I was going through finding a new place..."

May 5, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Playback: White Denim Breaks Free

White Denim’s new LP Performance signals a new era of emancipation for Austin’s prog rockers, and Como Las Movies rides a nuevo wave

"...The front lawn of White Denim's Radio Milk studio is..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Hot August Nights: Cold

"...• The Dynamics' "Ice Cream Song" spent seven weeks on the..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...Last October, for Huey Lewis & the News' concert at the Long Center, the frontman talked..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mike Kindred With Dexter Walker

Texas platters

"...introduces himself, he need only let his fingers do the talking. The estimable local keyboard player and songwriter has..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...call from Jerry Wexler: Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Los Lonely Boys

Live shot

"...Los Lonely BoysThe Fillmore, San Francisco, May 6 The Shaman materialized exactly..."

May 14, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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