SXSW Picks and Sleepers

The Blurbing of SXSW 06

"...Records articulates what's possible when a music lover does the driving. Lou Lou & the Guitarfish are the teenage..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...The Other Sixties Garage Gods: Red Krayola Garage rock is..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

"Austin City Limits" Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...SUNDAY SLEEPERSJACK INGRAM: About the only thing that's cliched about the perennially underrated Jack..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Echo & The Bunnymen

"...Echo & The BunnymenCrystal Days 1979-1999 (Warner Archives/Rhino) Echo & the Bunnymen..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Earlimart, Black Lipstick, John Hunt & Beaty Wilson, Wooldrige Park Day Party, Saturday 17

"...isn't enough to get people in Texas to leave their homes when it's cold," said Bedbug's Chris Hillen, who,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Lou Reed Ecstasy (Reprise)

"...Lou ReedEcstasy (Reprise) The spare and halting guitar that kicks off Ecstasy is..."

March 31, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...For too many gawky kids and deliberate outsiders in the mid- to late Seventies, Patti Smith was both communion..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Greg Beets/Alternative

"...1. The Makers of Smooth Music: Sublime Results of "Send Us..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature

Faster Than Sound: Former Spider House Cafe Has Reopened as Tweedy's

Run by the patio experts behind Kinda Tropical and Hotel Vegas

"...meeting for Eastside hangout Kinda Tropical when he got the call that the former Spider House Cafe building was..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Restaurant Review: Birdie's

A neighborhood restaurant, for some

"...you don't know what you're looking for. Situated at the corner of 12th and Harvey streets, the gray-and-white building..."

May 6, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of Austin musicians taken between March and August 2020, the book documents the initial turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic...."

April 9, 2021 Music Feature by Annie Lyons

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Taylor Wallace Takes Over KUTX Morning Show

KUTX replaces morning show mainstay John Aielli with Taylor Wallace after the iconic ATX deejay suffers a stroke.

"...COVID-19 disrupted KUTX 98.9 beginning in March, after which the mainstay Austin music frequency slowly reintegrated live, in-studio hosts...."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Music Policy Draft Fails Venues

A complete detachment from the original vision of the Omnibus

"...Eleven months after the unveiling of Mayor Adler's much ballyhooed Omnibus Resolution, my..."

May 19, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin

X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies

"..."I'm a man of the world," declares John Doe, singer/bassist of seminal Los Angeles..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Lovers Rock

Announcing the Austin Music Awards and more Valentine's Day mash notes

"...From the Cramps to Sonic Youth and hundreds in between, bands..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Priced Out?

Soon, Austin’s golden geese – musicians – will be priced out of the live music capital

"...cultural conundrum: A largely impoverished class of musicians earns the city a hip reputation, in turn contributing to its..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...Manchester to sun-baked Texas. For Peter Hook, source of the driving and defining bass lines of Joy Division and..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

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

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...three decades' measure of how beloved he was in the local music community, long dormant bands honoring him with..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

My Love Note to Lovejoys

RIP, Lovejoys

"...The doors of Lovejoys closed forever Sunday, August 5th, and..."

Aug. 6, 2012 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Wednesday International Bands

Wednesday's just the beginning!

"...Danish indie rockers invoke the Eighties with the sometimes lush, sometimes spare Euro-synth sound..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...Never bet against Steve Albini. The Shellac frontman won't deal you a bad hand. He'll..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...The Cool Kids are the odd ones out in the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Interviews

The Decemberists, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Dan Auerbach

"...The Decemberists..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Gilded Palace of Sin

Downtown Mystic isn't only the title of Lomita's second disc

"...A 14-year-old Jonas Wilson immediately recognizes Clifford Antone making the rounds of his namesake club during a "We Three..."

April 27, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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

Page Two

It was 20 years ago today, Ed Lowry taught the gang to play.

"...Working on the third story of a building with huge glass windows..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...winter mornings: gray, but not terribly cold. It was the same in San Antonio -- except for the rumbling...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...CHARLIE ROBISON: After 1998's Life of the Party proved a late bloomer, Austin country maverick Charlie..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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