SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...sound, abusing guitars, tape loops, clarinet, theremin, and all manner of electronic equipment and found percussion. Their performances are..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Nashville-based songwriter, Terry Radigan has recently signed to Vanguard Records. Put them all together and watch the songs fly...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...last month as part of Los Super Seven, to many Texans it was long overdue. Ely is one of..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...plays with the phonetic spelling of her name: The Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 9m88 is a homophone for Joanne..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...off in Europe. From the Edinburgh Fringe Festival award-winning performance piece The Terrorism of Everyday Life to new album..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Thursday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"..."We've done all our records at our house or with friends in Austin, and..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...he'd died and gone to heaven. After all, how many times have you heard Se–or Velvet Guitar cap a..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...["Postmarks," April, 4] wherein I took to task Cris Feldman, a callow young man employed by a group which..."

April 18, 2003 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...of Alejandro Escovedo, raucous zydeco throwdown of Geno Delafose, wildman roots hoedown of Austin's Gourds, and Bandera country roots..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

All in Perspective

Chris Searles

"...Hamby, at the time an A&R bigwig for Columbia Records (CBS), spent a few minutes watching the band and..."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Tarin Wilda Schröder became an instant worldwide sensation. The German-Ghanaian singer bows at the Gen X R&B altar, specifically..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Showcases

"...Small Stone Records..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"...There was a time, not so many years back, when I spent an awful lot of..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Reissues

"...as a singles-driven medium, which means no matter how many individual greatest hits packages or label anthologies your collection..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...live. In a word, shit-hot. Shit-fucking-hot. Theirs was a performance where you prayed the songs would never end, for..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...Eric Clapton, and Mos Def. He recently relocated to Manchaca, just south of Austin, and once here he took..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday blurbs slim down from the Wednesday bloat

"...THURSDAY PICKS Termanology..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...are anything but middle-Earthy. Rose Elinor Dougall is a Mancunian whose breakout track is, breathily, "Another Version of Pop..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

"...Whut It Dew Family, for a spring release. Houston's five-man Circle G'z rotate bumps with uplifters and approach each..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...Austinites are still rooting for Spoon – even if frontman Britt Daniel recently relocated to rainy Portland, Ore. Daniel's..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Time resurrected the Dead Boys even as it revealed frontman Eric Unusual's secret Beatles fetish on a killer cover..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...lot in Philly. Then she went Hollywood. Now, she records for Hollywood Records, and counts producer Glen Ballard as..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...through my diaries, it reads like complete fiction, but many will identify with what I have to say...."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

The Pilgrim Returns

Q&A with Kris Kristofferson

"...month, he was the cover story of the Chronicle's third issue ever, under the now-regrettable headline "Kris Kristofferson: A..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...funk got one apparent inebriate to do the running man dance (there was plenty of room), but the other..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...of the dark soul. Walk this way with the man whose eyes bore deathlessly into your skull and let..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Al No Go Ryko Solo

"...have to be bumped up to the Buick front man position...."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Column

Austin Punk Chronicles: "I Don't Think the Sex Pistols Inspired Anything Other Than a Buncha More Punk Bands!"

The San Antonio shoot-out ricochets locally in Chapter 4 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...anti-singer discovered by his art school chum, future Clash manager Bernie Rhodes. Lydon's proto-Dr. Gregory House demeanor, ripped-and-torn "I..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"..."Or early Brian Eno records," interjects Wood, 28, also the bassist for Leche...."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Gypsy Rose

The 'Rockabilly Filly' bucks back into Austin

"...Sirens on lead guitar, along with rock critic Pleasant Gehman. "I had found my people," she grins. Looking through..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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