New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...on the floor. That's a welcome sight, but "Fascist" ultimately rallies the internal anthem of an artist being pushed..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...o-u-t. Stone step-off moments such as "Brand New" transcend time as both midnight mover and midday interlude...."

Jan. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...the band's revived C.I.A Records. Alan "Bud Horne" Villareal, longtime drummer for Austin's Jesus Christ Superfly (who cover "Nobody..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...song carries its own message of self-possession during a time of isolation ("Make Me Feel," "Go My Way," "Surrender")...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...doing mashups like Girl Talk. I finally had the time to develop that side project. I got all my..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."One year, we were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Another time, I was Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks and Felix..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...the occasion of the Austin quartet's debut full-length. A lifetime later, all that still applies on the group's fourth..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...10-track affair thrives on themes of pain and perseverance. Sometimes, it's through harrowing characters like "Trixie," a dream-punk track..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...record like this for a while now," expands the longtime local on his website. "Quiet, country heartbreak – like..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...drummer Chris Swimley nest atop scorching leads and Petty-esque poptimist twang with occasional psych flourishes. Donate to the station..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Austin last year with aspirations to pursue music full time after retiring from football. The 31-year-old lets his mind..."

July 17, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Checking In: Worm Suicide Blacks Out

Punks put out a 23-years-in-the-making LP in a pandemic

"...distillation of Worm Suicide’s yuks-galore hatecore,” opined Chronicle punk Tim Stegall. Singer Pablo Flores and guitarist/singer Scott Free put..."

July 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...I never had") and David Grissom ("Hearing his flawless time and endless stream of ideas laid bare was stunning"),..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here's what we're listening to

"...months of his life, Warden's songs dance with the timelessness of his ageless tenor, from the rockabilly of his..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...drive-in performance with two presentations of the environmentally focused multimedia effort The Living Coast over the next seven nights...."

June 5, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...ache offers a desert island sanctuary ready-made for these times...."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re spending time with

"..."It's one of my favorite songs of all time based on the lyrics," says the singer of the..."

May 8, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...he's hoping to eventually offer a vinyl release. "The timing right now was perfect, because ain't nobody doing shit,..."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Local Music to Livestream, Download, and Otherwise Enjoy Digitally

What we’re watching and listening to

"...beards during the Eliminator era – and the film ultimately screeches to a halt there – this scrapbook delivers...."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Injustice Corrected

"...being written back into the narrative. Thank you to Tim Stegall for his monumental exposé and so much gratitude..."

Jan. 30, 2020 Postmarks

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...Yet glam remains punk's immediate predecessor on the rock timeline, bridging the Sixties' psychotic garage-fuzz reactions to the Seventies'..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Chronicle Critics Choose Their Top 10 Local Albums

10 lists by 10 of our music writers

"...Golden Dawn Arkestra, Darkness Falls on the Edge of Time (11A Records) Doug Freeman..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

Including three weekend-two-only performers

"...an Act of Resistance lives up to its title. – Tim Stegall..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature

10 Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

And concluding the first weekend ...

"...an Act of Resistance lives up to its title. – Tim Stegall..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...seminal to the coming aesthetic. Read part one of Tim Stegall's history of Austin punk and see how pshchedelia..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"..."Anytime friends come through town on tour, we try to..."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

2018/19 Austin Music Industry Poll Top 10s

Nearly half of this year's Austin Music Poll/Austin Music Awards winners are now known

"...RUNNERS-UP: Greg Beets, Raoul Hernandez, Tim Stegall, Kahron Spearman, Libby Webster Best Ongoing Music Residency..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Feature

Free Week 2019 Is in the Rearview Mirror, but These Homegrown Standouts Aren't

10 local showcases that got us excited for what’s to come this year

"...framed elegantly by warm, fluttering floodlights. Even in singer/guitarist Timothy Heck's most expansive shoegaze moments, the precise trio remained..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

10 Free Week Acts to Watch This Weekend

Keep an eye out for these musicians in 2019

"...PR NewmanHotel Vegas, Thu. 3 Longtime fixture of the Austin music scene and former co-leader..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Our Music Critics Pick Their Top 10 Austin Albums of 2018

80 local picks from Molly Burch to Brownout

"...10) Future Museums, Rosewater Ceremony (Holodeck) Tim Stegall..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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