Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...All showcases subject to change Lil Band o Gold..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...bassist did just that by dying last Thursday (see bandmate Davy Jones' obit), the same day that other bickering..."

April 6, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live Shots

"...On Saturday morning, the evidence was clear: One stage, two RVs, a ReddyIce dispenser, and a trailer-sized equipment locker..."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...genre-bustin' quintet storms Dripping Springs, Bush fielded questions while restringing his mandolin...."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...The real indie bands in Austin are teen bands not affiliated with rock..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...disc, Now Again, up flies a screen concealing the band, and out stride three troubadours in shining black suits...."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Levitation Q&A: Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth stringer’s set overlaps slightly with former bandmate

"...Alongside erstwhile bandmate Thurston Moore, also playing Levitation on Saturday, Lee Ranaldo’s..."

April 28, 2016 Music Post by Neph Basedow

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...of June, this year’s Oblivion Access marked a new high for the homegrown heavy music festival...."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Your Name

This body-swapping anime is a stunner

"...time-bending Japanese anime romance Your Name, first as a band encircling a young boy’s wrist, then as an adornment..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...after well over a decade of sprawling SXSW international band guides, the Chronicle ceded its gatekeeping of global acts..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...of post-riot grrrl bloodletters Be Your Own Pet, the band is happy in delirious, deep-fried debauchery. Two LPs in..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

The More You Learn About God, the Further Away from Him You Move

mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss likes a good question, but finds some answers easier than others

"...And that’s the universal You, yo – high, low, and all manner in-between...."

June 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...the slowcore sounds of Low have in common? Both bands are fronted by Duluth, Minn.'s Alan Sparhawk, who released..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...punkish chord progressions and red-devil rhythms that plenty of bands shoot for, but few put forth. The same could..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...went out of style along with handlebar mustaches and high-button shoes, a bygone ritual that goes with Iowa church..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Texas Platters

"...Janis Joplin had left Austin scarcely two years before this album was recorded and her transition..."

July 31, 1998 Music Review

Crucial Concerts at Hot Summer Nights 2023

Highlights from the no-cost, high-temp annual music festival

"...Raoul HernandezChicha Summit by Money Chicha Kathryn Legendre, Texas String AssemblyStubb's, Thursday 20..."

July 21, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Riding With Bob

"...is redundant. For nearly three decades now, that's all band leader Ray Benson and company have been doing --..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Out There in the Fresh Air With Utopia, Old Settler's, and Kerrville Folk Festival

Fall fests coax us from the metropolis

"...After damn near two years of limited live entertainment options and far too..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sue Foley, Nat Adderley Jr., Cheap Trick, Little Mazarn and Ralph White, High Desert Queen, and the Austin Record Convention

"...The sound of Sue Foley takes you there. That high-gain Tele through red-hot tubes. That sultry, soulful, emotionally calloused..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Last Laugh

Guy Forsyth signs off on God's Favorite Band

"...back was an epic, personal remembrance of God's Favorite Band and an appreciation of the acoustic troupe's ringers...."

April 21, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Spotlights

"...of Ray's drug opera. Toe, guitarist for the local band PigPoke and an occasional drug dealer, wants so badly..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Brittany Howard, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and More Austin Blues Festival Reviews

Standouts from the Antone’s organizers’ Waterloo Park return

"...A one-day 2023 tryout doubled to two days of on-point blues-and-beyond curation in the second year..."

April 29, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest

Adrian Quesada, Big Boi, and painting the town P!nk

"...Chronicle writers found much to love. Here are some highlights from ACL Fest day two...."

Oct. 9, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Willie’s Picnic Brings the Fireworks, and Beto O’Rourke, to Q2

Old Austin meets new Austin with Fourth of July Concert

"...Q2 Stadium, home of the Austin FC – our two year kickin’ Major League Soccer club. The venue proved..."

July 5, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Highest Highs, Lowest Lows: Good Looks’ Jake Ames Discharged From Hospital After Being Hit by Car Following Triumphant Release Show

Beloved guitarist caps “miraculous” recovery by playing a song

"...balloons suspended on the ceiling above the stage, the band was in that psychic zone where every note sounds..."

April 15, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Gourds Co-Leader Jimmy Smith Heads to Montana

Jimmy Smith heads for higher ground, Pete Mitchell reaches a higher plane, and Izzy Cox would like to remain upright on terra firma

"...possessed stage presence has been often compared to the Band's soulful spark plug Rick Danko, set his compass for..."

July 29, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Listen to What the Man Said

Paul McCartney’s first-night Erwin Center sell-out astounds

"...to? The still “cute” Beatle played 38 songs in two hours and 45 minutes Thursday night at the Erwin..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Name of the Game

The Hives

"...the Weill/Brecht broken music box of “Puppet on a String.” Yet the Aston Martin zip of “Hey Little World,”..."

Sept. 15, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Musical Manifesto

Davíd Garza's

"...line of greeting cards: "Close your eyes, hit a string - bend it - and hope that it's close...."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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