The Black Keys and Bootsy Collins Top Latest SXSW Music Announcement

Plus Angélica Garcia, Dende, Snõõper

"...Southwest brought in the big guns for its third wave of showcasing artists, including blues rock duo the Black..."

Jan. 24, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...the equally famous and fascinating understated master of the airwaves John Aielli is given his own visual tribute in..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Row Inmate Preaches to Prisoners Daily. Now the State Plans to Kill Him.

Saving body and soul

"...a large blue tub, something like an oversized kiddie pool. One points a microphone to a fifth man sitting..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Review: Holy Wave, Five of Cups

Sixth long-player’s pastoral urban schmear soundtracks millennial Austin

"...Five of Cups washes away the sweat, because Holy Wave continues to bottle ATX-brand sunblock. Sixth long-player of the..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Qmmunity: Transing Pride

ATX Trans Pride puts the spotlight on the transgender community during Austin Pride

"...this extended cocktails and dance party, with old-school, New Wave, lunar bump tunes meeting space-age jams and modern beats...."

Aug. 11, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Sporty Spice

Wherever you fall on the sporty spectrum, Austin's queer scene has a place for you

"...Top of mind during our lovely state's current heat wave is sun safety. While ATXGFL gears up for their..."

July 21, 2023 Column by James Scott

We Have an Issue: This Is Fine?

In this week's issue, fun ways to grapple with the ongoing heat... and more sobering thoughts on the state we're in

"...fun slate of stories about cold drinks, nighttime and pool-adjacent activities, the annual Hot Summer Nights free music fest,..."

July 21, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

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

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...an ascending airplane engine – evolved into a ceaseless wave with vocal interludes. Gerloff and guitarist Alex Simmons busied..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Wednesday

A primo Tiger Den showcase, iLe, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and more

"...the wall, a laptop open to Ableton blasting lo-fi waves of pre-recorded drums, and a sensitive soul in pajama..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Cyrus Gray Hasn’t Been Convicted of a Crime, but He Spent Years in Jail

Now he is an advocate for the rights of the accused

"...the murder. She later testified that she saw a pool of blood in the parking lot but did not..."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Causeway

Jennifer Lawrence returns in a moving portrait of a damaged woman

"...Neugebauer taps into the emotional tidal wave of Causeway’s script (written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Unstoppable, Paramore Decade-Hops into New Chapter at ACL Fest

With a PinkPantheress cameo and Flea birthday tribute

"...The 2017 track turned Seventies new wave as Williams smoothly segued into the chorus of Blondie's..."

Oct. 17, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin

Who Won the Cocktail Showdown at Hotel ZaZa?

Who combined spirited liquids the best to beat this murderous heat?

"...little alcohol-fueled pop-ups arrayed around the hotel’s seventh-floor outdoor pool on Thursday, August 4, the sun doing its demonic..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...early CBGB as being the locus of Austin punk/New Wave hap'nin's," Bangs continued. "Raul's is the place where Elvis..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Qmmunity: Paint Your Own Reality

Austin's queer community celebrates Frida Kahlo's legacy with Frida Friday ATX's Viva La Vida Fest

"...Host Louisianna Purchase gives you horror in this heat wave with special guest Celia Light. Fri., July 22, 10pm...."

July 22, 2022 Column by James Scott

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...Stubb's still contract Perkins, who says the concert poster pool caught a drought when artists began accepting stacks of..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

10 Bands Under 25 That Make Me Feel Alive

A quintessential coming-of-age soundtrack to score the next spiral

"...Sleater-Kinney. The Austin-born hellions spawned in the same sludge cesspools as contemporary punk groups Destroy Boys, Homewrecker & the..."

June 10, 2022 Music Feature by Mars Salazar

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...Smash Mouth are afforded a few calm seconds of radio-wave interference and gentle strumming. Then, off of a single..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...at topless bars, Sixth Street massage parlors, and Esther's Pool Hall." They evidently created quite a commotion, showing up..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Ramones – and Kiss! They were part of that pool of bands. To me, the Ramones were hard rock,..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Public Notice: Park Potables Panned at Planning

Beer and wine sales at Barton Springs? Maybe not.

"...concession stand, just outside the entrance to Barton Springs Pool. Of course, "concession stand" really doesn't do it justice..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Black Angels & Kikagaku Moyo, Video Age & Shy Boys, Exhumed & Creeping Death, ST 37 & the Gary, Arooj Aftab, and Kool Keith

"...it strides, and since its noise rocking gothic New Wave is in top gear on new EP Hologram, this..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Column by Michael Toland

This Job Will Change Your Life

Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle

"...Tejano joint called Raul's and sparked the Austin punk/New Wave scene at the beginning of 1977, I had played..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

We Have an Issue: Here’s to 40 More

It's The Austin Chronicle's 40th anniversary issue

"...reported straight-faced on the "The Great Golf Cart Swimming Pool Massacre" – an early Eighties, seminal event in Chronicle..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...the Verge," Music, Jan. 16, 2015). A constantly growing pool of resilient local rappers spanning a multitude of sounds..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Day Trips: The Power Plant Texas Grill, Seguin

Comfort food in a comforting place

"...that now includes a golf course, playgrounds, and a wave pool. The park is named for a former Seguin..."

April 16, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Tunnel

Fire in the mountain in the Norwegian disaster flick

"...Greenland, had terror come from the skies, but The Wave and The Quake showed the massive devastation that tectonics..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases

The sun always shines on TV

"...Brit trio PVA makes danceable, synthesizer-loving, lightly industrial No Wave with dream vocals from Ella Harris...."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Lege Takes Direct Aim at Austin Abortion Aid

"...provision of direct financial support pushed back against the wave of local anti-choice ordinances passed by small towns across..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Legislators Take Direct Aim at Austin’s Support for Abortion

Bills target city's funding of logistical assistance

"...provision of direct financial support pushed back against the wave of local anti-choice ordinances passed by small towns across..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

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