Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...a discography whose narrative consistency is unrivaled in popular music. Last year's Weight of the World might be the..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

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"...Bennett, Junior Brown, and Peter Wolf at the Austin Music Hall Thursday night, or the Grand Royal showcase at..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...days, too? Opportunism will always reign supreme in the music business. But sometimes, desirable side effects can result from..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

Pretty in Pink: A Gabriela Bucio Story

The millennial Midas brings reggaeton and Mexican regional to Sixth Street and beyond

"...soon, perhaps with another nightclub to follow. Creating entire music festivals may not be far behind. "It's a lot..."

July 8, 2022 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...dancers combine with intergalactic grooves from nearly a dozen musicians wielding horns, synths, theremin, and all manner of percussion,..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...husband, sent out a short e-mail to our intimate music geek cell on August 31, 2010. It led with..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...belongs to one Ian Hunter, who returns to the music business many times bitten, not overly shy, and with..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...& Wally Gagel (Folk Implosion, Eels). Really, it's the music -- Beck, Elliot, Cibo Matto -- the whole studio..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...Oh sure, pundits, music editors, Nostradamus have been reporting its demise every year..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fear Not

Salvador rocks for the Lord, and plans to sell a lot of records.

"...radio, and they've never hung out with the local musicians they love. So how did this group of seemingly..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by David Garza

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...took hold of and thrived in the taverns and music halls of London, then traversed the Atlantic Ocean and..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Manchester Perps

Interview with Chemical Brother Ed Simons.

"...America's penchant for ramming blunt objects up its collective pop-music bum, comes on the line and briefly flummoxes me...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Lipstick Traces

Pretenders

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July 16, 1999 Music Review

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...At the end of Westworld, Michael Crichton's 1973 film..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...years doing the lonely work of making bohemian hip-hop: music that's race-conscious, happy to talk about the pleasures of..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...would more or less change the course of popular music. The revolution was on. The following year, when Some..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Reviews

"...Sangare, but capable instrumentalists including, in addition to African musicians, ringers such as saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis of James..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...Because there's a traditional dearth of Chanukah-specific music, this holiday-inspired compilation starts with timelessness on its side..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Music Review

Princess Mans Up For a Female Sci-Fi Future

Alexis Gideon + Michael O'Neill's 'Out There' is in here on Thursday

"...after they’ve blown all minds and shaken the odd booty into bouncing via psychedelic art-pop that’s the best kind..."

April 16, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place

Hurray for the Riff Raff, Yacht, the Gossip ... what more could your li'l heart desire?

"...The Outlander Project brings you local and touring LGBT music, including Purple, Sister Speak, and more. Through Sat., March..."

March 16, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...Deep inside the airplane-hangar warren of music business offices that comprise Soundcheck Austin, four heads huddle..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

How the West Was Won

SXSWUK 2008

"...eccentrics (Fuck Buttons are but one) to detect a musical strategy along the lines of that Liverpudlian's How I..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Zen of Revolution

Career sideman Michael Ramos steps out with 'Charanga Cakewalk'

"...up far too great a percentage of a road musician's life, Ramos uses Pro Tools to transform all the..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...the shores of Austin's best venue are Mexico City's musical Teotihuacan – El Tri – a roc monument marketed..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...-- no matter how miserable or exuberant -- with music and song and maybe, just maybe, you can begin..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

Through SXSW Jazz re:freshed Outernational Brought "The Dope Black British Jazz Landscape" to the World

Organizer Adam Moses and showcase veteran Daniel Casimir discuss the roots of SXSW's groundbreaking jazz showcase

"...ambitious, open-minded players who integrate hip-hop, Afrobeat, electronica, Caribbean music, and more into the jazz tradition, Jazz re:freshed began..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...binders, mobbed celebs for signatures, then filed away the booty and moved on to the next...."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Stone's luscious blend of Paisley Underground psych, Indian classical music, and dance beats has earned patronage from peers the..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

"...Wood & Wire, a string band quartet with deadly musicianship, tight harmonies, and classic songwriting bats cleanup. Rural music..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...a funky, adventurous sound. A winner of numerous Austin Music Awards since 2006 debut Shudders & Rings, she most..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

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