The Opera, a Laboratorio, and One Wild Nothing in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Shoegaze, black metal, jazz, punk, and more

"...most exciting show spaces in town, with delightfully weird music programming to match their left-of-center inventory. Friday’s show transforms..."

May 16, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...New Head at Texas Music Office: Longtime Austin music industry insider Chip Adams is..."

May 3, 2024 News Feature

The Tiarras, El Combo Oscuro Soundtrack The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

Benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank at Far Out Lounge on Sunday, Sept. 10

"...pacing. Here at The Austin Chronicle, we happily provide musical entertainment to break up the self-inflicted sauce cruelty. Or,..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Every Artist From Pitchfork Festival Headed to Austin This Year

My trip to Chicago is your summer-to-fall ticket-shopping opportunity

"...penciling-in. Now, you're probably wondering: Rachel, you're a local music reporter – what are you doing hobnobbing at a..."

July 22, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Glover Gill’s Last Tango

Smithville swing savant explains why he’s throwing in the towel

"...A nasty case of tennis elbow, sadly, is a..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback – SXSW Recap: Love, Hate, Garth & Trump

Final love / hate SXSW listicles

"...made her hastily announced live comeback Friday at Apple Music's West Sixth headquarters, where the pop noir chanteuse debuted..."

March 24, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

'How Wild the Sea'

Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts brings waves into the concert hall with new symphonic work

"...Naples Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Society, City Music Cleveland, and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, will premiere in Austin..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

God and Man, Time and Space: Echoes of the Sistine Chapel

World-class ensemble destined for greatness

"...is only its second season, this consortium of early music specialists is already surpassing its mission "to perform vocal..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Fall Arts Issue Critics Picks

From the arts harvest, our critics pluck choice treats

"...I'm a theatre writer. I know little about early music or Baroque choral compositions – but I can tell..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...Cate Blouke (theatre), Claire Canavan (theatre), Luke Quinton (classical music/visual arts), Claire Spera (dance), and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...recognized the year's most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, the visual arts, and theatre. The nominations for these..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Honor Roll

The 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Clare Croft (dance), Randy Harriman (music), Erin Keever (visual arts), David Mead (music), Joey Seiler..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Clare Croft (dance), Randy Harriman (music), Erin Keever (visual arts), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...the year's most exceptional work in theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art. The nominations for the 2004-2005 Austin..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...to the community in the areas of dance, classical music, theatre, or the visual arts...."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Lingua Ignota, Daniel Fears, Mobley, a Doug Sahm celebration, and more worthy local shows

"...Ignota's third LP, Sinner Get Ready, in the Christian music section, causing an unassuming listener to grasp their rosary..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...inductee Heloise Gold, who vibrated with excitement to the music of house band the Invincible Czars; members of the..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...with four honors each were the Rude Mechanicals' original musical I've Never Been So Happy; Salvage Vanguard Theater's Heddatron,..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Voyage

For 'The Odyssey,' composer Graham Reynolds goes on a journey with Austin Children's Choir

"...Graham Reynolds will go just about anywhere, musically speaking. To date, his compositional output includes jazz, rock,..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610': Heaven, I'm in Heaven

For Jeffrey Jones-Ragona and Daniel Johnson, performing Monteverdi's divine 'Vespers of 1610' in its entirety at St. Mary's Cathedral is a dream come true

"...grandeur was completed, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, the church's director of music, had an idea. "It occurred to me while I..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

NewSX of the SWorld

"..."This year's normally amicable SXSW music industry confab [is] a potential flashpoint in the growing..."

March 29, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Austin Critics Table Winners 2000-01

"...2001, included expanded recognition for achievements in dance, classical music, and the visual arts along with the usual acknowledgments..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Recommended

"...book, or a Louis L'Amour novelette. Literature played to music. Only the best, and Hubbard's got a saddlepack full..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Music Feature

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Muñoz desperately longed for better representation in the indie music she listened to as a teenager. At 23, she..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Conspirare's Hope of Loving

This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals

"...Hope of Loving. No, in devoting this program to music by contemporary composer Jake Runestad, Artistic Director Craig Hella..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Levitation Review: Panda Bear, Geologist, Lou Rebecca

Two out of four ain’t bad – plus a Parisian!

"...Local Parisian synth songstress Lou Rebecca opened, grounded in..."

April 28, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t

Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract

"...roughly 15-member indie orchestra had an agreement with Universal Music Classics, classical arm of the largest label on Earth...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...on the Seventh Street arm of Red River's vaunted music district...."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...Cate Blouke (theatre), Claire Cana­van (theatre), Luke Quinton (classical music/visual art), Claire Spera (dance), and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...an earlier incarnation, the Young@Heart chorus sang more traditional choral numbers. Following a chance experiment with a couple of..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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