Review: Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson

A deep read into one of America’s most versatile guitarists

"...he and his trio would be providing the live musical soundtrack for filmmaker Bill Morrison's documentary The Great Flood...."

June 10, 2022 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Faster Than Sound: Jim Eno Launches Project Traction for Women Music Producers

The Spoon drummer co-produced songs with eight women and nonbinary artists at his Public Hi-Fi studio

"...of improving the abysmal statistics on gender inclusivity in music production. A 2021 report by the University of Southern..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...YouTube series launched on the set of Little Mazarn's music video for "Vermont." After wrapping up filming in an..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Garage rock, indie-pop, funk, and more

"...FRIDAY Middle Kids..."

June 22, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...In a metropolis where music does the talking, words buoyed the 2017/18 Austin Music..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sehr Flash: Fiction Becomes Music

Austin composer Russell Podgorsek teams with lit journal NANO Fiction to create short short stories with original scores

"...you like a soundtrack when you're reading? Does some music help to set the atmosphere, to enhance the mood..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Chamber Music Festival

Michelle Schumann's cause for excitement

"...pretty effusive by nature. Still, when the Austin Chamber Music Center artistic director declares she's giddy about something, it's..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...with their familiar hats-off to Buck Owens. It's country music with an edge, combining influences, and running it all..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Archaic Relics of Music Biz Past

The Death of Vinyl: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...Apparently, a lot of musicians, when given a chance to "do vinyl," will, whether..."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...we’re running as a separate post, here are our music team’s favorite moments from Tuesday at SXSW. Meanwhile, Monday’s..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...choral intro on "Dancing in the Rain" contains an alt-classical feel, while "The Chase" elicits a watery vibrato as..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Chamber Music Festival

As the Austin Chamber Music Festival marks its 10th summer of celebrating the intimate joys of chamber music, it will be the last for Felicity Coltman as Austin Chamber Music Center director

"...Coltman. It's been the season of the Austin Chamber Music Festival, a time when the director of the Austin..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All There in the Music

Mandy Mercier puts down her fiddle to talk about her eventful life.

"...East Coast-bred, born in Westport, Conn., and schooled on classical violin. Her youthful rebellion in the late Sixties naturally..."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Celebrity Austin Music Pollster: Kalu James of Kalu & the Electric Joint..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom ‘Cutz’ New Music

Chris Searles revisits the cult local trio’s salad years

"...Searles explains. “I came up with the name as musical onomatopoeia during a particularly boring class at UT, and..."

Dec. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

ACL Friday by the blurbs

"...and these kids are learning the right kind of music the right way: loud and fast. Longtime Austin favorites..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

Top 10 Musical Triumphs, Plus Evidence That Austin Is Innovating the Classical World

Chronicle Arts writer Michael Kellerman recalls 2008, in classical music

"...1) Blue Rhapsody (Austin Chamber Music Center) The temptation was strong to top this list..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Classical

"...Sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, a non-profit international professional music fraternity. Tickets $6-$8 advance, $8-10 at the door. Sun,..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

SXSW Music Spotlight: Tangerine Dream

Everlasting German circuit breakers continue founder's "constant flow"

"...“Tangerine Dream’s music is a combination of a strong and defined concept..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Scratching His Balls Over Music Writing

"...I am not taking issue with the band's new music (which may or may not be as powerful as..."

Oct. 30, 2003 Postmarks

SXSW Music Live: Durand Jones & the Indications, Jamila Woods

Old souls, new faces

"...in Louisiana before moving to Bloomington, Ind., to study music. He earned a graduate degree in classical saxophone and..."

March 17, 2017 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

SXSW Music: Must-See Singer-Songwriters

Ryan Adams, Robyn Hitchcock, Neko Case, and the next generation of solo strummers

"...9pm; Thu. 16, St. David's Bethell Hall, 11pm American Music Club president, Bay Arean Mark Eitzel released his newest..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...Named Best New Band at this year's Austin Music Awards, Fresh Millions crafts ideal summertime electro-funk. The local..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

It's a Music Festival!!

"...from clearance for condos in 1979. I much prefer classical romantic 19th-century music to the new sounds of today,..."

March 22, 2004 Postmarks

Classical Musicians and Their Instruments

Photo Essay by Bret Brookshire

"...faculty of and performs frequently with the Austin Chamber Music Center and is a member of the Austin Symphony..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature

SXSW Music Interview: Haley Heynderickx

Portland songwriter waters her garden with anxiety and heartache

"...an interest in rock but access only to a classical guitar...."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

SXSW Music Live: British Jazz

U.S. Immigration can’t keep great jazzmen/women down

"...tunes fusing jazz with the Siddi tradition of Indian music. Keeping the rhythms in constant motion and joined by..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael Toland

SXSW Panel: Memphis Means Music

Did you know the Greeks founded Stax?

"...to the River director Mark Shore, Friday’s nine-man Memphis music panel examined the city’s rich musical history and tentative-yet-hopeful..."

March 14, 2014 Music Post by Greg Beets

12 Must-See Saturday Acts at ACL Music Festival

Key Zilker Park sets for Saturday weekend one

"...inquiries from media, management, and labels alike, eschewing the music industry (save for their booking agent) in favor of..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

SXSW Music Keynote: Nile Rodgers

Don’t be afraid of the Top 40

"...a snob” said Rodgers, 64. “When you meet jazz, classical, or any type of musical purists, they give off..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Alejandra Ramirez

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