A Commercial Venture

Preempting Shania Twain

"...became the pet project of a handful of Austin music lovers and avid access television users, Kent Benjamin and..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bruce Hughes

"...town that don't like him. To them, the 37-year-old musician is simply offensive: a drunken loudmouth with a Napoleon..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Big Crapshoot

Tracking South by Southwest

"..."Who got signed?" While the question naively implies that music industry movers and shakers just hand out recording contracts..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

"......"

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...was All, punk rock has remained merely a minority musical taste. Hence, the above-named may find themselves puzzled by..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Pascal's Wager

Soundtracks: A No Lose Proposition

"...and you see these other bands, it's because their music fits the times and the mood of the movie."..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Jump On It Organizer NOOK Turner’s 30-Year Fight to Preserve Eastside Black Culture

Rapper / promoter / activist goes long on his annual “Black Culture 360” event

"...These concerns from one of the Eastside’s most persistent..."

May 30, 2025 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilot Competition, Virtual Cinema, Music Videos and Title Sequence Competition entrants)...."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: I’m Just Not Into Labels

CD Baby brings DIY Musician Conference to Austin, Sidewinder won't be ready for SXSW, and PledgeMusic withholds Fastball campaign funds

"...Relocating from Nashville, independent music distributor CD Baby imports its annual gathering to Austin..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fighting Over Scraps

"...Dear Editor, Kevin Curtin’s “Playback: Sizing Up Music's Bite of the Hotel Tax,” [Music, Sept. 15] got..."

Sept. 19, 2017 Postmarks

The Rebirth of Doyle Bramhall II

For his first solo LP in 15 years, Eric Clapton’s top lieutenant may have put out the blues album of 2016

"...Welcome in 2001, Bramhall took a 15-year hiatus from self-promotion to work with a who's who of industry A-listers,..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Stranger Things Blasts Local Synth Quartet Survive Into Orbit

Scoring the Netflix summer hit

"...At the time of the Chronicle's recent cover story..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Tonal Proximity

NMASS matured into Austin's foremost showcase of performance sound art, audiovisual improvisation, nonconformative music, and sensory installations

"...foremost showcase of performance sound art, audiovisual improvisation, nonconformative music, and sensory installations, all from an array of local..."

June 24, 2016 Music Feature by Conor Walker

Playback: Austin Record Label Rendezvous

The Austin Record Label Flea Market bands together local imprints, while County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt tries to scatter mass gatherings such as Levitation

"...The recorded music industry's been dying for so long that we don't..."

June 19, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Final SXSW Free Concert: Ryan Bingham

Oscar-winning westerner headlines Friday at Auditorium Shores

"...day, Thu., March 19. Two weeks before that, the Music Festival released details of an appropriately big and flashy..."

March 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Charles Attal Discusses C3/Live Nation Deal

“We needed each other”

"...system and continued erosion of album sales, is the music business now about festivals?..."

Feb. 26, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Chilling With ScoreMore

Austin promoters ScoreMore tap San Antonio

"...Guttfreund and Claire Bogle, owners of the thriving concert promotion business...."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Festival Buzz

Festival, Texas – spring edition

"...Weeks like this, we're caught in a deluge of music fests directly behind and ahead of us, announcements coming..."

April 25, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback

You thought SXSW was the spring festival end-all/be-all? You thought wrong.

"...and proves that, even though the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Fun Fun Fun Fest go down in..."

April 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Anyone Buy a CD These Days?

With Guy Forsyth, Wren Anderson, Chad Nichols, Luna Tart, and more

"...weekly installment of The Q&A Hole, we asked some musicians and others … and this is what they said:..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Music Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

All Over Creation: One Movement Ends, and One Begins

As one chamber music ensemble takes its final bow, another makes its start

"...concerts and showcases beside the usual masses of local musicians, this Friday will be a riot of music in..."

March 16, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

On the Inside Looking In

The meta world of Outside Industry, Alan Berg's new documentary about SXSW, coming soon to SXSW

"...Swenson, the managing director of South by Southwest. The Music/Film/Interactive Festival was quickly approaching its 25th year, Swenson said,..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...For a musician most notable as a sideman, Meyers boasts a career..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...Hubbard's storied career in local music is told once again with bright eyes, big smiles,..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Brass Ring Lessons

How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner

"...Texas, sponsoring juried visual-arts shows, and running an ongoing musical theatre academy for young people ("But You Can Win..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Collective Wisdom

The Tonewheel Collective spins off Austin's indie scene of tomorrow

"...that has banded together some of Austin's best young musicians in a collaborative showcase without pretense or expectations. Tonewheel..."

May 11, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...a prolific career. The Houston trumpeter was a session musician at Duke/Peacock, has toured extensively with B.B. King as..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I am perplexed by the motives of your Music section. As co-owner of Room 710 (the one who..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column

Pop Beloved

Revisting the Reivers

"...the Reivers, wasn't just a future footnote in local music scene history. They were a beloved band that signed..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...UNCLE SMITHEE'S ESOTERIC MUSIC EMANCIPATORS: Just in time for conference exploitation/promotion, ex-Bad Liver..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

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