How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...and Maybelline – the Dolls became a blueprint for punk rock. Keith Richards worship from guitarist Johnny Thunders, blitzkrieg..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Finally Punk, All-Girl Aughts Act, Talks Austin Reunion Shows

Unbanned, pioneering punks play Swass Nite Wednesday

"...Good news for fans of mid-Aughts punk, all-girl groups, and DIY goofiness: Finally Punk is finally..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators

Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles

"...what they just saw and heard. Clash City Cow Punks..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

We Have an Issue: Hitting the Right Three Chords to Chronicle Punk Rock

In this week's issue, Tim Stegall recounts a pivotal Sex Pistols concert that inspired Austin's punk scene

"...the push to start putting down for posterity the history of Austin punk. Tim started writing that book in..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Austin Punk Chronicles: "Hard, Fast & Unapologetic" – Raul's Shifts Into Fourth Gear

In the wake of the one-night debut of the Skunks and the Violators, Austin punk begins in earnest in Chapter 5, Part 2 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...This is Chapter 5, Part 2 of a serialized history of Austin punk by veteran writer and punk musician..."

Aug. 12, 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"

"...note: This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk culture, written by veteran journalist Tim..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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"

"...This is Chapter 5, Part 1 of a serialized history of Austin punk by veteran writer and punk musician..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music Featured Session: Laura Jane Grace, Our Lady of Punk, Devours SXSW

Against Me! founder on the “demonstrable power of punk”

"...life and career as the founder of seminal Gainesville punksters Against Me!, her experience coming out as transgender, and..."

March 15, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

On Punk Rock, and the Passing of Bruce Todd and Sarah Weddington

LISTEN: The Austin Chronicle Show on KOOP Community Radio

"...It's all about history on this week's episode The Austin Chronicle Show on..."

Jan. 1, 2022 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Punk Legend John Doe Presents at AFS Cinema

The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: "I want to be sideways!"

"..."Howe Gelb says that I'm the Lee Marvin of punk rock!" laughed John Doe, Austin resident of two years..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release

Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych

"...one of the most influential documentary filmmakers in the history of cinema isn't hyperbole, it's the truth. The Decline..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...1970-1982" (which lives in its entirety at the Austin History Center). The work was researched largely through interviews with..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Ed Ward Unleashes His Second Volume on The History of Rock & Roll

First-generation rock critic visits Teen Pan Alley

"...veteran rock journalist, on the publication eve to The History of Rock & Roll, the second installment of his..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

South By So Much Punk

Pussy Riot, 'The Punk Syndrome,' and – count 'em – two docs about Green Day: Yep, punk is having a moment in the movies

"...There's a wealth of punk docs at SXSW this year, spanning the 40-year existence..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

30 Years Ago, GG Allin Cleared Austin’s Scuzziest Punk Venue in 24 Minutes

Witness accounts of the notorious shock rocker’s antics and arrest at the Cavity Club

"...Cris Burns describes Feb. 18, 1992 – the night pervo-punk GG Allin played the Cavity Club, 615 Red River,..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin Punk Chronicles: "I Don't Think the Sex Pistols Inspired Anything Other Than a Buncha More Punk Bands!"

The San Antonio shoot-out ricochets locally in Chapter 4 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...This is Chapter 4, Part I, in a serialized history of Austin’s punk culture, written by veteran journalist Tim..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Interest in the Entire History of Club Culture

"...The Austin Chronicle, Planet Funk may be meeting Planet Punk, but there’s a whole galaxy of music that’s glossed..."

Jan. 14, 2007 Postmarks

CM Punk and Travis Stevens Hunt for the Girl on the Third Floor

SXSW Midnighter follows a haunting in Chicago

"...that house: the one with the stories and the history, the one everyone walks past a little faster. That's..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Planet Funk Meets Planet Punk

Nu beats on famous bleats

"...to is Glen Friedman's TV Party. Don't stop. Do punk rock...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Blowing the Dust Off Punk Record Collections

Jason Blackmore explores punk musicians' record collections in Records Collecting Dust II

"...something different," Jason Blackmore laughed. The 48-year-old San Diego-based punk musician-turned-filmmaker has just finished making Records Collecting Dust II,..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...In Revenge of the She-Punks, Goldman chronicles a similar lapse in women's music history,..."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over Finds the Anti-Punk in Full Fury

Beth B blows it all up in new documentary

"...Lunch first appeared in the thick of punk as the Anti-Punk – a dark-hearted Lolita wraith shrieking..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin Underground Veterans Immortalize the Nineties in New Oral History

A Curious Mix of People's Greg Beets and Richard Whymark plot October launch events

"...Stretford. As does Miss Laura, the founder of lost punk/LGBTQIA club Blue Flamingo (now Chess Club) who coined the..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Oral History of Austin Beerworks

How the local brewery became the heir to the aluminum throne

"...for getting into the Lumineers. Bryan would play Daft Punk and Will had strong words about that. These were..."

March 10, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Princes of Punk

New Kinks “Picture Book”

"...“No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones,” and though history now records both the Clash and Sex Pistols as..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Great Moments in Cassette History

"...of the world's first cassette magazines, leading to other punk/indie-based cassette magazines worldwide, including future Sub Pop owner Bruce..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Art, Stunt, or Punk?

James Marsh on his dizzying documentary, Man on Wire

"...can only be called the greatest artistic heist in history. Split between interviews and sepia-tinged re-enactments of the illegal..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Queering the Archive With Kate Messer

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

"...Sandra Martinez opened Chances, a popular lesbian bar and punk music club, on the same Red River lot...."

July 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

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”

"...Editor’s Note: You often don’t know you’re witnessing history in the moment you’re seeing it, but there’s an..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

What We Do Is Secret

Darby Crash, the L.A. punk rock junkie godhead leader of the Germs who died of an overdose in 1980, is revivified in this long-gestating but strangely sterile biopic.

"...Darby Crash (né Jan Paul Beahm), the mad genius-cum-L.A. punk rock junkie godhead exited in grotty, smacked-up anti-style, injecting..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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