Geto Gala, Two Step Inn, and a 420 Smokeout Headline Our Crucial Concerts

From country to hip-hop to sludge metal, get some ideas for your week in live music

"...Rock the Park: Geto Gala..."

April 19, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen

New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world

"...Texas world torn by family traumas, provincial pushback, and rock & roll...."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...skills, accompanied by the all-cat band Tuna and the Rock Cats/Jazz Cats. I’m sure it won’t end in cat-astrophe...."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Mini Music Fests Abound in This Week's Crucial Concerts

Country, hip-hop, pop, and more shows worth the cover

"...Koe Wetzel leads Friday with his country and alternative rock blend, setting up a Saturday with new Country Music..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips: Tonkawa Falls City Park, Crawford

Historic waterfall is still a prime swimming hole

"...area and built a caretaker’s house, community center, and rock picnic tables, and cut steps into the rock wall..."

April 12, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...on a phone call that morning. “We’re not like rockers or heavy partiers or anything, so we wanted to..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Squirrel Fest, a Bidi Bidi Birthday, and More Community Events

Plan your week with some of our recommended happenings around town

"...DAYEATER, vibrant genre-fusing sisters the Tiarras, and New Age art-rockers the Cuckoos. Soul-rock wordsmith Chief Cleopatra joins the lineup,..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin Blues Festival Announces Set Times for Jimmie Vaughan, Brittany Howard, Robert Glasper

And warns of a ticket price increase this Friday

"...Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard, two albums into a soul-rock solo career...."

April 9, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin

Triumphant world tour concludes at ACL Live at the Moody

"...Serve Somebody,” which, as the Grammy winner for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male after 1979’s Slow Train..."

April 8, 2024 Music Post by Shawn Badgley

Driussi Winner Powers Austin FC Past San Jose Earthquakes in Seven-Goal Thriller

RECAP: ATX defeats San Jose 4-3

"...the whole damn thing is as scripted as The Rock’s WrestleMania 40 main event...."

April 7, 2024 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

The Off Beat: Celebrating Nané Day, Two Years After Daniel Sahad’s Death

Soulful funk-rock band, with special guests, plays Empire April 7

"...of the worst experiences of his life. The rising pop-rock outfit, fresh off an Austin City Limits Festival performance,..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Want to Go to There

A 2000s-era sitcom rewatch stirs up thoughts on queer media

"...Reader, I must be real: I’m watching 30 Rock, again. As a teen, my parents and I watched..."

April 5, 2024 Column by James Scott

Madeleine Leigh, HONK TX, and Eclipse Mania Leads Our Crucial Concerts

Find some sounds to match the celestial sights this week

"...Philly underground rockers Sheer Mag spent a good part of the last..."

April 5, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

A Drag Tribute, Eclipse Events Galore, and More Local Happenings

Get your glasses and find your totality

"...and looked at all the research: My conclusion is rock solid. Yes, I’ve concluded that this Thursday night on..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Elizabeth Morris: 100 Years of Memories in Austin

Of back porches, corrupt politicians, and fireworks at Zilker Park

"...her comfortable room at Brookdale Senior Living in Round Rock, just about 14 miles from where she was born..."

April 5, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Austin Psych Fest Announces Night Shows With the Zakary Thaks, METZ, Luna Li

As well as set times for the main fest at Far Out Lounge

"...Control Room. Celebrating nearly six on-and-off decades, Sixties garage rock collective the Zakary Thaks will come together for a..."

April 3, 2024 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Plus Luther Hotel updates, Elephant Rock petition, more

"...the name of a geological formation known as Elephant Rock changed to Cibolo Rock, according to a story in..."

April 2, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Gary Clark Jr. Boldly Plays New LP in Full at Austin City Limits

Taping finds hometown hero at a meditative musical crossroads

"...current moment. There were tidbits of his Texas blues rock bedrock but, more prominently, Nineties R&B, classic funk and..."

March 28, 2024 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

Review: Photokem, Half Ton Pet

Layered experimental rock EP swells to quizzical excitement

"...sound of a symphony tuning up, the layered experimental rock of Photokem again and again swells to quizzical excitement...."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Neko Case, the Urban Cultural Fest, and More Crucial Concerts

Live sounds for the week ahead

"...Lovin’ You Baby” transport audiences back in time in rockabilly retrograde. His fiery instrumentals stay grounded with throaty croons..."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Egg Hunts, Trans Visibility, and More Community Events

Meet your fellow Austinites as these goings-on

"...an action-packed double feature.   – Kat McNevins Round Rock Express Opening Day..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...the Statesman reported. As of February 2024, the Round Rock-based tech company has 120,000 global employees. It’s unclear how..."

March 29, 2024 News Feature

How Austin Transformed Danny Brown

The Detroit wild card on getting his shit together (and finding H-E-B)

"...JPEGMAFIA, while playing the newest Grand Theft Auto for Rockstar Games. He repeatedly blew the mission, then flew into..."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Photographer Melinda Wickman Swearingen, Whose Images Defined Outlaw Country, Has Died

The Texan famously snapped Waylon, Willie, and more

"...in his landmark book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, he enlisted Swearingen – an old flame – to..."

March 26, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Black and Latino Neighborhoods Face Worse Air Pollution, Study Finds

Highways, plants in East Austin fuel health inequality

"...particulate matter – factories, oil wells, construction sites, and rock quarries can contribute as well. And those particles contain..."

March 22, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

Indigo de Souza, Estrella Acosta, and More Crucial Concerts

A little hair of the dog for your post-SXSW listening pleasure

"...the lineup are indie-folk folks the Hushabyes and “dreamy” rockers Tearjerk. Prepare for generous and expansive forgiveness through music...."

March 22, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...we all went Gaga for her first while she rocked heelless Alexander McQueens and Kermit couture. This party takes..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Relays, Rides, and Rasslin' Headline This Week's Community Events

Recommended happenings around town

"...includes a one-night stay at the Kalahari in Round Rock; “Austin Family Fun” comes with tix to an Austin..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Off Beat: South by South Protest

Official fest flooded with grassroots organizing and anti-SX showcases

"...Coalition’s ANTI-SXSW Fest. The outdoor locale became an indie rock who’s-who as the multiday mini-festival looped in emo label..."

March 22, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

The Austin Chronicle's Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Day Party, Vol. IX

"...Nemegata's unique spin on psych rock provided a taste of “futuristic cumbia”..."

March 16, 2024 Photo Gallery

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