At Besame Mucho, a Latin Music Capital Por Nosotros

Inside the all-star, 84-band, Spanish-language spectacle

"...Lollapalooza and staged à la ACL Fest, Circuit of the Americas’ Latin music eclipse, Besame Mucho on March 2,..."

March 4, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Review: Juan Luís Jardí’s “Tiempo Sostenido” Clocks in With Eerie Power

The Barcelona-based artist is doing time at Wally Workman Gallery

"...Unlike Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the Barcelona-based artist Juan..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Week’s Big Weekend and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Plus back-to-back gigs from Cactus Lee, Runner and Bobby

"...Looking for the best shows happening in Austin this week? Check out..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"...For most zoomers and younger millennials, the entrance of the video game Rock Band into our..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

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”

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

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Watch This: Darkbird’s Kelly Barnes Feels it Dance-heavy “Heartbeat” Video

Immaculate pop single pumps Eighties Grooves

"...immediately landed as one of Austin’s undeniable songs of the summer. The slick Eighties beats and Kelly Barnes’ suave,..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Shoplifters of the World

Airheads for mopey goths

"...Not reviewed at press time. A quartet of Smiths fans try to change the world as their friend..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review

First-Look Video: Marriage at Nevers

“Phases” animates trailer for supernatural noir

"...Derek Van Gieson collaborated for years, but not musically. The latter created artwork for the former’s band, local folk-pop..."

April 2, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

The Perfect Date Night Is In the Details

A sort of recipe for showing your beloved (and yourself) some love

"...– which was a thing for longtime couples in the Before Times and is even more of a thing..."

Sept. 22, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gemini Man

It's Will Smith vs. a younger Will Smith

"...Lee has constructed a body of work tinged with the kind of self-reflection and sadness more often found in..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Saturday ACL Face-Off: The Cure vs. Childish Gambino

Second British noir-pop vs. “This Is America”

"...Photo by Gary Miller The Cure..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Morrissey and Interpol Go Classic Post-Punk on the Erwin Center

Weekend’s double headliner doesn’t disappoint

"...Patrick Morrissey, 60, brought jokes to his takeover of the Erwin Center on Friday night. The English-born Irishman and..."

Sept. 23, 2019 Music Post by Alyssa Quiles

Crime Month: A Chron "Crime" Playlist

Hit after hit, for your next hit

"...Seeing as July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, it only seems appropriate that it comes with..."

July 16, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Joan Jett Shreds Stubb's at SXSW Music

I love rock & roll is here to stay

"...The onetime Joan Marie Larkin, 60, doesn’t just love rock..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

Bumblebee

Transformers spin-off is (checks notes) wait ... good?

"...Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Megyn Price, John Cena, Justin Theroux, Angela Bassett, Pamela Adlon, Grey Griffin, Peter Cullen and..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Classical Guitar's dream

The quality of the music in this concert was exceptional, but what made it special was the quality of the listening

"...One by one, the young people described a similar dream: of being chased..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Quin Galavis

"...A dead-eyed visage staring out grimly from the cover of last year's triumphant double album My Life..."

June 23, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

The Luv Doc: The Next Eva Braun

It’s probably not smart to tie the knot with someone who regularly bends your moral compass

"...idea, but I have one reservation. We work at the same company, and occasionally we end up collaborating on..."

March 24, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Film Review: Walking Out

He ain’t heavy, he’s my father

"...Alex and Andrew Smith, the sibling filmmaking team who made The Slaughter Rule and..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Girl in a Coma's Nina Diaz Debuts Solo

Screaming without a sound

"...By 2012, Nina Diaz had bottomed out. The singer's addiction to alcohol turned into a dependence on..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Keeping Up With the Joneses

Silly cul-de-sac action comedy is a knockoff Mr. and Mrs. Smith

"...Life in the 'burbs gets another humdrum shake-up in the cul-de-sac action..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Gone Soft

Has the Luv Doc gone soft?

"...actually been dishing out some sound advice lately. What the hell's the matter with you? Where is your bitter,..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

ACL Review: Radiohead

Über headliners prove unrivaled still

"...a band. Perhaps in some low-key solidarity woven into the ominous red glow and disorienting frequency fuzz, the band..."

Oct. 1, 2016 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Brutality Television

Why you won't be seeing Austin emo puppet band Fragile Rock on America's Got Talent

"...A year earlier – to the day, actually – to get through a divorce, I..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Brently Heilbron

Putting the Adult in Adult Coloring Books

Nathan Rapport channels heartbreak into risque gay art

"...Adult coloring books are all the rage, but Austin’s very own Nathan Rapport has taken..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Dan Gray

The Bellfuries

"...While the title references the Grateful Dead, Bellfuries haven't gone hippie-dippy...."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Review: Residual Kid

Future ACL Fest main stage trio tries inciting a Kiddie mosh instead

"...Ivy, Residual Kid’s 17-year-old singer/guitarist late Saturday afternoon on the Austin Kiddie Limits stage. The 50-year-old near the stage..."

Oct. 4, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Houses of the Holy: Zeppelin Reissues Conclude

Year-long reissue campaign ranges over the hills and far away

"...high school bus and menaced by suburban thugs, I the Rolling Stones lifer refused pledging ultimate fealty to Led..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Soul Summit Achievements

Inaugural African-American foodways symposium successful

"...The first annual Soul Summit: A Conversation About Race, Identity,..."

July 2, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Gay Place

Roasting Ursula

"...Austin is not wanting in the character department. The queen of the queer Red River..."

May 22, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

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