The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...("the Dallas Highway") were "the Palladiums of Central Texas." Touring and local country bands would also play the Buckholts..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Ten Fingers

Denny Freeman's 40-year Austin arc

"...to paint the sky red whenever they took the bandstand...."

Dec. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Page Two: Don't Move Here

We're Number Three!

"...very cool and serves as a tribute to the bands mentioned as well as to the music scene as..."

June 17, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Secret Club

South by Southwest 2011 Keynote speaker Bob Geldof played the Armadillo World Headquarters with the Boomtown Rats. Afterward ....

"...in Texas, and rivalry among the early British punk bands – while getting in a lovable tweak at Bono..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sturgeon's Revelation

Beating the music business odds at SXSW

"...hosts an annual South by Southwest party pairing hip bands with trendy food in one of the hottest tickets..."

March 4, 2011 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Laziest Girl in Town

Asleep at the Wheel's feminine ideal is pregnant with possibility

"...If few bands were playing Western swing that year, fewer still played..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Friday Picks

"...unique appeal that he can immediately follow a stint touring alongside Icelandic electro-experimentalists Múm with a run of shows..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

"...blues cut with Hendrix psychedelics. After two years of touring behind 2006 debut LP Soft Targets (Some Records), the..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

This Town

The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine takes the Zilker Park train back to her Austin upbringing

"...became evident early that we were in two different bands," explains Valentine. "I would write my songs and sing..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Musicians on the Menu

In concert or in the kitchen, these locals have the chops

"...says with conviction. He played drums with some Austin bands and commuted back to the Valley from time to..."

May 12, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...formed the Yohimbe Brothers, and a host of jam bands, Logic's forthcoming release, Zen of Logic (Ropeadope), aims for..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Almost Famous

Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road

"...scenester, the Warehouse is the place for up-and-coming indie bands to play in D.C., but if no one has..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Definitely Famous

Heart's Nancy Wilson, younger, wiser

"...it with passion. Being older, the physical grind of touring is tough, but the shows themselves keep us fueled."..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Madonna

Toni Price comes clean.

"...1989. During the Eighties, she'd kicked around Nashville in bands with names like Mel & the Party Hats, flirted..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...that the quartet loves the late-Seventies power pop of bands like 20/20 most. Combined with nostalgia-soaked lyrics about vinyl..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...adolescence and grown into one of the most revered bands in Austin, all under the eaves of Smith's unsteady..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Dancing About Architecture

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

"...and his club, says that a "moratorium" on booking bands due to troubles with the venue's sound system is..."

April 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...be on a label that has a group of bands people are interested in," says Busch. "We would tour..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...follow-up, More Than a Feeling, have been both big bandstand sellers and Waterloo Records/Shiner Bock Texas Top Ten List..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...Rolling Stone's Greil Marcus on March 18. Considering the touring exhibit features multi-media testaments to the inspiration of rock..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Destination Unknown

"...after, followed by Bozzio's participation in psychedelic garage rock bands throughout his high school years in the late Sixties...."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Oh, My God! They Killed Tammy! You Bastards!

"...Finally, our spy on the road notes that while touring together, Fastball and Whiskeytown had been keeping a cool..."

April 10, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Roadkill

"...One of Mike Watt's favorite touring proverbs is, "If ya ain't playin', you're payin'." Subsequently,..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature

The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...realm of the pop music universe without constant gigging, touring, or big-time support in the mainstream media. Though each..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Sloppy, Glorious, and Completely Indigenous

Austin's Hoot Night Tradition

"...was no longer. That Austin Beach scene, all those bands like Zeitgeist and the Wild Seeds and Doctor's Mob..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

(Your Name Here) Roasting on an Open Fire...

"...music. Plenty of the members of the White boys' bands are expected to hop up and jam, as are..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Column

Maintaining the World's Most Expensive Record Collections

Austin's Small Label Scene

"...some of his Butthole Surfers money into giving art-grind bands like Crust and Ed Hall a home via his..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature

Rancho Alegre Fights to Be the Cadillac of Conjunto Festivals

The music fest returns the native Texas genre Downtown where it once flourished

"...sketched out a possible lineup and started inviting some bands he knew from around the Rio Grande Valley where..."

May 3, 2019 Music Feature by César E. López Linares

SXSW Music Pro Tips

Prepare thy self

"...So Many Bands, Such Little Time..."

March 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fortunate Son

Bass player to the stars, past and present, Mark Andes

"...regardless of their level of activity (Jimmie Vaughan). Cult bands are often a staple of this category...."

May 19, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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