Playback: Re-HAAMing

HAAM needs you to re-up, Ian McLagan's been gone a year, and Hotel Van Zandt playroom Geraldine's restores our faith in hotels co-existing with live local music

"...BettySoo and Akina Adderley – through a streak of impressive originals and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Let's Talk About Us."..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Enjoy the Experience

Homemade records make a thrilling soundtrack to your summer reading

"...Just as performers had to be singularly determined to press and distribute their own vinyl in 1970, it takes..."

June 21, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Final Forum?

Austin Police Department's Police Chief's Forum the final farewell?

"...today, Thursday, May 1, from 6:30 to 8pm. Full press release below the fold...."

May 1, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

WTP4 Still Running?

More on the controversial waterworks

"...how does Jackie Goodman feel about WTP4? Leffingwell's full press release below the fold …..."

Aug. 13, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...that the genres collectively dubbed "electronica" by the mainstream press were a viable alternative to SXSW's usual draw...."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...of wild women artists in mass-market publications. The Sixties underground comix revolution was highlighted by a largely male emergence..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself

"...it himself, launching what came to be known as underground comix with a pamphlet he produced right here in..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...Kill Me, by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (Grove Press, $25 hard). The book operates within a breathless/deathless gutter-Terkle..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

The Life of the Party

Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.

"...movements. A far cry from the rabid bad, bad press ravers have been getting from the national media, Groove..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...to me that he was inclined toward the French Impressionists because that's what the world he lived in looked..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...marvel. Toke 'em if you got 'em. Doug Freeman Empress Of..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Comics (Artist) Panel

Five Austinites on the state of the sequential art, from comics to comix to manga and beyond

"...– fewer people remember Austin as the birthplace of underground comix with Jack "Jaxon" Jackson's God Nose. And fewer..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler

Jaxon on Crumb:

"...If you want the real rap on underground comics, you can find it in our own back..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

Page Two: Loss Upon Loss

Legendary cartoonist, historian, and Texan Jack Jackson passes on

"...unknown, all while resurrecting and redeeming history. A seminal underground cartoonist (early on, he used the pen name Jaxon),..."

June 16, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Austin Transit Partnership Needs Your Input as Project Connect Enters Its Trade-Offs Era

Turn this train around

"...over two years in, that big dream of six underground stations and tunneling below the river are completely out..."

April 7, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

The Good Eye: You Say You Want a Resolution

Austin's budding fashion industry gets a vote of confidence – and a shot at diversity

"...says local designer Nailah I. Akinyemi-Sankofa, director of RunWay Underground and proponent of a resolution recently passed by City..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Like the Rest of Us

Atmosphere's Slug isn't dead from tequila poisoning yet

"...say that I don’t know if there’s anybody in underground rap with the same work ethic as me, but..."

Nov. 5, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...counterculture as Jaxon, the man who drew the first underground comic. Comix, they were called in the Sixties and..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...everything from the conference back into the office. Truly depressed and exhausted, I left to go home for the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...Fribourg in Switzerland, where he charmed the girls and impressed the locals with his comprehensive knowledge of Bob Dylan..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The Rock Pile

"...Music From the Heart by Rod Kennedy Eakin Press $39.95 hard/29.95 paper..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...and Reality by Chuck D with Yusuf Jah (Delacorte Press, $23.95), a powerful hip-hop memoir that doubles as a..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Sxsw

"...SKREW: As the industrial underground spewed forth bands with volcanic force, the molten lava..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...with spiritual ties to the open-ended freedom and roiling expressionism of the Sixties. Enter pianist Shipp and bassist Parker..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life

Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray

"...Underground electronic label Growth in Decay, whose owner James Harcrow..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Frank Kozik (1962-2023), the Man Behind a Poster Revolution

How Austin shaped the punk artist behind print mania

"...collages of Dead Kennedys go-to artist Winston Smith and underground 80s sleaze comix like Cherry Poptart. His mother came..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...Mon 13, 12mid, Sellers Underground Thu 16, 5pm, Clive Bar Thu 16, Waterloo Park..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Return of ... the Cassette

The Walkman revolutionized portable music. Can their fodder – cassettes – jump the shark?

"...records were beyond their budgets. Those same factors enabled underground rock and punk to be smuggled behind the Iron..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground

Old hat for Velvet vets, but knowledge for newcomers

"...Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Undergroundby Rob Jovanovic St. Martin's Press, 294 pp., $26.99..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Big Dogs, Young Rebels, and Aging Giants

The Austin promoters who bring the music come in all shapes and sizes

"...Entertainment were brought in to help resurrect Lollapalooza. After impressing the city of Chicago by organizing President Barack Obama's..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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