Raoul Hernandez
Austin Chronicle
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On the Nightshift: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Keep Running
At Moody "with the white-hot light of the oncoming train” → Read More
Nagavalli's East-and-West Fusing LP Reaches Beyond
Hair! Spiked, highlighted, the fresh crown reaches toward the sky – growing up, up, up, while also spreading out and around. Nagavalli's trademark shaved head disappears under a warm cover-up on this cool, gray MLK Day. "This is new," she laughs in the doorway to her far-North Austin home. "This is very new!" Later, nearly three hours deep into an English tea-like tell-all, she redresses the… → Read More
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
The Point, Ben Buck, and some holiday options highlight this week's recommended shows → Read More
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
This week's recommended shows include mini-fests celebrating rockin' girls, Latinx talent, and Christmas shopping → Read More
Top Texas Drummer Ernie Durawa Turns 80
The Sunday Antone's celebration benefits nonprofit HOME → Read More
What We’re Listening to This Week
A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, Jenny Parrott, Startographers, and more local sounds worth hearing → Read More
What We’re Listening to This Week
Adrian Quesada, Old Fire, Norman Ba$e, and more local releases → Read More
Angela Strehli's Comeback Ace of Blues Revives Antone's Records: "At Antone's down in Texas, my friends call me the queen"
"At Antone's down in Texas, my friends call me the queen" → Read More
The Most Memorable Moments of Levitation’s Saturday and Sunday
The Chronicle music team ventured across downtown venues to wrap the Black Angels’ homegrown musical convocation. Find our most memorable Halloweekend-closing sets below, and revisit Thursday and Friday’s recaps here. Die Spitz Spark Intergenerational Opening Rage For a rising punk act that cut their teeth at co-op shows and dive bars like Hotel Vegas, Austin’s Die Spitz commanded the Mohawk… → Read More
Tanya Tucker Christens Lucktoberfest with Intimate Country Revue
Providing goose bumps for the new fest’s idyllic bubble → Read More
What We're Listening to This Week
Dayglow, Sunny Sweeney, Chucky Blk, Alexi 8bit, and more local sounds worth your time → Read More
What We’re Listening to This Week
Charley Crockett, Flora & Fawna, the Black Angels, and more → Read More
The Most Memorable Moments of Sunday’s ACL Fest
Spoon, Buffalo Nichols, and Paramore’s devotional nostalgia → Read More
Seven Lone Star-Launched Recommendations at ACL Fest 2022
Kevin Morby Friday, 2:30pm, Honda stage (Weekend One only) ACL Fest Nights: Friday, 8pm, Scoot Inn (w/ Cassandra Jenkins) From the "spooky campfire folk" of his early days (years) playing bass for Brooklyn band Woods to his garage albums with Vivian Girls' Cassie Ramone as the Babies, Kevin Morby has since shaped his own solo career. As an earthy, acoustic bard, the Lubbock-born songwriter logs… → Read More
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californian Genius or Affront to ACL-goers?
Writers go pro/con on RHCP's third ACL Fest in a decade → Read More
ACL Interview: Party-Making Cimafunk Details Influences, from James Brown to Chano Pozo
When Cuban funk fire starter Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez taped an episode of Austin City Limits this May, praise superseded the previous year’s hero worship for Jon Batiste – who topped the 2022 Grammys a month before Cimafunk scorched the same stage/world portal. “For me it was … an experience,” says the powerhouse partymaker in breakneck Spanish over Google Meet. “Austin City Limits is… → Read More
Review: The Bearer's Chained to a Tree (Silent Pendulum): Austin metalcore trio tightens the restraints
As extremity splinters into so many subgenres even Bruce Springsteen can rattle off two dozen, hardcore punk maintains the middle – feeds the everyman. And that dude is pissed. So steams Austin trio the Bearer, three EPs in since 2016 and fully unbound on full-length bow Chained to a Tree. Lyrically enlightened, compositionally uncluttered, primitively aggro, the LP represents via cleverly… → Read More
Hot Summer Nights Reviews: Choux Choux, Norman Ba$e, El Combo Oscuro, Billy Glitter
Billy Glitter at Chess Club Thursday, 9pm, 94 degrees Ah, Chess Club. In contrast to the tiny room's dank and damp days as Plush, the venue was literally one of the coolest havens during Thursday's kickoff of Hot Summer Nights. As Billy Glitter (led by William Grover) and his backing quartet leaned into their first cut – an instrumental laden with Sixties psych-jazz grooves similar to the… → Read More
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
ATX Queer Music Fest, Ovey Fest, New Candys, Bryan Carter, and more local shows worth seeing → Read More
What We’re Listening to Right Now
Detox, Mobley, Dropped Out, Holy Wave, Party Van, and Shane Cooley → Read More