Rachel Rascoe
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The 41st Annual Austin Music Awards Step Onto a New Stage
Celebrate the city's best sounds this Sunday at Mohawk → Read More
The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers Demands Higher Pay at South by Southwest
120 artists including Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Eve 6, & Zola Jesus sign → Read More
Crosstalk: Launching Megz Kelli's Soundtrack, Lockhart's Plum Creek Records, and Norman BA$E's Trap Burger
Director Megz Kelli releases the soundtrack for her debut short film "little trumpet" next Thursday, Jan. 26, at Firehouse Lounge. The "avant-jazz-meets-soul" score was co-composed and co-produced by Kelli's hip-hop duo with Chris Beale – Magna Carda – and BLK ODYSSY in a tour-de-force collaboration of Southern musical talent. Live, Grace Sorensen, Moody Bank$, LG, M3cca, and more aid the… → Read More
The Lemon Twigs, Obongjayar, the Zombies, and Ambré Added in SXSW 2023’s Second Lineup Drop
As the festival looms just three months away, March 13-18, SXSW Music unveils another triple-digit artist lineup. (Revisit the first one here.) The genre-spanning announcement includes glam rock Long Island brother duo the Lemon Twigs, smooth and lounge-y Taipei indie rock trio Deca Joins, as well as London-based Nigerian artist Obongjayar, riding the inquisitive Afrobeat integration of 2022… → Read More
The 2022 Gift Guide for the Music Head on Your Holiday List
For the Sonically Inspired Accessorizer Charley Crockett Keychain $5 Represent Charley Crockett's self-referential record label title (alluding to his distant relation to Davy Crockett) with this Texas-Louisiana overlapping logo. Good Looks Socks $15 Accompany the comfort of country-inclined indie rock troupe Good Looks' April debut Bummer Year with some striped cotton crew socks, emblazoned… → Read More
Watch This: Remembering Doug Sahm and the Grateful Dead’s Impromptu 1972 Thanksgiving Day Jam
New pocket-doc revisits Armadillo lore 50 years later → Read More
Faster Than Sound: Former Spider House Cafe Has Reopened as Tweedy's
Run by the patio experts behind Kinda Tropical and Hotel Vegas → Read More
What We’re Listening to This Week
Adrian Quesada, Old Fire, Norman Ba$e, and more local releases → Read More
C3-Backed Superstition Nightclub to Open at Riverside & South Congress
The long-vacant site of former male strip club La Bare will reopen as a new nightclub called Superstition. According to a press release this afternoon, the 12,000-square-foot club will host “DJs and live performances, with elevated bottle service and exclusive VIP spaces in the largest dance club in central Austin.” Alongside a Seventies theme seen in social media promo, the club will also house… → Read More
Crosstalk: Plains Brings Out Hoyt Van Tanner, DIA on Día Centers Live Music Funds, and Black Pumas' Eric Burton Teases His "Own Work"
Plains, new project of Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson, played Scoot Inn Tuesday on their maybe-only-one-time duo tour. After Asheville's MJ Lenderman, Plains' "Abilene" catchphrase "Texas in my rearview, Plains in my heart" kicked off audience sing-along. Also off new I Walked With You a Ways, "Bellafatima" marks the album's only guest pen by Lockhart's Hoyt Van Tanner – who… → Read More
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A few fests, a handful of Halloween shows, and more live music to see → Read More
Crosstalk: Golden Dawn Arkestra Records Live Album and Metal Breakouts the Sword Break Up
Golden Dawn Arkestra carried out an unusual move last Thursday: recording a live album consisting of material that they'd never played live. "Our last record, The Gold Album, was very produced, so we wanted to do the farthest thing from that," explained bandleader Topaz McGarrigle. The disco-Afrobeat-jazz-funk Ra worshippers – who, along with the audience, were dressed entirely in culty white… → Read More
Crosstalk: Spoon Awarded by UT Comm School, DJ Shani Debuts KUTX Show, and White Denim's Radio Milk Closes
Spoon provided an unexpected addition to an awards ceremony held by UT-Austin's Moody College of Communication last Thursday, conferring recognition on outstanding alumni. After an advertising grad with her own line of cricket powder flour received accolades, the Austin rock standards were presented with a DeWitt Carter Reddick Award, which "recognizes overall excellence and impact in… → Read More
SXSW 2023 Announces Thao, Armani White, Blondshell, and Otoboke Beaver
Among 191 acts on the festival’s first artist list → Read More
ACL Interview: The Chicks’ Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer Talk Social Media, Hometown Feelings, and Plans for a Multigenerational Zilker Debut
“It’s always fun, but nerve-racking, to be back in Texas” → Read More
Crosstalk: Metal Record Label Relocates to Austin, and the Latest at Moody Center
Nuclear War Now! Productions, a notable cult metal marque founded in 2001, has relocated to Austin from its longtime Bay Area home. A sizable record label and distribution operation, NWN!'s black metal brand also includes traditional heavy metal, doom, and death metal in an expansive international catalog. Owner Yosuke Konishi announced the company's relocation in July 2021, setting up a… → Read More
Faster Than Sound: A Belated Introduction From Your Incoming Music Editor
Music columnist graduates to Music editor after four years → Read More
Faster Than Sound: Infinite Hellscape Brings Austin Eclecticism Into Focus Under West Texas Stars
Camping at the first-year Austin/Marathon/Ft. Davis fest → Read More
Crosstalk: Recapping Hot Sauce Fest, Stereolab, HAAM Day, and Topshelf Records' Stalemate With Austin-based Merch Warehouse
Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Fest's music-team-picked sonic selections provided relief for the crowd of spicy tasters at the sold-out Sunday gathering. The 32nd annual event sprawled at the Far Out Lounge for the second year in a row, soundtracked by returning DJ McPullish (appropriately the co-owner of Goodburn Sauce Co.). KindKeith's musically keen sixpiece crew opened up the yellow stage.… → Read More
Faster Than Sound: Unpacking Harry Styles' Austin Run With the Professor Teaching a Class on Him
Texas State's Dr. Louie Dean Valencia offers a crash course in the Harry-verse → Read More