The time has come again to vote in the Austin Music Poll! For the 44th year, The Austin Chronicle celebrates the musicians and music industry professionals that make our city sing – with help from the ...

That’s the best way to describe LOVB Austin’s resolve en route to winning the first-ever League One Volleyball (aka LOVB Pro) championship last spring. Seeded fifth out of six teams, Austin scored ...

Dear Luv Doc, I have been living with my girlfriend in Northwest Austin for nearly three years. We both work in the tech sector and earn good incomes, have nice cars and a nice, large apartment. Life ...

If 2024 LP Rio Bravo breathed heavy with an almost existential wail, Scott Ballew’s fourth LP cracks with cathartic relief. Paradiso bakes in a late-night revel, soaking in the aura of its New Orleans ...

As a queer, brown teenager growing up in a conservative part of Texas, Sarah Philips, a campaigner for Fight for the Future, said the internet served as a place to find community. “Most people I know ...

Happen Twice has positioned itself as a Swiss Army knife within independent music, operating as a record label, booking agency, and art culture brand. Its latest endeavor – a 28-song compilation album ...

At some point between her R&B-styled December 2023 project Release and Retribution and March 2024 rap mixtape Bad Guy, Lynn stopped giving a damn about naysayers. Musically, the Alabama native ...

Austin is a city of majority renters, and Texas will be making some changes to the way it handles evictions starting in the new year. Senate Bill 38 will take effect for all eviction filings starting ...

Intimate yet casual” are the intentional words at the heart of Monks Jazz Club, an accessible listening room that hosts local and traveling jazz musicians. After spending half a decade on the Eastside ...

If Los Angeles is where dreamers run, what happens to the dreams that get away? Some of them, certainly, end up in Austin, Texas. “I never felt at home in my home,” Matt Kivel explains in the opening ...

Jim Stringer, the country songwriter and guitarist who spent his Austin career playing beloved residencies and accompanying fellow roots giants T. Jarrod Bonta and Roger Wallace, passed away on Dec.

Free improvisation lives in infamy as often as it basks in glory. Many people think it can be done by anyone, no skill or creativity needed. But, much like Jackson Pollock’s paintings, spontaneous ...