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Nov 9, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Derek Udensi |Rachel Rascoe |Kriss Conklin
Looking for the best shows happening in Austin this week? Check out the Chronicle music team’s handpicked “Crucial Concerts” below or in the paper every Thursday. And for our complete listings of upcoming live music events around town, head to Chron Events. Esperanza Community, Saturday 11In 2021, Been There launched as a private party among supporters and residents of the Esperanza Community, a complex of emergency housing located off Highway 183 South.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin |Kevin Curtin
For you to rewind this weekend at Zilker Park Kendrick Lamar performed an abbreviated but still potent set on Friday After a few early switcheroos – namely, the last-minute dropout of Kali Uchis from both weekends and major delays to Kendrick Lamar's set – the first weekend of ACL Fest rolled on. Biggest takeaway? The rare instance of pleasant fall weather.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Kriss Conklin |Nayeli Portillo |Kevin Curtin
Renowned for papier-mâché-adorned live riots and supercharged set lists, Nashville's Snõõper rejects their own recorded pace and lights the metronome ablaze. "Every set keeps getting faster because we keep practicing the songs more, so we're like, 'Damn it! We're two minutes under the last time,'" laughs vocalist Blair Tramel over Zoom.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin
After nearly a decade in Nashville, Brittney Spencer has experienced a whirlwind couple of years. A viral cover of the Highwomen’s “Crowded Table” launched the powerhouse vocalist from backup singer to the spotlight, and her EP Compassion and single “Sober & Skinny” introduced rich and vulnerable songwriting to match her stunning voice. She attempts to capture some of that journey on her humbly titled debut LP, My Stupid Life, slated for release on Electra early next year.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Kriss Conklin |Nayeli Portillo
Since forming in 2014, NYC folk-pop sibling trio Bailen has cemented lush vocal harmonies as the centerpiece of their music. From the tour-tested soul runs of debut Thrilled to Be Here to the experimental falsetto on follow-up Tired Hearts, they continue to challenge the boundaries of their voices. “There’s something about sibling harmonies that, if you have it, you shouldn’t sleep on it,” says bassist Daniel Bailen.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin |Genevieve Wood
Lone Star acts to catch at Zilker, from Houston breakout d4vd to Austin’s Die Spitz Die Spitz's Ellie Livingston at the 2023 Austin Music Awards Alongside the requisite Asleep at the Wheel kickoff performance, this year's Austin City Limits Festival lineup welcomes its usual block of Texas talent. Stateside names like Ben Kweller and the Mars Volta hold it down across both weekends, October 6-8 and 13-15.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin
Following her double weekend appearance at ACL Festival, Tanya Tucker will head to Nashville for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. It’s an honor long in the making for the country music legend, since she first topped the charts with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 at age 13.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin |Derek Udensi
Must-see visiting acts at Zilker Park, from Kendrick Lamar to Rina Sawayama Kendrick Lamar at ACL Fest in 2016 Austin’s leading A-list outdoor festival returns October 6-8 and 13-15. Headliners Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette, Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers, and ODESZA claim the big fonts, while Shania Twain (Weekend One only) and the 1975 (Weekend Two only) differentiate the Zilker Park takeovers. Find the full schedule at aclfestival.com.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Nayeli Portillo |Kriss Conklin
On the 2022 track “Digits,” Austin singer-songwriter Grace Sorensen serves up an indelible hook. Pleated with glimmering guitars beside MC Megz Kelli of the genre-melding duo Magna Carda, Sorensen still sets the energy with effortless ease. She touches on the messiness of modern-day romances while flexing fluid choreography and an unremitting falsetto (plus an impeccable sense of style and ever-present set of hoop earrings, to boot).
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
austinchronicle.com | Rachel Rascoe |Genevieve Wood |Kriss Conklin |Wayne Lim
Behind the unjaded lineups of Happen Twice, Howdy Gals, Moonbby, and Beary Good By Rachel Rascoe, Genevieve Wood, Kriss Conklin, and Wayne Lim, Fri., Aug. 18, 2023 Cristina Mauri, 21, at Pearl Street Co-op As Austin haunts like Hole in the Wall push 50, the scene soldier handing out artists' checks at the end of the night may very well be barely aged for entry.
