1993- 1999 Opened by architect Jay Hughey and filmmaker Mark Shuman, and managed by poet Mike Henry, the Electric Lounge was the closest Austin had to a New York City nightclub in the ‘90s. The place aimed for boldness, as the two most popular residencies early on were Hamell On Trial, a one-man punk band […]
originally published in the Austin American-Statesman 2011 by Michael Corcoran Austin made its musical hotbed reputation nationally with the progressive country movement in the 1970s, as Rolling Stone, Time and the record-buying public discovered the “cosmic cowboy” scene. But perhaps the most popular act on the local nightlife circuit that decade was a progressive rock […]
If I could have only one LP during the current pandemic it would be this one.
(From the Austin Chronicle Oct. 2012) by Michael Corcoran He’s gone from “the gospel tent” to the main stage, and it only took a decade. As an 18-year-old recent graduate of Austin High, blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. played the very first Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2002. Sunday, he’ll perform on a […]
(From November 2008) If you want to make President-elect Barack Obama smile about something that has nothing to do with Tuesday’s election, ask him if he remembers the address of Lex Brodie’s flagship tire shop in Honolulu. He should immediately answer “701 Queen Street,” no matter how much other stuff has filled his mind since […]
Being a new student senior year is awkward enough, but my last year of high school was wholly unremarkable because 1) Thanks to hardcore schooling in Idaho, I had to go only half day to meet my grad requirements and 2) There was a teacher’s strike that closed schools for about two months. So while my […]
We all know about Janis Joplin singing at Threadgill’s, Austinite William Sydney Porter gaining literary notoriety as O. Henry and baseball great Don Baylor growing up in the Clarksville neighborhood. And you knew Gucci’s main man Tom Ford grew up in San Marcos, right? But did you know that Chicago deep-dish pizza was invented in […]
