On a springlike evening Sunday at Mohawk, the Austin Chronicle hosted the Austin Music Awards for the 41st time to a sold-out venue that saw a lineup that truly ran the gamut of the Austin musical landscape.
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The 41st Austin Music Awards are set to take place February 26 Mohawk honoring the best in Austin music over the past year. The lineup has been set with performances by Jackie Venson, Como Las Movies with Sabrina Ellis, Die Spitz and more. Tickets for the event are on sale now. Proceeds benefit music mental health org, SIMS Foundation.
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With the Russian – Ukrainian war in effect, Oleksandra Zaritska came to SXSW to use her band’s music to deliver a message of hope and unify SXSW goers as all eyes are on her besieged country.
Oleksandra Zaritska, known as Sasha, was the only member of Ukrainian band KAZKA to make it for SXSW.
I’ve been waiting patiently to see Jackie Venson for a while. Even with her demanding tour schedule, the Austin-born guitar goddess is never away from our fair city for too long. So when she announced on Twitter that she was doing a residency at Lamberts during February, I was stoked.
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Award-winning, Austin photographer, Ismael Quintanilla III released March 25, “I Am Here All Day” a photo book of Austin artists he photographed in quarantine during the COVID pandemic
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With the year-end approaching, a new White House administration preparing for the next four years and The Cosmic Clash staff puzzling over which Austin albums we like best from 2020, it’s time to introduce our list of top albums made by Austin artists in the past year.
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Two years ago, over 400 albums were released by Austin artists according to Kevin Curtin at
The Austin Chronicle. Curtin then released a list of Austin’s top 200 records. His point? The musical bar is set so high in Austin that half of that momentous number of releases were deserving of some kind of mention in a year-end list. While we applaud him for the effort in producing a massive list of worthy albums, we’re keeping it simple with a more manageable collection of best Austin albums we loved listening to in the past year.