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Art by Zeke Barbaro Not throwing an epic wing-ding after the dreadful and disillusioning last 12 months remains a bitter pill to pop. This community deserves one. That said, not having an in-person Austin Music Awards is a no-brainer. No traditions worth risking the health of people we care about – not even a homegrown legacy show. So instead of orchestrating a diminished version of something weve done for 38 consecutive years, the Chronicle decided on something totally dif...

Posted by Miles Bloxson on Feb 26, 2021 Jake Lloyd grew up in Round Rock, Texas just 20 minutes outside of Austin in a musically inclined family.  His father and grandfather sang in the church and his grandmother was a professionally trained organ and piano player. Growing up Jake listened to eclectic artists like Rick James and Prince, which would later shape his one-of-a-kind sound. In 2010, Lloyd met producer and future bandmate Danny Saldivar II known as DSII. The two would continue to col...

Cover by Zeke Barbaro / Getty Images. Photos courtesy of the artists. In late March, mere weeks into the pandemic that weve carried into another year, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez launched a Q&A series with local musicians. He called it Checking In, a name that carried special resonance for him. It was directly inspired by the language we were all using in those disorienting first days of COVID-19, when the days were full of worried calls and texts and emails: I just wanted t...

Facebook/YouTube, Monday 18, 6:30pm Martin Luther King Jr. Day makes for a memorable cleanup project in CenTex this year. An obelisk celebrating the Confederate Army and a headstone commemorating 22nd governor of Texas and Confederate Army Officer Joseph Sayers on the Bastrop County courthouse lawn call for relocation (or worse), so with $28,000 of $50,000 raised for the endeavor, a whos who of song activists livestream on Monday to bring home the remaining $22,000. Huge headliners Natalie Main...