Texas Culture

Texas Microcinemas Rethink the Movie Experience (Texas Highways)

The Tyler Photographer Behind Beyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Album Cover (Texas Highways)

Selected Features

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times (Austin Chronicle, 2024)

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words (AC, 2023)

Finding More Eaze in the World of Experimental Pop (AC, 2022)

The Professor Who Made Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' a College Course (Vice, 2018)

Alexalone, All Together (AC, 2021)

Swimming Upstream With Christelle Bofale’s Fluid Indie Rock (AC, 2019)

Caroline Says Has a Few Regrets (AC, 2018)

Selected Interviews

The Chicks (Austin Chronicle, 2022)

Dayglow (Texas Monthly, 2021)

Power Trip’s Riley Gale (AC, 2020)

The Dick’s Gary Floyd (AC, 2022)

Bill Callahan (AC, 2020)

Claire Rousay (AC, 2022)

Adrianne Lenker (AC, 2018)

Jana Horn (AC, 2020)

Japanese Breakfast (AC, 2018)

Selected Columns

From Faster Than Sound, my weekly music column in The Austin Chronicle, 2019-2022.

Inside a Competition to Become Musician-in-Residence at a Luxury Apartment Complex, 2022

The Musicians at the Center of UT's "Eyes of Texas" Debacle, 2020

A Belated Introduction From Your Incoming Music Editor, 2022

The Drama Behind the Cactus Cafe Negotiations, 2021

Concertgoers at Emo's Make Easy Targets for Booting, 2022

The Fall Music We Always Talked About, 2021

Growing Up Margin Walker, 2020

Edith Frost Returns, 2020

Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money, 2020

Unearthing Daniel Johnston’s If, 2019

Punk’s Not White at Black & Brown Fest, 2019

Find the full Faster Than Sound column archives here.