Michael Toland is the National Productions Manager for Austin City Limits TV and Austin PBS/KLRU-TV. With a focus on the local music scene in Austin, Texas, Michael writes for The Austin Chronicle, covering music reviews, upcoming concerts, and highlighting the best albums and events happening in the city.
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Michael Toland's articles primarily cover local music events, concerts, and album reviews in the Austin area. He seems to be focused on promoting and covering live music experiences within the city. If you're involved in organizing or performing at local concerts, have insights into emerging trends in the local music scene, or can offer unique perspectives on recent album releases from artists based in Austin, your pitch is likely to resonate with Michael.
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By: Michael Toland
Like everyone else, Transit Method spent most of the pandemic in hibernation to emerge stronger and more focused. With the LoCoco brothers (singer/guitarist Matt and drummer Mike) now joined by bassist Charlie Anderson (Panopticon) and guitarist Bryan Rolli (various publications, including the Chron
Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial By Rachel Rascoe, Carys Anderson, Doug Freeman, Raoul Hernandez, Kevin Curtin, Genevieve Wood, Angela Lim, Laiken Neumann, Michael Toland, Miranda Garza, and Wayne Lim, 7:00AM, Mon. Mar. 11, 2024
Drawing equally from the fatalistic romanticism of Leonard Cohen, the dark-humored eccentricity of Tom Waits, and the easy narrative flow o
By: Michael Toland, Dan Gentile, Carys Anderson
What a week. Friday delivered the finale of major multi-day showcases like Resound’s Marshall Funhouse and Rolling Stone ’s Future of Music, as well as the final day of the Chronicle music team’s daily fest coverage.
By: Adeliza Backus Pace
A little hair of the dog for your post-SXSW listening pleasure By Rachel Rascoe, Carys Anderson, Derek Udensi, Jay Trachtenberg, Michael Toland, and James Scott, Fri., March 22, 2024
By: Derek Udensi, Doug Freeman, James Scott, Abby Johnston, Michael Toland, Elizabeth Braaten
Invited recently to the Austin Music Commission, yours truly testified about journalism and all-ages music ops. Burned into my soul remains the image of my preschooler sneaking a surreptitious blow on a Honk!TX tuba pre-pandemic. Year 12 now, the marching band summit crescendos the capital’s best free music festival, a four-day brass fantasy of honking, whistling, thumping mania. Thursday: “pre-clipse” takeover of the Ballroom, 8pm. Friday: 6-10pm at Central Machine Works, as well as East Cesar Chavez diner Sawyer & Co. and French brasserie Justine’s. Saturday: all day, for the main event at Mueller Lake Park. Then Sunday’s Pan Am Park parade, 1-6pm. HONK. – Raoul Hernandez
By: Derek Udensi, Elizabeth Braaten, Genevieve Wood, Michael Toland, Maggie Q. Thompson, Jana Birchum
The Boot ranch outside of Gonzales kicks off its first Cattle Country Music Festival with a stacked lineup anchored by Texas stars. Koe Wetzel leads Friday with his country and alternative rock blend, setting up a Saturday with new Country Music HOFer Tanya Tucker preambling red-dirt superstars Whiskey Myers and the Randy Rogers Band. Sunday aptly delivers Eric Church, along with Austin’s
By: Carys Anderson, Derek Udensi, Genevieve Wood, Abby Johnston, Jake Rabin
Having avoided a third consecutive snowpocalypse, Austin’s enjoying a spectacular spring, so KUTX’s four-part Rock the Park concert series continues soundtracking perfect weather and a seasonal music harvest akin to wildflowers. Lesly Reynaga whipped up millennial mariachi pop the week following SXSW and now Austin rap duo Geto Gala follows up HonkTX! at Mueller lakeside. Jake Lloyd’s genre-blind soul rock and Deezie Brown’s upbeat rhymeslaying double down. “Interspersing tuneful hooks with clever, inspired bars, the project spotlights struggle as subtext to a rejoicing of Black excellence, perseverance, and ownership,” opined the Chronicle upon Geto Gala’s debut EP in 2021. Singing zoologist Lucas Miller opens. – Raoul Hernandez
By: Carys Anderson, Abby Johnston, James Scott, Rachel Rascoe, Michael Toland, Raoul Hernandez, Derek Udensi, Doug Freeman, Kevin Curtin
Choose your fest: Psych, Death, or Blues
By: Derek Udensi, Doug Freeman, Katherine McNevins, Frances Grinnan
With soft, intentional singing and comforting guitar ruminations, Chicago’s Nico Play blows into town once again – toting his on-point indie acoustic catalog, very friendly for fans of João Gilberto or Natalia Lafourcade. Real name Nicolás Perea, the Mexico City-born artist most recently released March soother “Vente a Cenar.” An opening set from gooey Austin psych-popper Redbud resets their prior pairing last September at Cheer Ups. Luckily, it’s a bill absolutely worth repeat listens. – Rachel Rascoe
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