Raoul Hernandez is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin. He specializes in covering celebrities, concerts and festivals, and entertainment news, with a keen focus on nightlife culture. His work has been featured in The Austin Chronicle and Decibel, showcasing his insights into the vibrant entertainment scene.
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Raoul's articles predominantly cover events and music, with a strong focus on the local Austin music scene. Pitching to Raoul would likely be most effective when offering insights or access related to upcoming concerts, album releases, or significant developments in the Austin music community.
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By: Raoul Hernandez, Doug Freeman, Miranda Garza, Caroline Drew
ACL Fest 2025 has arrived. The first Friday of the two-weekend festival returned the usual Zilker Park suspects – heavy dust, Cage the Elephant, Hozier – and introduced new players, from locals the Animeros and Briscoe to twangy slacker MJ Lenderman and country star Luke Combs. The Animeros Sway and Snap In the building heat […]
By: Doug Freeman, Miranda Garza, Raoul Hernandez, Caroline Drew
Saturday at Zilker Park, the pop girlies reigned. MARINA, Doechii, and Sabrina Carpenter – who didn’t allow photographers, but did allow Shania Twain to join her for a rendition of “That Don’t Impress Me Much” – all put on crowd-pleasing performances, while returning acts the Strokes and Modest Mouse checked off the rock box for […]
By: Carys Anderson, Raoul Hernandez, Caroline Drew, Doug Freeman
Welcome back to the dustbowl! Weekend Two of ACL Fest kicked off with returning players King Princess, MJ Lenderman, and Dylan Gossett, and added new acts including locals Farmer’s Wife, precocious Americana outlier Sam Barber, and freshly reunited indie rockers Rilo Kiley.
By: Doug Freeman, Raoul Hernandez, Carys Anderson
ACL Fest 2025 wrapped with sounds far and wide, old and new – from local trio the Point’s genre-blending world music to Chihuahua band Midnight Generation’s throwback disco to Passion Pit’s 2010s-nostalgic synth-pop. Here’s what we caught before the sun set at Zilker Park. The Point Takes ACL All Over the Map The Point is […]
Local critic asks another: “How’s the McMurtry?” Answer: cut-above songs and then the clutch killers. South Austin’s James McMurtry crosses over into permanently mortal territory on The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. First missive since deep pandemic, his 11th studio album notches all the benchmarks – audiobook tunes, roadhouse Texicana, existential reality – of […]
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By: Raoul Hernandez
Crashing out, formerly meaning off to bed, jumped the literary shark recently – in case you missed the memo from middle school.
By: Raoul Hernandez
“That’s why we’re here tonight,” admitted Bruce Springsteen after shedding tears not once but twice before a final protest anthem Sunday night at a sold-out Moody Center. “I needed to see you and feel your hope and your strength.” Funny, that’s precisely the reason Texans (and Jerseyites, apparently) showed up literally to the rafters for […]
By: Carys Anderson, Caroline Drew, Raoul Hernandez
Though unfit for its title on first glance, the indie-heavy lineup for Austin Psych Fest 2026 proved, once live at the two-stage grounds of South
“We called it Chicano,” Ruben Ramos told me in East Austin nearly 30 years ago, describing his Latinx serenades. “It's a mixture of everything: salsa, a little bit of rhythm and blues.
