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Raoul Hernandez Raoul Hernandez PROFESSIONAL GOAL Clinical professorship at the university level. EDUCATION Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., M.A., Communication, 1992 Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., B.A., English 1987 EXPERTISE / PROPOSED CLASSES Editing Music Journalism Reporting Art of the Review Music Interview Technique Film Editing in Real Time Public Speaking Jazz History LANGUAGES Spanish (bilingual) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Music Editor/Senior Editor The Austin Chronicle, 1994-present Assistant Music Editor The Austin Chronicle, 1993-1994 2603 Roxmoor Dr. Editorial Assistant Austin, Texas, 78723 The San Francisco Examiner, 1991-1992 News Assistant (512) 914-4441 National Broadcasting Company: KNBR-68, San Francisco, 1987-1988 [email protected] Delivery Adolescent @ChroniclyRaoul The Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., 1975-1980 BOOKS EDITOR Bentley, Bill, Smithsonian Rock & Roll: Live & Unseen, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2017 CONTRIBUTOR The Jesus Lizard & David Yow, The Jesus Lizard Book, New York: Akashic Books, 2014 Powell, Austin & Doug Freeman, The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology, Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2011 Peveto, Geoff & Paula Scher, Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume One, New York: Soundscreen Design, 2011 PERIODICALS (select) PUBLICATIONS “The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic “John Carpenter, Rock Star,” Experience, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin Chronicle, 15 June 2016 1 March 2018 “Charles Attal Discusses C3/Live Nation “Where Does Margo Price Get Off?” Deal,” The Austin Chronicle, 26 February 2015 The Austin Chronicle, 25 January 2018 Limón y Sal: Pachanga Fest Pours an 80 Proof “The Top 40 Albums of 2017: Immolation,” Shot of Julieta Venegas, The Austin Chronicle, Decibel, January 2018: 42 9 May 2014 “The Top 50 Napalm Death Songs of All Time,” “Return of the She-King: In-Depth Q&A with Decibel, November 2017: 24, 25, 27 Dead Can Dance Hypnotist Lisa Gerrard,” The Austin Chronicle, 6 September 2012 “John Fogerty Won’t Back Down,” The Austin Chronicle, 25 October 2017 “Radiohead,” New Musical Express, 24 March 2012: 46 “Margaret Moser, Leader of the Pack,” The Austin Chronicle, 30 June 2017: cover “The Sound & the Fury: David Chase on the Sixties Rock That Inspired ‘Not Fade Away,’” “Top 40 Albums of 2016: Oranssi Pazuzu,” The Austin Chronicle, 19 October 2012 Decibel, January 2017: 40 “A Night at the Opera: Plácido Domingo “S U R V I V E: RR7349,” Decibel, Meets Stevie Wonder,” The Austin Chronicle, November 2016: 88 27 May 2011 Raoul Hernandez (512) 914-4441 [email protected] PERIODICALS (select) continued “Stairway to Cleveland: My Dinner with Harvey “Equality: Ornette Coleman, Speaking Pekar,” The Austin Chronicle, 16 July 2010 Softly and Carrying a Huge Legacy,” The Austin Chronicle, 12 November 2004 “Love Bath: 50 Minutes Backstage with Smokey Robinson,” The Austin Chronicle, “ACL Music Fest Interviews: Al Green,” 19 March 2010 The Austin Chronicle, 19 September 2003 “All Times Through Paradise: Hanging “Paradise: 10 Years After ‘Gravity,’ with Saint Cecilia,” The Austin Chronicle, Alejandro Escovedo Finds His ‘Paradise,’” 20 November 2009: cover The Austin Chronicle, 28 June 2002: cover “Shouting Across the Void: Jeff Tweedy in “Right Where They Belong: On Tour with Mono,” The Austin Chronicle, 1 October 2009 the Flatlanders,” The Austin Chronicle, 26 July 2002: cover Bare Necessities: Tenor Titan Sonny Rollins PUBLICATIONS Still Peeling Bark,” The Austin Chronicle, “Too Tough to Die: Johnny Ramone Takes Us 1 May 2009 Back to the Best Years of Our Lives,” The Austin Chronicle, 6 September 2002: cover “Dennis Hopper: Still Easy Riding,” The Austin Chronicle, 22 August 2008 “Diddley Daddy: ‘Bo Knows Not to Be Stupid,’” The Austin Chronicle, 27 October 2000: cover “The Chaos of Eros: Isabel Coixet’s ‘Elegy’ for a Dying Animal,” The Austin Chronicle, “Paying the Cost to Be the Boss: Q&A 22 August 2008 with B.B. King,” The Austin Chronicle, 29 September, 2000 “ACL Music Fest Interviews: Cat Power,” The Austin Chronicle, 15 September 2006 “Favorite Sonero: Buena Vista Social Club Cowboy Eliades Ochoa,” The Austin Chronicle, “King of Bongo: Tracking Spain/France’s 3 November 2000 Illusive King of Latin Punk Rock, Manu Chao,” The Austin Chronicle, 11 August 2006 “Un Dios: Chucho Valdés,” The Austin Chronicle, 25 June 1999 “Bigger Stakes: Richard Linklater on Remixing ‘The Bad News Bears,’” The Austin Chronicle, “Sunday Morning Phone Call to John Lee 29 July 2005 Hooker,” The Austin Chronicle, 21 May 1999 PERIODICALS (select) continued “Stompy Jones: Discovering Duke Ellington,” “Warning: Record Labeling Still Lives,” The Austin Chronicle, 30 April 1999: cover The Austin Chronicle, 30 October 1992 “Solving Spoon’s ‘A Series of Sneaks,’” “James Taylor Returns to Old Form,” The Austin Chronicle, 22 January 1999: cover San Antonio Light, 19 July 1992 “Oh Lady You’re Good: Dee Dee Bridgewater,” “Home of the West Coast Blues,” BAM, The Austin Chronicle, 17 April 1998 29 May 1992: 28 “Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro’s Parallel “Lorne Michaels: SNL Creator Storms Box Universe,” The Austin Chronicle, Office,” The Stanford Daily, 27 February 1992 6 February 1998: cover “Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Sky is Crying,” “Tiny Steps: Is Austin Jazz Kind of Blue BAM, 10 January 1992 or Bitches Brew?” The Austin Chronicle, PUBLICATIONS 9 June 1995: cover “Blackeyed Susans: Electric Rattlebone,” Creem, 1991: 90 “Welcome to Chaos: Living on the Edge with Austin’s Emergency Medical Service Workers,” “Naked Raygun: Raygun… Naked Raygun,” The Austin Chronicle, 17 November 1993: cover Creem, April-May 1991: 94 “The Death of a Newspaper: San Antonio “The Statesmen of the Guitar,” BAM, 5 April Light,” The Austin Chronicle, 5 March 1993 1991: cover “Ice-T,” San Antonio Light, 2 January 1993: F1 “Robert Cray: Midnight Stroll,” SF Weekly, 3 October 1990 “Police Cool on Ice-T Show,” Austin Ameri- can-Statesman, 31 December 1992 “Indigo Girls: Nomads, Indians, Saints,” SF Weekly, 14 November 1990 “On the Border: Richard Rodriguez,” San Antonio Light, 5 December 1992 “Santana: Spirits Dancing in the Flesh,” BAM, 10 August 1990 “Exhuming Malcolm X,” San Antonio Light, 18 November 1992: F1 “Correspondence | Love Letters & Advice,” Rolling Stone, 24 March 1988 “Parental Advisory – Explicit Lyrics: Is Your ‘Right to Rock’ Being Infringed Upon?” BAM, “The Playboy Advisor,” Playboy, April 1984: 40 30 October 1992: cover Raoul Hernandez (512) 914-4441 [email protected] RADIO Eklektikos with John Aielli, Rag Radio, KOOP 91.7 FM, Rancho Alegre, KOOP 91.7 KUTX 98.9 FM, 23 February 2018 FM, 30 January 2017 26 February 2018 The Morning X with Jason & My KUTX, KUTX 98.9 FM, What’s New Interviews, Deb, 101X 101.5 FM, 14 January 2016 KOOP 91.7 FM, 10 March 2017 Remix, KOOP 91.7 FM, 25 February 2018 15 February 2012 TELEVISION KVUE (ABC), Free Week overview/Austin Music Poll, 5 January 2018 KVUE (ABC), KEYE (CBS), KXAN (NBC): dozens of appearances on all three Austin-area net- work affiliates discussing local music, 2002-2015 KTBC Fox 7, “Good Day Austin,” Mondays 8:30am, live music recommendations, 2008-2011 FILM Introduction: Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back 50th Curator/Host: “I Married a Witch: Fredric Anniversary, Paramount Theatre, March’s Comedic Curse,” The Austin Film 19 January 2017 Society, five films, 21 Oct.- 18 Nov. 2008 Curator/Host: “Late Have I Loved Thee: Latter Curator/Host: “Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Lubitsch,” The Austin Film Society, five films, Gene Tierney,” The Austin Film Society, five 9 Oct.- 6 Nov. 2012 films, 17 Oct.- 14 Nov. 2006 Curator/Host: “William Wyler’s Desperate Curator/Host: “Talk of the Town: The Films of Hours: A Director’s Drama,” The Austin Film Jean Arthur,” The Austin Film Society, seven Society, five films, 19 Oct.- 16 Nov. 2010 films, 26 Oct.- 30 Nov. 2004 BOOKS Moderator: Bill Bentley & Alejandro Escovedo Moderator: The Jesus Lizard (Book), (Smithsonian Rock & Roll: Live & Unseen), BookPeople, 14 March 2014 BookPeople, 16 February 2018 Interviewer: David Ellefson (My Life with Deth: PRESENTATIONS & PROGRAMS Interviewer: David Weigel (The Show That Discovering Meaning in a Life of Rock & Roll), Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock), BookPeople, 10 December 2013 BookPeople, 15 June 2017 Moderator: Texas Book Festival ‘Lit Crawl,’ Interviewer: Lita Ford (Living Like a Runaway), Shangri-La, 27 October 2012 BookPeople, 27 February 2017 Presenter: Texas Book Festival: Baron Wolman (The Rolling Stone Years), First United Methodist Church, 22 October 2011 Raoul Hernandez (512) 914-4441 [email protected] PERIODICALS Voter Panel: “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” Rolling Stone, 9 December 2004 Voter Panel: “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” Rolling Stone, 11 December 2003 PANELS ALL ATX LEADERSHIP Featured Speaker: The State of Music Journalism 2018, Saxon Pub, 5 April 2018 ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA (AAN) Panel Moderator: Music Journalism is Dead, Westin Hotel, Austin, 7 July 2016 Medill Conference Panelist: Arts & Feature Writing, Northwestern University, Chicago, 7 October 2000 SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST (SXSW) Panelist: Fun Fun Fun? Thirty Years of Moderator: Scene but Not Heard – Challenges Chronicling Austin Music, Austin Convention Facing Regional Coverage, Austin Convention Center, 18 March 2011 Center, 18 March 1999 Keynote Introduction: Smokey Robinson, Panelist: Does Your City Have a Sound?, Austin Convention Center, 18 March 2010 Austin Convention Center, 19 March 1998 Panelist: What’s Going On?, Panelist: How to Attract Local Coverage, Austin Convention
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