16 Facts About Margaret Moser

Margaret Moser, or Margaret Moser Malone, was an American journalist, music enthusiast, critic and historian, groupie, and backup singer.

Margaret Moser was best known for her work as the director of the Austin Music Awards in the South by Southwest festival and for her career in music journalism and criticism, which lasted more than thirty years.

Margaret Moser has been called the "patron saint of Austin music" by the Paramount Theatre.

Margaret Moser was born on May 16,1954, in Chicago to educated parents, Phyllis Jackson Stegall and Willard Cummings Margaret Moser, and raised in New Orleans, Houston, and San Antonio.

In 1973, Margaret Moser moved from San Antonio to Austin with her boyfriend Gary Kellaher.

The couple met in 1979, as Margaret Moser was getting out of her first marriage.

Margaret Moser worked at the Austin Sun starting in 1976, initially as a janitor before writing about music.

Margaret Moser got her first interview when she told the newspaper's Backstage columnist that she knew Randy California and could interview him.

Margaret Moser's writing about music and the scene in Austin was honest and included her own experiences with the "rock and roll lifestyle" in Austin.

On December 4,1984, Margaret Moser married Mike Malone, a tattoo artist known as Rollo Banks, and moved to Hawaii.

The couple separated in the early 1990s; Margaret Moser returned to Austin and to the Austin Chronicle, where she began to write about the history of the Austin music scene.

Margaret Moser worked on the history of rock, punk music and the blues, and the origins of music in Texas.

In February 2013, Margaret Moser was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer.

Margaret Moser retired as director of the Austin Music Awards in 2014.

Around June 2017, Margaret Moser ended treatment for her cancer and had gone into hospice care.

Margaret Moser invited friends to visit her before she died, holding a Sunday Open House.