Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity

We spent election day with local percussive rebel

"...know music makes the world a better place," reasons Thor Harris, sitting on his templelike front porch. "I'm not..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Dear God, What Hath Monofonus Wrought Now?

The Austin indie media company gets all epistolary with Thor Harris

"...Thor Harris – wildly talented painter, celebrated drummer for SWANS,..."

May 25, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Knest Improvs “Saigon by Motorcycle”

ATX’s Thor Harris + Jonathan Horne + Randall Holt = Knest

"...of Austin’s Knest first convened three years ago, drummer Thor Harris felt the spark immediately...."

Oct. 20, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Rock Lobster

How do you eat healthy on tour?

"...away smiling with your arm around the other person." Thor Harris, Vegan Warrior..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Where Does It Hurt?

With The Inside Story, Scott Rice gets people talking about mental health

"...work with the MHC, and the importance of being Thor...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...service was truly a religious experience. – Robert Penson Thor & Friends’ Wordless Orchestral Whirlwind..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Off the Record

Celebrating Independence Day with Wild America and Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic

"...a film, it would be mostly pretty dull," writes Thor Harris in the liner notes to his new ambient..."

July 9, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Music Adds New Order, Killer Mike, Protomartyr, and Isabella Lovestory

Along with over 300 more artists headed to the Austin festival

"...Peelander-Z, Porcelain, Redbud, Sabrina Ellis, Semihelix, Sir Woman, Superfónicos, Thor Harris, Trucha Soul, Twain, Up Around The Sun, Urban..."

Jan. 25, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Five Things to Do Outside of SXSW

Believe it or not, there's life outside SXSW this week

"...drummers? Adam Jackson, Chris Cogburn, Alton Jenkins, Julia Hungerford, Thor Harris, Lesley Mok, Brannen Temple, line upon line, Sean..."

March 11, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984

Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction

"...of sonic and literary exploration from the likes of Thor Harris, Gretchen Phillips, Jonathan Horne, Carrington MacDuffie, and other..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus

Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete

"...Cassie Fitzgerald portrays a post-apocalyptic refugee arguing with the author's disembodied narrator, Galavis takes the stage alone to perform..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Playback: I'm Sorry, I Can't Rock You All Night Long

An epic GrulkeFest fires the fall season, including John Prine

"...La Zona Rosa doubles as a homecoming for drummer Thor Harris. The legendary experimental group, which reformed in 2010..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live Purification Ritual Debuts Dumpster Fires in Stereo

Steel on steel provides welcome year-end catharsis

"...the evening proceedings, veteran ATX drummers and musical adventurers Thor Harris and Lyman Hardy donned work gloves outfitted with..."

Nov. 16, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Thor & Friends

"...Nonconforming percussionist Thor Harris and his idiophone sidekicks don't so much unleash..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Music Review by Michael Toland

Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival

Defeat your FOMO with these top picks from the free and fantastic arts festival

"...first collaboration between L.A.-based artist Dorian Wood and Austin-based Thor Harris, resulting in a ritualistic spectacle that unites Wood's..."

April 15, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake

Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more

"...Thor Harris of Swans fame has been named Joyful Noise..."

April 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...The miraculous part of Horne's hand saga involves Thor Harris, the dalai lama of Austin music, who plays..."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'

"...van. Fueled by "esspresso & anti-depressants," Austin's Nordic legend Thor Harris recently penned "How to Tour in a Band..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Thor Harris

"...Thor HarrisFields of Innards (I Eat Records)..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

Listen to This: Half Dream Insists “I Am My Own God”

Dream folk conjurors enlist Thor Harris on powerful single

"...behind Half Dream has can inhabit a lyric so thoroughly that every single word illustrates a new level of..."

Aug. 4, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

At the Intersection of Appalachia and Experimental Folk Broods Little Mazarn

Otherworldly duo pulls attention through mesmeric, emotionally charged minimalism

"...Slaughter Lane, Verrill and Johnston recruited fellow musical wanderers Thor Harris, Ralph White, and Will Johnson to contribute. The..."

May 31, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

"Exquisite Corpse" at Recspec Gallery

Dying is an art; at this gallery, they do it well

"...to walk into, tell you what, with originals by Thor Harris, Annalise Gratovich, Bayo, Tim Kerr, Vy Ngo, Gigi..."

March 15, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Touring Austin's Latin Record Stores

Discotecas outnumber Anglo record shops

"...Thor Harris announced his candidacy for Texas governor on Twitter..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: SXSW Survey a Snooze

City's post-SXSW survey succumbs to poor planning

"...Called for by Council Member Mike Martinez and authored by the city's Music Office, the community questionnaire was..."

June 6, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Malaise and Methodology

Ann Cvetkovich crafts a radical approach to considering depression

"...Creativity Cure), psychology teacher KayLynn Fenn, and musician and author Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater) on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 8pm,..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...of a romance between a freelance photographer and the author of a New York Times column dedicated to (yes)..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

I Eat Records

Second Helpings

"...& Sisters' new EP, a reissue of Shearwater percussionist Thor Harris' instrumental Fields of Innards, and Horse + Donkey's..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Bill Callahan Reviewed

Woke on a Whaleheart

"...Elizabeth Warren's violin and the percussive rush of Shearwater's Thor Harris and Howard Draper. "Diamond Dancer" swirls atop a..."

April 20, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Transcendentalism

Shearwater soars out from under Okkervil River

"...bassist (and the former Mrs. Meiburg) Kim Burke, drummer Thor Harris, and multi-instrumentalist Howard Draper – which has proven..."

May 12, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Mini Music Fests Abound in This Week's Crucial Concerts

Country, hip-hop, pop, and more shows worth the cover

"...In E to their discography. The supergroup – of Thor Harris of Thor & Friends, George Dishner of Spray..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

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