Cover Story
Bar Crawl Conversations
Crawl (or should that be pedal?) around the East Austin bar scene with the ‘Chronicle’
This Week’s Waste of Time
Am I running out of free browser games yet?
**Updated**: ‘Wettest County’ Scribe Comes to Town
Willie Nelson joins Matt Bondurant at film sneak on new date
The Good Music Club: Melogrand
Good clean restlessness
Franklin BBQ Feast With Steven Raichlen
Mick Vann introduces Steven Raichlen to Franklin BBQ
You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore
You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies
Graham Franciose: Fables 2
The Austin Art Garage stocks your wildest dreams
The AggreGAYtor: August 16
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
Returning the Favor to Debbie Rombach
Benefits, fundraisers, stunts, and a closing in local news
What Jew Wanna Eat Blog Is Finalist in National Contest
DailyCandy.com picks Austin Finalist in Start Small, Go Big contest
Fantastic Fest Gets ‘Looper’ For Second Wave
Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans
‘The Raid’ Kicks On To Blu-Ray And Leaves A Mondo Dent
SXSW action fave gets home release and exclusive poster
Bubbe’s Famous Jewish Brisket
Austin food blogger Amy Kritzer’s sweet, tangy braised goodness
Become an Individual Again: Austin Craft Riot
Austin Craft Riot Loots Palmer Events Center on Saturday
Council Divided But Moving on With Bond
$385 million package passes first vote, but nays not quitting
‘The NFL Beat’: Ryan Mallett Learning From the Best
The ‘Chronicle’ catches up with a former Texas high school star
The LuvDoc’s Celebrity Corner
A chat with Meg Bodi, master of esthetics
15 Minutes With Kasey Chambers
Aussie songstress promises to leave the lights on
Roll On Sushi Diner
Adventurous Austin Fusion
Accounting and the War on Women
anti-PP groups claim non-profit engages in fraud
The AggreGAYtor: August 15
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
‘Freshness Is Essential’
This summer jam is brought to you by Julia Child
Austin Anti-Defamation League’s 2012 “True Colors” Fundraiser
Celebrate diversity. See with your heart.
Who’s Working on a Dubstep Opera?
Could be any number of people in Austin
Greenling Now Offering Prepared Meals
Local, organic food delivered to your door
Chris Jericho: From Y2J to ‘Sin and Bones’
WWE superstar on touring and the next big things in wrestling and metal
Love, Sex & Money: Helen Gurley Brown
Thanks, from one “mouseburger” to another
Food Truck Trails: The South Austin Trailer Bazaar
The food trailer scene is still in high gear on South Lamar
The Straight and Narrow
Hair cut leads to confusion about sexual orientation … but why?
The AggreGAYtor: August 14
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
Julia Child Centennial Celebrations
August 15 is the 100th anniversary of the cook’s birth
Medical Examiner: Testimony Misconstrued in Rodney Reed Case
Explosive information filed in federal court
All the Literature That’s Fit to Draw & Paint?
The latest volume of ‘The Graphic Canon’ galumphs on in
Mark Williams Standing Down From AISD Board
President leaving safe seat after two terms
SXSW Music Fest Creative Director Brent Grulke Dies
Onetime ‘Chronicle’ music editor succumbs to a heart attack
Mo’ Music August 13: Pü#$¥ Edition
The vag’s greatest hits
Film Flam
‘Somebody’ scores, ‘Man From Orlando’ to see Ohio, & more
Joe Kubert, RIP
The brilliant comics artist and teacher has died at age 85
It’s Like a Greatest Hits Collection at Wally Workman Gallery
And we mean that in a really really good way
The AggreGAYtor: August 13
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
Damselflies on the Ceiling of Your Mind
It’s not all about the aphid shit, thank you very much
AFS Presents H.P. Lovecraft Double-Bill
The Old Ones return, potentiality for sudden audience insanity high
Z Tequila Rezipe Rumble
Win $1,000 in this mixology contest
‘The Intergalactic Nemesis’ in Four Colors
Is the world’s first live action graphic novel a good graphic novel?
From the Vaults: Jeremy Renner
Before replacing Jason Bourne, Renner starred as Jeffrey Dahmer
Farmer’s Market Report: August 10, 2012
Farmers market news
Pussy Riot Pops
One small step for Russia, one big step for womankind
Local Gaming News
New Releases, LeetUps, networking, and more
Papa John’s Versus Obamacare
Cheesy bread vendor puts 11 cents price tag on saving lives
The LuvDoc’s Celebrity Corner
An interview with Rachel McGruder, Asst. Events Manager
Scotch for Whiskey Drinkers
Scotch drinkers are already preparing their letters to the editor!
Back to School With UT Soccer
Fall sports season kicks off with free game
Lollapalooza Recap
Internal Affairs took a field trip to Chicago and has some advice
Alamo Ritz Unveils 70mm ‘AlamoScope’
Finally we can watch ‘The Abyss’ as god intended
‘Bizarre Foods America’ Bites Austin
The Travel Channel’s Andrew Zimmern visits Central Texas
Remembering David Rakoff
Award-winning humorist loses long battle with cancer
The AggreGAYtor: August 10
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
Cherry Bombs: Standing by Pussy Riot
Hello world, they’re your wild girls.
Shakeup At Komen
Months after dust up over Planned Parenthood policy
Metallurgy
Royal Thunder CVI (Relapse) Mlny Parsonz’ hair-raising howl on 2010 EP Royal Thunder branded itself with “Sleeping Witch.” Returning here, that incantation, combined with down-tuned leadoff “Parsonz Curse,” cries Heart covering Zeppelin at every spooky psych roar. Banshee control inherent to CPR pounder “No Good” could use a few more thunderous tempos, but beware Parsonz’s…
Soccer Watch
U.S. Women win astounding semifinal, UT soccer starts exhibition play
Dance of the Century
Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection
Metallurgy
Metal up your drain pipe.
Metallurgy
Black Breath Sentenced to Life (Southern Lord) Martyrdöd Paranoid (Southern Lord) Labelmates and recent tour chemists, Seattle quintet Black Breath and Swedish fourpiece Martyrdöd share a gallop, the former’s hornet thrash meeting the latter’s blackened crust in high third gear. Sentenced to Life mostly retreads 2010 Southern Lord debut Heavy Breathing, but with boosted boom…
All Over Creation: Two-Stepping With Lyndon
To play historical figures like LBJ and Groucho, actors ought to dance with them
Parks, Wildlife, and Racism
Wardens recount longstanding, institutional discrimination against African-Americans at TP&W
Metallurgy
Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse) Historically overhyped Mastodon Jr. delivers its Leviathan. Four sides quarter Yellow & Green’s double-album divide, beginning at the Georgians’ seafaring “Take My Bones Away” and “March to the Sea.” Not a drop of water is wasted in their wake. Deceptively soft accusation “Little Things” spearheads the discs’ indie rock crossover,…
Metallurgy
Children of Bodom Holiday at Lake Bodom (Spinefarm) Billed as “15 Years of Wasted Youth,” Holiday’s CD/DVD hits-combo bottles the Finns’ scalping collision of synths, witchy skateboard chants, and hatchet thrash – 20 minutes of tour debauchery matched by 20 gun-n-goes (“Needled 24/7”). Celtic and pagan infusion (Dropkick Murphy’s stab “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”…
‘Stories From Deep in the Heart’
Austin teens use radio to preserve traditions, thanks to Texas Folklife
Letters at 3AM: A Jog in the Smog
What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do
Book Review
Barbecue rib cookbook is loaded with international flavor
Metallurgy
Eluveitie Helvetios (Nuclear Blast) Freight-train thrash doesn’t normally lead with its fiddler’s cleavage, cranked up hurdy-gurdy, and a frontline manning whistles, but Swiss folk-troupe Eluveitie (say “el-vay-ti”) adds mandola, hammered dulcimer, and narrative to its fifth full-length. Rarely do the unlikely twin strains fuse convincingly on the overlong/underwhelming Helvetios, its Alanis Morissette chalkboard keying (“A…
Gayplace: BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG BLOG
Stanley Roy is back, and so are you, if you feel the urge to camp it up.
Portrait of the Artist as a Righteous Dissident
Filmmaker Alison Klayman discusses her new doc, ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’
Food-O-File
Bert’s BBQ rises from the ashes to return to West Campus
Metallurgy
Goatwhore Blood for the Master (Metal Blade) Six-foot-four swamp thing Ben Falgoust II lords over a stage like no other, but where his vocal command should be soul-stripping (“Collapse in Eternal Youth”), it’s subsumed by the New Orleans quartet’s typewriter attack (rat-a-tat-tat). When he’s forefront in the mix (“When Steel and Bone Meet”), he seldom…
Page Two: Eastside Crawlin’
No lack of hipness on these streets
The Tangible Pleasures of Cinema
The Sprocket Society gets hands on with film
Food Events
Sharpen your wits and your appetite with this week’s ‘Meal Times’
Metallurgy
Burzum Umskiptar (Byelobog) Homicidal intolerant Christian “Varg” Vikernes hacks up his third black metal platter since serving a 21-year “life” sentence in his native Norway for murdering Mayhem guitarist Euronymous in 1993. Adapting Icelandic creation/destruction poem Völuspá, Umskiptar falls to the law of diminishing returns following 2010’s Belus () and The Fallen () a year…
Metallurgy
Grand Magus The Hunt (Nuclear Blast) Stockholm trio sacks Valhalla for its sixth platter, salvaging bits of Ian Gillan (opener “Starlight Slaughter”) and Kiss’ Paul Stanley (succeeding “Sword of the Ocean”) as voiced by JB Christoffersson, but alas it’s no Amon Amarth. Last-act acoustics plus a ramrod “Iron Hand” set the scene for slightly rawer…
A Council’s Work Is Never Done
A recap of last week’s City Council action
Have Wheels, Will Travel
Zach Anner talks about his web celebrity, his axed travel show, and the new project that got him back on the road
Quote of the Week
“There are rites of passage that boys need to work through, and it’s easier if you’re going to do that in a setting where everybody looks like you.” – AISD trustee Cheryl Bradley, speaking in favor of single-sex schools
Metallurgy
Church of Misery Master of Brutality (Metal Blade) The Second Coming (Metal Blade) In 2001, Southern Lord Records pressed proper Church of Misery debut Master of Brutality, which fast became an out-of-print commodity. Sophomore wing-spreader The Second Coming never saw an American release. Both boast rebirth, a revelatory sonic upgrade bestowed on the former’s Sabbath-arted…
Metallurgy
Iron Maiden En Vivo! (Universal) The so-called New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) betrays its ever-widening tree rings by preserving every latter tour with a live souvenir, especially when South American locales such as Chile greet godfathers Iron Maiden like ancient sun gods. Disc one finally catches fire on “The Talisman,” from 2010 rally…
Arena Will Not Have To Register as a Sex Offender
Lawyers strike a disposition a month after Michael Arena was released from prison
Exhibitionism
The stage version of the 1980 film is ridiculous – and a ridiculous amount of fun
Headlines
› City Council has no regular meeting this week, although the Tuesday work session finally approved on third reading an 8-2-1 “hybrid” district proposal for the November charter ballot (to be paired against the 10-1 proposal). Still simmering: bond package, utility governance, and how to cram all this stuff on an e-vote page. See “A…
Metallurgy
Cannibal Corpse Torture (Metal Blade) Avalanche opener “Demented Aggression” rains bloody Slayer from the cannibal holocaust, but on its dozenth splatter over the last quarter-century, this Buffalo, NY., butcher’s apron masters tempo like a sure-handed blues band. From blitzkrieg (“Sarcophagic Frenzy”) to chug (“Scourge of Iron”), Torture builds speed, human gristle, and institutionalization. Unforgiving (“The…
Metallurgy
Nile At the Gate of Sethu (Nuclear Blast) Free jazz cacophony and the high priest vocal variation of “The Fiends Who Come To Steal the Magick of the Deceased” slither out from under the Valley of the Kings monoliths on the South Carolina Egyptologists’ tech-death hieroglyph, 2009’s Those Whom the Gods Detest. Authenticated audio interlude…
Steam Still Rising From STRs
Residential short-term rentals get the go-ahead from City Council
Exhibitionism
The cast sings together with ease, but this new work hasn’t yet found its voice
Civics 101
Thursday 09 STATE OF STATE EMPLOYEES Texas State Employees Union (12,000 strong) meets to discuss the anti-government siege that could claim their pensions. 5:45-7:30pm. AFL-CIO Hall, 1106 Lavaca, 448-4225. Free. www.cwa-tseu.org. Friday 10 WORLD ENDS BY OCEAN FISHING Bob Schroeder discusses 62 years of stripping the oceans of life and, you know, the fate of…
Metallurgy
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme (Relapse) Jackhammer Maryland death metallers birth their best in a decade and seventh overall, cough syrup riff warp (“Second Skin”) and airtight Cannibal Corpse grind (“Revisionist Past”) joining women’s rites (“From Womb to Waste”). The latter’s drug hoover dooming her unborn child proves this veteran trio’s fetal position.
Metallurgy
Quiet Riot Live at the US Festival (Shout! Factory) Founder/martyr Randy Rhoads defected to Ozzy Osborne by the time Seventies hair-raisers Quiet Riot made a proper U.S. debut with Metal Health. Two months after its release and six before going No. 1 atop Slade cover “Cum on Feel the Noize,” the L.A. foursome appeared at…
AISD: We Know What Boys Are Like
Proposal would turn Pearce and Garcia middle schools into single-sex academies
Exhibitionism
Three artists take on the Animal Kingdom and document wildlife with great creativity
Point Austin: It Adds Up
The November ballot may look more like a shopping list
Metallurgy
Gojira L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner) Song, the universal tongue, camouflages most accents, but not always that of Joseph Duplantier, this French quartet’s monarch. With co-everything/drummer Mario Duplantier and second shredder Christian Andreu, the titular Wild Child produces a tight-knit tonal palette on Gojira’s fifth album, the titanic propeller riff of the title track tomahawking back on…
Metallurgy
RAM Death (Metal Blade) Eighties UK metal throwback out of Gothenburg, Sweden, flaunts Europe (intro “Death … Comes From the Mouth Beyond”), Judas Priest (“Flame of the Tyrants”), and Skid Row (“Defiant”), produced for maximum sonic separation as if by L.A.’s Geffen Records in the hair Nineties. Screaming good fun.
Delma Banks Takes Life Sentence
Death penalty is off the table, but so is clemency
Then There’s This: The Urge To Conserve
Council postpones action on drought contingency plan
Metallurgy
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis (eOne) “Priestess of a timeless cup, the taker has looked through old eyes/To see why of religion’s course, my brother’s path goes so wide.” Jesus Christ, therein lies the concept – literally. Unknowable demon twin or no, the Oakland trio’s sixth battering ram rebounds from 2010’s scattershot Snakes for…
Metallurgy
Rammstein Made in Germany (Universal) A Krautrock tease sweeping in 1997 single “Engle” [“Angel”], the first battle cry on this best-of won’t prepare non-Rammsteinians for the cabaret bombast that follows. This is not your Danzig’s “Mutter,” though the following “Pussy” makes a case for the Misfit. The gargantuan lumber of “Mein Teil” struts the Berlin…
Budget Outlook Grim for Animal Center
City shelter will need to do more with less
Bar Crawl Listings
The crawl route
The Luv Doc: The North American Oblivious Sloth
Dear LuvDoc, Every time I go to Central Market there is always someone who parks their shopping cart right in the middle of the lane and leaves it there while they take forever weighing their produce. It drives me crazy. What should I do? I don’t want to scream at them because that would make…
Metallurgy
Ignitor Year of the Metal Tiger (MVDaudio) Best metal bar come-on: “Ozzy Osbourne sold his soul to the devil.” As shrieked by Dangerous Toys’ frontman Jason McMaster and borne out by his Austin fivepiece like Seventies hitmakers the Sweet, only heavier, “Heavy Metal Holocaust” ignites Year of the Metal Tiger: “Ozzy Osbourne’s said there’s no…
Metallurgy
Rush Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner) Canadian warlocks return with 20th studio release and third LP since the trio’s new millennial reboot. Synthesizers are set to beverage warmer – nearly nil – but where a back-to-basics drums/bass/guitar bash continues since peak return Vapor Trails, pinpoint production to extract hooks from hard rock homogeneity continues to elude them.…
Hightower Report: Pigs Fly on Wall Street
Citigroup exec wants to be remembered as a reformer
Crawl No. 1
Yellow Jacket, Weather Up, and the Scoot
Hope Springs
A sincere, considered, and unembarrassed exploration of mature sexuality that’s more drama than comedy.
Metallurgy
Kreator Phantom Antichrist (Deluxe Edition) (Nuclear Blast) Testament Dark Roots of Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Nuclear Blast) The CD’s only hope for commercial relevance compared to vinyl remains DVDs. Second wave thrash monsters Testament and Kreator each bolster conservation epics – Mother Earth’s caught in a mosh – with album-making documentaries and live footage. Both LPs…
Metallurgy
UFOmammut Oro: Opus Primum (Neurot) Latin 101 points to Primum betraying Oro as the first installment of yet another double album halved by a label. Italian doom merchants “Mammoth UFO” thus can’t duplicate the tight encapsulation of 2010 origin story Eve in 51 minutes, although 14-minute lunar landing “Empireum” could power Alien craft Nostromo. Tsunami…
Playback: KOKE Is Back
The original KOKE returns to a soda fountain near you
Crawl No. 2
Shangri-La, Violet Crown, Rio Rita’s, the Brixton, Liberty, the White Horse
Nitro Circus: The Movie
Travis Pastrana and friends perform stunts that are captured in 3-D.
Metallurgy
Lamb of God Resolution (Epic) Randy Blythe’s 13-second scream teeing off these Virginia romper-stompers’ fifth body slam isn’t Roger Daltrey on “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but consider it a premonition of the singer’s last month in a Prague prison on manslaughter charges. “I am the one who’s left to take the fall,” he roars on…
Metallurgy
Whitechapel Whitechapel (Metal Blade) Piano/synth and Ratt riff intro to a guttural, machine-gun roar (“Make It Bleed”), tribal swagger (“I, Dementia”), and Eastern end accents (“Dead Silence”). The fourth full-length from this Knoxville, Tenn., death metal sextet expands detailing from previous bruiser A New Era of Corruption. Looser, less right-angle technical, Whitechapel deals bone-breakers like…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
That sticky residue on your car might not be tree sap. More likely, it’s spider mite and aphid excrement. If it’s rained recently nearby, that has allowed trees to grow, which means more food for insects. Samuel Goldwyn was a glove salesman, Tom Jones worked in a glove factory, and Groucho Marx kept Gilbert and…
Crawl No. 3
East Side Show Room, Cheer Up’s, Papi Tino’s, Hotel Vegas, the Volstead, Gypsy Lounge, the Grackle, St. Roch’s Bar
The Bourne Legacy
This franchise reboot doesn’t reinvent Bourne, but it does revive it to great effect.
Metallurgy
Overkill The Electric Age (eOne) “Got a-lotta mouth for a Jersey white boy,” screeches Overkill mouthpiece Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth sans wink on the Garden State thrashers’ 15th studio LP. Sprier than its Ironbound predecessor, The Electric Age sprints at a Preakness gait, liquid-steel opener “Come and Get It” and titular inspiration “Electric Rattlesnake” (with its…
Day Trips
The Kolache Capital of Texas is worth a visit.
Steven Raichlen Riffing on Ribs
Esteemed barbecue master speaks on the history of grilling
Crawl No. 4
Uncorked, Takoba. Gourmands, Frontier Bar
The Campaign
A wan political comedy guaranteed to offend no one.
Metallurgy
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power (20th Anniversary Edition) (Rhino) Texans reload after the 2010 reissue of Cowboys From Hell. Succeeding said Southwestern thrash landmark two years later, 1992’s Vulgar Display of Power bucks similar equilibrium, still turbine tight and “Fucking Hostile.” Dizzying solos from “Diamond” Darrell (“A New Level”), the bludgeoning “This Love,” and second…
WWE Smackdown
The world’s biggest wrestling promotion sets up the ring and the cameras at the Erwin Center
After a Fashion: AFWIII!
Stephen is almost ready for his close up, Mr. Bad JohnPaul…
South of Heaven
Metal has a new home in Austin, and a new sponsor.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Alison Klayman’s doc is as much a rallying cry for freedom of expression as it is a portrait in progress of an artist whose career is ongoing.
ARRO Media Tasting Party in Tarrytown
Preview of the restaurant ARRO
