The Boys Club

Female employees say gender discrimination persists at City Hall. Could a new resolution fix the broken system?

by Mary Tuma

WWE SmackDown Live

Bray Wyatt remembers the first time he saw the fireflies. That’s when the WWE superstar walks into the arena, and the lights drop, the audience whips out their phones, turns on the flashlight app, and the whole room turns into a thousand glowing fireflies. It was in London two years ago, when he entered flanked…

by Richard Whittaker

Phases & Stages

A Moon Shaped Pool feels like the end of something. One of the UK quintet’s greatest triumphs, their ninth studio full-length mirrors David Bowie’s swan song Blackstar as a jazz-fusion production, utilizing electronics, strings, and Thom Yorke’s soaring vocals to shed any remaining Neanderthal rock. Inward and reflective, the LP feels like the singer’s solo…

by Kahron Spearman

Soccer Watch

The UT Longhorns open their season this Friday, Aug. 12, with a 7pm exhibition against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The regular season starts the following Friday against Seattle, as the Horns open the season with six straight home games. The roster features 11 newcomers, ranked as the top recruiting class in the Big 12 and No.…

by Nick Barbaro

Phases & Stages

Turmoil traditionally results in Bob Mould’s best work. Judging from Patch the Sky, the 55-year-old ex-Hüsker Dü frontman must’ve undergone the worst depression of his life. “I’ve had a solid stretch of hard emotional times,” he acknowledges in a monograph accompanying this 12th solo disc, cataloging “more death, relationships ending, life getting shorter.” Results including…

by Tim Stegall

Phases & Stages

Accruing inspiration for her ninth LP, PJ Harvey scoured Washington, D.C.’s crime-ridden wards. The upshot, a titular reference to the public housing blueprint by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, takes the political POV of 2011’s Let England Shake global. “The Community of Hope” feigns optimism, but yields sarcasm. “They’re gonna put a Walmart…

by Neph Basedow

Phases & Stages

Bandcamp recordings paved the way for Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo, the best songwriter in contemporary music. The 23-year-old’s Teens of Denial thrums with anxiety, existential wrestling, and endless adolescence in a haze of Nineties skuzz. Hints of Nirvana and Pixies, “1937 State Park” evokes the Breeders specifically, but Toledo’s pairing of cerebral lyrics with…

by Libby Webster

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

As of 2009, there are more guns than people in the U.S. (357 million guns vs. 317 million people). Harpo Marx loved the children’s cartoon series Beany and Cecil and insisted on absolute silence in the house when it came on TV. The series was created by Bob Clampett and featured a boy named Beany…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Good Danny’s Personal Highlights

Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow (2016) This record feels like the culmination of my creative collaboration with Shearwater frontman Jonathan Meiburg. We’ve made many records together and toured all over the world. There’s a real trust and brotherhood that grows from those shared experiences. This collection of songs feels like the best of our combined…

by Danny Reisch

Quote of the Week

“The restrictive nature of SB 14 has always defied common sense.” – State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this month that Texas’ Voter ID law is discriminatory

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

City Council concludes a busy week today (Aug. 11) with a full zoning agenda, an eye toward refining the proposed $720 million mobility bond, and making progress on the FY 2017 budget. See “City Council Preview,” August 12. Former election adversaries Mike Martinez and Mayor Steve Adler have joined forces to back Austin’s planned transportation…

by Chronicle Staff

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