VOTE NOW IN THE AUSTIN MUSIC POLL

August 30 • 2013

Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2013 / Vol. 33 / No. 1
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Quote of the Week

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addressing the crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington 50 years…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Black vinyl – with marshmallow inlay – blues, spinning an A-side cover of the genre’s Dylan, Willie Dixon, and the flip side honoring Howlin’ Wolf. Cut locally last year at Million Dollar Sound, Roddy blows harp, and fellow Austin harpcat Walter Daniels with his Big Foot Chester band backs him. Roddy’s round-mouthed, Big Muddy delivery…

by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Platters

A beautiful gatefold, Record Store Day 7-inch, its B-side takes the prize. The main program, a faltering live cover of the indelible Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks duet, makes the mistake of preserving the original’s tempo since not even Austin’s Shearwater can match the easy swing of the Heartbreakers, while Van Etten’s throaty approximation of Fleetwood Mac’s…

by Raoul Hernandez

Great Moments in Cassette History

May 7, 1965: Keith Richards awakes in a motel room on the Rolling Stones’ third U.S. tour and finds his new cassette recorder still running. Rewinding, Richards hears an eight-note guitar hook and the words “I can’t get no satisfaction.” And then 40 minutes of snoring. Three years later, Richards overloads his acoustic guitar on…

by Tim Stegall

The Luv Doc: Forgiveness

Dear Luv Doc, Three years ago, I ended up dating the ex-boyfriend of a really close friend. I realize now that at that time I was really insecure and immature. I thought I needed him in my life as much as he seemed to need me. He didn’t. We broke up after only a few…

by The Luv Doc

Six Local Cassette Micro-Labels

Holodeck: Ambient/electronic, bands like Survive, Thousand Foot Whale Claw: www.holodeckrecords.com Obsolete Future: Electronic, experimental, Austin/Denver-based: www.obsoletefuture.bandcamp.com Marmara Records: Experimental/fuzzed-out folk: www.marmararecords.com Teflon Beast Records: Folk/noise/pop: www.teflonbeastrecords.bandcamp.com Instincto Records: Noise/experimental: www.instinctorecords.com False Form: Punk/hardcore label. False Form No. 6, the This Is Austin, Not That Great comp, contains vintage Dicks and Big Boys live tracks: www.falseform.blogspot.com

by Dan Plunkett

New Austin Cassettes

Breatherholes Come Home (www.noothhing.org) Breatherholes = Lew Houston, once of Wild America from Matador’s 2010 Casual Victim Pile Austin comp. Come Home spins a more competent version of outsider folk hero Jandek: 10 tunes recorded in an RV, utilizing a wounded voice, acoustic guitar, toy piano, found percussion, and seemingly anything found lying around. “Out…

by Tim Stegall

I Declare War

A bunch of sixth-graders playing capture the flag in the park lays the groundwork for a disturbingly inventive film.

by Steve Davis

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Ivy Baker Priest, mother of actress Pat Priest (Marilyn Munster in The Munsters) was Secretary of the Treasury under President Eisenhower for eight years and California State Treasurer under Gov. Ronald Reagan from 1967-1975. The Millennium Falcon’s design was inspired by a hamburger on a plate with an olive on a toothpick on the side.…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Texas Platters

What a difference two years makes. Since the March 2011 release of second LP Scandalous, local lightning rod Joe Lewis has moved to Montreal and bounced back; split with funk brother, guitarist, and bandleader Zach Ernst; and ditched backing band name the Honeybears from all branding. In its place: Black Joe Lewis, the long-adopted moniker…

by Chase Hoffberger

Playback

R&B, race relations, and rap: Black Joe Lewis and the League of Extraordinary G’z, plus Ginny’s Little Longhorn

by Kevin Curtin

Hugo Rising

The nominees for science fiction’s best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old

by Amy Gentry

Reanimated Next: 8-Tracks?

No, really. “A band I’m in, Dupree, put out an 8-track in addition to a vinyl LP,” says local guitarist Jake Langley. A format even dustier and further back on Goodwill’s shelves than cassettes? Austin jazz organ trio Dupree isn’t exactly a band comfortably filed next to Seventies relics like Boston and Deep Purple 8-tracks.…

by Tim Stegall

LoneStarCon, Episode III: The Alamo Strikes Back

When last we left the Worldcon in San Antonio, Bill Clinton had just begun his second term, a young wizard named Harry Potter had just cast his first spell in print, and a young princess named Diana had just lost her life in a car crash. Indeed, that last event occurred while the convention was…

by Robert Faires

Texas Platters

Jesse Woods’ debut unfolds with sleepy charm, its Southwestern daydream lingering in the summer heat. The local songwriter’s ethereal, abstract lyrics seep in slowly, the LP instead propelled by a psychedelic folk gauze of production, from Hawaiian-steel-laced opener “Walk Along Cattle Drives” to the closing echoes of “Tumbleweeds.” The sharp, percussive intro for “Cold Blood”…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Originally from Austin, Jack Wilson spent time shuttling between Texas and the Pacific Northwest. While last year’s local debut shifted from Neil Young-style Americana to progressive rock, Spare Key turns on dark songwriter fare. Prompted in part by a gunman who killed four people at Seattle’s Cafe Racer, a place where Wilson performed – and…

by Jim Caligiuri

Getaway

Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez try, but they can’t getaway from this action mess.

by Louis Black

Food Events

• Chef Showdown with Beetnik Foods Beetnik chef David Perkins will throw down against Barley Swine pastry chef Kyle McKinney while guests enjoy food, beer, wine, cocktails, and live music. Thu., Aug. 29, 7pm. Beetnik Foods, 2600 E. Cesar Chavez, 512/584-8228. $20 at the door. › White Hot Summer Night Don your coolest white attire…

by Virginia B. Wood

Texas Platters

Leo Rondeau’s 2009 sophomore offering, Down at the End of the Bar, unfurled behind the local songwriter’s languid twang, but his third LP kicks into a raucous party. His drawl still draws, shading tones of Gram Parsons, yet peels almost breathlessly against the faster tunes and packed-tight phrasings. Opener “Love Again” bursts with a country…

by Doug Freeman

Civics 101

Thursday 29 CENTRAL HEALTH BUDGET PUBLIC HEARINGS Central Health invites stakeholders to take part in the 2014 fiscal year budgetary process. 6pm. Central Health Administrative Offices, 1111 East Cesar Chavez. Free. www.centralhealth.net/watch_live.html. COOPERATION TEXAS VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Learn about the local nonprofit that’s dedicated to the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives. Email to RSVP…

by Chronicle Staff

Exhibitionism

Monologist Annie La Ganga enchanted a crowd with tales of tarot decks and her personal connections with the cards

by W. A. Brenner

Texas Platters

Like clockwork, one can expect another set of new songs from Colin Gilmore about every three years. Third full-length The Wild and Hollow follows 2010’s Goodnight Lane and it’s another step forward as he mixes jangling pop with a twangy brand of rock in a way that’s effortless and attractive. He claims influences like Roy…

by Jim Caligiuri

Headlines

› Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has named Assistant Chief Raul Munguia as the department’s new chief of staff. Munguia, a 28-year APD veteran, replaces COS David Carter, who retired from APD to take the top-cop job at the UT Police Department. Munguia had also applied for that spot. › Austin ISD trustees adopted a…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Given that Omar Dykes can approximate the primal wail of the great Howlin’ Wolf, it’s past time Austin’s favorite Mississippi transplant took on Chester Burnett’s catalog. Runnin’ With the Wolf boasts blues classics like “Spoonful,” “Smokestack Lightning,” and the immortal “The Red Rooster,” all of which get faithful makeovers here. Dykes leavens the obvious choices…

by Michael Toland

Exhibitionism

The Georgetown Palace production isn’t always effective, but it gets at the continued relevance of Aaron Sorkin’s script

by Dan Solomon

Texas Platters

Neat keepsake of the rising local’s primal folk-blues, recorded “live from the Good Music Club” at the North Door last August, with a woodcut-like cover illo by Austin bass and scene vet Chepo Peña. Garage-y, fuzz-strum as backed by his one-man tambourine shake and suitcase bass drum percussion, Alejandro Rose-Garcia’s mountain holler grits pleasingly throaty…

by Raoul Hernandez

23rd Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners

Individual Category Red Sauce 1st Place: Cyrus Sanchez 2nd Place: Kim Johnson 3rd Place: Mandie Martinez Honorable Mention: Charlie Brown, Mike McFadyen, Tyler Ruse, Tony Padilla, Rusty Ward, Andria Millie, Brenda Barrientes Green Sauce 1st Place: Dan Cook 2nd Place: Bud Spaar 3rd Place: Sal Solano Honorable Mention: Justin & Griff Smith, Tyler Ruse, Shelley…

by Chronicle Staff

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