Cover Story
Keeping Up With the Joneses
A century of Austin music in one arrangement
Heaven & Hell
Wovenhand and Tool at the Cedar Park Center
The Daily Hustle: 6/24/10
Liveblogging City Council
Work of Art Recap
TV Eye dishes on June 23 episode of Bravo’s reality show
This Week’s Waste of Time
Another browser game to ensure low productivity
This Charming Wham
Texecutioners host Charm City Roller Girls Sunday
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Gets Trashed
MRF talk and more budget matters
Vinyl Summer
End of an Ear turns five
Revival
Southern rock’s next wave hits
The Daily Hustle: 6/23/10
Who is in control here?
‘Predators’ to Premiere at Paramount
The Austin-filmed franchise reboot to debut here July 7
New Moon Girls Wants You
Be a star at the UnFashion Show
Bud Norris Back in Round Rock
Astros starter continues rehab assignment for Express
Perry And White, Neck And Neck
Gubernatorial candidates tie in new polling
The Daily Hustle: 6/22/10
Agenda highlights, lowlights – ’til midnight?
B(itter) P(ill)
Grand Isle, LA’s silent protests.
This Week in Campaign Fail
Perry’s funds, Staples’ Interwebs and Patterson’s plane
The Daily Hustle: 6/21/10
Lining up items from council
The Sunday Survey, 6/20/10
Junk, hires, bonds, China and chickens
Griffin Hat Trick Puts Aztex Back on Track
Aztex beat Miami, 3-1
Nacogdoches Gothic
Joe R. Lansdale talks Bubba horror at Feral Cinema (Video)
Roller Derby Update, 6/19/10
WFTDA expands, and the touring season continues
Why The Anxiety Over The Good Guys?
TV Eye weighs in on the chatter over Dallas-shot series
Rich Dish
“After a Fashion” interviews Richie Rich and feeds you the uncut audio.
Lucia Athens Named Chief Sustainability Officer
Will lead Green initiatives
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of June 18-24
The Daily Hustle: 6/18/10
More MRF madness next meeting
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company
The local choreographer chooses carefully two troupes to dance with hers
My So-Called Social Life
What happens when Facebook RSVPs stop being polite … and start getting real
The Thousand-String Guitar
Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar
Solitary Man
In this small-scale drama, Michael Douglas plays a disgraced businessman and inveterate skirt-chaser who makes one bad decision after another.
Metallurgy
Scorpions Sting in the Tail (Universal) And not a power ballad too soon – retirement of Hannover, Germany’s mid-1960s-born “rasselband,” responsible for 1972 Krautrock classic/debut Lonesome Crow. “Raised on Rock” wanks as 1980s Sunset Strip as 1990’s beginning of the end, Crazy World, first LP post-Dieter Dierks, the metaller’s George Martin, past which only the…
TV Eye
Will Bravo’s new show Work of Art class up the reality TV genre?
Party With Purpose
The AFS Make Watch Love Film bash
No Discs, No Pease
City to move disc golf course from Pease
Raavan
In this Bollywood film, a gang leader kidnaps the wife of a policeman who killed his sister, but then he falls in love with her.
Metallurgy
Krokus Hoodoo (Sony Music) Swiss headhunters unleash their major-label reunion in fine fettle (drummer Freddy Steady no relation to Austin stick pony Freddie “Steady” Krc), Hoodoo looser “Drive It In” buzzing Cult-like as nasaled by Krokus croak Marc Storace in high 1980s form. Once “Born to Be Wild” dials up third, “Rock’n’Roll Handshake” clangs shut…
Off the Record
Learning the ones and twos with the Dub Academy and Phranchyze
Welcome to Capital Metro
Whoever the new CEO turns out to be – she’ll have her hands full
Round Rock Express
Eight-game home stand
Metallurgy
Ratt Infestation (Roadrunner) Invasion of Your Privacy starter pistol “You’re in Love” (July 1985) makes a quarter-century comeback on Infestation leader “Eat Me Up Alive,” tag-teamed with the VH1 roundhouse of “Best of Me.” Power base Stephen Pearcy (cat-scratch vox), Warren DeMartini and Carlos Cavazo (slash and burn), and original beat master Bobby Blotzer re-up…
Beer in Bloom
If local dreamers have their way, Austin will be the next craft brew hub
Who’s Your Candidate?
The Capital Metro board is set to select the agency’s new chief executive officer/president this week, possibly today (Thursday). Here are snapshots of the two finalists. Linda S. Watson Current Position: CEO, Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (2004-present) Previous Experience: • Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (1996-2004): general manager • Fort Worth Transportation Authority (1982-1996):…
Junking the Cathedral
Cathedral of Junk creator bent till he broke
Metallurgy
Vain All Those Strangers (Jackie Rainbow) Shelved Island Records’ follow-up to these metallic San Francisco dolls’ 1989 debut, No Respect, initially came on like a comedown from its fast, trashy birth mother (thanks for the tape, Davy Vain), but upon release now proves no slump. Heart adrenal “Love Drug” races first, “Planet’s Turning” and “Shooting…
Know When to Say When
Let’s be optimistic and assume all these ventures succeed. Can the Austin market really handle a near-doubling of local microbrewers? Could these newbies create too much competition among themselves? None of them thinks so. “We still live in a state that’s 47th in the nation in breweries per capita,” says Jester King’s Jeffrey Stuffings. “If…
Dump the Pump, Make a Movie
Today (Thursday) is national Dump the Pump Day, and the ozone season has started – the first few ozone watch days of the year were issued by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization last week. Capital Metro is urging Austinites to leave their cars at home by offering coupons for a free ride, good today…
Polygamist’s Trial Heads to Texas?
Arizona drops charges against Warren Jeffs
Metallurgy
Judas Priest British Steel: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sony Music) By the time Birmingham, England’s anarchist answer to the industrial purgatory’s other black sheep (Black Sabbath) defined hair metal’s immediate precursor with British Steel brands “Breaking the Law” and “Living After Midnight,” the backwater quintet bridging Peter Green’s blues breakers Fleetwood Mac to Iron Maiden’s…
Vodka Tea Time
Fill a highball glass with cracked ice, squeeze in a bit of lemon, and add sweet-tea vodka
World Cup Watch
A rundown of local viewing parties
Soccer Watch
Some good and some bad news for the Aztex, plus a World Cup update
Metallurgy
Lamb of God Hourglass (Epic/Prosthetic) Forty-four cloven bleats melt this 3-CD Hourglass, trinity to Lamb of God’s father (The Underground Years), son (The Epic Years), and Holy Ghost (The Vault). Four femoral bursts from the Virginia quintet’s 1999 debut as Burn the Priest, plus chunks of its first Prosthetic/Metal Blade LPs, the contorting New American…
Restaurant Review
Mexican cuisine in Central Texas is undoubtedly better thanks to Iliana de la Vega
Page Two: Throw Down Your Hatred
Neil Young’s solo tour, Part 2
UT Withholds Cactus Documents
Why the secrecy over Cactus Cafe decision?
Metallurgy
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition (Nuclear Blast) Like Bay Area 1980s thrash kin Testament and its 2008 reboot The Formation of Damnation, Exodus’ fourth disc with exhorter Rob Dukes and ninth LP overall – begun from sessions for 2007’s The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A – atomizes first-wave cassette values. Grade-fuckin’-A pummel “Hammer and Life,”…
Food-o-File
Fire at the Barr Mansion, Chronicle restaurant reviewers don’t ask for free food, tomatoes growing locally, and more for you to sink your teeth into
Point Austin: The Sporting Scene
It’s just a Hail Mary pass from Memorial Stadium to Formula One
Neither Side Pleased With Historic Zoning Changes
Council moves to change process for historic designation
Metallurgy
Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth (Evilive) Where’s Rick Rubin when you need him? Lead-off “Hammer of the Gods” misses his flat sonic anvil in the separation of oracle from ocean, though succeeding burp gun “The Revengeful” discharges like one of the überproducer’s concrete beatings. “Black Candy” licks its amorous snarl with more fuzzy tongue but also…
Event Menu
Check out this week’s menu for lunch, happy hour, dinner, and more
Headlines
� After 32 years on death row for the murder of Austin Police Officer Ralph Ablanedo, onetime honor student David Lee Powell was executed Tuesday evening in Huntsville. � The Capital Metro board today (Thursday, June 17) is expected to announce its decision on two finalists vying to fill the CEO/president post at the troubled…
TCEQ, EPA Air Grievances
Austin could fail air-quality standards; TCEQ could fail EPA standards
Metallurgy
Black Tusk Taste the Sin (Relapse) Baroness, whose John Dyer Baizley also arts Savannah, Ga., scene mates Black Tusk, gets all the love, but the trio sharing its moniker with a British Columbian volcanic landmark spews its sophomore LP thrasher and Relapse Records bow with all the gusto of blacktop land rockets. Taste the Sin’s…
Arts Review
This more serious work from Gilbert & Sullivan still offers lots of escapist fun
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, June 17-24
More From the Joneses
More music scene oral history from the Joneses
Metallurgy
Skyforger Kurbads (Metal Blade) Latvian pagans Skyforger describe sixth folkloric Kurbads as “about a young lad who was born from a bear and a human, became very strong, and went out into the world to fight evil and monsters.” Bagpipes solo (“Son of the Mare”), acoustic underpinnings on a post-Motörhead roots rumble (“Bewitched Forest”), galloping…
Arts Review
This musical drama about Johnny Appleseed, told with puppets, bears sweet fruit
City Hall Hustle: Budget, Bonds, and Big Plans
Hard times and planned projects to collide at city forums
Metallurgy
Keep of Kalessin Reptilian (Nuclear Blast) Kalessin, eldest dragon from Ursula K. Le Guin’s visionary Earthsea scrolls, spawns a similarly cyclical “devil from the mountains,” one reaching lethal maturity on this Norwegian quartet’s fifth album, Reptilian. Atmospherics off 2008’s Kolossus open first chapter “Dragon Iconography” only to turn “claw and fang” in Nile-lite demolition of…
Day Trips
Marburger Orchard grows 13 varieties of delicious peaches as well as many other tasty fruits and vegetables
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
The A-Team
It’s the latest old TV show to be remade as a contemporary feature film and fares just about as well as the rest.
Metallurgy
Watain Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist) Swedish black magic threesome Erik Danielsson, Pelle Forsberg, and Håkan Jonsson kill the moonlight and its entire family on fourth full-length Lawless Darkness. Storm-bringer “Death’s Cold Dark” and Celtic Frost’s V-8 trample as detailed by guitarist Forsberg’s nose cone kills on screaming eagle “Malfeitor,” with its elegiac fade into…
Gay Place
Austin Pride and QueerBomb owe each other much gratitude
AISD Race: Barksdale Prevails
Barksdale and Cowan bring out the voters (sort of)
The Karate Kid
The remake of this kids’ classic was filmed in China and provides a decent update for a new generation.
Book Review
The question hanging over this sequel to Less Than Zero: Why?
Metallurgy
UFOmammut Eve (Supernaturalcat) Mammoth Italian UFO (“oofomammoot”) lands its fifth disc in five instrumental movements, dedicated to first apple adopter Eve. Vesuvian magma (“Part I”), subliminal dread waging War of the Worlds in the seventh minute (“Part II”), Boris-sized leviathan (“Part III”), valley of the tormented (“Part IV”), sludge of lost souls (“Part V”). In…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Astronomy lessons, TV and movie history, and more
ACC Run-off: Villarreal Takes the Day
Villarreal becomes ACC board’s newest member
Toy Story 3
The gang is back, and Pixar has delivered another animated gem that has the toys finding their purpose in life now that their owner has outgrown them.
Book Review
This paperback collects all seven of the sprawling, epically Southern gothic Sailor & Lula stories
The Hightower Report
BP’s Gusher of PR; and Rigging the Rules Against Unions
Letters at 3AM: A Night in Barcelona
The collision between human truths and political truths results in no truth
ACC Empire
ACC expands in all directions
Sweetgrass
This documentary about sheep herding in Montana captures a way of life that has become extinct.
CreateAustin Cultural Master Plan
City Council looks ready at last to approve the cultural plan
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar’s editor wonders if the fighting geckos ever try to sell auto insurance
The Cool Keeps On
Fourteen years after AICN woke up the Web, three Austin film sites carry on the tradition
The Pride Divide’s Aftermath
Wrap-up of 2010 Pride and QueerBomb festivities
Mother and Child
Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, and Kerry Washington lead a wonderful ensemble cast in this muzzy look into the rigors of adoption.
Luv Doc Recommends: Eric Does Hendrix
Having fun can be a real bitch. There is almost always a certain amount of effort involved. Sure, you can attempt to minimize it to a certain extent. You can position your recliner within arm’s reach of your Red Bull and Snickers stocked minifridge, get your joystick optimally situated so that you barely have to…
