David Leslie’s Impact Addict Videos
David Leslie’s Impact Addict Videos NR. Directed by Larry Fessenden, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Performance artist and UT art professor David Leslie (whose New York performance, in which viewers were offered $1,000 to knock out the artist, was mentioned in the Feb. 23 “News of the Weird”) is known for…
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke 1978, R, 86 min. Directed by Lou Adler, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach, Tom Skerritt, Edie Adams, Strother Martin. Cheech & Chong’s first movie is still their best. The duo wrote the genial script about the never-ending search for great pot, and a good…
Spy Kids Premiere
Spy Kids Premiere 2001, PG. Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick, Danny Trejo, Tony Shalhoub. Anyone who’s seen “Bedhead” or any of Robert Rodriguez’s other early short films made in San Antonio with the…
Agliff Oscar Night Party
Agliff Oscar Night Party NR. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . aGLIFF Oscar Night Party presents a live broadcast of the 73rd AcademyAwards projected on the big screen. The activities begin at 6pm as Oscar party attendees will be greeted on the red carpet by a Joan Rivers-type personality (a…
Fearless Fighters
Fearless Fighters 1973, R. Directed by Wu Min-Hsuing, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chen Lieh, Yee Yuang, Chang Ching. Seventies Hong Kong chopsocky has fighters with such names as Dragon Razor, Solar Ray of Death, One Man Army, Soul Picker, and Devil Ripper. (For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.)
Public Notice
This week is “Public Notice”‘s SXSW special. Oh, special.
Weekend Repast
Chez Zee 5406 Balcones, 454-2666 Brunch Menu, Sat-Sun , 9am-3pm Brunch at this Austin favorite is a calling, a true vocation. It’s an event filled with rich, decadent treats, and sumptuous beverages. A tinkling piano fills the crowded room as scores of people make this the destination that makes their weekend special. Offered from 9am-3pm…
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7. Kreuz Market 619 N. Colorado, Lockhart, 512/398-2361 Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm; Sat, 9am-6:30pm When longtime Lockhart barbecue master “Smitty” Schmidts died, sibling rivalry ensued because he left the family business to his son and the building that housed it to his daughter. When differences couldn’t be resolved, brother Don Schmidt moved the original family meat market…
Spotlight: Ike Turner
Ike Turner is about to be 70 and still a mack.
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Thursday Sleepers ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGE RED PLANET: San Francisco’s Red Planet pens melodic guitar-pop songs festooned with New Wave revival keyboards, harmonica, and even sitar (“Be My Yoko”). Taken as a whole, though, 2000’s Revolution 33 makes it clear that the quartet loves the late-Seventies power pop of bands like 20/20 most. Combined…
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Adam CarrollMomo’s, Wednesday 14 “This is just some guy and a guitar, man,” noted the be-capped young tough to his friends as Adam Carroll stepped up to the mike, acoustic guitar and harmonica headgear firmly in place. And whether they or anyone else in the near-capacity crowd at Momo’s were there to hear Carroll or…
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Streetwalkin’ CheetahsCasino El Camino day party, Friday 16 Is there a better punk rock band than the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs? Is there a better rock & roll band than the Cheetahs? Is there a better band, period? Maybe, but they ain’t anywhere on the music industry radar. A conference favorite for the past several years, the…
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The Soft BoysUnderwater Moonlight …and How It Got There (Matador) With its Beatles-quality hooks, high level of rock & roll energy, and lyrically wry wit, you have to wonder why the music-buying public has traditionally put up so much resistance to the artistry of Robyn Hitchcock and his first band, the Soft Boys. Then again,…
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The Black HalosThe Violent Years (Sub Pop) With one eye on the morbid romanticism of afterhours degeneracy and another on coliseum-rock salvation, Vancouver’s Black Halos are continually mining for the perfect anthem. They’re not afraid to dredge up time-tested pop hooks in the service of something that might coalesce a disparate audience long enough to…
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This documentary on the all-female concert tour is both overlong and undernourished, and the end result is likely to sustain interest for only the most avid Lilith fan.
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As 54-year-old lovers in an uneasy, reluctant courtship, Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambor nearly save this picture, but it’s a losing battle.
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Rodney CrowellThe Houston Kid (Sugar Hill) It’s been nearly six years since any new songs from Rodney Crowell, and The Houston Kid is a welcome return for one of the most prolific and successful songwriter/performers of the past 15 years. It’s an autobiographical song cycle that explores the underside of his East Houston upbringing, focusing…
Naked City
Austin is now officially in non-attainment of the Clean Air Act’s ozone standard, but it’s still unclear how Texas cities will enforce the federal law.
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What seems to be an uplifting look into the liberating nature of women’s pro wrestling in Japan quickly becomes an exploration into the psyches of the women who live it
Best Single
RUNNERS-UP: Into the New, Vallejo; Wonderland, George DeVore; Blind, Riddlin’ Kids; High, Ginger Mackenzie; Don’t Edit, Lisa Tingle; Consider Bridgette, Kissinger; Only Thing That’s Real, Sister Seven; Love Ways, Spoon; El Paso, the Gourds
Best Tejano/Conjunto
RUNNERS-UP: Ruben Ramos, The Texana Dames, Flaco Jimenez, Valerio Longoria, Johnny Degollado, Mariachi Estrella, Little Joe y la Familia, Santiago Jimenez Jr., Mingo Saldivar
Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Bruce Springsteen, Erwin Center; Fuel, the Metro; Ween, Stubb’s; Tina Turner, Erwin Center; Patti Smith, Waterloo Park; Brian Wilson, Backyard; 311, Austin Music Hall; KISS, Erwin Center; Ben Harper, Backyard
What Was Different About The Austin Chronicle’s 2000-2001 Music Poll?
Looking at the cover of March 5, 1982, it doesn’t seem that long ago that 28 musicians gathered on the steps of the Capitol in honor of winning. There was no awards ceremony that year, just the hour or so that it took to wait for a few stragglers, make Keith Ferguson hide the beer…
Letters at 3AM
Our secret fantasies were made public by Elvis Presley.
Weekend Repast
The Granite Cafe 2905 San Gabriel, 472-6483 Sunday Brunch served 11:30am-3pm, $18, reservations suggested This is clearly a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that the days when the once very popular West Austin neighborhood hangout Granite Cafe lurched from one unfortunate change to another are now well over. New chef/partner Sam Dickey…
Second Helpings
8. Fuschak’s Pit BBQ 920 Hwy. 80, San Marcos, 512/353-2713 Daily, 10:30am-9pm Fuschak’s has been family-owned and -operated since 1966, and has a rustic wood interior decorated with antique farm implements. The meats are smoked over hickory in a rotisserie pit from the Fifties. As it circulates, the meats baste each other, rendering an ultra-moist…
Spotlight: Clem Snide
Clem Snide plays love songs about nuthin’.
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Friday Picks ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGEBUCKWHEAT ZYDECO: For many, Buckwheat Zydeco (née Stanley Dural, Jr.) is the embodiment of the widely popular black, South Louisiana accordion-driven music. Dr. Zydeco has appeared on the world’s biggest stages (including the Olympics), so headlining night two of the Outdoor Stage earlies should be no problem. His latest…
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Hillbilly WerewolfRed Eyed Fly, Wednesday 14Q. What happened to Eddie Cochran after he died in that car wreck? A. He lay around in the grave for 40 years, got possessed by Satan, and came back as Hillbilly Werewolf. Scottie Mominee, fondly remembered from his Phantom Creeps days, proves that you don’t really need a bass…
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ElbowStubb’s, Friday 16 Now when exactly did British music officially stop focusing on style and start worrying about the music? I blame Radiohead, of course, what with all their hifalutin’ ideas about challenging the audience with subtle melody and complex production. Clearly Elbow is going to be a band in which music precedes fashion. The…
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SwagCatchall (Yep Roc) Swag is a Nashville supergroup of sorts, though if you’re looking for country, you’ve got the wrong band. Composed of Ken Coomer (Wilco), Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick), Jerry Dale McFadden (Sixpence None the Richer), Robert Reynolds (Mavericks), and Doug Powell, Swag delves into a brand of pop that borrows a lot from…
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GaragelandDo What You Want (Foodchain) In a place far, far away, a band by the name of Garageland rules the pop charts. That place is New Zealand, where music has always been raw, fresh, and fun. Three years ago, Garageland released Last Exit to Garageland in the States, an album that had already established the…
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Pavarotti of the Plains records the story of Texas legend Don Walser with simple, plainspoken eloquence.
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Like The Sweet Hereafter, red deer is a meditative tale of loss and redemption which seeks answers in the unexplained events of everyday life. Unlike that 1997 critics favorite, however, red deer lacks the visual appeal to sustain this slowgoing narrative.
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Bare Jr.Brainwasher (Immortal) Is this the same band that played on Boo-tay, Bare Jr.’s 1999 debut? That’s what it says on the marquee, but fans of the first disc will note that most of the twang (and dulcimer) has been vacuumed out of these arrangements. There’s little country influence to be heard here at all,…
Naked City
The council passes an aggressive panhandling ordinance as part of its “homeless self-sufficiency and responsibility initiative,” angering homeless advocates.
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Melissa Shachat’s vibrantly colored documentary looks at Gibtown, the refuge of longtime carnival and circus workers when they aren’t on the road.
Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Into the New, Vallejo (Castleberry/Vallejo/Vallejo/Vallejo); Consider Bridgette, Kissinger (Chopper); Wonderland, George DeVore (DeVore); Metal and Steel, Bob Schneider (Schneider); Only Thing That’s Real, Sister Seven (Sutton); High, Ginger Mackenzie (Mackenzie/McGregor/Orell/Sanchez); Don’t Edit, Lisa Tingle (Tingle); Big Blue, Bob Schneider (Schneider); El Paso, the Gourds (Russell)
Best Traditional Mexican/Latino
RUNNERS-UP: Tish Hinojosa, Los Tres Vigilantes, Mariachi Estrella, Grupo Fantasmo
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: Pocket FishRmen, Carnaval, Sister Seven, Vallejo
Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame
Gary P. Nunn Rusty Wier Roscoe Beck King Coffey Gretchen Phillips Tary Owens
After a Fashion
Welcome to our style column’s third in a series on local fashion photographers. This week, find out all about Bob Sherman and why frogs , lambs, and satanic pom-pom girls love him.
Weekend Repast
Ella’s Restaurant and Bar One Jefferson Square, 458-2148 Brunch served Sunday, 10am-2pm Ella’s has been here for almost three years now. During that time, they’ve built a reputation for serving a praiseworthy, tasty, and fairly priced brunch. Regulars fill Ella’s every Sunday in search of their favorites, like Ella’s Waffle ($8.25), topped with a fried…
Second Helpings
9. R.O.’s Outpost Hwy. 71 W. at Hazy Hills Dr. (17 miles west of the Y in Oak Hill), Spicewood, 264-1169 Tue-Sat, 11am-9pm; Sun, 11am-3pm Time was when tiny Spicewood was famous only because Willie Nelson lives and plays golf nearby. Now one of the reasons it’s a bona fide stop on the barbecue trail…
Spotlight: Bavu Blakes & Tee Double
Local MC got the drive.
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Friday Sleepers ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGE HIP HOP MECCA PRESENTS: All you major-label types want to know where this dramatis personae of aspiring MCs is repping? Try the jersey shortcut. Hip Hop Humpday mainstays Bavu Blakes and Tee Double get Texas Longhorn sweats by default; fellow locals Arctectonics could be rocking 49er gear as…
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The Love SupremeHole in the Wall, Wednesday 14 Even though it’s the big showcase, it looks like it’s going to be a typical night for a pop band in Austin — all dressed up and no one to play for. If memory serves, the last two Austin bands of this ilk (stylish, swaggering, song-centered) and…
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D-Flame, Illo ’77, Drew Sparks ProjectThe Empire, Friday 16 Well, that was different. Or, as Mr. Miyagi might say, different but same. Hip-hop and Germans have been intertwined since the very beginning, or close to the beginning, when Afrika Bambaataa built Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” into the soulsonic touchstone “Planet Rock.” Germany has now officially returned…
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John HammondWicked Grin (Pointblank) In the hands of a lesser performer, this album might have been another homage to the great songwriter Tom Waits, already the subject of at least two tribute albums and countless covers. John Hammond not only has the credentials to pull it off, he does so with aplomb. Hammond sat in…
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Pepe DeluxéSuper Sound (Emperor Norton/Catskills) I’m sitting here on terminal hold with AT&T, trying to correct a recurring billing error for the umpteenth time. Sheena Easton’s “Morning Train” warbles in my ear, slowly rousing the terrorist lurking inside me. When someone finally answers the phone, I will be 500% more likely to brim with bile…
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Scott J. Gill’s porn doc wonders: How does a hammy kid from Flatbush, Queens — the former Ronnie Hyatt, son of a physicist — become the hirsute “Hedgehog,” the most prolific and recognizable figure in adult film?
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Part sci-fi, part exploitation, part hipster hymn to Frederick’s of Hollywood, this ambitious flick loses its way at times but still brings home a point about prejudice, feminism, and star-crossed lovers.
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Greg TrooperStraight Down Rain (Eminent) One of the best-kept secrets in Nashville, Greg Trooper has had his songs covered by the likes of Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Robert Earl Keen, Maura O’Connell, and Billy Bragg . As a solo artist, he’s released a couple of real gems, yet he’s never found an audience beyond a…
The Hightower Lowdown
Selling the Commons; The Corporate Tax-Dodgers
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That this Western succeeds as well as it does on its very low budget is a testament to the passion of these filmmakers.
Best Alternative/Punk
RUNNERS-UP: Pushmonkey, The Scabs, Kissinger, Vallejo, Goudie, Spoon, Sister Seven, Sexy Finger Champs, Stretford
Best World Music
RUNNERS-UP: Poor Man’s Fortune, Teye y Viva el Flamenco!, The Gypsies, Cadaques, Rajamani, Tamasha Africana, Correo Aereo, Tosca, Son Vocina, Two O’Clock Courage, Papa Mali, Rubinchik’s Orkestyr, Sambaxe, Govinda
Best Cover Art
RUNNERS-UP: Steak, Guy Forsyth; Spiritual Appliances, Sara Hickman; Before They Were Rock Stars, Blind Luck; You’ll Never Get to Heaven if You Break My Heart, Jeff Klein; Bolsa de Agua, the Gourds; Into the New, Vallejo; Kings of the Catnap, LeRoi Brothers; KVRX Local Live Vol. 5: Aural Fixation, KVRX; Reefer Madness, the Asylum Street…
Lone Stars
The First annual Texas Film Hall of Fame
Mr. Smarty Pants
The toad cururu weighs as much as seven pounds.According to one theory, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock only because their beer had run out.A recent Microsoft TV commercial uses the “Dies Irae” from Mozart’s Requiem. Although “Where do you want to go today” is displayed on screen, the chorus sings, “Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus…
Weekend Repast
The Driskill Grill The Driskill Hotel, Seventh & Brazos, 474-5911 Sunday Brunch, 11am-1:30pm, reservations suggested The elegant, wood-paneled dining room with crisp white linens and silk roses on each table makes brunch a formal affair at the stately old dowager Driskill Hotel. After a brief fling with a $35 four-course brunch, the Grill management revamped…
Second Helpings
10. Opie’s Barbecue Hwy. 71 W. (20 miles past the intersection of Hwy. 71 and RR 620, turn right at the gas station) beyond Spicewood, 830/693-8660 Mon-Sat, 11am-8pm; Sun, 11am-until the meat runs out Opie’s Barbecue is the second place that now puts Spicewood on the Central Texas barbecue map. Herbie Lynn opened his own…
Spotlight: Kasey Chambers
Aussie Kasey Chambers make the biggest splash stateside since Kylie Minogue.
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Saturday Picks ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGETHE DISCO BISCUITS: Making their music industry debut on the SXSW Outdoor Stage, Easton, Pennsylvania’s Disco Biscuits are almost as colorful as their hometown’s claim to fame: Crayola. Colorful as in what you see when your drink gets spiked. Their new Megaforce CD, They Missed the Perfume, freaks like…
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I Am the World Trade CenterEmo’s Jr, Wednesday 14 Last year, the Brooklyn-based synth dance duo of Amy Dykes and Dan Geller were invited to perform at SXSW based almost entirely upon their laptop computer-created debut recording, Out of the Loop. It probably didn’t hurt that Geller is co-founder of conference fave Kindercore Records. The…
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New PornographersLa Zona Rosa, Friday 16 The New Pornographers are a supergroup of sorts composed of a varied bunch of Vancouver scenesters. The recently released debut, Mass Romantic, is a dizzying parade through the world of power pop, and this performance went a long way toward proving that not only are they talented in the…
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Los Super SevenCanto (Columbia/Legacy) There’s mucho to be said for the sophomore effort that makes its previously model predecessor lose some of its luster. Following up 1998’s self-titled and savory all-star Tex-Mex Paella, chock-full of David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Ruben Ramos, Joe Ely, and Rick Trevino (not to mention a…
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Kitty GordonWeather (India) The sweet, wistful quality of Nina Singh’s voice is Kitty Gordon’s most compelling characteristic, closely followed by the Austin band’s charm-injected power-pop. Singh and partner Mark Addison used their former band the Borrowers as a springboard to Kitty Gordon’s winsome sound, found on the 12 tracks of their first full-length album, Weather.…
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A wholly originally, wholly beautiful rumination on memory and rootlessness
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The trouble with this movie is that despite its cute premise, a sex-ed movie about masturbation wears thin surprisingly quickly.
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Swearing at MotoristsNumber Seven Uptown (Secretly Canadian) There is sadness in the comfort of home. Familiar things that are no longer part of your life, the hesitance at re-connecting, the depressing nature of fruitless nostalgia: Swearing at Motorists’ Number Seven Uptown hits all these stops, moving on before the doors even open. The Dayton, Ohio,…
Capitol Chronicle
Surveying the George W. Bush Legacy in Texas
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Beautifully shot (to a fault), meticulously edited, and well-acted, Risk comes off as a watered-down Hollywood-style caper movie with a little more grit than your average Tom Cruise fare.
Best Blues
RUNNERS-UP: Blue Monday Band, W.C. Clark, Toni Price, Chris Duarte, Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton, Double Trouble, Alien Love Child, Lisa Tingle
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Carter Pagel, Sara Hickman, Stephen Bruton, Casper Rawls, Jeff Klein, Terri Hendrix, Guy Forsyth, Slim Richey, George DeVore
Best Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Red Eyed Fly, Stubb’s, Continental Club, Emo’s, Lucy’s, Cactus Cafe, MoMo’s, La Zona Rosa, Mercury Lounge
From the Panels
“This is a very biased panel,” Penelope Spheeris joked at “Cinematography vs. Digit-ography.” All of the filmmakers — Lynne Stopkewich (Lilith on Top), D.A. Pennebaker (Down From the Mountain), and Spheeris (We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n’ Roll) sang the praises of digital film. “Acting in Independent Film”: Hollywood veterans Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried…
Day Trips
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, does more than just revive the Force. The traveling exhibit tells not just the story of costumes and movie props, but it also subtly dissects the centuries-old art of storytelling. The exhibit appeals to many different generations on many different levels. For…
Weekend Repast
Manuel’s 310 Congress Ave., 472-7555 10201 Jollyville Road, 345-1042 Sunday Jazz Brunch, 11am-3pm, reservations suggested; check out music lineup at www.manuels.com The festive jazz brunch at Manuel’s downtown location has long been one of our favorite Sunday hangouts, and now we understand that the suburban Northwest outlet with its soothing fountain and lovely patio has…
Second Helpings
11. The Salt Lick FM 1826, Driftwood, 512/858-4959 Daily, 11am-10pm This is where to take expatriate Texans (or mere wannabes) who need a barbecue epiphany that will hold them over until next year. The $13.95 family platter service gives you all the brisket, pork ribs, and sausage you can hold plus sides of beans, potato…
Spotlight: Explosions in the Sky
Austin’s Explosions in the Sky rise above most instrumental music.
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Saturday Sleepers ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGEA.SCOTT MILLER: Onetime member of the V-Roys, A. Scott Miller’s solo work has a natural appeal for its stark lyrical content and his penchant for melodies that recall the best work of John Prine and Loudon Wainwright. Look for his solo debut, a live album, this spring. (Broken Spoke,…
Live Shots
The Pilot ShipsRitz Lounge, Thursday 15 Nine o’ clock can be a funny time during South by Southwest. Many a soul is just gearing up for the big Thursday crunch, while others are getting a second wind, riddled by sometimes incomprehensible logistics, and still woozy from oft on-the-fly travel arrangements. For those in the latter…
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Tamizdat Showcase Ritz Lounge, Friday 16 South by Southwest contains sub-festivals that feature particular stylistic and/or geographical genres. For example, on Thursday night the Limelight hosted Japan Day, three venues featured Latin sounds, and Francophile world music held court at Ruta Maya. Friday was more of the same at the Tamizdat Showcase. As a Czech/…
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Justin TrevinoTravelin’ Singin’ Man (Lone Star) It bodes well for Justin Trevino that the most critical assessment that can be made of him is that he is, for the most part, merely a Johnny Bush imitator. Would there were more! No, Trevino’s forte is not innovation, it’s keeping tradition alive, and while there’s no shortage…
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Half JapaneseHello (Alternative Tentacles) Starting off with sweet, melodic opener “All the Angels Said Go to Her” and a lyric like, “This is a love that will endure, and the kitten said purr. Purr-fect,” Half Japanese’s new LP Hello proceeds to jump all over the musical map. Alternating edgy Pixies-like guitar thrash (“Patty,” “Best of…
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This PBS-backed documentary, directed by Hector Galán, succeeds as both a Tejano cultural history and a heartfelt love ballad to the most maligned of instruments.
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Moore manages to encapsulate the entirety of the open source software movement and keep non-techheads awake simultaneously.
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Neilson Hubbard Why Men Fail (Parasol) Surely Neilson Hubbard wants you feel sorry for him. Why else would he be whining endlessly (okay, it’s only for about 46 minutes) on Why Men Fail? Listening to his songs, one gets the feeling that Hubbard is reaching for some big statement, trying to portray something of overwhelming…
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If Scratch isn’t the hip-hop doc to end all hip-hop docs, then it’s stultifyingly close.
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: Blind Luck, Reckless Kelly, Pat Green, Pete Benz, Don Walser, Kelly Willis, The Derailers, Willie Nelson, Shaver, The Shelley King Band, Harris and Ryden, Charlie Robison, Ted Roddy, Cory Morrow
Best Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Chris Maresh, Darrell Phillips, Tommy Shannon, Omar Vallejo, Lucky, Bruce Hughes, Roscoe Beck, Roland Perez, Lynda Millard
Best Local Music TV Show
RUNNERS-UP: What’s the Cover, AMN; CapZeyeZ, ACAC; Midnight at Master Control, AMN; Backstage Pass, Channel 8; Texas Best, AMN; Doctor Large, ACTV; Breakin’ In, AMN; No Borders, AMN; Raw Time, ACTV
Crafting the Song
Austin theatre actor Robert Fisher has the heart of a rock & roller, the work ethic of a medieval craftsman, and the style of a Bob Fosse. Either he’s in the wrong business or he is, as playwright Kirk Lynn calls him, “a wonder.”
To Your Health
I don’t know what to believe about vitamin C! It was always promoted as safe and helpful for flu and colds, and now I hear that it may increase the risk of cancer and heart disease. Is it worth that risk just to take care of a cold?
Weekend Repast
Cafe Mia 3573 Far West Blvd., 342-9570 3663 Bee Caves Road, 327-1795 Breakfast Menu: Mon-Fri, 6:30am-10:30am; Sat-Sun, 8am-Noon, no reservations needed Though it’s not a formal brunch service, we’ve included Cafe Mia in this listing because of the quality of their food, the accessibility of the restaurants, and the affordable prices. Both the casual eateries…
Second Helpings
12. Smitty’s Market 208 Commerce, Lockhart, 512/398-9344 Mon-Fri, 7am-6pm; Sat, 7am-6:30pm, Sun, 9am-3pm Named after Kreuz Market patriarch Edgar “Smitty” Schmidt, Smitty’s opened in October 1999 in the location formerly occupied by Kreuz for almost a century. The familial spat leading to Kreuz Market’s relocation is destined to be a Texas legend. Like Kreuz, Smitty’s…
The Insider
Who: Jerry Schilling Why He’s Important: In his role as president and CEO of the Memphis & Shelby County Music Commission, Schilling is part Casey Monahan, director of the Texas Music Office, and part Kevin Connor, KGSR deejay. In the Sixties, Shilling served as film editor for Elvis Presley’s foray into film. After managing Jerry…
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Sunday Picks ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGETHE LAST TEMPTATION OF SUPEREGO: And so it ends: Superego’s Free for All finale after 6.66 years of Sunday-night worship at the Hellhole in the Wall. Never shy about his love for rock & roll legends, Paul Minor will direct this “inspired reinvention” of perhaps the most famous farewell…
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Li’l Cap’n TravisP2 Party, Thursday 15 Could you ask for a more beautiful afternoon? Well, sure, you could ask, but you’d come across like a complete ass if you did. The sunshine was ubiquitous as the warm sounds of a smattering of local (and even foreign) bands filled the back yard of a North Austin…
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BauerRed Eyed Fly, Friday 16 In the course of day-to-day living, technology often seems to bite us on the ass at the most inopportune times. Your cell battery dies in the middle of a conversation, your hair dryer bites the dust when you’re primping for a date, and your equipment goes haywire when you decide…
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The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash(Ultimatum) How to put together an alt.country record: 1) Get a hot guitar player, which San Diego’s Bastards have in nimble Tele-man Alex Watts; 2) Have a soulful singer up front, here Mark Stuart; 3) Do a couple of well-chosen covers, in this case Merle Haggard’s “Silver Wings” and Dale…
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Super XX Man & Eric MetronomeHOME: Volume II (Post-Parlo) Post-Parlo is into its second volume of an ambitious series of split EPs with such tantalizing pairings as Britt Daniel and Bright Eyes, Les Savy Fav and …Trail of Dead, and Knife in the Water and Paul Newman, slated for gradual release over the course of…
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Stephen Ives tells the touching story of Tony and Sally Amato, the couple who founded a small New York company in 1948 and have been giving young singers a place to perform in full productions of classic operas for half a century.
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HybridD: Monteith McCollum. Monteith McCollum’s festival favorite (it won top documentary awards at SXSW and Slamdance and the FIPRESCI Critics Award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam) is a quirky biography of 100-year-old Iowa farmer Milford Beeghly. Animated corncobs and other imaginative flourishes highlight this story of hybrid corn seed and Beeghly, its…
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JapanicThe Social Disease (Plethorazine) Since Austin’s Kiss Offs cease-and-desisted, there’s been a regional scarcity of slightly standoffish bands with boy-girl vocals. Or there was. Houston sex-tet Japanic comes off a bit like an older sibling’s postgraduate-studies cohorts who decided to ditch their dissertations in favor of rocking out. Their second release, The Social Disease, is…
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This documentary recounts numerous distressing human stories — oppression of immigrants by a country of immigrants — and a few small but important victories
Faithless
Faithless 2000, R, 142 min. Directed by Liv Ullman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michelle Gylemo, Thomas Hanzon, Krister Henriksson, Erland Josephson, Lena Endre. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living. In film, however, the unexamined life often spells the kiss of death, especially when the examinee finally…
Best Cover Band
RUNNERS-UP: The Recliners, Taboo, Dysfunkshun Junkshun, The Atlantics, Glamourpuss, Diamond Smugglers, SSIK, Duck Soup, Schrödinger’s Cat
Best DJ
RUNNERS-UP: DJ Trey Lopez, Govinda, The Buddy System, CNTRL
Best Music Store
RUNNERS-UP: Strait Music Company, South Austin Music, Ray & Shane Hennig’s Heart of Texas Music Inc., MusicMakers Austin, Tommy’s Drum Shop, Guitar Center, Workhorse Guitars, One World Music, Guitar Resurrection
Articulations
New York is calling, and Austin performers from the Rude Mechanicals to the Flaming Idiots to MOMFest are answering.
About AIDS
In the first five years of HIV infection, women have lower amounts of the virus in their blood than men do, but women lose T4/CD4 immune cells and develop AIDS at the same rate as men. The new study points out some considerations in using the HIV treatment guidelines published (and recently revised) by the…
Weekend Repast
East Side Cafe 2113 Manor Road, 476-5858 Saturday & Sunday brunch menu, 10am-3pm, reservations suggested If you’re looking for someplace to while away a few hours on a beautiful Austin spring day, there’s no better place than the covered patio at East Side Cafe for brunch. First, take a stroll in the flourishing organic garden…
The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!
“They say that 90 people a day move to Austin. The signs of growth are everywhere. Changes are not always welcome, however. Some of Austin’s best clubs have disappeared. Liberty Lunch, one of tonight’s featured clubs, won’t be around much longer, either. Through it all, the bands survive; they play at parties, outdoors, and sometimes,…
Spotlight: Soft Boys
When the Soft Boys reunited for a few UK gigs in 1994, leader Robyn Hitchcock told an interviewer, “I feel like an old actor squeezing himself into a corset to play Hamlet.” As the band prepares for a monthlong tour of the states, Hitchcock, always ready to wring a metaphor until it squeals, restates, “I…
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Sunday Sleepers ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGESHABAZZ 3: “Dallas hip-hop is under construction and Shabazz 3 is the architect,” this conscious trio’s Fatz once told The Dallas Observer, the weekly that’s compared them to “N.W.A. onstage at Birdland.” A year after their first LP, Late Nite With Shabazz 3, the paper reports they’re already knee-deep…
Live Shots
Shawn ColvinAustin City Limits, Thursday 15 As if there weren’t enough going on. But it makes sense, really: Shawn Colvin isn’t looking for a deal, publishing, or more press. Okay, maybe not the last one. With her first album in four years coming out next week, Whole New You, the once former/now present local –…
Live Shots
How can the UK reclaim the U.S.?Austin Convention Center, Saturday 17 Here’s the long and short of it: British bands don’t succeed in the States because the campaign to win this vast and difficult territory — the touring, radio promotion, meet-and-greets — “does their head in.” The panel premise, as introduced by moderator Doug D’Arcy,…
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The Disco BiscuitsThey Missed the Perfume (Megaforce) Now that the Dead is dead and Phish has beached itself, what’s a jam band fan to do? How ’bout explore new technology and fresh ideas? That’s just what bands like the New Deal, Sound Tribe, and the Disco Biscuits are doing, while combining this admittedly loose genre’s…
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Songs:OHIAGhost Tropic (Secretly Canadian) Though Ghost Tropic, the new album from Chicago’s Songs:OHIA, most certainly does not lack its disarming, tender moments, the likes of which have made Jason Molina a cult figure of sorts in the indie world, their impact is deadened by the currents on which they arrive. What usually makes Molina’s songs…
SXSW Film Reviews
One of the central conceits of A House on a Hill is that the building is not as important as the work put into it, and that idea seems to have bled into the film itself.
SXSW Film Reviews
Manna From HeavenD: Gabrielle C Burton, Maria Burton; with Ursula Burton, Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Jill Eikenberry, Frank Gorshin, Shirley Jones, Chloris Leachman, Wendie Malick, Louise Fletcher. How Five Sisters Productions, a real-life sister act, got so many celebrity actors to appear in this half-baked comedy is a mystery more intriguing than the actual narrative…
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DewatoDemonstration (India/Penguinville) The afternoon sun peeks out through the shutters, signaling the beginning of another hazy day. Your head’s full of cobwebs, and something just ain’t right. You can’t quite put your finger on it, so you fire up the stereo while pondering this point. That’s when Dewato’s debut kicks in, and right then and…
SXSW Film Reviews
A devastating, twisted work, Amores Perros is marred only by a bloated running time and a bloodless conclusion.
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates 2001, R, 129 min. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Ron Perlman, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Gabriel Marshall-Thomson, Eva Mattes, Matthias Habich. In the opening of Enemy at the Gates, as the boats land on the shores of the Volga…
Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Slaid Cleaves, Sara Hickman, Adam Carroll, Shelley King, The Gourds, Danny Santos, Jeff Klein, Toni Price, Jimmy LaFave
Best Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: J.J. Johnson, Chris Layton, Paul Pearcy, Alex Vallejo, Bill Maddox, Frosty, o3, Sean Phillips, Jason Stolley, Jason White, Darwin Keys, Dave Dirty, Jason McKenzie, Mambo John Treanor
Best Music Writer
RUNNERS-UP: Christopher Gray, Margaret Moser, Greg Beets, Chris Reimenschneider, Ken Lieck, Christopher Hess, John T. Davis, Raoul Hernandez, Michael Corcoran
Numerous and Curious Tongues
What two new books — Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz and Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico by Olivier Debroise — arrive at, like the most chaotic of the Mexican murals, is a body of work that is crammed full of dissonant faces and lives while telling a seductive tale…
Coach’s Corner
Maybe the old coach has been out in the desert too long, but if there’s anything to these rumors about Bobby Knight and Texas Tech, it sounds too good to be true.
Weekend Repast
The Starlite 624 West 34th, 374-9012 Sunday Brunch menu, noon-5pm, reservations accepted. The newest entry in Austin’s Sunday brunch sweepstakes is The Starlite, a hip new eatery housed in a cozy mid-town cottage a few blocks north of the UT campus. At chef Chris Howard’s first solo venture, he’s serving a fusion-style menu with a…
Storyteller
Talking turkey with X-Ray
Spotlight: Winslow
Up and coming Austin instrumentalists Winslow think about maybe getting some fans
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW begins
Live Shots
Radiohead Listening PartyPlush, Thursday 15 Damn that Radiohead. Of course they’ve got to be thousands of miles away, probably not even on the same continent as our li’l ol’ music fest, but the Oxford ones have reached that point in their career where physical presence is no longer necessary to create a stir. Here, it…
Live Shots
Producers: My Path to the StudioAustin Convention Center, Saturday 17 Producers don’t have it that easy, regardless of what anyone might think. If an album lays an egg, the producer winds up with at least part of the blame. If a band isn’t happy with the final product, the producer is always to blame. And…
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DumptruckLemmings Travel to the Sea (Devil in the Woods) After a long period of down time when they didn’t release any music at all, Austin’s Dumptruck is now prolific, having released two LPs in the span of two years. Not only that, their latest, Lemmings Travel to the Sea, is a 2-CD set. Not to…
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Will SextonScenes From Nowhere (India) It’s been six years since we last heard from Will Sexton. We may not be sure what musical roads he’s traveled in that time, but Scenes From Nowhere finds the local songwriter in a pensive mood that fits him well. This collection could be seen as a kind of song…
SXSW Film Reviews
You can’t make this shit up.
SXSW Film Reviews
Roof to RoofD: Ara Corbett; with Amy Aivazian, Zaven Movsesian, Vanik Avanessian, Armineh Keshishian. Ambition exceeds accomplishment in this fascinating but inarticulate narrative about the Armenian-American immigrant experience in contemporary Los Angeles. Told from the perspective of a father and his seven-year-old daughter, Roof to Roof conveys a sense of the outsider’s alienated life in…
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ArloUp High in the Night (Sub Pop) The title for Arlo’s debut reportedly comes from singer/guitarist/bassists Nate Greely and Sean Spillane’s shared affection for absurdist, capital-letter-abhorring poet e.e. cummings. Would never have guessed that from song titles like “Nerf Bear Bonanza,” right? Perhaps a little disappointingly, Up High in the Night turns out to be…
SXSW Film Reviews
Two years after graduation, a gang of high school buddies reunites for an evening of air hockey and reverse peristalsis.
Best Funk
RUNNERS-UP: Mingo Fishtrap, Funky London, Dysfunkshun Junkshun, Dahebegebees
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Eddy Shaver, Wayne Sutton, Jimmie Vaughan, Ian Moore, Monte Montgomery, Steve Garvey, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Chris Duarte, Stephen Bruton, Heath Clark, Slim Richey, Will Hoffman, Jason Frankhouser, Jimmy Messer, Kyle Judd, Derek O’Brien, Britt Daniel, Spencer Gibb, Roger Blevins
Best New Club
RUNNERS-UP: Room 710, MoMo’s, Empanada Parlour, The Red Fezz
India Ink
Reality meets fantasy in three new novels set in India.
Weekend Repast
Ah, brunch, that lovely weekend repast where breakfast meets lunch with a mimosa in one hand and a Bloody Mary in the other, where Eggs Benedict and Crème Brûlée French Toast can share the same buffet line with a steamship round of beef and a mountain of cold boiled shrimp.
Food-o-File
What foodies are reading, and updates on local culinary news.
Goodnight, Austin, Texas — Wherever You Are
In an age when Eminem and Gwyneth Paltrow win Grammys and Oscars, Austin’s annual Music Awards stand in stark contrast. For a town whose blood runs music, there’s no lack of hipsters, scenesters, and next big things. And yet, somehow, year after year, and particularly in the past few Music Polls, the growing populace of…
Spotlight: Red House Painters
The Red House Painters are back.
SXSW NEWS
You Gotta Start Somewhere … And the beginning is as good a place as anywhere, I suppose, especially since as I type this, SXSW has only barely begun. My day didn’t start off well — I had to drive into the demon-infested suburb of West Lake Hills to visit the dentist who had performed a…
Live Shots
764-HERORoom 710, Thursday 15 There are tip jars everywhere in Austin — every person in every deli and movie theater and burger joint seems to depend on the kindness of strangers to make a living. At Room 710, a fantastic year-old dive on Red River, there was a tip jar nailed to the side of…
Live Shots
Recovery Issues Forum/Mental Health Issues ForumAustin Convention Center, Saturday 17 Oftentimes alternate reality — via mental health issues or substance abuse — go hand-in-hand with creativity. As a result of an artist’s quest to explore and express the unknown, this pursuit can lead to addiction and depression. Moderated by MusiCares Foundation representative Harold Owens, the…
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HonkyHouse of Good Tires (Hall of Records) Remember the night you went to that party way out in the country, and woke up on the couch the next morning not knowing where you were, a pounding in your head independent of your own heartbeat? You know, that’s when you found your Chevelle with barf all…
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Kristin HershSunny Border Blue (Beggars Banquet) Kristin Hersh, like Juliana Hatfield, is blessed with a loyal audience always ready for her next offering. With Sunny Border Blue, Hersh leaves behind the girl-woman axis that made her music in Throwing Muses so compelling, and moves completely into the world of womanhood. That has left her a…
SXSW Film Reviews
The Catholic machine gets another working over in this Italian coming-of-age story about a young boy and his love for the house servant.
SXSW Film Winners
Winners of the SXSW 2001 Film Festival
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Blake BabiesGod Bless the Blake Babies (Zoë) A Juliana Hatfield album is always good for at least one quasi-redeeming, three-minute slice of pop heartbreak, and God Bless the Blake Babies is fully obliging in providing that requisite worthwhile moment on “Disappear.” Unfortunately, that’s about it. True, this isn’t just a Hatfield album, but rather a…
SXSW Film Reviews
University of Texas MFA students Maggie Carey and Elena Carr discover it’s not all fluffers and hedgehogs in the real world of down-and-dirty indie porn.
Best Hip Hop
RUNNERS-UP: Hip Hop Humpday, Tee Double, MC Truth, Buttahfly
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Kelly Willis, Patrice Pike, Ginger Mackenzie, Terri Hendrix, Toni Price, Christina Marrs, Patty Griffin, Maryann Price, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, Stella Maxwell, Laura Scarborough, Beth Black, Alice Spencer, Barbara K
Best Radio Personality
RUNNERS-UP: Johnny Walker, KLBJ FM 93.7; John Aielli, KUT Radio FM 90.5; Jody Denberg, 107.1 FM KGSR; Kevin Connor, 107.1 FM KGSR; Ben Blaze, KROX-FM 101X; Tim Wise, KVRX 91.7; Bob Fonseca, KLBJ FM 93.7; Peggy Simmons, KLBJ FM 93.7; Toby, KROX-FM 101X; Andy Langer, KUT Radio FM 90.5, KROX-FM 101X; Paul Ray, KUT 90.5…
Postscripts
A young Texas writer who found success in Hollywood, and a new book of photographs by one of Austin’s most experienced photographers.
Weekend Repast
Green Pastures 811 West Live Oak, 444-1888 Sunday Brunch Buffet, 11am-2pm, $26 per person, reservations suggested The Grand Dame of Austin restaurants serves one of the most elegant brunches we’ve ever encountered in a lovely Victorian mansion that was the childhood home of beloved local humorist and raconteur John Henry Faulk. Faulk’s sister Mary Faulk…
Second Helpings: BBQ Joints Within an Hour of Austin
For years, Central Texas towns such as Lockhart, Elgin, and Taylor have been home to some justifiably famous barbecue joints. Due to recent developments, tiny Spicewood west of Austin is now a necessary stop on the barbecue trail. Some of these places are of the meat market variety and others are full-service cafes. Whatever your…
Spotlight: Spoon
Screw indie rock — Britt Daniel is aiming for the Top 40.
Spotlight: Mogwai
Scottish instrumental quintet refutes any and all categories.
SXSW NEWS
Good God, It’s Friday … My first thought as I sit down to write this latest installment in the Chronicle’s South by Southwest daily odyssey is, “I wonder who all is playing in Monte Montgomery’s band tonight?” It wouldn’t be all that burning a question except I had heard yesterday that bassist Steve Bernal had…
Live Shots
Das Boot, Fantasy’s CoreThe Limelight, Thursday 15 The ever-popular SXSW slate of Japanese bands kicked off Thursday with an ear-splitting, spittle-raining frenzy of punk sneer and soul swagger. Tokyo’s Das Boot is a wiry young trio raised on a steady diet of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion fused with the flailing, lo-fi antics of Guitar Wolf.…
Live Shots
ToadiesTower Records In-Store, Saturday 17 Scratch that one off the list, saw ’em already. That’s how the system’s supposed to work: See ’em during the day so you can see someone else at night. Saturday’s Tower Records in-store by the Toadies promised to be far less hassle than the Stubb’s showcase later in the evening,…
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Butchies3 (Mr. Lady) This is the third in the mighty triptych of Butchieology. Let’s meditate for a moment on the number three: 1) Father, Son, Holy Ghost; 2) primary colors; 3) the Minutemen; 4) “Learn your ABCs, not your ABCDs”; 5) Guitar, bass, drums; and most importantly; 6) third base. That’s it, baby. Right there.…
SXSW Film Reviews
The gags come fast and furious, and the fair amount of gross-out humor makes Super Troopers play like a cop version of Caddyshack.
SXSW Film Reviews
This inspired program is an inventive and deeply emotional compilation that not only works psychologically but also resonates across gender, age, and sexual orientation
SXSW Web Awards
An annotated list of this year’s Web Awards winners
SXSW Records
The WaistcoatsStark Raving Mod! (Wildebeest) Back in the mid-Sixties, there lived a race of cavemen who grew their hair like Brian Jones and learned how to play instruments from Kinks and Yardbirds records. Never mind that their Vox guitars sounded like bees stuck in Coke cans; they developed their caterwauling and evolved to resemble punk…
SXSW Film Reviews
Every Austinite should see this film, the human underside of our relentless growth; filmmakers should see it as a testimony to letting the story come to you.
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: Golden Arm Trio, The Jazz Pharaohs, The Blue Noise Band, Mingo Fishtrap, The Brew, The Asylum Street Spankers, Laura Scarborough, Ephraim Owens, 8 1/2 Souvenirs
Best Horns
RUNNERS-UP: Ephraim Owens, Blaze; Dan Beckett; Tony Park; La Tribu; Cynthia Sadler; David Lobel, the Blue Noise Band; Jon Blondell; Vallejo Horns; Brown Whörnet
Best Radio Program
RUNNERS-UP: Eklektikos, John Aielli, KUT Radio FM 90.5; Kevin & Kevin, 107.1 FM KGSR; JB & Sandy, Mix 94.7 FM; Next Big Thing, Andy Langer, KROX-FM 101X; Folkways, Ed Miller, Dan Foster, Dave Obermann, KUT Radio FM 90.5; Hicksville 4, John Barker, KVRX 91.7 FM; Twine Time, Paul Ray, KUT 90.5 FM; Local Licks, Loris…
Readings
One Market Under God Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy by Thomas Frank Doubleday, 414 pp., $26 No Logo Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein Picador USA, 512 pp., $28; $17 (paper) One of the myths of the tech economy is that a new breed of Hawaiian-shirted technology…
Weekend Repast
Fonda San Miguel 2330 W. North Loop, 459-4121 Sunday Brunch Buffet, 11am-2pm, $28.95, reservations suggested Fonda’s renowned Fiesta Sunday brunch is a perennial winner in our annual restaurant poll and it’s easy to understand why. The beautifully decorated buffet table is the centerpiece of the main dining room amidst tropical plants and a world-class, museum-quality…
Second Helpings
1. Louis Mueller Barbecue 206 W. Second, Taylor, 512/352-6206 Mon-Thu, 10am-6pm; Fri-Sat, 9am-5pm Sun, 9am until they run out of meat In Taylor, the Mueller family has been serving barbecue practically unchanged for more than 50 years in a little storefront with a rickety screen door. Here, the legendary brisket, chicken, beef and pork ribs,…
Spotlight: Paul Burch
Nashville songwriter Paul Burch teams with novelist Tony Earley for Last of My Kind.
Spotlight: Thomas Mapfumo
The Lion of Zimbabwe prepares to roar at SXSW.
SXSW News
A Sweet at the Hyatt Got things rolling a little late today, popping over to the Hyatt around lunchtime to chat with Matthew Sweet, who as you know is headlining the free outdoor show at Waterloo Park today thanks to the Jim Beam people, who have been trotting out the prince of pop (not to…
Live Shots
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky ThunderWaterloo Park, Thursday 15 Nothing like Waterloo Park to see otherwise-civilized-looking folks armed with turkey legs and ambling around with them for some fine Henry VII-style dining. Skaggs and the boys, though, soon had those turkey noshers forgetting their snacks like they were yesterday’s news. Early on in the set, the…
Live Shots
Earlimart, Black Lipstick, John Hunt & Beaty WilsonWooldrige Park Day Party, Saturday 17 “Even free beer isn’t enough to get people in Texas to leave their homes when it’s cold,” said Bedbug’s Chris Hillen, who, weather permitting, hoped to perform later Saturday evening. By way of comparison, he added, “In Minnesota they’d be out shoveling…
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BrassyGot It Made (Wiiija) Try not to dance, I dare you. Brassy’s Got It Made is an early contender for jukebox record of the year. 18 songs, 41 minutes — do the math. Lead singer Muffin Spencer has obviously inherited the same cocky, blues-loving genes as older brother Jon, and has a smoother flow to…
SXSW Film Reviews
The genius of Penelope Spheeris’ OzzFest documentary is her whip-smart editing style, which weaves skeins of meaning behind the madness with crosscuts and montage.
SXSW Film Reviews
Corporate behemoth Wal-Mart plans a new store in Ashland, and the local “Pink Flamingos” organize against the mega-mart while town fathers want business to continue as usual.
Web Award Emcee John Halcyon Styn
Believe it or not, John Halcyon Styn wasn’t always the proud little sexpot he is today. The self-proclaimed “digital argonaut” and superstar of SXSW Interactive remembers that women once scoffed when he called himself Webmaster. “They were like, ‘Uh, I don’t do computers,'” he says. Or they thought he was devoted to Dungeons & Dragons.…
Deep Blues From Gatesville
Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?
SXSW Film Reviews
Despite its first-film raggedness, there’s plenty of charm in this documentary about Austin’s garage sale culture
Best Lounge/Swing
RUNNERS-UP: Mister Fabulous, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Hot Club of Cowtown, The El Orbits, Natalie Zoe, Lucky Strikes, The Asylum Street Spankers, Seth Walker Band, The Scabs
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Bukka Allen, Ginger Doss, Floyd Domino, Earl Poole Ball, Phillip Edwards, Carl Thiel, Graham Reynolds, Riley Osborn, Ian McLagan
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: KLBJ FM 93.7, KROX-FM 101X, KUT Radio FM 90.5, KVRX 91.7, KOOP Radio 91.7, 97.1 Radio Free Austin, 93.3 Lonestar KLNC, Mix 94.7 FM KAMX, Magic 95.5 FM KKMJ
Readings
Burn A Science Fiction Noir by Jonathan Lyons Domhan Books, 205 pp.,$18.95 In Burn, Austin’s Jonathan Lyons takes the 21st century by the scruff and gives it a two-fisted knuckloid sandwich in the kisser. (Seeing as how the century is starting out so woefully it could use a good roughing up — take that, you.)…
Weekend Repast
Cafe at the Four Seasons 98 San Jacinto Blvd., 478-4500 Sunday Brunch Buffet, 10:30am-1:30pm, $40 for adults, $20 children; reservations suggestedThe comfortable dining room at the local Four Seasons property boasts a lovely view of Lake Austin and the deck here is the perfect place for Sunday brunch. While their brunch buffet is the most…
Second Helpings
2. Rudy Mikeska’s 300 W. Second, Taylor, 512/365-3722; 800/962-5706 Mon-Sat, 9:30am-8pm; Sun, 9:30am-2pm The Mikeskas have carved a comfortable niche for themselves in the pantheon of Texas barbecue all-stars. All five of Rudy’s brothers have their own barbecue joints in other Texas towns. Called the “first family of Texas barbecue,” the Mikeskas have been serving…
Spotlight: Ozomatli/Jurassic 5
MC Chali 2NA describes Ozomatli and Jurassic 5’s humble origins.
The Insider
Who: Donald S. Passman Why He’s Important: Passman is the author of the recently updated All You Need to Know About the Music Business, long referred to as the music business “bible.” He practices law with the Los-Angeles-based firm of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, & Brown, Inc. , was responsible for record-breaking deals for both Janet…
SXSW News
Stone the Crowes! It wasn’t quite up to the headline-making potential of the Austin Police Department’s overreaction on the Saturday night of this year’s Mardi Gras, which many say was the trigger that set off riots that left numerous people injured and 35 arrested, but the APD didn’t make any new friends at the Black…
Live Shots
Boy Howdy: The Creem StoryAustin Covention Center, Friday 16 Getting nine former staffers from Creem magazine on a panel and not having to call 911 was a feat in itself, but it provided some of the liveliest 75 minutes of the conference. The Detroit-based rock magazine thrived during the Seventies and Eighties, but fell victim…
Live Shots
The Soft BoysAustin Music Hall, Saturday 17 This was perhaps the least desirable of all outcomes. The Soft Boys were just okay. Had it been spectacular, that would have offered a two-decades-overdue “told you so” for the flamekeepers of the underappreciated. Had it failed spectacularly, that would have been almost forgivable. Sometimes taking nostalgia out…
SXSW Records
Split Lip RayfieldNever Make It Home (Bloodshot) How does that guy whack that dang one-string gas-tank bass so fast without tearing his fingers off? Once again, Split Lip Rayfield busts out 14 songs of breakneck neo-bluegrass with blistering results. “Movin’ to Virginia” points things in the right direction, with a mid-tempo pace (for them anyway)…
SXSW Film Reviews
One can safely assume that Herman Melville never imagined the title character of his dark tale “Bartleby the Scrivener” in an episode of The Drew Carey Show.
SXSW Film Reviews
Documentarian Alan Berliner explores his obsession with names, most specifically, his own name and the fact that he must share it with at least 12 other Alan (or Allen or Allan …) Berliners in the world.
Short Cuts
SXSW: Quentin bails, Jeremy fluffs.
Dispatches From the Drug War
Several months ago, the Chronicle Politics department received a letter, one of dozens we receive concerning drug war casualties in Texas prisons. We consider each of them, but can’t always assign a reporter. This particular letter made an eloquent argument on behalf of prisoner Amy L. Smith. On a hunch that there was a story…
SXSW Film Reviews
Peter Sutherland’s film about New York city bike messengers is that rare documentary that allows the viewer to live the spectacle rather than view it.
Best Metal/Industrial
RUNNERS-UP: Pushmonkey, Godzilla Motor Company, Sinis, Lucid Dream, Drawn Under, Stonekracker, 28MPH, Anger Management, Powderburn
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Malford Milligan, A.J. Vallejo, Slaid Cleaves, George DeVore, Chopper, Monte Montgomery, Guy Forsyth, Jimmy LaFave, Ian Moore, Davíd Garza, Kerry Mosser, Tony Park, Dale Watson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Goudie, Adam Carroll, Jeff Klein, Joe West, Spencer Gibb
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: Carl Thiel, Paradise by Lisa Tingle; Merle Brigante, Before They Were Rock Stars by Blind Luck; Lars Gorensson, Trouble With Being Nice by Household Names; Mitch Watkins, Wonderland by George DeVore; Gurf Morlix, Broke Down by Slaid Cleaves; Sara Hickman, Spiritual Appliances; Greg Atkins, The Gospel According to Austin; Eastside Flash, Chickenboxer by Shorty…
Readings
This Shape We’re In by Jonathan Lethem McSweeney’s Books, 49 pp., $9 It is a common mistake of book critics to fault a book for not being something other than what it is. Only the most obtuse of readers would hold up Stephen King’s latest and say, with aplomb, “It fails to be Hamlet.” That…
Weekend Repast
The Empanada Parlour 707 E. Sixth (just off of I-35 at Waller Creek), 480-8902 Gospel brunch, Sundays, noon-3pm (music begins around 12:30) Longtime fans of Ash Corea’s delicious little meat-, vegetable-, and sweet-filled pockets rejoiced when she moved her popular Empanada Parlour into its new digs on Sixth Street. They sang out in a chorus…
Second Helpings
3. Cross-Town Bar-B-Q 211 Central Ave., Elgin, 281-5594 Sun-Thu, 10am-8pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-10pm For the past 12 years, Cross-Town has been doing business in an unassuming little downtown building that you might miss if you hadn’t been told to look for it. After a couple of visits, our advice is this: If you prefer your barbecue…
Spotlight: Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs, at home with God, Bill Monroe, and his own music.
Dr. Demento
The world’s foremost authority on goofy music hosts an appropriately bent SXSW showcase.
Live Shots
Ashley ParkEmo’s Jr., Wednesday 14 Though Athens, Ga.’s Kindercore Records is certainly one of the hippest indie labels showcasing their wares at SXSW, Emo’s wouldn’t normally be the best venue for such a display. Despite the club’s formidable and long-standing status as Austin’s premier watering hole for underground touring bands, Kindercore’s roster tends toward the…
Live Shots
Pro Tools: Gift or Curse?Austin Convention Center, Friday 16 How pervasive is Pro Tools? It’s become a verb. There is almost nothing you hear on radio, TV, or film that hasn’t been touched by it. For the uninitiated, Pro Tools is simply a software application that allows you to record and manipulate audio. It also…
Live Shots
Mojo’s Mayhem & Kontinental Kar Show & ShineContinental Club, Saturday 17 There’s something preternatural about spending a Saturday afternoon at South Austin’s Continental Club. It’s always seemed a perfect setting for seeing live music after dark, yet its smoky lounge atmosphere is diminished somewhat by daylight streaming through its windows. That didn’t stop Mojo Nixon…
SXSW Records
The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs Waiting for the Death of My Generation (Triple X) L.A.’s Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs have become infamous for their MC5/Stooges-inspired live performances where every last drop of sweat is spent before the band leaves the stage. As their Motor City forebears learned, translating this into something that resonates in the studio is hardly a…
SXSW Film Reviews
This paean to the late-Eighties punk DIY fanzine underground follows black-clad, brooding ‘zinester Teri and her scruffy pals on a random adventure from South Carolina to NYC.
SXSW Film Reviews
This celebration of the Gypsies of Spain blends documentary and narrative styles to create a unique film, one which uses a simple story to tell volumes about a culture often misunderstood by the masses
Video Reviews
Christmas in July, Sullivan’s Travels (1942), The Palm Beach Story
O, Brother! Where Art Thou?
Although out of the headlines, the George W. Bush siblings have been doing quite nicely for themselves.
SXSW Film Reviews
“Welcome to the world of existential angst.”
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Lonelyland, George DeVore, Sister Seven, The Gourds, Reckless Kelly, The Scabs, Dexter Freebish, Lisa Tingle, Monte Montgomery
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: Blind Luck, Off the Record, Asylum Street Spankers, Golden Arm Trio, Tosca, Joe West & the Sinners, The Gourds, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Flipside Den
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Mambo John Treanor, washboard; Lynda Millard, flute; Paul Glasse, mandolin; Pops Bayless, ukelele; J.P. Allen, harmonica; Eastside Flash, dobro; Wammo, washboard; Diego Simmons, bongos; Joel Guzman, accordion
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Cheapo Discs, Jupiter Records, Thirty Three Degrees, CD Warehouse, Tower Records-Video-Books, ABCD’s (Austin’s Best Compact Discs), Sound Exchange, Antone’s Record Store, Technophilia
Readings
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong Ballantine, 464 pp., $15 (paper) I imagine many people shrugging off this surprisingly accessible and engaging history of fundamentalism in the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religions as so much academic working of the obvious: Religious nuts aren’t that hard to figure, they’re simply primitive, intolerant, fear-led boobs. But…
Weekend Repast
Z’Tejas Grill 1110 West Sixth, 478-5355 9400 Arboretum Blvd., 346-3506 Brunch Menu, Sat-Sun, 11am-3pm, reservations accepted for large parties Whether you’re sitting on the deck in their downtown hillside treehouse or taking in the stunning Hill Country view from the patio of their Arboretum location, Z’Tejas makes a great place for brunch. It’s possible to…
Second Helpings
4. Southside Market & Bar-B-Cue 1212 U.S. 290 E., Elgin, 281-4650 Mon-Thu, 8am-8pm; Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm; Sun, 9am-7pm This sausage factory is one of the main reasons Elgin bears the distinction of being “the sausage capital of Texas.” A family named Moon founded the factory in 1882, and it’s been run by the current owners, the…
Spotlight: Robbie Hardkiss
Recent Austinite Robbie Hardkiss discusses the rise of DJ culture.
The Insider
Who: David Fricke Why He’s Important: He’s not just a senior editor at Rolling Stone, but also a legitimate, enthusiastic, and unabashed music fan. The Game Plan: “Generally, I just walk the streets. Because I have the opportunity to see a lot in New York, I don’t sweat too much, as opposed to people from…
Live Shots
James Hyland & The South Austin Jug BandBroken Spoke, Wednesday 14 There’s a phenomenon out of Texas that’s got some folks in the media, primarily critics and radio programmers, scratching their heads. It’s being called “Texas music,” and its primary purveyors are Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, and Charlie Robison — not exactly critical darlings,…
Live Shots
The Gram Parsons LegacyAustin Convention Center, Friday 16 For a guy who died at age 26, never having sold many albums in his lifetime, Gram Parsons, former Byrd, former Flying Burrito Brother, former force behind the International Submarine Band, has left a sizeable thumbprint on modern pop music. Perhaps the reason for the relative obscurity…
Live Shots
Sangre de ToroBuffalo Club, Saturday 17 To really enjoy the screeching, pounding cacophony of a power trio like Sangre de Toro, it helps to be pissed off about something. Being gouged $4.25 for a lousy bottle of Bud Light did the trick for me. Fortunately, the hypnotic sight of Sangre’s fast-spinning disco ball in the…
SXSW Records
ToadiesHell Below/Stars Above (Interscope) It can’t be mere coincidence that only a month after Hannibal comes out, so does the Toadies’ long, long, long-awaited follow-up to Rubberneck. And Hell Below/Stars Above deserves to make as much money as the movie has. From the white-knuckle “Plane Crash” on down, it just doesn’t quit. The band’s creepily…
SXSW Film Reviews
Gorgeously shot and superbly acted, Felicidades is a fascinating nightmare.
SXSW Film Reviews
Mutant Aliens D: Bill Plympton; with the voices of Dan McComas, Francine Lobis, George Casden, Matthew Brown. (35mm, 83 min.) It begins, as things so often do, with a perky blond newscaster being torn limb from limb and devoured before our eyes. Okay, okay, not all films start out that way, but if you’re one…
TV Eye
As a breakout film for Kathie Lee, E! Entertainment’s original movie Spinning Out of Control misses the mark. Also, the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards and Oscar-related programs.
Naked City
Warren Chisum resurrects the Andrews County nuclear waste dump, Longhorn Pipeline politics under scrutiny, and Austin marches against hate
SXSW Film Reviews
This collection’s themes of self-responsibility, introspection, and carpe diem made for a charming program.
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: Shorty Long, Harris and Ryden, Back Porch Mary, Fast and Far, Cruiserweight, Karen Poston and Her Crystal Pistols, Dames Violet, 28MPH, The Gardeners
Best Pop
RUNNERS-UP: Blind Luck, George DeVore, Ginger Mackenzie, Cruiserweight, Dexter Freebish, Sara Hickman, Fastball, Riddlin’ Kids, Mingo Fishtrap
Best Singer-Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Slaid Cleaves, Sara Hickman, Terri Hendrix, Adam Carroll, Lisa Tingle, Ginger Mackenzie, Monte Montgomery, Carter Pagel, Jeff Klein, Blu Sanders, Bruce Robison, Jimmy LaFave, Shelley King, Pat Green
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: Leaving Town, Dexter Freebish; Boys-N-the Hood, Dynamite Hack; My Hometown, Charlie Robison; What I Deserve, Kelly Willis
Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.
Weekend Repast
Java Noodles 2400 E. Oltorf, 443-5282 Sunday Brunch, noon-3pm Java dishes up their version of the Indonesian rijstaffel, or “rice table,” every Sunday from noon to 3pm. The owner-chefs hail from the island of Java in the Indonesian archipelago and produce food as authentically flavored as that found on the islands half a world away.…
Second Helpings
5. Meyer’s Elgin Smokehouse 188 U.S. 290 E., Elgin, 281-3331 Sun-Thu, 10am-7pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Since 1949, the Meyer family has been making sausage in Elgin from the precious heirloom recipe brought to Texas by a German immigrant great-grandfather. The current generation of Meyer brothers expanded the wholesale sausage operation and added a restaurant in 1998.…
The Insider
Who: Rupert Neve Why He’s “Important”: Console Designer, Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award Winner Biggest misconception: “That I’m dead or retired. I’m not retiring. I’m still working and designing as a consultant. I design innovative stuff and other people do the donkey work — the production. I’m in the wonderful position of being paid for my…
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
South by Southwest 2001. Welcome. Welcome to the hunt. The hunt for bands, the hunt for songs, the hunt for stars. The hunt for genius. The hunt for deals, meals, and wheels of steel. A sound — a buzz. A chance. Cold, hard, cash. Swarm the streets from dawn till dusk, and into the midnight…
Live Shots
GenitallicaThe Metro, Wednesday 14 The problem with all the much-hyped Rock en Español, much like yesterday’s favorite international buzz from Japan, is often the translation. That’s the daunting obstacle faced by bands like Genitallica, Monterrey, Mexico’s favorite party band. It was clear from the opener, though, that this band has the ammo to slice through…
Live Shots
Almost FamousAustin Convention Center, Friday 16 What do rock critics really like to do? Besides scam promo CDs, schmooze their way into clubs, and live as much like musicians as possible without actually being one? They like to talk. The annual South by Southwest rock critics’ confab this year was titled “Almost Famous” and pondered…
Live Shots
Scott MillerBroken Spoke, Saturday 17 As the clouds continued to rumble and stir, the crowd rolled steadily into the Broken Spoke, the preeminent South Austin dance hall, electric with the anticipation of a long, rocking night of good old-fashioned American music. As frontman for his former outfit the V-Roys, Scott Miller was responsible for sophisticated…
SXSW Records
Operator GeneratorPolar Fleet (Man’s Ruin) Hailing from San Jose, Calif., Operator Generator specializes in skull-burrowing, deluxe hard-metal riffage, as heavy as if the earth’s gravitational pull has significantly increased. On their Man’s Ruin debut, the Bay Area quartet clearly shows its influences — late Sixties/early Seventies proto-metal — with some glimmers of developing songwriting to…
SXSW Film Reviews
“How’s your news?” may seem an odd question to ask a stranger, but in this documentary about disabled adults who travel across the country as news reporters, it isn’t the question that matters.
SXSW Film Reviews
Strikingly conceived and executed, with visual panache and diamond-hard portrayals from the leads, Memento is one to remember.
SXSW Records
Eric TaylorScuffletown (Eminent) With a voice like old leather, saturated with long years of smoke and tears but only getting better with time, Texas songsmith Eric Taylor loads his latest release Scuffletown with about as much dark emotion and as many unwelcome ghosts as a single album can handle. Though it starts off on what…
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
SXSW Film Reviews
In her documentary about the residents of east side Milwaukee’s “Caesar’s Park,” Sarah Price captures many of the idiosyncrasies and quirks of her over-the-fence characters, but we’re left, like the local walkabout, looking in vain for real “friends.”
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Monte Montgomery, George DeVore, Slaid Cleaves, Eric Johnson, Sara Hickman, Lisa Tingle, Ginger Mackenzie, Terri Hendrix, Ian Moore, Adam Carroll, Guy Forsyth, Patrice Pike, Jimmy LaFave, Willie Nelson, Britt Daniel, Eddy Shaver, Graham Reynolds, Kelly Willis, MC Overlord
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: George DeVore, Sister Seven, Kissinger, Pushmonkey, Goudie, Monte Montgomery, Alien Love Child, Riddlin’ Kids, Sinis
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Sara Hickman, Slaid Cleaves, Lisa Tingle, Monte Montgomery, Terri Hendrix, Adam Carroll, Ginger Mackenzie, Patrice Pike, Jimmy LaFave, Carter Pagel, Shelley King, Bruce Robison, Davíd Garza, Johnny Goudie
Page Two
The cover of this issue is a reprint of the cover from the first Chronicle Music Poll results 20 years ago. The poll results in this issue are just the latest chapter.
Weekend Repast
Stubb’s Bar-B-Q 801 Red River, 480-8341 Sunday Gospel Brunch seatings at 11am & 1pm, $14.95, reservations suggested Sunday gospel brunches used to be more prevalent around Austin than they are today, but Stubb’s still has a regular amen corner every weekend. It only seems fitting, since the restaurant is also one of the city’s most…
Second Helpings
6. Black’s Barbecue 215 North Main, Lockhart, 512/398-2712 Sun-Thu, 10am-8pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-8:30pm Drive to Lockhart in search of true-blue barbecue and you won’t have a hard time finding it. Signs along Hwy. 183 advertising Black’s as “the oldest BBQ house in Texas continuously owned by the same family since 1932” will direct you exactly where…
Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Ray Davies Keynote AddressAustin Convention Center, Thursday 15 After the Grammy moment where the Price Waterhouse straight man made us drum our fingers while we waited for the real show, South by Southwest panels coordinator Jeff McCord quickly introduced the figure we’d all set the alarm for. The palpable excitement up front when Ray Davies…
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Thursday Picks ALL SHOWCASES SUBJECT TO CHANGE CHARLIE ROBISON: After 1998’s Life of the Party proved a late bloomer, Austin country maverick Charlie Robison earned a call-up from Lucky Dog to Columbia proper. His Step Right Up bows April 10, with a cover of NRBQ’s “I Want You Bad” paving the way. It’s a good…
Live Shots
The SpidersRoom 710, Wednesday 14 If 90% of everything is crap, then the Spiders are on the cusp of falling into that 10%; or, as a former rock star said to me on his way out half-way though the showcase: “The description was better than the execution.” That description could be a plethora of things.…
Live Shots
J Mascis, Ron Asheton, Mike WattTower Records, Friday 16 Back in the early Eighties, Dinosaur Jr. formed from the remains of J Mascis’ old hardcore punk band Deep Wound, and the era’s hardcore movement remained a strong influence on Dinosaur’s early material. To longtime fans, therefore, it came as no surprise that Mascis and Fog…
Live Shots
John HammondContinental Club, Saturday 17 John Hammond took the stage at the Continental Club with familiar company: bassist Larry Taylor and drummer Stephen Hodges from Tom Waits’ band, guitarist Frank Carillo, and the one and only Augie Meyers on keyboards and accordion. Taylor, Hodges, and Meyers’ presence was eminently appropriate, since all three perform on…
SXSW Records
DisengageObsessions Become Phobias (Man’s Ruin) With their in-your-face delivery and delicious decibel jockeying, Cleveland’s Disengage has rightfully earned a spot on Frank Kozik’s Man’s Ruin label. That said, their multidimensional original compositions and seasoned vocal delivery separates them a bit from the other volume merchants on the label. Take for instance, the vestigial spurned love…
SXSW Film Reviews
Low Self-Esteem Girl amounts to nothing terribly special, which makes its Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature all the more baffling.
SXSW Film Reviews
Okie Noodling is Bradley Beesley’s affectionate, funny, and engaging look at the “noodlers” in his home state.
SXSW Records
Delbert McClintonNothing Personal (New West) Delbert McClinton’s latest album is his umpteenth in a career that spans four decades, so why the hubbub? Because it’s a spectacularly solid piece of work that doesn’t create any new frontiers, break rules, or cross borders, and yet comes off as one of Mr. Honkytonk’s most satisfying recordings yet.…
Naked City
Spicewood residents are protesting plans by Rainbow Materials to build a concrete batch plant in their small, semirural community.
SXSW Film Reviews
Todd McFarlane gives everything to the camera in this engaging documentary which delves deep into the psyche of the creator of the ever-popular Spawn comic books.
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Into the New, Vallejo (Crescent Moon/Sony 550); Broke Down, Slaid Cleaves (Philo); Wrestling Over Tiny Matters, Sister Seven (Arista); Live and Beyond, Alien Love Child (Favored Nations); Milk Cow Blues, Willie Nelson (Island); Bolsa de Agua, the Gourds (Sugarhill); Wonderland, George DeVore (Hypertension); Paradise, Lisa Tingle (Tingle Entertainment); Charm, Kissinger (WCI); Spiritual Appliances, Sara…
Best Roots Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Blind Luck, The Gourds, The Shelley King Band, The LeRoi Brothers, Joe Ely, George DeVore, Monte Montgomery, Damnations TX, The Resentments
Best Strings
RUNNERS-UP: Erik Hokkanen, Champ Hood, Brian Standifer, Amy Farris, Will Taylor, Mo Jamal, Danny Levin, Robert Riggio, Govinda
