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Beau Deveraux’s eight tracks as Samantha Glass begin like a radio mystery with ambiguous, steady footsteps. Here, the Wisconsin-born, Austin-based artist leads listeners into a space shaped by a gender-fluid experience of anxiety and hope. In the idiom of dark wave, post-punk, and musique concrète, a synthetic voice announces “an angel dancing against reality” and…

by Christina Garcia

Texas Platters

Homegrown cottage industry Holodeck Records pulled national focus by being first to host Austin synth breakout Survive, facilitated by owner Adam Jones playing in the group. And yet, the label trucks in other waves of lysergic pulses. Reveling in the louder, heavier side of shoegaze on its debut Elude, Austin trio Grivo takes as much…

by Michael Toland

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Council’s Week Off: There’s no City Council meeting this week. Next meeting’s Thursday, Nov. 15. On the agenda already: a review of the boil-water notice, movement of a police monitor ordinance out of the police contract and into city code, and the confirmation of new Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker. See “Ellen Troxclair: Bye, Bye,…

by Chronicle Staff

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Queen Victoria popularized freshwater pearls from Scotland’s Tay River, but Scottish river pearls have been coveted since the time of Julius Caesar. Today it’s illegal to gather pearls from the Tay and other Scottish rivers; the mussel that produces the Scottish pearl has had protected status since 1998. According to Axios, fossil fuels accounted for…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Texas Platters

Much has changed since the Crack Pipes’ previous release, 2005’s Beauty School. First and foremost, extraordinary guitarist Billysteve Korpi beat cancer, but at the same time, recording home Sweatbox Studios ceased. And if a 2005 rocked by the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and the American political pendulum swinging hard right doesn’t seem chaotic enough, 2018…

by Tim Stegall

Texas Platters

Since 1978 blockbuster Stardust, Willie Nelson has maintained a consistent diligence to recording standards and tribute LPs, most at least worthwhile if not revelatory. Taking on Frank Sinatra with his latest homage platter, Nelson, 85, rightly doesn’t try matching the velvet richness of “The Voice,” but instead finds his own unique inroads to a well-trodden…

by Doug Freeman

Oops!

Last week’s News story “Kane Disabled,” about ATCEMS Commander Mikel Kane, incorrectly reported that Kane said, “Nice rack,” to a female medic. In fact, it was said to a male medic, and a female medic who overheard the comment reported it to city of Austin HR.

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

For fans following Carson McHone since 2015 debut LP Goodluck Man, the native honky-tonker’s long-awaited sophmore album is somewhat of an inevitable letdown – not in quality but simply in offering little new material after three years. Then again, Carousel isn’t necessarily intended for local listeners, but rather as a national introduction spotlighting a redo…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Linda “Texacala Jones” Yacoubian cut an enormous swath across Eighties L.A. punk rock in the notorious Tex & the Horseheads, a whiskey-and-pills-drenched fusion of the Ramones, Rolling Stones, and the most deep woods honky-tonk twang imaginable. Tunes like “Oh, Mother” resonated with a lacerating, Gothic thrust that thrills to this day. Relocated to Austin in…

by Tim Stegall

Soccer Watch: One More Home Game

The UT Women will have at least one more home game this year, as they earned a #4 seed in the NCAA tournament and a date Friday evening at 7pm hosting Virginia Tech. The next round is likely in North Carolina next weekend, unless top seed UNC suffers an unlikely upset. Meanwhile, savor this last…

by Nick Barbaro

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