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‘Corsicana Lemonade’ Record Review

White Denim Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown) Don’t expect a breakthrough single from Corsicana Lemonade. White Denim’s carved a career out of defying expectations and easy outs, crafting the kind of idiosyncratic albums that collectors will be digging for in decades to come. The band’s fifth LP sounds a lifetime removed from the Spartan trailer spunk of…

by Austin Powell

Texas Platters

The Dixie Chicks must be disappointed. They’ve borrowed often from Patty Griffin’s lost disc Silver Bell, which sat on a shelf of the local songbird’s then-label, A&M Records, for 13 years. The Chicks made good use of down-home folk-pop “Truth #2” and the longing acoustic address of “Top of the World,” while frontwoman Natalie Maines…

by Abby Johnston

Texas Platters

Anyone watching singer-songwriter/fiddler Phoebe Hunt leapfrog from Belleville Outfit belle to first-call session violinist to solo artist is witnessing the development of a formidable talent. “I don’t want to sow these wild oats/I want to tend them,” she sings on “Wild Oats,” one of 16 tracks on Live at the Cactus Cafe (Popped Corn Records).…

by Margaret Moser

Escape From Tomorrow

Shot guerrilla-style at Disneyland and Disney World, this surreal drama about a man’s mental disintegration at “the happiest place on Earth” lands a spitball in the Mouse’s eye.

by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

Three weeks ago, Max Frost, the 21-year-old Austinite signed to Atlantic Records on the strength of just two singles, performed live at KUTX, cooing three soulful tracks in preview of festival appearances at ACL and UtopiaFest. Out this week, Frost’s debut EP Low High Low maintains none of the intimacy from that in-studio session and…

by Chase Hoffberger

After Tiller

After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, what’s life like for the 4 remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions in this country?

by Kimberley Jones

Texas Platters

With a lighter production touch by Mark Addison that in no way lessens its impact, The Calling is Patrice Pike’s statement of musical purpose. That it’s her first fan-funded effort speaks both to the times and her loyally enthusiastic followers, who contributed well beyond the stated goal. The Patrice Pike who fronted Nineties neo-funksters Little…

by Margaret Moser

Red Wing

Honest, down-home flavor mixes with melodramatic excess in this Texas-made movie produced by Terrence Malick.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

This intensely personal look at depression and personal demons provides a showcase for Trouble Puppet’s builders and puppeteers

by Dan Solomon

Texas Platters

Just as its Chester Brown-style cover portrait and Peter O’Toole-inspired title insinuate, Fastball’s Tony Scalzo takes a decidedly less traveled road with his solo debut. While the pure pop instincts that characterize his Austin trio remain at the forefront, My Favorite Year dims the lights to create a more subdued, wiser mood. His vocals are…

by Greg Beets

Exhibitionism

This Fifties suspenser shows its age in UT’s production, which never quite generates all the suspense it could

by Elizabeth Cobbe

Texas Platters

With his sophomore LP, Reed Turner hits his stride. Having settled back in Austin after attending the Berklee College of Music and stints in Nashville and Portland, the songwriter gathered an impressive outfit for his hometown recording, including Phoebe Hunt on fiddle and harmonies. The resulting collection cuts an array of Americana. Dark undercurrents expand…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Good Field’s self-titled debut is an auspicious one. The solo project of local Paul Price, who’s clocked time playing in Brazos and Voxtrot, his songs are sleepy, personal, and alluringly miniature. It’s comfortable music, or comfortably depressed, the rinky-dink electric whine on “These Dreams” pillows a damaged, “I wrote this/to tell you/I’m sorry.” The bluesy,…

by Luke Winkie

Headlines

• No City Council meeting this week, as free-the-doggies hysteria dominates the local social media, but next week’s session (Oct. 17) expects the return of the Taco PUD, Colorado tubing, and urban farms – something for everybody. See “Council: No Tubes for You!” › A final public forum Tuesday on a proposed downsized dog park…

by Chronicle Staff

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

In June 1935, Vogue magazine ran an article titled “Dude Dressing,” possibly one of the first stories on DIY denim distressing. On Scooby Doo, Shaggy’s real name is Norville Rogers. The first U.S. government partial shutdown was on Sept. 30, 1976, when Gerald Ford vetoed a funding bill for the U.S. Depts. of Labor and…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Reviews You Can Use

Find the gray area in ‘The New Black,’ or explore sweeping panoramas and unbridgeable divides in ‘The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On’

by Brandon Watson

Quote of the Week

“This is not your father’s drought; this is not even your grandfather’s drought. This is, in my opinion, the worst drought we’ve faced in Central Texas, ever.” – Austin Water Utility Director Greg Meszaros to City Council, Oct. 3

by Chronicle Staff

Soccer Watch

The UT Longhorns (9-4-1) host nationally ranked Baylor Friday night (7pm Friday, Oct. 11, at Mike Myers Stadium), in the next-to-last home game of the season. Under second-year coach Angela Kelly, this young squad has developed into the best Horns team in several years, despite starting just one senior. The home finale will be against…

by Nick Barbaro

Hornography

In the face of many harsh realities about his football team this season, Mack Brown has revved the positivity and platitudes into overdrive. Who can blame him for accentuating what little has worked thus far? The shock wave of each UT outcome is amplified by a shared perception among fans and media that the second-winningest…

by Russ Espinoza

Oops!

In the Oct. 4 story, “HD 50: Will Dem Split Enable GOP?” by Christopher Hooks, we mistakenly described former state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos as a “founder” of the Capital Tejano Democrats. Sen. Barrientos joined the group shortly after it was formed in 1993; he was not one of the founders.

by Chronicle Staff

The Luv Doc: Hot Babies

Dear Luv Doc, On Saturday at ACL, I was walking around seeing so many people with babies! I know ACL has an Austin Kiddie Limits stage and that they try to make it a family friendly event, but it was so hot and everywhere I went there were babies! What is WRONG with people.?!?!? -…

by The Luv Doc

Runner Runner

A Princeton student and online gambler gets entangled with the operation’s devious mastermind in Costa Rica.

by Kimberley Jones

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