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Cure 1997, NR, 111 min. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Starring Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

As the album title indicates, The Sea Within is arranged trough to trough. Husband-wife duo Noëlle Hampton and André Moran fuel the swell with songs such as “Like a Villain,” his punchy, high-octane guitar acting as foil to her effortless soprano, comfortable and sure in its delivery. Sprawling eight-minute crest “Legend of the Silver Moon”…

by Abby Johnston

Texas Platters

Utley3’s two full-lengths, No More, No Less (2013) and While You’re Down There (2015), bridged power-pop and singer-songwriter balladry. The balance tips toward the latter with leader Cordy Lavery’s first, Cris Burns-produced solo disc. Lavery calls Cordless “tearjerkers and breakup songs,” its download including Kleenex. Catch-in-throat Appalachian opener “You Won’t Be Coming Back” and midset…

by Tim Stegall

Soccer Watch

The UT Longhorns continue to rise in the polls, after beating a good Long Beach State team, 2-1, and romping over Stephen F. Austin, 5-0. Even better: The offense was spread around, with six different players getting their first goals of the season. Next weekend the Horns host UT Rio Grande Valley at 6pm Friday,…

by Nick Barbaro

Texas Platters

Three-man fuzznado Bridge Farmers exhales heavy, blues-rooted riffs that are twisted, flared, and refracted through pressurized metaphysical states of impending doom. On their eponymous full-length, bassist Garett Carr and singer/guitarist Tyler Hautala swell walls of destruction in complete harmony as the frontman’s distant voice pipes in like a torpid boys’ choir over your crappy elementary…

by Christina Garcia

Headlines

Let’s Talk Budget No regular City Council meeting this week, but the dais will convene Thurs­day, Sept. 6, for what they hope will be the final budget work session. Budget and property tax rate adoption scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 11 … unless they need to add a couple of days. See “Room to Move,” Sept.…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Randell “Kydd” Jones’ third full-length leads with his airplane ticket back to Austin on the cover. After stays in Atlanta and Brooklyn, both etched into his R&B-infused rhymes, the hometown hero returns triumphant. Opener “Day 1 Freestyle,” produced by ATX’s own OVO rep Eric Dingus, twists Drake’s signature “Run around town with my woes” into…

by Clara Wang

Texas Platters

Stepping out solo after dissolving local root outfit Uncle Lucius, Kevin Galloway dishes smooth Southern soul on his debut LP. The nine tracks lull with a summer placidity, mellow and soothing behind Galloway’s languid, rich vocals. From opener “Don’t It Feel Good to Smile,” the songwriter salves easy, country-licked melodies that contemplate gentle pleasures. At…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Jason Eady cut introspective on last year’s excellent eponymous disc, showcasing the strength of his songwriting in stripped ballads. This seventh LP takes a different turn altogether, though no less impressive. Recorded live with his touring band, the Ft. Worth-based troubadour kicks full-tilt into barroom burners and backporch pickers. It’s his most fully realized effort,…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Like Garrett T. Capps’ surreal honky-tonk, fellow Alamo city song twister D.T. Buffkin spins weird Americana on his sophomore platter. Buffkin’s creaking vocals whine somewhere between Dylan and George Jones as the swaying music spins lightly through last call – growling and howling and wistful. From epistolary opening “A Correspondence” to the slurry swing of…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Free jazz, hip-hop, punk, and thrash metal all battle against oppression on Morose with the exhilaration of a loud, cathartic noise. The multidisciplinarians in the Young Mothers gleefully cram notes ripped from each genre into spaces barely big enough to hold them on their second LP. On “Black Tar Caviar,” Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s thudding bass,…

by Michael Toland

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

LBJ (along with Lady Bird and Lynda Bird) attended the first Kerrville Folk Festival in 1972 expressly to hear Texas guitarist Mance Lipscomb. On May 11, 1971, Mariano Martinez served the first prefab frozen margarita after adapting a soft-serve ice cream machine. The 1966 single, “See You in September,” by the Happenings, included the lyrics…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Texas Platters

“Putting down your bread and butter is crazy,” admitted Aaron Behrens in 2014 about his decision to put Ghostland Observatory on hiatus four years earlier. Having headlined Lollapalooza and graced Lexus commercials, the Austin duo of frontman Behrens and musical mainframe Thomas Turner return with their first full-length in eight years. Proclaimed by the singer…

by Alejandra Ramirez

Texas Platters

Ray Bonneville’s ninth studio LP kicks off deceptively dark and low in the slow-bruising blues of “Waiting on the Night,” but that’s where the decadelong Austinite shines. The Canadian pushes a journeyman’s patience and confidence, guitar lines cutting deep but never flashy, and a voice just rough enough to bleed experience. At King Electric picks…

by Doug Freeman

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