I Saw the Light

The sad but mercurial life of Hank Williams is put to screen

"...the name of one of Williams’ other hits: “Lovesick Blues.”..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

WobeonFest Slinger: Vieux Farka Toure

Malian guitarist: “We are young, so [we] have to create new styles”

"...North African blues from Mali entered Stateside consciousness in 1994 when Ry..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Live Shot: Benjamin Booker

Fast-rising blues-punk phenom gives off a “Violent Shiver”

"...Breakneck blues by Benjamin Booker turns out to be one hell..."

Oct. 5, 2014 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Song Premiere: Churchwood’s “Triptych”

Seventh son island soul drone

"...heaven and hell on their breakout sophomore LP, local blues punks Churchwood return to the altar for another ritual..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin City Limits: This is 40

Birthday concert stretches four hours

"...Nails. Simply two long sets of high-powered roots and blues from superstar and rising star musicians playing from deep..."

June 27, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

How to Train Your Dragon 2

You'll want a dragon of your own after seeing this animated sequel that surpasses the original.

"...a startlement and a seduction. Sequels usually spell the blues, or the blahs, but this one defies expectations yet..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

X Games: Gary Clark Jr. Ain’t Messin ‘Round

Local bluesman remains premium even in the cheap seats

"...look like if his popularity suddenly plummeted. Austin’s smooth blues rocker performed to an embarrassingly absent audience on the..."

June 9, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

ZZ Top’s Pincushion

Flyin’ high and fast at a sold-out Moody Theater

"...a venue the band revisited Tuesday – their Pompeiian blues up inside the cylindrical intimacy of the Moody felt..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hysteria

Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.

"...sex drive. "Hysterical paroxysm" was prescribed to beat the blues away, wherein doctors would manually massage a woman to..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kid Stuff, Part II

Fernando Jones’ Blues Camp auditions this weekend

"...the air? Music! For a second summer, Fernando Jones’ Blues Camp rocks Huston-Tillotson. First step? Audition for a scholarship..."

May 24, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Dark Streets

A collection of blues originals by the likes of Aaron Neville, B.B. King, and Etta James lightens this otherwise dreary exercise in modern film noir.

"...(with help from the film’s soundtrack, a collection of blues originals performed by legends like Etta James, Aaron Neville,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...fluke. “Evil Ways,” “Don’t Take Us for Fools,” “Submarine Blues,” “Thin Line,” “Satan’s Finest,” and non-LP track “Ungrateful Are..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Into the Vault

Breaking into Breakaway Records

"...out, sounding more like Hendrix than the acoustic Chicago blues he’s known for. Critics and purists will hate, but..."

June 3, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Real Good Friday

Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys reunite, minus the Nyquil.

"...(“Dynamite Diana”) amid over-the-counter cures for speed jags (“Nyquil Blues”). And it wasn’t just his spot-on renditions of classics..."

March 19, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

These Are the Breaks

Checking in with Austin's new R&B boys and girls.

"...your musical background? Tim Crane: I was in a blues rock band up in Massachusetts for a couple years...."

Feb. 5, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Interview With a Prophet

Chuck Prophet holds forth.

"...for a number of reasons. We’re kind of a blues band. I don’t mean that we play the blues,..."

Jan. 23, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Election-Related Events: Updated

"...Home of Walt & Aletha Snowden, 2705 Kerrybrook Tejano Blues (A Democratic concert and rally) When: Saturday, Nov. 4..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

Heights

This intersecting story that follows a half-dozen New Yorkers over the course of one long day and night is intellectually engaging and genuinely surprising, although not terribly risky.

"...especially good). The film is ably shot, in chilly blues and grays, by arthouse mainstay Jim Denault (Maria Full..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Up and Down

Director Jan Hrebejk’s stylishly interwoven tales of modern-day Prague add up to a melancholy, comedic riff on what it means to be European these days.

"...days. Shot in a brash palette of flickering fluorescent blues and sickly ochres by cinematographer Jan Malir, Up and..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Activists fight the rain to honor civil rights leader

"...pointed to another larger-than-life figure on the mural, Chicano blues musician Randy Garibay. Mentored by Doug Sahm, Garibay played..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

I'll Sing for You

A documentary about Mali blues giant Boubacar Traoré.

"...There is a moment in this documentary about Mali blues giant Boubacar Traoré that unintentionally recalls the scene from..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dark Blue

"...Angeles riots. Gates’ department had its share of dirty blues, to be sure, but that hasn’t been notable since..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Bad Love

"...garish, summery blowout against a backdrop of preternaturally badass blues tunes, roping in everyone from the great R.L. Burnside..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vertical Ray of the Sun

"...recent years, this Vietnamese film is swimming in aqua blues and every color a melon can be. The sets,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bloody Angels

"...Angels is shot in a singularly dreary palette of blues and snowy grays, and while the dour pacing and..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Venus Beauty Institute

"...Beauty Institute looks stunning, saturated with confectionary pinks and blues, and the actors do a fine job with the..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Woman Chaser

"...(other Willeford adaptations include the Alec Baldwin vehicle Miami Blues and Monte Hellman's surreal Cockfighter). It seems obvious that..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bossa Nova

"...color palette just this side of riotous -- shocking blues and reds positively erupt out of every frame --..."

June 2, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Better Than Chocolate

"...cool with me, at least when Wheeler (Bye Bye Blues) sticks to telling a juicy, disarmingly candid tale of..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Astronaut's Wife

"...equally cool here, full of muted chiaroscuro and quiet blues and grays. It's enough to put you to sleep..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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