Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Reggae Fest

Auditorium Shores, Friday, April 16, 2010

"...Living in Austin can be crazy stressful: All the noise, traffic, congestion, and smug hipsterism can really..."

April 16, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...All showcases subject to change. WEDNESDAY PICKS FOUR METAL HORSEMEN..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...All showcases subject to change. Dr. Dog..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Viva Las Vegas

Behind the scenes of Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis and Love

"...unfathomable: the large acrobatic hoops used in "Can't Help Falling in Love" are scaled to Elvis' and Priscilla's engagement..."

Feb. 24, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Mother Falcon’s Still Life

Austin's animal collective

"...There’s nothing static about Mother Falcon’s Still Life EP, not when upwards of..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Speak Week Is for Lovers

Speak's first release explodes on the scene

"...something this week to look forward to. I'm talking about Austin's premiere pop electronica outfit, Speak, and their barrage..."

Feb. 9, 2010 Music Post by Ricardo Valenzuela

Steel Bluebonnet Determination

Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces

"...Shivers, 53, was instrumental in creating the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, yet her other efforts in the..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Ashes to ashes: drying off and winding down after Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...Signals, Calls, and Marches..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Inquiring into the city's new music program manager position, trick-or-treating with the Butthole Surfers, and introducing Thenewno2

"...All Things Must Pass..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Beatles

"...was their absolute priority. That is the important point about this period of transition; until the 1969 release of..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interviews

American beauty and The Pirate's Gospel

"...Nevada City, Calif., where she grew up with music all around her and solitude an easy companion. As Joan..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...awareness to his presence, an aloofness that suggests he's fallen down a rabbit hole and made himself quite comfortable..."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Better Than the Van finds a place to crash in Austin, as does Ola Podrida's David Wingo, while Leeann Atherton goes big in Japan and Martín Perna stays up late with the Roots

"...she already needs to ship over more merch. "The wall at one club, Kapone, has signatures from Michael Fracasso,..."

July 10, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar wrestles with the subcutaneous nature of beauty

"...so touched by your lovely words that you wrote about me in your column, 'After a Fashion.' You were..."

June 26, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Treasure in Other People's Trash

Your loss is Davy Rothbart's gain

"...It's 11am, and Davy Rothbart thinks I'm the law. About five years ago, the Michigan-based author got a ticket..."

May 29, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Girlfriend Experience

Steven Soderbergh directs this DV-cam look at the life of a high-end Manhattan call girl (played by porn star Sasha Grey).

"...Glenn Kenny and Mark Jacobson. Once upon a time, diamonds may have been a girl’s best friend, but these..."

May 22, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alela Diane

Friday

"...Ore., singer-songwriter Alela Diane and her gentle folk songs about the wonders of nature and men with strong hands..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

The Green Movement

KRS-One and Hakim Green bring the Stop the Violence Movement to Austin

"...Moe Dee, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, and other all-stars in the booth to cut “Self Destruction,” hip-hop’s classic..."

Jan. 21, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Best in Bluegrass

Southside of the Tracks on the right side of 08

"...Groups like Old Crow Medicine Show, the Steeldrivers, and especially Punch Brothers have contorted the genre without sacrificing the..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Open House

Peeping into the windows of locals

"...David Lujan (guitarist in the Red Leaves), and Rich all bartend at the Parlor(s), while Singer does all of..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

808 Heartbreaks

Kanye West's latest is lukewarm

"...fresh racial examinations hammered home on The College Dropout’s “All Falls Down” and Windy City representing from last year’s..."

Dec. 4, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Control

Gretchen Phillips admits she wasn’t Just Comforting that girl

"...A month earlier, Phillips had opened her (first ever) all-covers set at Flipnotics with a beautiful interpretation of the..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Feature by Cindy Widner

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall

"...Price, and Merle Haggard. Take Me Out to the Ball game..."

July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar is still squinting from all that glare from all those rocks at the Long Center opening

"...LONG, LONG TIME Really, all I can remember about the Long Center opening..."

April 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW 08: It's a Wrap

"...time, including some very mediocre rappers who had more diamonds than mic skills. Geto Boys veteran Bushwick Bill took..."

March 19, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

'Why Jimmy'

Second-Place Winner

"...now that Jimmy doesn't have feet he can't walk all over my books or jump on my coverlet, and..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Erin Pringle

Brooklyn Was Mine

Brooklyn is a place that demands to be understood literarily, whether the literature of choice is Walt Whitman's or Jay-Z's

"...magnitude of the Brooklyn myth. The first time I really went to Brooklyn, I was reading – make that..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Sister Bobbie

'Sister Bobbie' puts the 'Family' in Willie Nelson and Family

"...against the instrument's pedals, her fingers glide in effortless recall of songs that have made music history...."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Happenings

Dec. 6-12

"...AN EVENING IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS Singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger performs in remembrance of her..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

NFL Preview

"...to come only with the gift of song and about three chords she’s learned on a Gibson guitar. In..."

Sept. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

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