The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...So your plane just touched down and the pilot said, “Welcome to Austin: the Live Music Capital of..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Val Kilmer Partners With Mosaic Sound Collective

Actor’s HelMel Studios links with Austin creative hub

"...You know Val Kilmer as a superhero, a pilot, a gunfighter, and a bank robber, but he’s also..."

Feb. 25, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Chord That Binds: The George Washington Score

How Austin musicians Michael Linnen and David Wingo collaborated on the George Washington score

"...Wingo, an RTF graduate who had studied audio production at UT, had turned Green on to the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...buzzworthy selection from other fests, as well as episodic pilots, and the shorts and music video selections. They join..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pitch Black

"...course by the tail of a wayward comet. Docking Pilot Fry (Mitchell, of High Art) manages to land the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Untangling the Web

An Interview with Sue Beckwith and Gene Crick

"...with the Media Lab, which is focusing on multimedia: audio, video, stuff like that, in the context of a..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Service" D: Emily Tremaine. A woman records erotica fantasy audiobooks from her bedroom closet while her own life is..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...to our education department, which was putting together the audio tour, that they should ask Gerre Hancock to be..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

Buffy on DVD

"...Gellar, who plays Buffy). A copy of the original pilot script is included ("Welcome to the Hellmouth"), as is..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...EPISODIC PILOT COMPETITION..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...debut, a pirate radio signal provided the event's only audio. Thus, with a car stereo, one could adjust the..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Bombs, Beto, and the Biggest Music Stories of 2018

“Playback” recaps the news, trends, and controversies of the year. Outrage level: high.

"...At least the Red River Pilot Program succeeded, passing at Council after unprecedented cooperation from..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Estate Sale Roundup: October 3-5

Ready, set, rummage!

"...North Austin Baby Boomer USAF Pilot's Estate Wallace A. Kulczyk (Retired Lt. Col. USAF) and..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Carl Reiner: The Interview

On 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' Mary Tyler Moore, and Mel

"...the follow-up to 2012's I Remember Me), recording the audio version, promoting it with an appearance on The Late..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Let the Games Begin

Fantastic Arcade

"...wait for an official release. On the local front, audio experimenter Robin Arnott brings his gas-mask-centric sensory-deprivation game, Deep..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Freaks and Geeks: Yearbook Edition

In which the geeks inherit the earth

"..."Second printing." Collector dweebs breathe easy. Freaks rejoice. One pilot and 17 subsequent 45-minute episodes tattoo their pure heart..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Discord and Ecstasy

Werner Herzog on 'Grizzly Man'

"...documentary of Treadwell's life, death, and filmmaking, a bush pilot describes hauling "four garbage bags full of people" out..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...will include digitized artifacts and photographs as well as audio and video clips." For example, an archive entry on..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Dancing About Architecture

Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.

"...picked by Country Music Television to tape a one-hour pilot variety program about Texas music. The tentative title is..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Kyle Marvin, America Ferrera, O-T Fagbenle (World Premiere) EPISODIC PILOT COMPETITION..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Rougeheart, with live painting throughout the event by Peelander-Z pilot Kengo Hioki and 2021 "Best of Austin" winners Raasin..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Spence). Blowing in after the haunted folk-blues of 2017's Pilot, Greg Vanderpool's latest Lone Star star map casts another..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Everything Hits at Once

Give the drummer some: Spoon backbeat Jim Eno

"...That's because Eno's co-pilot was otherwise occupied. Spoon's blond bard, Britt Daniel, was..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series – Pilot Director/Screenwriter: Robert Rodriguez The Gecko Brothers are back. Based..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...news bulletin from the 1970s tangles into the opener's audio barbed wire...."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Throwing the first stone for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...concept behind Song Island could be a reality TV pilot: Songwriters from around the world come together on Denmark's..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

More Reissues

"...former commercial ("Your Song"), rootsy ("Take Me to the Pilot"), and grandiose ("The King Must Die"), the latter disguising..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Drunken Angel

In his 1948 debut for the immortal Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune unleashes a naked rage that anticipates James Dean by a half-dozen years

"...immortal Japanese film director, the lean, mean, late-twentysomething ex-Army pilot son of a photographer unleashes a naked rage that..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...elderly and disabled. While IEES is currently only a pilot project in Travis and Hays counties and has not..."

July 14, 2006 Column

DVDs: Part One

From Ferrell in an elf suit to Bergman at the end, the best discs to gift this season

"...a network comedy since Seinfeld. Extras include an extended pilot, audio commentaries on three episodes, and executive producer (and..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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