It's Not Just An Adventure

"...Aurora Plastics Company, these performers comprise a staunchly adventurous avant-garde underbelly to the Austin music scene, even as they..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

After a Fashion

Local fashion steps out at the Designers' Guild of Austin second showing.

"...and styling was provided by the fabulous team from Avant, who did a knockout job of making Masliyah's clothes..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde

"...Birth of the CoolBeat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde..."

April 20, 2001 Books Review by Dale Smith

David Byrne/Thomas Mapfumo & Wadada Leo SmithLa Zona Rosa, Saturday, March 17

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...SXSW set was the only date to feature the avant-jazz talents of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and his tight..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

Spotlight: Thomas Mapfumo

The Lion of Zimbabwe prepares to roar at SXSW.

"...latest, Dreams and Secrets, finds Mapfumo teaming up with avant-jazz mandarin Wadada Leo Smith and his group N'Da Kulture...."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Mag Earwhig, Cleveland's Cobra Verde are CBGB rock -- "avant-glam" they call it, equal parts T. Rex, NY Dolls,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...I were to say that my favorite repertory is avant-garde, 12-tone music, needless to say I wouldn't be sitting..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Postmarks

Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

"...musicians the documentary chooses to focus on were considered avant-garde at the time of their initial contribution to the..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column

After a Fashion

Glossing the heights and depths of fashion, as reflected by last Saturday's big show at the Austin Music Hall.

"...(among others) from Maximum FX, and the folks from Avant, Innu, and Jungle Red (what a fabulous name). As..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Ballet Mécanique, Le

"...film is one of the seminal works of the avant-garde cinema. Made by the modern artist Fernand Léger ñ..."

Sept. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Window Water Baby Moving

"...One of the most influential figures of the American avant-garde, Brakhage is a technical innovator who uses the intimate..."

May 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Part one of a voyage into the Austin salon scene.

"...Astarte, which has been sold to the owner of Avant, whose plans for the salon remain to be seen...."

March 3, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Half Japanese, Brown Whörnet, Adult Rodeo, Emo's, January 29

"...their best Kissyface, last year's schizophrenic oddity for NY avant-indie label Shimmy-Disc, Adult Rodeo coalesced the album's fragments into..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...He begins with an examination of the avant-garde pioneers of the 1960s and Seventies. Grass-roots organizations such..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The John Adams Earbox (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)

Box Sets

"...blithe categorizing terms music writers love to use. The savant composer writes with his own unique voice, one which..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by David Lynch

In Good Company

A casual spectator might not realize just how much Robert Creeley's long literary career -- he's 73 this year -- has been conducted on the edge. But Creeley not only had a finger on the pulse of American poetry, he's usually been a heartbeat or two ahead of it.

"...Beats, the Confessional school, or most recently the assorted avant-garde who style themselves Language Poets. It's arguable that poetry..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Craig Arnold

The Limey

"...a stroke of genius. Both are veterans of Sixties avant-garde cinema whose careers have had something of a comeback..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fame is Eyelids: Michael Snow's Cinema

"...(1964, 34 min.) plays as part of the 1960s Avant-Garde Retrospective on Sat (9/25), 3:45pm, at the Dobie. Admission..."

Sept. 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cinematexas Schedule

"...Contemporary Russian Avant-Garde (CRAG) 1: NEW RUSSIAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS (3:15pm, Texas Union)..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...an album that gave a name to a Brazilian avant-garde movement...."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...alphahorn, and soared with pure Crescent City spirit. "Brass avant-groove," he calls it, and at the Victory Grill it..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Jawbreaker

"...popular Fern ditching that tired moniker for the more avant-stupid “Violette” and running amok, a Frankensteinian Sandy from Grease..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SOUND & VISION '99

"...2/18 Tina Marsh and the Creative Opportunity Orchestra From avant-garde to blues to big band jazz to African world..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Arts Feature

A Cultural Imperative

"...of George Lewis to bop and post-bop to AACM avant-garde. Delmark has also purchased and re-released great material from..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...is usually cited as the main inspiration for that avant-gutbucket school, but Hancock, whose greatness is always acknowledged but..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...irresistible Conte de L'Incroyable Amour, but fortunately the Tunisian savant (who is unfortunately too quiet in the mix at..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Knock Off

"...come down off the stylistic bender of his '96 avant garde swordsman opus, The Blade, certainly can't be accused..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

It Was a Very Good Year

Jason Phelps on 12 Months of Exceptional Stage Projects

"...AC:She's that avant garde —..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Beaumarchais Scoundrel

"...troublemaker, stirring up the masses with a revolutionary fervor avant le déluge. Whether Beaumarchais, the Scoundrel engages in a..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shortcuts

"...Kenneth Anger, the groundbreaking pioneer of the American avant-garde cinema and the scandal-rich author of the Hollywood Babylon..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

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