Out of Pawn

Austin's Best Bar Band, Buick MacKane

"...groaning, sick guitar figures. Songs that still featured a Faces/Dolls rhythmic and melodic sensibility were now attacked with a..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...if he is an aficionado, one for whom the beat and the noise and fury was All, punk rock..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...with drummer Hector Muñoz, who plays like a mighty beat beast throughout Real Animal, for 25 years; violinist Susan..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...the key players in Florida's burgeoning electronic underground, Icey's breakbeat-driven techno is like mainlining Ritalin; kids doze off with..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Just the Facts, Ma'am

"...at other shows. Dragnet was about life on the beat for two detectives in Los Angeles. Adam 12 was..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...Jajouka tradition as he does about the New York Dolls (his favorite band) -- or even more, as there..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Live Shots

"...eardrums before taking an abrupt right turn into housey, big-beat anthems. It's a decidedly spiritual turn of events, sounding..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Music Feature

Reissues

"...a hyper-kinetic Pickett lead vocal and a slight proto-funk backbeat laid down by the future Ohio Players. Meanwhile, the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...whose fingers tickle more pies than Mrs. Smith, Drakulas' Dolls-meets-Dickies-meets-Devo spazz punk populates a comic book metropolis fueled by..."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Anarchy in Paris

French electro anarchist Éric Débris resides in South Austin

"...boring and repressive. Gotham gutter-glam terrors the New York Dolls create a sensation two years earlier when guitarist Johnny..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...to Arabic folk. – Greg Beets The Ugly Beats..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Even Avatars need a nap now and again.

"...my glamorous new friend Jessica McMillen for the Jackie Beat show at the United States Art Authority. Damn, I..."

May 16, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar is noticing something "fishy" at the gay bars

"...for our enjoyment. As with the Valley of the Dolls benefit, I only knew about half the people present,..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...like 1955's One-Way Ticket to Hell (aka Teenage Devil Dolls)..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

The Blurbing of SXSW 06

"...on the just-released From Here on Out. Filtering the Dolls through garage primitivism, Oakland glam-punks the Time Flys shine..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature

Day Party Crawl

"...anticipate as much as its headliners, the New York Dolls. The Hold Steady trampled the modest crowd, and not..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

After a Fashion

The stars at night are bigger and brighter, deep in the heart of Texas: Check out these local Hollywood sightings … Goth is alive and well and living in San Antonio … bra straps are still ugly and … your Style Avatar goes out on a "Denim Edge."

"...produces a line of some of the most gruesome dolls ever created: View examples of her surrealist and satanic..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dancing About Architecture

A New Year and those who didn't and almost didn't make it

"...perform: Laika & the Cosmonauts, Chuck Prophet, the English Beat's Dave Wakeling, Sparklehorse, Mexico's Genitallica, and the hard-to-beat Ike..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...among their influences the Stooges, MC5, and New York Dolls, and in the process acquiring future Clash manager Bernie..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...Burroughs negotiated serialization rights, movies, a Tarzan comic strip, dolls, and fan clubs...."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

All Done Up

"...and it's not a pretty picture. But let's not beat ourselves up over it too much ó it's not..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Reissues

"...as a new, genre-defining centerpiece, "My Melody," a menacing break-beat boast that includes one of hip-hop's all-time classic rhymes:..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Gay Place

Please don't stop the music

"...showcasing local acts with killer babes rocking that (drum) beat. Head to Sahara Sunday, for five queer-fronted bands in..."

June 15, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

50 Margaret Moser Cover Stories

"...“I’m Just Wild About Barbie: Playing with dolls at 39” Cover photo illustration by Andrew Yates..."

June 29, 2017 Photo Gallery

Scientists Revisited on A Place Called Bad

Aussie grunge progenitors await a new generation of action rockers

"...a young love of Big Star, the New York Dolls, and the Flamin Groovies into raw pop delights. Material..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Skyline Theater Debuts

Boston’s flying saucer lands at Austin’s newest outdoor venue

"...fraction of the audience packed up their blankets and beat the traffic, but most stayed for another 30 minutes..."

June 13, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: James Petralli's Constant Bop

Has White Denim become Bop English? Which festival might relocate to the new superstage at Circuit of the Americas? Is LBJ turning over in eternity over the Beatles exhibit at his library? That and other Q&As in this week's music news.

"...isn't always a matter of words, but rather attitude. Beatlemania Afflicts Austin..."

June 12, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Jello Biafra Raves

Dead Kennedys icon recounts punk history tonight then DJ's

"...these short songs with no guitar solos, lyrics like, “Beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah,..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Road to Urinetown

Composer Mark Hollmann on the show's creation and success

"..."Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" [from Guys and Dolls] in the way that it works in the show..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Pawn Shop Rock

In hock? We've got just the ticket!

"...basses had been in pawn upon the New York Dolls' 2004 reformation. He had been renewing his loan notes..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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