Watch: Being Dead Opens a Freaky Burger Stand

“Underworld” video has us chewing with our mouths open

"...stand operated by Austin’s strange and silly art-pop duo Being Dead...."

Oct. 5, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Medieval Times: Being Dead in an Era of Cruelty and Despair

The story of a real band and a fake band in two acts

"...band hasn't even finished sound checking and they're already being heckled. The voice – booming and deliberate – comes..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Being Dead

Debut LP uses fairy tales as a heartfelt, irreverent rock escape

"...Being Dead exists within a fantasy. Nostalgics privy to their..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

On Being Dead, and Getting Pumped for Oscar Movie Season

LISTEN: The Austin Chronicle Show on KOOP Radio

"...Kevin Curtin talks about his time interviewing the band Being Dead – they're the ones photographer David Brendan Hall..."

Oct. 22, 2021 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Being Dead’s Wild Western Chase and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Nemegata, EXOTIC FRUITICA, Quiet Light, and more

"...Being Dead, “Last Living Buffalo”..."

June 23, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Being Dead, Kydd Jones, Rattlesnake Milk, and Urban Heat Set to Play the Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Day Party

The ultimate townie hang at SXSW, totally free at Hotel Vegas

"...fur, is an exemplar of blessed happenstance. Going from being a shelter dog with an absent back leg to..."

March 8, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Last Week in Live Music: Je'Texas, Being Dead, Christian Bland, the Jonas Brothers, and More

"...Being Dead at the 13th Floor on September 1, 2023..."

Sept. 5, 2023 Photo Gallery

Fear The Walking Dead Drops Season 6 Trailer

Austin-made horror coming back ... but when?

"...Seems you can't keep a good undead TV show down. AMC and production company Skybound just..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: My Dead Friend Zoe

A veteran processes her grief in emotional dark comedy

"...Grab the tissues: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’s directorial debut My Dead Friend Zoe is a dark comedy following Merit, a..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Madeline Duncan

The Civil Dead

A very unconventional ghost story tests the limits of male loneliness

"...an unwanted houseguest? Mournful, silly hipster comedy The Civil Dead lumbers Clay (director Tatum) with the inconvenience of an..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...from a 46-year-old who first latched onto the living dead well before he hit puberty?..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

House of the Dead

Students are stranded on an island of zombies; viewers are stranded by the filmmakers.

"...golly, the wait was worth it: House of the Dead is astoundingly bad filmmaking, the sort of senseless, mind-warping..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: Evil Dead Rise

The possessed cabin franchise takes a gruesome trip to the city

"...sewer and die." When people talk about the Evil Dead franchise being horror-comedy, what they mean is the open..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Quick and the Dead

"...smoke. Raimi, the rightfully celebrated director of the Evil Dead trilogy, has hit a snag here; he seems lost..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dead Man Walking

Sarandon won an Oscar for her performance as Sister Helen Prejean in this nuanced story about capital punishment.

"...is make us reflect on our convictions and beliefs. Dead Man Walking, Tim Robbins' second effort as director and..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Safety Net or Dead End?

The politics of Austin animal welfare

"...of volunteers demoralized by the sight of dogs not being let out of their kennels for 15, 20, even..."

Feb. 18, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...Parker, the brains and the beauty behind Over Her Dead Body. San Antonio Spurs superfan Parker plays Kate, a..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dead Man

Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.

"...would have suspected for Jarmusch's next film. For another, Dead Man's story is far darker than, say, Mystery Train..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...Guildenstern are at the court of Claudius and are being entreated by Gertrude to find out what's wrong with..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

DVDanger: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Star Alan Ormsby on the counterculture zombie classic

"...when Alan Ormsby starred in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, it was all fresh meat. Ormsby said, "Everybody..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dracula: Dead and Loving it

"...the colorfully titled but ultimately banal would-be comedy Dracula: Dead and Loving It, one is immediately struck with a..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Book Review: Mostly Dead Things

A taxidermist’s family grieves and grows in Kristen Arnett’s debut

"...late in the year to immerse yourself in Mostly Dead Things. So much of the texture of Kristen Arnett’s..."

Oct. 23, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...not William, the begrudging protagonist of I'll Take Your Dead...."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dead Awakening

Rob Thomas unleashes iZombie

"...Post-The Walking Dead and post-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it's hard to avoid zombies..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drop Dead Fred

A grown woman's imaginary childhood friend (called Drop Dead Fred) returns when her adult problems are at their bleakest, and creates all kinds of mayhem and fun – and, along the way, helps our heroine self-actualize and become a more centered human being.

"...a grown woman whose imaginary childhood friend called Drop Dead Fred returns when her adult problems are at their..."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...“I’m been alive and I’ve been dead,” cries Nilsson, “Must be something wrong with my head.”..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist is a campy zombie comedy that's full of jokes, chicken suits, spewing geysers of various bodily fluids, and barbs flung in the direction of the fast-food industry.

"...high, the films remain a matter of the flesh being willing but the production values weak. There's also always..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Other Worlds Review: Dead Dicks

The realities of depression meets the trap of reincarnation

"...designed to draw you in. But calling this film Dead Dicks really provides a little insight into the self-hatred..."

Dec. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fear the Walking Dead Production Quits Austin for Georgia

AMC show relocates amid fear about Texas incentives

"...and TV community: Zombie smash hit Fear the Walking Dead, the AMC series which has shot its last four..."

Nov. 11, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Improv Celebrates the Day of the Dead With La Vida de los Muertos

Hideout Theatre breathes life into una vida improvisada

"...in the Día de los Muertos-inspired "World of the Dead," the two directors/performers begin fielding congratulatory texts and calls..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

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