Keeping Up With the Joneses

A century of Austin music in one arrangement

"...tells another tale, offering a story of perseverance and dedication to craft, community, and church...."

June 18, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...low across east side facades. Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, pale next to bullet-riddled Berlin...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Dural, Jr.) is the embodiment of the widely popular black, South Louisiana accordion-driven music. Dr. Zydeco has appeared on..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Studio Visits: Briar Bonifacio

East Austin artist gives good face

"...a smiling heart pumping "fresh oxygen," and a green-eyed black cat wearing a red bandana like a boss. The..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...of his Social Security check ($695), and his beloved cat Maybelline is a state-certified service animal for the companionship..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...what they mean. PAUL MARTIAN SESSUMS, Criminal Crew, the Black Cat Lounge: "Atomic City is like the store you..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

U2

Gift guide

"...for Boys" in "Vertigo" to Bono acting out the black cat of "An Cat Dubh," electrifies the first hour,..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

South San Gabriel

"...There's this black cat that's taken up residence in our sporadically mowed..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Arizona Dream (1993)

Johnny Depp plays Axel Blackmar, a guy who talks to fish, dreams of the Arctic, and sure as hell isn't going to take over the Cadillac dealership his Uncle Leo (Jerry Lewis!) owns.

"...his Balkan masterworks Underground, Time of the Gypsies, or Black Cat, White Cat. From the Eskimo dreams that bookend..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Review by Sam Hurwitt

Naked City

"...A three-alarm fire early Saturday morning destroyed the Black Cat Lounge, a Sixth Street landmark and institution. The..."

July 12, 2002 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Goodbye to the Hole, hello Trail of Dead. Imus falls for the Flatlanders.

"...mention that Schlotzsky's is airing yet another four-week network, syndication, and cable "Music for Your Mouth" TV ad campaign..."

June 28, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

José Rivera's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is a magical love story in which nature reflects human relationships, and this Refraction Arts Project production is beautiful to look at with several stand-out performances.

"...Theatre, standing atop Gabriella's refrigerator. In her dreams, Gabriella's cat talks with a coyote, flirts with him as she..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...Delta, it's 1929, your Grandpapa is white, and you're black. When you go to the station and the train..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

You Can Leave Your Hat On

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

"...came merely to see one of his homemade rabbit, cat, or skunk caps. They came because Mambo John Treanor..."

July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Texas Platters

"...Is this going to end? Ever?" My CD player indicates that Obsessive Personality is only 49 minutes long, but..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Review

Music Recommended

"...(Friday) and Popa Chubby (Saturday), as well as Stray Cat-turned-rockabilly-blues leader Lee Rocker holding down the stage on Sunday...."

Oct. 27, 1995 Music Feature

Matt & Susy's Two-Step and Swing Dance Lessons

"...boys in Lubbock would have given it up for cat-flinging contests. If you want to learn more, you can..."

May 26, 1995 Music Feature

Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

Some heads are gonna roll

"...Shores and Butler Park Nov. 7-9. Get yer Orange, Black, and Blue Stage highlighters ready...."

May 19, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: Nancy Fly Waves Bye-Bye

Pioneering Austin booker Nancy Fly retires, and ATX gets a hip-hop festival

"...another concert tour, Nancy Fly's booking herself a long vacation. The Austin tour booker, an invaluable conduit for local..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Marcia Ball turns 60 in style, Bill Baird finds himself in song, and more confirmations for the Austin Music Awards and SXSW 09

"...which stars the convergence of Roky Erickson and the Black Angels, is a Doug Sahm tribute with Shawn Sahm..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Life and Times of the Alamo and the Ritz

"...theatre, at 320 E. Sixth, with balcony seating for black audience members. (It remained the only theatre in town..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature

A Cultural Hero

"...photograph by Kenny Braun..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Rock and a Hard Place

Twenty Dollar Vibe

"...graduated again; this time to a residency at the Black Cat, where they later changed their name to Johnny..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Exhibitionism

Calavera #4 UBU ROI: ANIMAL HOUSE MACBETH

"...good primal blast of base behavior blows all that blackness away...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Review

Remembering James “Prince” Hughes, Atomic City Owner and Austin Punk Luminary

The Prince is dead, long live the Prince

"...legendary and phantasmagorical punkutopia Atomic City, passed away from complications of lymphoma...."

Aug. 7, 2022 Arts Post by Marc Savlov

Playback

Ian McLagan died Wednesday

"...of pop (Mac DeMarco, Melody's Echo Chamber), psych rock (Black Angels, Fat White Family, Night Beats, White Fence, Holy..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...Shooting on icy location in Northern Russia, Harlin builds up the danger with..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wednesday Rewind

The Boxing Lesson, the Weird Weeds, the Black Angels, and rapping Rick

"...a random grab bag of new tunes from the Black Angels, the Boxing Lesson, the Weird Weeds, and a..."

Oct. 27, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...and James H. Nicholson's American International Pictures hit television syndication in the Seventies. Sadly, it looks as though the..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Black Minutes

Everywhere you turn in this ambitious debut novel, there's the wretched stench of deceit and corruption

"...The Black Minutesby Martín Solares Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 416 pp., $14..."

May 21, 2010 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

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