Black Tambourine

Reissues

"...Black Tambourine(Slumberland)..."

May 14, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

What We’re Listening to This Week

Charley Crockett, Flora & Fawna, the Black Angels, and more

"...conceptual trot through our Southwest spins tight as a tambourine. Anthony Farrell, Billy Horton, frequent co-composer Kullen Fox, Kelley..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...Technically, Sturgis is the Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, which takes place in..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

SXSW Showcases

Friday

"...San Francisco's Slough Feg. Sole Texan entry Absu hammers black metal from deep in the heart of Plano. Drive..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Thorn in My Pride

The Black Crowes take the Moody Theater back to 1970

"...That conversation came to mind as I witnessed the Black Crowes positively roar for more than two hours on..."

Sept. 30, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Briscoe’s Youthful Americana-Pop Gains Traction

Could this guitar-banjo-sax duo be on a Black Pumas trajectory?

"...record arrived on ATO Records, home to acts like Black Pumas, Alabama Shakes, and My Morning Jacket. In further..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Music Feature by Amber Williams

Beck Previews ACL Fest at ACL Taping

Yelling out for ‘Country Down’ instead of ‘Where It’s At’?

"...model lookalike, wearing a devilishly red shirt under all black – leather jacket, jeans, and a Dylan hat (brim..."

April 28, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Tony Visconti Part 1

"...my Thin Lizzy CDs: Bad Reputation, Live and Dangerous, Black Rose. I’m no T. Rex jeepster, but “Bang A..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...the blue, Jerry Wexler, the funky Jewish king of black music (the man behind Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Chuck..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin City Limits Taping: Spoon

Locals transition seamlessly for PBS staple’s 40th season

"...Fischel wore a ratty t-shirt and intermittently kept a tambourine atop his head...."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

ACL Fest Aftershow: Beck

Mr. Hansen keeps the rain at bay for Stubb’s

"...its intentions to rock out heavy with five guitars. “Black Tambourine” contained just enough cowbell to satiate Christopher Walken...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

The AggreGAYtor: September 18

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...about it. Today’s AggreGAYtor feels the beat from the tambourine...."

Sept. 18, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Friday

"...nicely beside that of its Slumberland forebearers (Velocity Girl, Black Tambourine), not to mention early Joy Division and the..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Beck

"...his fourpiece band grabbed handheld synth implements to deconstruct "Black Tambourine" and "Hell Yes" house-party style. Following elegiac readings..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Review by Greg Beets

Beck

Record review

"...highly evolved Vulture, while slow jam "Missing" and attitudinal "Black Tambourine" shake Mutations. Scattered with a few skippers, including..."

April 1, 2005 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Faster Than Sound: Spoon-Feeding the Hits With Britt Daniel

Spoon frontman talks Beto, streaming, and 26 years of steadfast indie rock

"...BD: I just started listening to that Black Pumas record because I love the record cover and..."

July 19, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

The 39th president's belief in the healing power of music

"...USA" cough). It's how he could walk into a Black church and didn't need a hymn book to join..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

TENGGER, Bar Italia, LAIR, and More Reviews From Wednesday of SXSW

Hump day’s most memorable music fest moments

"...experience what it’s like.” The festival newcomers, donning elegant all-black ensembles, slurred existential lullabies: “I’m lost in love/ I’ve..."

March 14, 2024 Music Post by Dan Gentile

Spoon Surprises Hotel Vegas

Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, and crew meet Sabrina Ellis’ Sweet Spirit

"...played both guitar and keyboards throughout, in addition to tambourine. “Small Stakes” followed, then Transference iceover “Who Makes Your..."

May 7, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Be Real

Sound Team's major label debut has Capitol

"...something more familiar than finger-picking to this crowd of black-clad twentysomethings and ass-shaking fashionistas: openers and local favorites Sound..."

June 9, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...by frontwoman Katie Ball’s Iggy Pop stylings on the tambourine) or the vocals that raise unpredictably from ghostly murmur..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Texas Platters

"...slams like something off of X's Under the Big Black Sun, thanks in no small part to the guesting..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...hanging from his Texas flag thong, banging on a tambourine...."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

TCB

TCB scales the Wall of Sound festival at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater

"...Bathed in blood-red light, the Black Angels began their early evening set with Alex Maas'..."

April 14, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Roger McGuinn, Stubb's, Day Party

Thursday Night

"...Day Party There was no mistaking the man in black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, and sharp, black boots...."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mixing Miami With Copacabana

A profile of Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

"...of even the most macho male, the validity of black cultural expression -- with an infectious, addicting, easy-to-swallow variety..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

ACL Review: Lincoln Durham

Post-blues tug of war between God and the Satan

"...mist outside as Zilker Park woke up, this wholly blackened prophet of fuzz – black shirt, black pants, black..."

Oct. 8, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Orbiting SXSW

Return of the Secaucus 7? Try the arrival of a SXSW septet: Dana Falconberry, Shakey Graves, The Eastern Sea, My Jerusalem, Black Pistol Fire, The Preservation, and The Boxing Lesson.

"...the antique Samsonite, outfitted with a floor tom head, a tambourine, and a honeycomb of sound holes with drum pedals..."

March 1, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

MEOW Discoveries 2012

Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women honors Erin Ivey

"...A couple years ago, DiSantis – now Black (because that’s what women do sometimes, get over it)..."

July 2, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...THE BLACK KEYS: Gutbucket crotch-grabbin' blues, baby. This new-thing duo from..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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