Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...session musician at Duke/Peacock, has toured extensively with B.B. King as musician and arranger, and has long led his..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Articulations

Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season

"...Director Dave Steakley was planning to set on the King Ranch. Now, It Ain't Nothing but the Blues will..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Arts & Entertainment

"...door benefit various charities around town.There was lots of networking, a few business cards exchanged, and plenty of high..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Best of Austin Feature

American Hot Wax

This neglected 1978 American rock & roll film is a historical invocation of legendary deejay Alan Freed's life and cultural impact.

"...he helped invent the Fifties payola scandals (deejays were taking money to play records), and especially, the consequences of..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...entrepreneurship; actress/filmmaker Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels) in conversation with filmmaking duo the Russo Brothers, coming off of their Avengers:..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Faster Than Sound: Remembering Chet Himes, Johnny Limón, and Riley Osbourn

Three Austin music scene stalwarts passed in late August

"...part recording engineer Chet Himes, who also worked with Carole King, Joe Ely, and Eric Johnson. Influential studio and..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Jinx McGee and Lizzy Lehman Collab on Ode to Queer Intimacy

New song “Skin Against Skin” premieres on Qmmunity

"...AC: What was the goal with making depression sound “sexy”?..."

April 14, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band Album Review

Just Like Moby Dick (Paradise of Bachelors)

"...to rhyme "appendicitis" with "abandonitis," Allen's lyrical knack for looking sideways while smiling through a story enhances the daylight..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Rick Weaver

Faster Than Sound: Unearthing Daniel Johnston’s If

Producer Brian Beattie has an unreleased Daniel Johnston album ready, but can’t make amends with the late cult singer’s management

"..."I've been working on a new album with Brian Beattie for years,..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Texas Flexes Its Musical Muscle at Grammy Gala

Recording Academy’s Lone Star Chapter celebrates 25 with diversity

"...rousing song before joining in an immaculate duet of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend.”..."

July 19, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Review: Amazing Grace

Two nights with the incomparable Aretha Franklin

"...Gaye opening (“Wholly Holy”), there’s a surprising melding of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” with “Precious Lord, Take..."

March 17, 2019 SXSW Post by Michael King

Friday ACL Fest 2018 Picks

TGIF picks for Zilker Park

"...2016, introducing the Canadian-born, Germany-based songwriter with jagged beats quaking behind a voice between Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Music Feature

Formula 1 Music: Stevie Wonder

The master blaster signed, sealed, and delivered

"...shuffle before launching into his first-ever performed rendition of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend.”..."

Oct. 23, 2017 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin

X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies

"...associated with California, Doe's leaving the Golden State and taking up residence in the land of Lone Star...."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Hot August Nights: Hot/Cold

"...his band the Flying Machine inform basically biblical imagery. Carole King on piano. – Jim Caligiuri "Hot N Cold," Katy..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Review

"...the entirety of third LP Islander even though it's Carole King getting name-checked on the slinky funk of "Everything..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Folk Goddess Behind the Curtain: Dalis Allen

Kerrville wiz stages Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference

"...when they tore it down to “put up a parking lot,” we moved into the Student Center building...."

Sept. 24, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...11pm, Buffalo Billiards Jonathan Terrell began making a name for himself as a rootsy singer-songwriter, but..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Good Music, Good Himes

Texas engineer Chet Himes talks about Christopher Cross

"...of work with Michael Brovsky and FreeFlow Productions – Carole King, Joe Ely, Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn,..."

Jan. 23, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection

Box sets as catalog ghetto

"...Mann's brilliant "On Broadway" as sung by the Crystals, Carole King and Gerry Goffin's brutal "He Hit Me (And..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Jackie DeShannon

Third Acts

"...innovative folk-pop hybrids is stunning. Never as celebrated as Carole King, DeShannon revisits her hits here, some written with..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970

David Browne's revisionist history of 1970

"...nonpivotal intersections. The ascendancy of female collaborators such as Carole King and Joni Mitchell against the backdrop of women's..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Tammi Terrell

"...up. These two discs trace that rise and climb. Carole King & Gerry Goffin's "Make the Night Just a..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

DVDnds

"...Eric Clapton, all in black with his Blackie Strat, making child's play out of "Sunshine of Your Love" for..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: What History Teaches

There are different ways of counting social costs

"...the long term, and the politicians are more precisely balking over the notion that health care – like supermax..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Jackie DeShannon

Reissues

"...never achieved the recognition of singer-songwriter peers such as Carole King, but her estimable career arcs from the late..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

At the Corner of Starlight and Springtime

R.I.P. Ellie Greenwich

"...Ellie and her peers Carole King, Cynthia Weil, and Jackie de Shannon wrote the..."

Aug. 31, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Go Insane

Lindsey Buckingham swears he's not mad

"...the John Frusciante/Rick Rubin-era Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lindsey Buckingham is the great Southern California pop genius. Though production..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Music Festival Reviews

"...follow a path left by such potent songwriters as Carole King and Tori Amos, but until her abilities mature,..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Rachael Yamagata

Record review

"...the sunny "1963," Yamagata owes nearly as much to Carole King and Carly Simon, which is why Happenstance is..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

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