The Music of Our Sins

Letters at 3am

"...and gamble, rather than live like you; odes to dead dogs; the wildest fiddling and subtlest guitar playing you've..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Picture of the Blues

"...Even before the photo shoot for the first Fabulous Thunderbirds album in 1979, however, Ferguson cut his hair and..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think • Julia Alvarez,..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin at Large: And Still, We Rise

Austin has liberated itself from exhausted narratives before. It's time to do it again.

"...goal of a struggle for liberation from an old, dead power structure, and when that struggle was joined in..."

June 12, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...Deadbeat Beat (Detroit, MI.)..."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Multimedia Exhibit Captures East Austin Then and Now

Bear Lopez collaborates to celebrate his disappearing neighborhood

"...delivering papers through its ever-changing back streets in the dead of night with the help of his 20-year-old chihuahua..."

Oct. 16, 2019 Arts Post by Saskia Henn

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...George W. Bush is by all definitions an actual..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

Phonography Austin's The Invisible Suburb

This World Listening day installation used recorded sounds of domestic life to create a ghostly neighborhood on a street now empty of life

"...clangs and bangs and cacophony of the recordings. While birds chirped intermittently, bugs buzzed so consistently that they formed..."

July 26, 2019 Arts Review by Taylor Prewitt

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...Tree, André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Kevin Puts' The Manchurian Candidate and Pulitzer..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders

Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople

"...changed the literary landscape. Her debut novel, All the Birds in the Sky, won the Nebula Award for Best..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

The Found Footage Festival Comes to Austin

Traveling showcase of video hilarity screens at the North Door

"...wacky, right? But most of it's wacky because it's dead-on serious and yet as absurd as Normal American Life..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Everyone Keeps Asking Me for ACL Fest Passes

Here's why ...

"...delivery, who puts every cell into performance. The group's Dead Oceans-issued Songs of Praise, a platter of engaging post-punk..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Not going to Float Fest? Stay dry with these show picks.

"...year’s powerhouse The Dusk in Us, while French trio Birds in Row explores similar sounds on We Already Lost..."

July 19, 2018 Chron Events Post by The Music Staff

Heartland Theatre Collective’s Little Bird

The vulnerability of small things is at the heart of Nicole Oglesby’s drama of girls and ghosts in East Texas bayou country

"...tiny body. The girl had never heard that mama birds reject babies that had been touched by a human...."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC

This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output

"...a barren plain, surrounded by rotting corn and a dead fish, look collaged. A bright pink worm writhes in..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...Birdlime D: Evan DeRushie A birds-eye-view of the exotic bird trade industry. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Community leaders hosts forum to discuss new city commission to focus on LGBTQ quality of life

"...Bitter Birds, Summer Swells, the Dizzease, Ruby Fray, Haenyeo A Monday..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Top 10 National Albums of 2016

Our favorite picks from across the country

"...4) Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, La Araña Es la Vida (In the Red)..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

The Q&A Hole: Can Money Buy Happiness?

With Edmo, Carina Magyar, and … Gloria Steinem? Yes, and more.

"...one of the great minds of our time. “You're dead for a real long time; you just can't prevent..."

Oct. 18, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: David Yow Meets the Jazzus Lizard

David Yow fronts the Jazzus Lizard, Cherubs knock off 22 years of rust, Preston Hubbard dies, and Blind Lemon Jefferson gets kicked off Texas license plates

"...to Texas to replace Keith Ferguson in the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1984. The "Guero Loco," known as "Pinky" to..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...the Black Lagoon and a house coat with origami birds on it because you know, art...."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rooster Re-Coop

Animal Services rehabs fighting roosters

"...roosters were recovered, though several of those were already dead and more would have to be euthanized because their..."

March 6, 2016 News Post by Nina Hernandez

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...the trials and tribulations of those who breed exotic birds in the world of competitive poultry. (World Premiere) *..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Playback – Antone's New Booker: Zach Ernst

Did Clifford Antone know he was grooming his nightclub's future booker when he mentored Zach Ernst?

"...10th track "The Society for the Preservation of Rare Birds" that would lead one to believe the electronic guitar..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Take Me to a Party

Sweet Spirit pops big

"...and says, 'I've got it! It's done! It's about birds!'..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Key Biscayne

Second Place winner

"...high in the Icee blue sky. There were no birds. The ocean sounded far away. Everything smelled like gasoline...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Remy Barnes Klein

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...Add two more if you count Lockhart’s Deadman and former Austinite Possessed By Paul James, who currently..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Phil Anselmo's Housecore Horror

Phil Anselmo returns with Housecore Horror, Marc and Elijah Ford jam family style, and Keith Ferguson gets his inked in new book

"...the classic possession movies like The Exorcist or Evil Dead. I think the guttural sounds of the demons inspired..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Letters At 3AM: Karen Holden's This Music

This Music, Karen Holden's new poetry collection, expresses the connection between the self and the world

"...Fauré," based on the Roman Catholic Mass for the dead, and "Kol Nidrei, Op. 47, Adagio on Hebrew Melodies:..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Dead Space

Texas Platters go mondo

"...The Dead SpaceFaker (12XU)..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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