Playback: Death by David Vincent

Hanging with Morbid Angel singer-turned-country outlaw David Vincent and other dark tales of the live music capital

"...the now Austin-based singer – famous for fronting Floridian death metal pioneers Morbid Angel during the band's heyday –..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

"...just looking at the ads of venues listing their musical lineups. I know you think CodeNEXT is interesting, or..."

May 10, 2019 Postmarks

A Band Called Death

A black proto-punk band from Detroit that wouldn't compromise on its name is unearthed in this music doc 35 years after recording their original demo tracks.

"...Directed by: Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett...."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A New Life for 'A Band Called Death'

Detroit rock & rollers resurrected through Drafthouse Films

"...There's a shadow hanging over the Detroit-born proto-punk band Death – but it's also the light that shines on..."

June 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...jazz a Texas tradition, the innovator was Brown, whose Musical Brownies were the prototype Western swing band in 1932...."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Death to Smoochy

"...Directed by: Danny DeVito. Starring: Robin Williams, Danny DeVito, Edward Norton,..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Local Opera Local Artists' We Might Be Struck by Lightning

In this new pastiche chamber opera, LOLA takes us on a bold musical journey

"..."Come, just as we might be struck by lightning..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché

Death Takes No Holiday

Mourning two Austin players.

"...Death comes much too quickly and silently after a certain..."

Oct. 1, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk

Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work

"...Like most teenagers, Carrie Elkin felt embarrassed by some of her father's actions. For one, he seemed..."

April 14, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Joan Wasser: Police Woman By Day, Torch Singer By Night

Rob yaks with Joan Wasser from Joan As Police Woman

"...As Police Woman, that doesn't mention her many prestigious musical cohorts. With the release of her latest The Deep..."

April 29, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

World's Impending End by Ocean Fishing

"...at Brave New Books on the world's impending ending by ocean fishing was listed as such. Sad, though, that..."

Aug. 20, 2012 Postmarks

Luv Doc Recommends: Evil Dead: The Musical

Salvage Vanguard Theater, Thursday, October 15, 2009

"...Really, why shouldn't Evil Dead be made into a musical? After all, death is quite a showstopper. It worked..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...revolution. Spreading like smallpox brought to the New World by European settlers, it soon became the preeminent form of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold, with steps the prisoner..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

South By So Much Punk

Pussy Riot, 'The Punk Syndrome,' and – count 'em – two docs about Green Day: Yep, punk is having a moment in the movies

"...name, releasing bands like the Undertones and shaping Belfast's musical community at a time when political conflict paralyzed Northern..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Terminator: The Musical at Fallout Theater

This is exactly the sort of loving parody of nuclear apocalypse and time-traveling AI everyone should experience at least once

"...Making musicals from movies, and vice versa, is nothing new. Just..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Now is the Summer of our discontent after this flat jukebox

"...If you attend the touring Summer: The Donna Summer Musical – about the life, times, and up-tempo tunes of..."

May 7, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Page Two: Oh, Death

Remembering the late Steve Levitan, and a long-ago afternoon with him boxing Wendell Crowley's comics collection

"...Oh, Death Oh, Death Won't you spare me over 'til another..."

March 25, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Blinded by the Light

Semi-true story of how the Boss shook the world of a boy from Luton

"...Directed by: Gurinder Chadha. Starring: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra,..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...bouncing off bunker walls; and a recoiling refrain chorused by some sort of Freemason society – prehistoric tongue-in-cheek crunch..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ben Kweller Plays First Show Following His Son’s Death

Noise Company SXSW showcase became a moving Zev memorial

"...Dorian Kweller, who as an artist went by his middle name, Zev, was set to open the..."

March 18, 2023 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...The victory cheer by a beefy, bearded Bikers 101 crew accompanies the crack..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Life, Death, and Dance

Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires. And Robert Duvall loves Luciana Pedraza, the ravishing Argentinean-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow conflates all these things.

"...legend somehow conflates all these things. Written and directed by Duvall, Assassination Tango tells the story of John J.,..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...at age 58. The news was confirmed on Wednesday by his former manager Jeff Tartakov...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

By the Book

Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Reviewed

"...The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazzby Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Capital City Black Film Festival Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Four-day event showcases African-American experiences in cinema

"...With scorching triple-digit heat indexes finally broken by torrential rains, further relief arrives with the start of..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Review: Different Stages Theatre's Water by the Spoonful

A teaspoon of gravitas, tablespoon of heart is the perfect recipe for this Pulitzer winner

"...Different Stages' moving production of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful – that is, after you rebound from..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Bigger Than Me: The Musical Journey of BLK ODYSSY

A child of funk who lost his brother to police brutality soundtracks a revolution on BLK VINTAGE

"...2017, up until the recent name change. As evidenced by their live shows, Rios worships at the altar of..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Fox and CBS Pull the Switcheroo Musical Affiliates

KEYE Channel 42

"...is carried over into the station's "image song," recorded by local musicians...."

June 16, 1995 News Feature

Wrong Cops

French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.

"...Directed by: Quentin Dupieux. Starring: Mark Burnham, Eric Judor, Steve Little,..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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