Drums & Tuba Reunite in Austin

Homegrown breakouts’ prep first local show in over a decade

"...Drums & Tuba, a breakout act from Austin’s creatively crazed..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: A Tuba to Cuba

Preservation Jazz Hall Band doc is filled with life and joy

"...the Wednesday afternoon screening of international music documentary A Tuba to Cuba might not even have been the film..."

March 15, 2018 Screens Post by Michael King

DRUMS & TUBA

"...Box Fetish (T.E.C. Tones)..."

May 30, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...to hip-hop. Bluesy live instrumentation, including flute, bass, guitar, and DJs keeps a tempo that MCs like Slug and..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...in the Radiohead mold, a soundscape of swirling keyboards and detached Julian Casablancas-style vocals. 2001's Milkmaid Grand Army EP..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...of Earth’s rare performance. New partnerships, including with Stereogum and a national publicity firm, also leveled up Oblivion Access’..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Different Dimensions

Drums and Tuba

"...Like a steaming bowl of gumbo, Drums and Tuba's music is made from a myriad of..."

May 30, 1997 Music Feature by David Lynch

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...Wholly Earth (Verve) CASSANDRA WILSON..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

Drums and Tuba Flatheads and Spoonies (My Pal God)

"...Drums and TubaFlatheads and Spoonies (My Pal God) It's about..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...volumes about the evolution within underground music in Austin and beyond. Headlining act Mudhoney would represent the long-faded surge..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on

"...during R.E.M.'s historic Austin City Limits taping on Thursday and not just because the studio had removed its seats..."

March 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Dancing About Architecture

El Flaco No Mas?

"...bookers saying they were surprised to have approached the band about shows only to be told of "final gigs."..."

June 12, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Java Amping

Austin's Coffeehouse Circuit

"...Coffee is my god, my goddess, my Buddha and every other deity graven or otherwise ever raised from..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...at Woodstock, Johnny Rotten singing "No Fun" at the Winterland, or perhaps Igor Stravinsky inciting a riot with his..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Sxsw

"...calm down. So what if there are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest conference? You are..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...weekly KCRW Le Show filled with song parodies, skits, and real estate listings to town for a live broadcasting...."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Woman at War

Saving the world, one wry laugh at a time in this Icelandic eco-comedy

"...Camillo Roman Estrada, Davíð Þór Jónsson, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Ómar Guðjónsson...."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music Review: Jazz re:freshed Outernational Blows Down Abbey Road

Downstairs at the old Emo’s on Sixth and Red River in spirit

"...Record label Jazz re:freshed, whose co-founder Adam Moses hosted, and production entity British Underground, with help from the Arts..."

March 16, 2021 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...situated on a moody female singer-songwriter continuum alongside Feist and Cat Power. However, Obel's 2010 debut, Philharmonics (PIAS), is..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Spontaneous Composition

"...Travis Hartnett photograph by John Davis At best, a band's first gig can be a little shaky. Given that..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...TERRY BOZZIO: Dripping with percussive proficiency, Austin resident and former Zappa -- and Missing Persons -- drummer Terry..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...conference. Each review is tagged with the day, venue, and time the artist is playing, but all information is..."

March 7, 1997 Music Review

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...Town Lake Stage @ Auditorium Shores This prolific Houston trumpeter/arranger/bandleader was a session musician at fabled Duke/Peacock Records, has..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...take to its rock & roll stages, from the tuba to the ukulele to the didgeridoo - proving, if..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature

deEP end

deEP end

"...Randy Reynolds, better known as Leatherbag, hit his stride last..."

March 13, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Spiros closes and now Room 710, too? Meanwhile, the Bizarros' long, strange trip returns them to the Hole in the Wall.

"...Between a Rock and a Hard Place..."

June 12, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Live Shots

"...I saw anyway, was severely lacking in the mayoral candidate. So what goes down at this weekly shindig? Well,..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Music Feature

Drums & Tuba Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 1: Box Fetish (My Pal God)
Drums & Tuba Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 2: The Flying Ballerina (My Pal God)

Texas Platters

"...Drums & TubaWater Damage Re-issues, Vol. 1: Box Fetish..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Top 10 1999/Local

"...3. ... And They Will Know Us by Our Trail of Dead,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Drums & Tuba

"...Drums & Tuba Vinyl Killer (Righteous Babe) Former Austinites and..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

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