Earth, Wind & Fire Saves September

1978 disco smash eases you out of summer into fall

"...to alter your outlook with an elemental approach, then: Earth, Wind & Fire...."

Sept. 4, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Earth, Wind, & Honeycut Makin' the Cut

SF electronico madmen Honeycut rock the SX soulfully.

"...massacre – is a four-man nod to Parliament, Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, Air, and the Chemical Bros. And..."

March 15, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

"...is tied to our idea of the forces beyond earthly life, those with power over life and death. Spirits...."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Like the Wind, Kiko Villamizar Pushes the Culture Forward

Austin's Colombian instigator brings his music, message, and mission to Todo el Mundo

"...cumbia and experimental rhythms with the transformative theme of wind, following two previous LPs oriented around elemental forces: 2015..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Music Feature by Clara Wang

The Tallest Man on Earth

Kristian Matsson sells out the Paramount Theatre

"...soon soaked through with sweat, the Tallest Man on Earth only stood five-foot-seven. The Swede behind the moniker, Kristian..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Page Two: Earth, Stones, and Thorns of the Wild Ground Growing

The poetry of the right-wing soul: an appreciation

"...somewhere else, somewhere emotionally encasing and very, very familiar – it is the most controlled of worlds. Reading a..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Chicago Remixes Chicago

Founding keyboardist Robert Lamm’s gym kismet

"...Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire pull into Circuit of the Americas..."

July 16, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

It Takes a Village

Horn orchestra La Tribu blows it DiY style.

"...in a horn section. My favorite bands -- P-Funk, Earth, Wind & Fire, the Ohio Players -- were huge...."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films, in which Neil Young unfolds his latest album Prairie Wind in concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

"...With Neil Young: Heart of Gold, the Oscar-intimate rock & roll enthusiast not only records another The Last Waltz..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...most dire threat to the continuation of life on Earth. These assumptions are givens, as is Byck’s assertion that..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life

Astronauts discover that a wall won't keep out a new alien life form

"...without any narrative foreplay: An international space station orbiting Earth intercepts a space probe carrying a Martian soil sample..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Metal’s Beach Boys: Def Leppard

Phil Collen details UK hitmakers’ musical work ethic

"...I’ve always said that we’re actually more like Earth, Wind & Fire than we are like Metallica. They..."

Aug. 16, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

Saturday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...was there that night remembers the sight: Jandek walking – no, floating – onstage, dressed in black and dark..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Saving Mr. Banks

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson star in this story about how Walt Disney convinced the prickly author of Mary Poppins to sell her creation to Hollywood.

"...the no-nonsense nanny who was carried by the east wind to the Banks family household and into the imaginations..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Away We Go

See it for the many lovely performances, although the film’s vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leave you up a tree.

"...old friend in Madison, Wis., (Gyllenhaal) has become an earth mother to a ridiculous extreme; school chums in Montreal..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fog

This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.

"...and mom Kate McGarrigle is probably wondering where on earth all the death threats are coming from. It’s just..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All in Perspective

Chris Searles

"...store on the Drag. Hamby, at the time an A&R bigwig for Columbia Records (CBS), spent a few minutes..."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Mothership Connection

Space is place for the hip-hop race

"...– Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Upside

Remake of a true story of an unlikely friendship is the flattest version yet

"...about the pleasures of fast cars, hot dogs, and R&B music (although The Upside substitutes Aretha Franklin for the..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Drum Legend Jack DeJohnette Returns to Austin

We talk to the jazz titan about Coltrane, his latest album, and more

"...Ranging from free jazz to New Age – which net his only Grammy on 2008's Peace Time..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Brothers Hypnotic'

A look at the family dynamics and musical exuberance of Chicago's Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

"...a film successfully footnotes heavy-hitters like Prince, Sun Ra, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mos Def, and Damon Albarn (Blur,..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Yet without the pioneers – those who face insuperable odds, cheerless solitude, and public..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire

"...Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire Backyard, Oct. 20 As longtime musical..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Muppets From Space

"...James Brown, the Commodores, George Clinton and P-Funk, and Earth Wind and Fire, I kept expecting a Bootsy Collins-inspired..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...• After a six year break from movies, SXSW regular..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...reduce and reverse the negative impacts of global warming." – Austin City Council Resolution, Feb. 15, 2007..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

New Sounds of the Season

Christmas cheer for the ear from UT Wind Ensemble, Austin Symphony Orchestra, and Conspirare

"...to be beyond the powers of any one mortal – or jolly old elf – to stay abreast of...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019

Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end

"...and pain, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Austin Kite Fest Celebrates 90 Years

From 1929 to present, the festival is a constant in a changing city

"...Legend has it that on a particularly windy day in China, a farmer tied a string to..."

March 27, 2019 Events Post by Alyssa Hiarker

Public Notice

Love, love, love. That's what it's all about. Yup, this week's column: You'll love it.

"...New Year's mix tape we made, and up funks Earth, Wind & Fire from their 1993 CD, Millennium (How..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

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