Keeping Up With the Joneses

A century of Austin music in one arrangement

"...inside the Texas Music Museum, lies the key to Austin's musical history, and unlocking it for just a couple..."

June 18, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Blitz

Steve McQueen's history of the London air raids misses the target

"...cartoonish, minstrelesque depictions of sugar cane workers in sweet shop window displays. But he has his mum, and his..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spoon's Hot Thoughts Remodels the Locals' Art-Funk

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk about the rise of R&B in the band's sound

"...too bad," smirks the smaller, snottier singer for rival Austin punks sharing the bill...."

June 2, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

What Is This Miracle Called Movie Music?

Making movie-music magic 'Infamous'

"...an independent film production that had recently relocated to Austin. Anne Walker-McBay, the preeminent local producer I'd worked with..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Mark Rubin

Dream Story

Boy with a horn returns from the Big Apple

"...Following an introduction by former Austin bandmate Fred Sanders, Haslanger was invited up one night..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...FRIDAYAustin Collins Band11:15am, BMI stage..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Food-o-File

Romeo's sold; a new Quack's in a new spot; and you should really try Reido's; plus, Roberto Santibanez returns

"...Brozek expects to upgrade the wine list, add live piano music on Saturday evenings and at Sunday brunch, and..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...wanna take it home with them, then we at least want to hit them in the face. Our punk..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Scaggs Photo in Bad Taste

"...She was stabbed twice above and once through her breastbone, and on all three stabs the long knife poked..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Column

Playback: The Legendary White Swan

The Legendary White Swan doesn't bite

"...Corner," News, July 13) had hurt business at his Eastside lounge the Legendary White Swan. Highlighting police issues around..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Levitation, a Cumbia Halloween, Jazz Hall of Fame, and More Crucial Concerts

From spooky to undead and beyond, these are the shows to see

"...ghostly cavalcade of Latin percussion, levitating organ, haunted mansion piano, a beheading solo, and spectral brass make for a..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Tributes

"...and songwriting are all but doomed. "We hired a piano player," Roger McGuinn is quoted in the liner notes..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

The Week in Recommended Live Music

Narrow Head, Pussy Gillette, the Nude Party, and even some innuendo-less acts to see

"...soother “Vente a Cenar.” An opening set from gooey Austin psych-popper Redbud resets their prior pairing last September at..."

May 3, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Twain’s Texan Metamorphosis

The Big Thief favorite finds a home locally, Brew & Brew Solo Sets gratify, and a send-off to outlaw country drummer Paul English

"...for the wondersome folk artist, who'd recently moved to Austin from his home state of Virginia...."

Feb. 14, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...NARAS PRESENTS: … the Austin Music Awards' new Super Bowl champs, Del Castillo, Austin's..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM "OLOGY" CAMPS This is just too cool...."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

The Belle Sounds

A pick-up line, 16 years, and now an eponymous debut

"...musicians originally hail from Northern California. Hampton began with piano and high school band, and by the age of..."

April 30, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Thursday International Bands

Thursday, pace yourself

"...loved the Sixties, so it's no duh that this Shop Assistants-cum-Phil Spector combo would sound so totally today...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Hiromi Uehara, Caroline Rose, and Fests Galore in Our Crucial Concerts

Choose your fest: Psych, Death, or Blues

"...finds her exploring jazz funk fusion with synthesizers, electric pianos, and a crack band featuring trumpet star Adam O’Farrill...."

April 26, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Behold a Pale Horse: the White Horse Turns Ten with No Signs of an Apocalypse

A look back at the early days of the “black sheep” of Austin honky-tonks

"...his life before owning the White Horse, the popular Eastside two-step staple, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this week..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

Los Coast Doubles Down on Its Psych-Soul for Label Debut

Local fivepiece embraces the spirit of wandering

"...the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden."..."

June 14, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Chulita Vinyl Club Holds the Line Against Cultural Appropriation

All-women, all vinyl, the DJ collective spins for empowerment and togetherness

"...Torres-Castro belongs to the founding Austin chapter of the Chulita Vinyl Club, self-described as an..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...of late, great Texan song poet David Rodriguez, native Austinite Carrie Rodriguez engraved her name on the folk and..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Gay Place: Furballz

SXSW Thursday

"...OF JAMES BOOKER "...the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," says Dr. John...."

March 15, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

Celebrating Independence Day with Wild America and Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic

"...Having conquered the land of ice and snow, the..."

July 9, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...Ivy League university surroundings and the mansions of the east side. There was also a rich music and arts..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

To Make a Long Story Short

"...soundtrack 20 years earlier, he'd certainly be the only Austinite on All-Music able to lay claim to session work..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bruce Hughes

"...Bruce Hughes may play in two ofAustin's most popular bands, the Ugly Americans and the Scabs,..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Change of Hart

Pam Hart Stretches Out

"...of the monster it is today. Ever hungry, the beast keeps growing. "New Adult Contemporary" (also called "Urban Contemporary"..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Jingles With Hair

Musicians for Hire: A Career in Advertising

"...a couple dozen high-profile local musicians finding work in Austin's small but rapidly growing "jingle" market, wherein local musicians..."

June 20, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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