Fab Four Restored

Two screenings today of a newly spiffed-up 'Yellow Submarine'

"...live action A Hard Day's Night, in which the Fab Four played themselves in broad comedic brushstrokes. Yet the..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Yesterday

Imagine a world without the Beatles ... then imagine a better film

"...a worldwide electrical blip erases everyone’s memory of the Fab Four. Everyone, that is, except for the chosen few..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

Ron Howard tackles the Beatles

"...Ron Howard-directed documentary about the early years of the Fab Four, essentially 1962-1966. At first a gas for the..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zeppelin 3

"...didn’t exactly foster my fealty to the UK’s other fab four. Luckily, my deflowering had gone down several years..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Last Train to Clarksville

The Monkees go ape at the Long Center

"...a universe of images and even a film. Those four had it all – wit, charm, looks, and boy..."

Aug. 1, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

2010 B. Iden Payne Awards

Four shows took home nearly half the honors at this year's ceremony

"...1, it looked like they only had eyes for four. Collectively, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Jungle, Murder Ballad Murder..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rutle to the Core

Neil Innes Exposes His Nasty Side

"...film was reluctantly approved by the Liverpudlians themselves. The Fab Four allowed the "Pre-fab Four" to use some of..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Lovely Freda Responds Discreetly

The Beatles' longtime secretary takes center stage

"...a teenager, in 1962, answering fan mail for the four Liverpudlians whose new band was on fire at the..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Playback: James Petralli's Constant Bop

Has White Denim become Bop English? Which festival might relocate to the new superstage at Circuit of the Americas? Is LBJ turning over in eternity over the Beatles exhibit at his library? That and other Q&As in this week's music news.

"...eclectic songwriting, and soulful singing stitches a popular local fabric known as White Denim, creative juices overflow. His garage-prog..."

June 12, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dreamsville

16 Magazine and the birth of music journalism

"...the mop-tops are pictured, but the following month, all four are on the cover, where one or the other..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tributes

"...recognize the extraordinary contributions to the American popular cultural fabric made by "folk artists" like Muddy Waters...."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

Oasis: Supersonic

Britpop band looks back in anger

"...for proper British acts – other than the aforementioned Fab Four – and the band’s rabid UK fan base,..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Metallica: Through the Never

The 32-year-old British quartet is shown in depth that only begins with the 3-D.

"...vignettes representing the individual members of the UK’s other fab four. The results – dungeons and Druids – eventually..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Wombats

Thursday

"...the most singable anthemics to come out of the Fab Four's home court since, well, the Fab Four. Which..."

March 21, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

That Thing You Do!

"...the ephemeral fame and fortune of a band of Fab Four wannabes hit just the right note with me...."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...the Beatles, you have to hand it to the Fab Four. For a band that broke up in 1970,..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...you have time for day parties and in-stores, add four days to those five nights. In fact, it's safe..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl

Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news

"...months. Kelleher says her company can fill orders in four to six weeks...."

April 20, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...for KLLL radio in Lubbock, bleating here on disc four of Not Fade Away. Outlaw country's future monarch wrote..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...Birthday Party. The San Francisco quartet's first album in four years, Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Music DVDs

"...first season release in 2007. Completists bemoan a fake Fab Four and substitutions/exclusions, but clearances of Bob Dylan, Bob..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: Good Ol' Freda

Freda Kelly worked with the Beatles longer than they even worked together

"...breaks in the subterranean Cavern Club listening to the four teenaged boys play – when the Prince of Pop,..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Jordan Smith

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...Holly & the Crickets did that years before the Fab Four set foot here. Okay, so the hiccup with..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Who Let the Dogs Out?

A playlist for the dog days of summer

"...Howling open the other fab four's titanic fourth LP, the album sessions' mascot, a..."

July 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

The Hamburg Sound: OTR retreats to Germany's Reeperbahn Festival as Frank Hendrix sells Emo's

"...sexual liberation afforded by the seedy Reeperbahn and the Fab Four's extensive club dates in the region between 1960..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...wine and trying to decipher the secret of the Fab Four's musical appeal. A few bottles later, Meaux decided..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Adios Antone; A wild and Willie Fourth.

"...quietly, preparing to leave the following day for his four-year prison stretch. In stark contrast to his day in..."

July 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...shaking a stick at any one of the keychanges/chord shifts/four-part vocal quirks of this Dorset, UK combo. You won't..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Broadcast

Almost exclusively white faces, as fine as they are

"...Glam rock’s Fab Four – Kiss – follows, unable to perform due..."

June 6, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

DVDnds

"...(okay, maybe not) as Cannibal Corpse (okay, maybe not). Four ballots to get the Stooges in? Some serious disconnect..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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