Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Kikagaku Moyo/Bo Ningen

A second Japanese twofer pilots the APF mothership

"...fires just before midnight matter, they all proved revelatory. Ghost axe in the machine Mark McGuire, Brazilian psych Beatles..."

May 5, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Bruce Springsteen

"...syrup ("Hunter of Invisible Game") nor Rage Against the Machine ("The Ghost of Tom Joad") can undercut Suicide being..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: FREE WEEK!

2014, you're up

"...a favorite Austin tradition arrives to fire the music machine back into full swing...."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 National

One hundred lines of album art

"...9) John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...or so lucky Austinites, R.L. Stine will be telling ghost stories in a cemetery, and James McBride (The Good..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

DVDanger: 'Hatchet III'

Gleefully signing up for the Hatchet Army

"...massive hole in the face of mass-murdering, swamp-dwelling, blood-and-guts ghost Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder.) Of course, that's not enough..."

Aug. 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In the Wink of an Eye

An Austin slow-food pioneer celebrates a dozen years in operation

"...whole. Yeah, it's like a hive mind, or the ghost in the machine that makes all the moving parts..."

July 12, 2013 Food Feature by MM Pack

Mo' Music: Spring Music, Part 1

Get sprung with the season's latest tunes

"...single off Mosquito. This bluesy, cathartic rocker channels the ghost of Tina Turner and Pink Floyd. One serious bend..."

April 3, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Lee Ving, Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk, Rick Springfield, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Chris..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...shape of ones and zeros, literature is becoming a ghost in the machine – the Kindle, to be precise. With..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

SXSW Music Keynote: Bruce Springsteen

SXSW Showcase Reviews

"..."He's a big, big ghost in the machine," Springsteen observed as Guthrie's daughter Nora..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Oko

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...of Love embodied every aspect of the Brit hype machine with massive singles like "Velvet" and "Dominos." The London..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Danzig Legacy

"...fans who for three decades have stenciled/inked the Crimson Ghost logo you created on everything from the Berlin Wall..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Music Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Lists

SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else

"...the mystery of what happened to the Roland drum machine used on the first Run-DMC disc. The rest is..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...her children's father, incarcerated and on trial. Man & Machine: A Naked Robotic Love Story Directors: Jesse Roesler &..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...is pregnant and ambivalent, afraid she relates better to machines than to people. Looking for answers, she hits the..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Longhorns and Bobcats Dream of Coaching Knights in Shining Armor

Greg Davis out as UT offensive coordinator

"...rumor mill begins spewing today, but the UT football machine is not one to leak out much information, so..."

Dec. 8, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

After a Fashion

In memory of a friend

"...both shocked and pleased to see him, a benevolent ghost from my past. He welcomed me warmly, and when..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

So Percussion

If the future is now, then the future of percussion will likely make it So

"...composition that pitted the percussive men against a percussion machine – the devil's own metronome – and ratcheted up..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'America Letterpress: The Art of the Hatch Show Print'

This exhibit offers rooms of graphics to grab the eye and jolt the music-loving heart

"...still doing it the old-fashioned way, even when incorporating machine-generated photo images. Most of the limited-edition promotional prints are..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

Inquiring into the city's new music program manager position, trick-or-treating with the Butthole Surfers, and introducing Thenewno2

"...of the performance," Stotesbery says. Directions to See a Ghost..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Last Laugh

Remembering the late underground comic Mitch Hedberg

"...but the similarities end there. Hicks raged against the machine, stretching toward his own personal utopian vision via comedy...."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

More Beautiful Noise

Western Vinyl owner Brian Sampson: Dr. Label & Mr. Ambient

"...the Chronicle two years ago (see "Welcome to the Machine," Oct. 19, 2007). "I'm exploring textures and tones instead..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

In its eighth year, the annual Austin comedy festival did this city proud

"...packed houses, the relative smoothness with which this vast machinery ran, the uncountable number of smiling faces in (and..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'

This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature

"...that play off memory's elusive, ever-fluctuating nature. David Rokeby's Machine for Taking Time (Boul. Saint-Laurent) presents side-by-side screens that..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ghostsongs

Two makers of narrative figurative art grapple with death in a striking show

"...'Ghostsongs'..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Off the Record

Ice Cube racks up the body count at Mohawk, Loxsly shines a light on Tomorrow's Fossils, and gift-wrapping local holiday offerings

"...a scientist that experiments with parapsychology and builds a machine that lets him hear other people's thoughts, only it..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Jesus & Mary Chain

"...the grim guitar bop of '87's Darklands to the drum-machine pulse of Automatic (1989), Honey's Dead (1992), and final..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Austin Powell

Playing Through

The Bad News Cowboys search for an identity

"...it will take a combination of Landry's cold, well-groomed machine and Jones' gambler flash...."

Dec. 12, 2008 Column by Joe O'Connell

Off the Record

Mohawk welcomes Red River Flats to the neighborhood, Ego's sings karaoke, and a tribute to pianist Doug Hall

"...of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Rage Against the Machine. Don't book airfare or accommodations on headliner Kanye West's..."

April 11, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

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