SXSW Music Interview: Grandaddy

Jason Lytle is ready to pick up the Grandaddy mantle again

"...When Grandaddy put out Just Like the Fambly Cat in 2006,..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

SXSW Music Live: Grandaddy

Wrestling guitars back from the rise of synthesizers

"...humanoids. Or at least that’s what we gathered from Grandaddy’s set Friday night at Stubb’s...."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...is lush, crystal-clear, and as sincere as Pavement or Grandaddy at their most pastoral and heart wrenching. – Michael..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

The Witches of the Orient

How the 1964 Japanese women’s Olympic volleyball team healed a nation

"...manufacturing. These collisions, set to music from Portishead and Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, are the heart of Witches, hypnotic patterns..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Portals

SF anthology brings in genre heavy hitters but still whiffs

"...pulled in much of the talent from V/H/S (the grandaddy of the current anthology boom), while Portals is basically..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Grandaddy

Last Place (Columbia)

"...Since its 1997 debut, Grandaddy's gotten comfortable retelling rock in a postapocalyptic manner in..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

SXSW Unloads Headliners

Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more

"...to the Mar. 10-19 docket are re-trending space-pop vets Grandaddy, jangle rock faves Real Estate, Canadian pop collective the..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Summer Wars

Charming anime about families, social media, and summer love

"...the enemy here, although, as with Godzilla – the great-grandaddy of Japanese nuclear metaphors – it's definitely something no..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The White Countess

The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant Ivoryisms (thanks in large part to the lushly vertiginous cinematography of DP Christopher Doyle) that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.

"...of the Day), also, perhaps not inadvertently, echoes the great-grandaddy of wartime love, Casablanca, but – ahem – lacks..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grandaddy

Record Review

"...GrandaddySumday (V2) Grandaddy's third full-length is the band's Dark Side..."

June 27, 2003 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...GRANDADDY: Jason Lytle's lethargic vocals speak to the couch potato..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Eight Ways to Celebrate Lunar New Year 2020 in Austin

Start over (again) with the Year of the Rat

"...Chinatown Center’s annual Lunar New Year’s bash is the grandaddy of Austin Chinese New Year celebrations. Held at the..."

Jan. 23, 2020 Food Post by Emily Beyda

ACL Live Review: Billy Strings

Acid grass virtuoso leaves the BMI stage smoking

"...This ain’t your grandaddy’s bluegrass!..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Band of Horses

Why Are You OK (Interscope)

"...that inaugural 2006 disc by employing a fresh producer, Grandaddy mage Jason Lytle, who stamps his former band's downtrodden..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Austin Film Festival: A Conversation With Chris Cooper

An evening with the notable "character actor"

"...Director and “grandaddy of independent film” John Sayles was mentioned more than..."

Nov. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Caitlin Moore

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...McCloud: It’s a Cintiq, which is the grandaddy of all Wacoms – where the table and the..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Last Housecore on the Left

Your guide to all things metal

"...The sludge-soaked grandaddy of them all, still led by double-downtuned guitarist Jimmy..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature

Music Mo'nday: Dec. 19 Shopping Edition

Songs to shop your head off to

"..."Broken Household Appliance National Forest"- Grandaddy In Byrne's post-ecopolypse world there is a magical forest..."

Dec. 18, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Style X 2011

The SXSW XXV fashion perspective

"...fashion in a colony of creatives, Austin is the grandaddy of "found-style". People-watching just doesn't get any better, so..."

Feb. 8, 2011 Design Post by Anne Harris

XBRMNT's Top 10 for the Week of Nov. 22

XBMRNT gives thanks for his favorite songs of the week.

"...her out live in this clip. 8. "Disconnecty" - Grandaddy OK, you've been home a day. You're ready to..."

Nov. 24, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Nakia

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Sigur Rós' Kjartan Sveinsson. Sweden's Surrounded shifts gears with Grandaddy-orbiting third disc Oppenheimer and Woodstock. Originality rests with unruly..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Fishing for Change

Hightower's latest is a collection of inspirational tales

"...the Bush (2004); and not to forget the 1997 grandaddy that really distinguished the Hightower brand: There's Nothing in..."

March 14, 2008 News Feature by Michael King

Thursday Sleepers

"...Brand New Towns shimmered with the vibrant glow of Grandaddy's softer moments, while Gomez's hushed vocals and haunted lyrical..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

The Normans

"...discordant jams and subdued, tightly wound vocal harmonies hearkening Grandaddy's Pretty Mess. The balance succeeds best on "Lowell," the..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Robert Gomez

"...expansiveness without overpowering. "The Same Sad Song" even recalls Grandaddy or Beulah's more subtle moments. Gomez's music contains an..."

April 20, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Midlake

Record review

"...technology. Where 2004's debut LP, Bamnan and Slivercork, slapped Grandaddy on the keys, exquisite sophomore disc, The Trials of..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Loxsly, Whisky Bar, June 29

Live shot

"...wanky keys, the crowd began to thin. A dreamy, Grandaddy-esque "Stethoscope" brought comments of a silent crowd from Ground...."

July 7, 2006 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

The Glass Family

The Glass Family, transparent talent

"...claiming a specific decade. Its closest analogues might be Grandaddy, Centro-matic, or the Flaming Lips, songs of quiet beauty..."

March 3, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Old Town

Emerald Eire acts, Dublin and Donegal all the way

"...Trade earned them opening gigs with the Thrills and Grandaddy, along with a nomination for Album of the Year..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by David Lynch

Crack Music

2005's music haiku

"...Okkervil River's Will Sheff (Black Sheep Boy), and the grandaddy of indie songwriters, Smog's Bill Callahan (A River Ain't..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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