SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...authentic country that could go over in a punk club, honky-tonk, or state penitentiary (and has, at all). Their..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...reputation -- that currently has the APD under the gun. According to Farris, in the mid-Nineties the APD administration..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...(Scales' oft-heard complaints notwithstanding), so cars had not yet begun encroaching on the apartment buildings around Ego's. Floyd gazed..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

115 Comics Walk Into a Bar ...

"...level are used to playing backwoods barrooms and karaoke clubs in hot spots like Yazoo City, Mississippi, or Waco;..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Road Shows

"...FRI 24 Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, Continental Club..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...Even amid all the other controversy about the club, the record label, et al, you must've wondered why..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Valentine's and Beyond With This Weekend's Recommended Events

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...Friday 14, Hyperreal Film Club..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Golden Girls on Stage, Xmas Parties Galore, Satangeddon, and More Events

Your recommended arts events for the weekend

"...Thursday 12, Hyperreal Film Club..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

LookOUT Fest, Circle Jerks, Holy Fawn, Bernell Jones II, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and a Buddy Holly Birthday tribute

"...second-ever show in Austin (South by Southwest 2000 at Club de Ville), the Album Leaf combined delayed Rhodes piano..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of July weekend at Antone's in celebration of the club's 46th anniversary. Certified trill Houstonian Lil' Keke represents the..."

July 2, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...Low Cut Connie, lighthearted MCs Turquoise Jeep, and Zipper Club, a new band led by Lissie Trulie and Cerebral..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Experiencing a Broadened Euphoria

EDM breaks out, Agony Column returns

"...fest: EDM superstar Pretty Lights (Sat.), dubstep duo Adventure Club (Fri.), and trap king RL Grime (Sun.). But Euphoria..."

April 10, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Nakia

deEP end

"...NakiaLive From the Good Music Club (The Good Music Club)..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Review by Nina Hernandez

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...7pm on Monday, June 3, at Cap City Com­edy Club, 8120 Research. As always, the public is welcome, and..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Introducing Infest

Robin Hooding it with the new arts, music, and Shop N Bop club

"...Night two brought in panty-dropping bad boy rapper Machine Gun Kelly, and – on Sunday – Infest hosted its..."

April 8, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

My SXSW

By Mike Scott

"...Italian meal, and go from there to the Continental Club, where Kathy's playing a three-song set with her band..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Funniest Person in Austin Semifinals

Wayne Alan Brenner describes being a judge for one of the semifinal rounds of the 2006 Funniest Person in Austin Contest at Cap City Comedy Club

"...How many people have ever taken a gun – a .38 special, a purloined Glock, a death-spraying..."

May 12, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Austin Neighborhoods Council, Liveable City, SOS Alliance, Austin Sierra Club, Save Barton Creek Association, and Zilker NA that opposes..."

July 1, 2005 Column

The Year in Revulsion

Comic J.R. Brow charts the lows and lowers of 2004

"...At Cap City Comedy Club this Dec. 31, local comic J.R. Brow is the..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TCB

Austin from A to Z

"...Horse Wreck while sporting a mustache bushier than most gunslingers in those made-for-TNT productions...."

July 18, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

Austin wonders if Billy Bob Thornton will hop onstage with Tori Amos.

"...BGGW owns the team names, they now go by "Gun-Totin', Rough-Ridin' Rodeo Sweethearts," "Engine-Revvin' Frisky Felines," "Groove Thing Shakin'..."

April 25, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

After a Fashion

Guess who your Style Avatar flitted around town with this week? Check out this first installment about international salon god José Eber's visit to Austin.

"...looks from their collection: Viking princesses, pirate beauties, and gun molls. New Bohemia also showed an excellent grouping of..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bleeding Kansas

One-string gas-tank basses and the people who play them.

"...music enthusiasts, Wichita is home to a handful of clubs including Kirby's Beer Store, a venue roughly the size..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...the doors to the cultural revolution of the Sixties gunned down by a megalomaniac at the dawn of these..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fred Eaglesmith, Continental Club, October 9

Descriptions of live shows

"...Fred EaglesmithContinental Club, October 9 Do you ever get sick of irony?..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Dancing About Architecture

The Weak in Rock

"...painted on the back and sides, one of a gun-toting Willie on horseback. If you are a fan of..."

July 23, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...went nowhere. As a rule, every time a new club promised a spate of hip-hop bookings, you could be..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

"...STUPID CLUB..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Music Review

Scanlines

"...says good-bye to her boyfriend, who gives her a gun to sell to finance her trip. On the way,..."

July 4, 1997 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

The Mojado Brothers Comedy Festival: Aaayyeeeee-aye-aye-aye!!

"...aerospace engineer, is a favorite on the Houston comedy club scene. And El Paso native Freddie Soto headlines regularly..."

May 2, 1997 Arts Review

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