Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 14-20

"...will soon begin bringing you uncanny certainties. Do you understand the connection between open-hearted curiosity and fertile rewards? Don't..."

April 14, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 14-20

"...22): When he was young, Libran poet W. S. Merwin had a teacher who advised him, "Don't lose your..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Ramblin' Soul of Songwriter Melissa Carper

Following the critically acclaimed Daddy's Country Gold, the spotlight-averse artist is primed for broader attention

"..."Watch out, there's a bird's nest in the outhouse," Melissa Carper warns as she points out the small wooden..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Putting the Art into Fart: Peter Strickland Heats Up Flux Gourmet

The filmmaker traces how industrial music informed his new work

"...Filmmaker Peter Strickland wouldn't call himself a fan of seminal British art..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Bandcamp..."

July 2, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 19-25

"...(Feb. 19-March 20): Ancient Greek playwright Euripides was popular and influential – and remains so to this day, 2,400..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...The Wimberley outlaw poet's run since 2001's Eternal and Lowdown unloads one of the best career resurgence discographies..."

July 17, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...with this 1977 corruption of ancient hedonist credo "wine, women, and song." Wed to a riff lifted from Charlie..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Cost of Living

Ft. Worth R&B great Delbert McClinton has a Downtown Austin condo and a fresh start for his diamond jubilee

"...Susan Antone stands on the sidewalk amid the overflow of construction sprawling..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Baroness Turns Mohawk Outside In

Georgian metallurgists tease upcoming fourth LP Purple

"...quarters than inside at Mohawk seldom occur for a band the stature of Baroness. The Savannah foursome’s previous appearance..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Point of Entry

Fun Fun Fun is Judas Priest roaring back to Austin

"...Rob Halford can use the phrase because his 45-year-old band remains so high in the heavy metal stratosphere that..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Adam Ganderson

8 Mile

An Austin octet of SXSW Picks 2 Click™

"...Austin's metal scene represents nationally behind the Sword and Scorpion Child,..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

"...Buddy Miller & Jim LauderdaleBuddy and Jim (New West)..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Gillian Welch Q&A

Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlins return to Stubb's

"...8, at Stubb's! Now you've had a lot of memorable performances here. What's the highlight to you?..."

June 7, 2012 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Black Should Go for 'Reason' Not 'Balancing'

"...about "Hardcore proselytizing atheists" [“Page Two,” Aug. 19]. This seemed more worthy of that other local, but daily, publication...."

Aug. 26, 2011 Postmarks

Shoot Out the Lights

Bare buzz, bare butts: The Bright Light Social Hour shakes it

"...on the dark waters rolling southward to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The river has lured humankind..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Johnny Goudie & the Little Champions

"...There's at least a dozen bands from the Nineties and Aughties easily referenced by Johnny..."

April 17, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Tiny Tornadoes

SXSW time allows us to go soaring off fearlessly into our imaginations

"...fool oneself into believing there was still plenty of time). Having now emerged into the too sunny, dead-ahead, ever-shrinking..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Record Review

"...The cover of Reckless Kelly's fifth studio album and Yep Roc debut, Bulletproof, comes branded with the image..."

July 4, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Ride to Live

Local biker clubs share the secrets of the open road

"..."Bikers come in all stripes. There is a misconception that they're..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Playing Through

Bill Adorno back-swims his way to serenity at Barton Springs every morning

"...see them, of course – he loves Barton Springs and loves seeing people enjoy it – but, frankly, he..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

The Holmes Brothers

"...The Holmes Brothers..."

March 9, 2007 Music Review by David Lynch

Letters at 3AM

Although it may sound like hooey in the retelling, this is the story of the author's discovery of his soul's expression.

"...The subject is the soul and the form is the essay, and the trouble is..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...Last night in a Mexican bar Karen told of teaching our 12th grade Brave..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

West Texas Hell

"...Disc jockey, performer, and record producer Joe Gracey thought his life was..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Spotlight: Soft Boys

Austin Music Hall, 10pm

"...himself into a corset to play Hamlet." As the band prepares for a monthlong tour of the states, Hitchcock,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

TV Eye

If you're looking for reviews of The Nutty Professor, John Pierson's Split Screen isn't your show. If you like insightful, sometimes peculiar excursions into the independent film world, Split Screen will please you more than a stolen afternoon at a weekday matinee. Also, Olympic fever spreads -- but not without a few complaints.

"...-- or even that new guy Richard Roeper, recently named Ebert's co-critic on the movie review series Ebert &..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Gospel According to Austin, TX (Kick Butt Gospel/107.1 KGSR)

Texas Platters

"...is any indication, the Texas State Capitol is first and foremost Catholic. In its laudable, all-inclusive musical nature, this..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...to tell this story, I have to start with me lying in a bathtub, in a house on Hollywood..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

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