Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews: Sunday

The Justice Society of Texas garage punk

"...High Tension Wires6pm, Stage 3..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

X-Ray Visions

Deep in the fifth dimension, Mark Ryan's Mind Spiders are cutting demos with Buddy Holly

"...his own, Ryan nevertheless enlisted musicians along the Denton-Austin highway, which has become happily congested with collaboration in the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

High Tension Wires

Sunday

"...High Tension WiresWaterloo Park, Nov. 9..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Review by Greg Beets

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Last night of SXSW 2011 and still plenty of one-venue hang time

"...hailing from the tourist-friendly Gold Coast, conjure up neon-hued high school hallucinations. – Melanie Haupt Western Vinyl..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Local punk supergroup gets all Dickies

"...off-the-charts to be contained by Riverboat Gamblers, Ghost Knife, High Tension Wires, stand-up comedy, or the most hilarious feed..."

March 8, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

High Tension Wires

"...High Tension WiresMidnight Cashier (Dirtnap)..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

The Return of Ellen Fullman & The Long String Instrument

The Bay Area composer performs with Austin's New Music Co-op

"...herself and others walking among and manipulating the 100-foot-long wires of her now-legendary Instrument...."

Aug. 10, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bad Sports

"...Denton/Austin trio's second LP, Kings of the Weekend, hot wires the starry-eyed bravado of 1960s teen bands with the..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...throwing in a foul-mouthed, magical gangster overlord called the High Priest...."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"..."Suzanne." Cohen delivered "Hallelujah" like a rooster, head held high. "I'm Your Man" ("if you want a doctor, I'll..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...Red River equivalent of the Ramones' Rock 'N' Roll High School, with members of A Giant Dog, the Strange..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...Phranchyze wasn't surprised that his former Austin High classmate is a top-shelf beatmaker...."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Off the Record

Local bands get licensed to ill, Marked Men prove lo-fi is all the rage, and Explosions in the Sky curate All Tomorrow's Parties

"...music sounds," riffs guitarist/vocalist Mark Ryan, who moonlights in High Tension Wires with Mike Wiebe of the Riverboat Gamblers...."

May 16, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

More More More Fun

The after-after-afterparties for Fun Fun Fun Fest.

"...with a free show that includes NYC’s Robbers on High Street, Great Northern, Goodbye Girl Friday, and locals Til..."

Nov. 1, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Multifarious Mike Wiebe

Music, comedy, faux-Christianity: the many faces of the Drakulas/Riverboat Gamblers frontman

"...4) High Tension Wires, "Get Weird" (2011) Wiebe's breathless vox careen..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Mind Spiders

"...by Marked Man Mike Throneberry, the Bad Sports' and High Tension Wires' Daniel Fried, and the Baptist Generals' Peter..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ghost Knife

Rock Box

"...Somehow, between scene stalwarts the Riverboat Gamblers and High Tension Wires, punk daredevil Mike Wiebe has found time..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Off the Record

All the fun fun fun that fits

"...tentatively titled Meltdown, featuring members of Bad Sports and High Tension Wires...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

High Tension Wires

Saturday

"...High Tension WiresWelcome New Machine (Dirtnap)..."

March 18, 2011 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

'Mind Spiders' Reviewed

"...given his history with Denton staples Marked Men and High Tension Wires and explains Mind Spiders' grab-bag appeal. In..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Hex Dispensers

Beerland, Aug. 14

"...album, Winchester Mystery House, sounding somewhere between Mike Wiebe's High Tension Wires and Riverboat Gamblers, only darker and more..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District

"...and Young Widows, while Riverboat Gambler Mike Wiebe of High Tension Wires gave a midday shout-out to Bad Brains..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Fun Times Three

More Fun Fun Fun in the sun

"...and the previously announced reunion of Dead Milkmen. Other highlights include Clipse, Atmosphere, Z-Trip, the National, Deerhoof, Dan Deacon,..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

“William Geisler + John Peralta” at Wally Workman Gallery

Peralta’s deconstructed machines and Geisler’s encaustic abstracts turn painstaking toil into patterns of brilliance

"...object had been perfectly captured in mid-nova by some high-speed camera that Eadweard Muybridge could've only dreamed about...."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...collector. His 1979 LP, Let's Talk It Over, fetches high prices in R&B nerd circles, but it's his recent..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...going, "Why am I going to go that much higher? It’s that much more work to put it up...."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Whirled of Sound

Tracking down Rob Halverson and Robinson Ear's Little Whirled of Sound.

"...In high school, an overwhelming wonder at exactly how Jimi Hendrix..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Robert Faires' Top 10 Classical Music / Dance Treasures of 2016

The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing

"...Greg Emetaz's projections; all the performers – heightening the tension 'til my shoulders were hunched around my ears...."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: line upon line presents soft

line upon line percussion dials it down for season opener

"...body, the fingers, which are splayed and cramped with tension, trembling jerkily like wires vibrating from a noise. It's..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Trash Project

In turning sanitation workers into dancers and machines into giant birds, this work thrilled

"...and claws grabbed garbage carts and swung them up high in syncopation. The combination of music and novelty, plus..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz