SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy

SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion

"...In subsequent years, England and Ireland exported Idles, Shame, and Fontaines DC – all owning a high..."

March 19, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Review: British Music Embassy Sings the Razor’s Edge

The two biggest trends currently importing from the UK

"...increasingly anxious maelstrom. If recent breakouts like Shame and Idles re-imagined classic Brit punk, the New Wave influences here..."

March 18, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Checking In: Beto Martinez Stays Home for the Summer

Triple threat shredder adapts from Buda

"...of metal, punk, and rock: High on Fire, Windhand, Idles, American Sharks. But also a lot of funk and..."

June 1, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Kesh Humans - 'Noose' (Canada) / D: Peter Ricq Idles - 'Mercedes Marxist' (United Kingdom) / D: 32 Joywave..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Blood Goes Big, Free Week Contracts

In the ATX music news: punk poetics by local septet Blood, January’s Free Week dates, and the Live Music Fund’s first feedback

"...They could sit with current caustic Brits such as Idles and Shame, but reach moments of elegant pop exuberance..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Lizzo City Limits

“Truth Hurts” star’s historic audience, and other ACL Fest weekend one standouts

"...on "Pussy Mouf" definitely earned new fans. Fishing for Idles..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

Including three weekend-two-only performers

"...Idles2pm, Honda stage These art-punk brutarians from the English seaport..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature

ACL Music Festival 2019: Sunday, First Weekend

"...Idles..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Photo Gallery

ACL Live Review: Idles

UK punk rottweilers scream of reform and justice for all

"...Pure wholesomeness drove punk rock Idles through the intense UV rays hitting the Honda mainstage..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Alyssa Quiles

10 Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

And concluding the first weekend ...

"...Idles2pm, Honda stage These art-punk brutarians from the English seaport..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

Last Week in Live Music: L7, Jake Owen, Idles, and More

"...Idles at Barracuda on May 18, 2019..."

May 21, 2019 Photo Gallery

SXSW Music Interview: Fontaines D.C.

How frontman Grian Chatten worked his childhood in Dublin into debut album Dogrel

"...A sold-out local date at Barracuda in May with Idles follows the group's first time in Austin...."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: 15 SXSW Buzz Bands to Cure Millennial Burnout

By legs, Lyft, or Lime scooter, get to the following 15 acts

"...act spread after dates with fellow noisemakers Shame and Idles. Partisan Records now backs their steep rise, boasting pub..."

March 8, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Luv Doc: A Barney Fife God's Universe

People are just no damn good

"...Well Blue, as my old friend Motorcycle Michael used..."

July 27, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Music Review: Idles

The youngest, angriest, motorik-punk band on the planet

"...30’s British Music Embassy, BBC deejay Steve Lamacq introduced Idles by declaring last year’s debut long-player Brutalism his favorite..."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music: Thursday, March 15, 2018

"...Idles at Latitude..."

March 16, 2018 Photo Gallery

Pivotal Punk at SXSW Music

Don't miss this gang of 10

"...reform through raw rock. Blueprint follows up this month. Idles..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW List Lucky No. 7

Metz, Princess Nokia, Nikki Lane, Tennis, and 108 others

"...JB (Austin) Hard Proof (Austin) The Hearts (Edmonton, Canada) Idles (Bristol, England) Imur (Vancouver, Canada) The Jacks (Orange County,..."

Feb. 8, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List No. 7

Pussy Riot Theatre, Kano, Bilal, and 137 more

"...Idles (Bristol, England)..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jack White Towers Over the Austin Music Hall

Night two of a sold-out stand

"...like a homage to the Doors. When it eventually idles, White turns it into a guitar showcase, teasing other..."

Jan. 26, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Relatives Oracle Hospitalized

Dallas gospel/soul staple Gean West idles while heart sick

"...Until then, he idles in a hospital bed...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: SXSW Survey a Snooze

City's post-SXSW survey succumbs to poor planning

"...Austin's garage rock scene, MONDO FUZZ: Twilight of the Idles, premieres locally on Friday, 8pm, at Secret Theater (1145..."

June 6, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wrong Cops

French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.

"...a movie that literally went places. Wrong Cops merely idles around a few ill-defined, vaguely humorous situations. It’s tonally..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The AggreGAYtor: January 2

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Fantasia Barrino’s popularity idles, Charlie Sheen tawt he taw a putty tat, and..."

Jan. 2, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Xtreme Solution

APD squad cars will now have 'no-idle' battery packs sufficient to run new video hardware – but did city officials fall for a system too expensive and impractical?

"...an environmental standpoint, we're aware that any vehicle that idles ... [creates] environmental concerns." Uploads that could, officials estimated,..."

Dec. 2, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

MetroRail Watch

Congrats, MetroRail – the arm goes up one notch

"...– and they stay down as the train approaches, idles for a couple of minutes to pick up passengers,..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters @ 3AM

Ban what you please, although the current campaign against secondhand smoke will not prevent the 21st-century universe from killing us. It merely provides the illusion of safety.

"...so after 3pm, a long line of mostly SUVs idles and/or slowly rolls up and down the hill as..."

July 21, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...the street. It heaves a pneumatic sigh as it idles and temporarily obliterates Walter's words though not his enthusiasm...."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Last week's Austin Chronicle article "UT Idles on Los Alamos" [News, Sept. 24] got me thinking...."

Oct. 8, 2004 Column

Tooting His Own Horn

"...Dear Editor, Last week's Austin Chronicle article "UT Idles on Los Alamos" [News, Sept. 24] got me thinking...."

Oct. 1, 2004 Postmarks

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