Free Week Live Shots

Spider House Ballroom, Jan. 7

"...The return of Patch highlighted the early sets. The folk-pop quartet draws a melancholy lull between Benton Allen's reedy..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Shove

Fun Fun Fun Fest headliners L7 come roaring back on the lips of Donita Sparks

"...ferocious feminist rock. Dropping six albums together, L7 clocked grunge-pop singles including "Pretend We're Dead" and scorn anthem "Shitlist,"..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Playback

Last chance to vote in the Austin Music Poll!

"...Pedal steel ace Bob Hoffnar, who sat in with Iggy Pop at Mohawk during the punk godfather's last local..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live from Austin – Free Week!

Saturday night at Holy Mountain and Swan Dive

"...Taylor Wilkins, who bookended the set by channeling both Iggy Pop and guitarist James Williamson with a bang-up cover..."

Jan. 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Don't bother cleaning up after Chaos in Tejas; OBN III's strike again this weekend

"...a Southern Pentecostal preacher with the shake appeal of Iggy Pop and a Pete Townshend complex. He records full-band..."

June 10, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...the dozen Plácido Domingo cassettes to prove it. Spanish pop, Broadway standards, "Blue Moon," you name it – save..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...33 songs of Sand in the Vaseline: Talking Heads Popular Favorites left no alternative except for the Cyndi Lauper..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Thursday Picks

"...preview Arm's Way, centered, solidified, and orchestral North American Britpop. Anti- just picked up Islands for the May release..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Descent Into the Maelstrom

Radio Birdman surfs out of Edgar Allan Poe's maelström a quarter-century later

"...Ann Arbor, Mich.'s Iggy Pop and his stoolies Ron and Scott Asheton touched..."

June 22, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stooges

Trolling South by Southwest 2007

"...supernaturally fit for a veteran rocker thisclose to 60, Iggy Pop bounded onstage for "Loose." "Howdy, we're the fucking..."

March 23, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

World Cup Finals!

International remainders, including Zolar X, from Plutonia, Pluto

"...and Dutch bands should challenge any latent SXSW Anglo-American rock-and-pop hegemony – even if there are a few ringers..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Junior Senior

Record Review

"...Denmark's Junior Senior mine a high-fructose vein of cut-and-paste pop that conjures up all-inclusive fantasies of a bubble-gum punk..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Strokes

Record Review

"...them. In this case, it's lean, infectious, uptempo pogo pop. Think Buddy Holly & the Crickets if they'd been..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Braver Newer World

The Year in Albums

"...Generation (No Lunch!) -- not to mention the man, Iggy Pop, and his Naughty Little Doggie -- proved the..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Live Shots

"...mike-stand like some degenerate offspring of Bruce Lee and Iggy Pop. A poor, hapless roadie would come up, begin..."

June 28, 1996 Music Feature

Being Dead, Kydd Jones, Rattlesnake Milk, and Urban Heat Set to Play the Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Day Party

The ultimate townie hang at SXSW, totally free at Hotel Vegas

"...World festival at the Rose Bowl with acts like Iggy Pop, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Gang of Four...."

March 8, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Urban Heat's Darkwave Road Map for Uncertain Times

Spaceflight-deluxified Wellness pushes beyond post-punk pastiche

"..."I feel like there's definitely a segment of the population that's really rooting for us, like hardcore," notes Horstmann...."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

The Multifarious Mike Wiebe

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

"...most of this millennium, Wiebe's existed as Austin's shirt-wearing Iggy Pop, a piston of hyperactive showmanship. In April, genre..."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The Indestructible Mr. Lewis

The trials and tribulations of Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5, plus a UtopiaFest report, and the passing of Seth Gibbs

"...When Iggy Pop performed on Sixth Street during South by Southwest..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

David Bowie

"...Rather than finding another creature to hide behind – Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane – Bowie found Bowie. And this..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Music Review by Lauren Modery

Review: Holy Roller

The personal is edible at Callie Speer's new hot spot

"...to the eye than the palate. But Callie Speer's Popcorn and a Movie at Swift's Attic was something those..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Why Record Store Day Is Great …

And why it sucks (a shopping guide)

"...Iggy Pop, Post Pop Depression: Live at the Royal Albert..."

April 21, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Residents

Twelve essential weekly hangs

"...has been employed by Norah Jones, Ryan Adams, and Iggy Pop. When popular Eastside vibe room Stay Gold opened..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: Danny Says

Behind-the-scenes rock legend Danny Fields gets his moment

"...Cognoscenti have long noticed that his name and involvements pop up in tangential ways whenever reading about the Warhol..."

March 20, 2015 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...wanted the former, but my prehistoric 3G network couldn't pop off a tweet and we got "Whaddup" instead, which..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Blue Öyster Cult

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...punk rock. No accident that at the nexus of Iggy Pop – from whose "1970" they misheard their name..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their popular restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Electric Lounge's second act on the Eastside, catching up with Scratch Acid and Austin's other Voice contestants

"...Tje Austin's the total pop-star package: a smooth, black/Hawaiian soul singer with an impressive..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Girls of Summer Redux

Girls Rock Camp Austin valedictorians Schmillion

"...music in the 1960s and 1970s through "filters of pop conventions and cliches."..."

July 22, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Snapshots from Free Week on Red River

"...Not to be confused with the longstanding local power-pop group, Shells is a tight country-soul outfit disguised as..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

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