Spotlight: Ike Turner

Ike Turner is about to be 70 and still a mack.

"...film as a woman-beating, drug-crazed, gun-toting control freak, 69-year-old Ike Turner still has a lot of pride. Bandleader, musician,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What's Love Got to Do With it

"...Kelly, Jennifer Lewis and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney. Though Tina Turner's been trying to break into movies for a while..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ike & Tina Turner

"...Ike & Tina TurnerThe Ike & Tina Turner Story: 1960-1975..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

The Holmes Brothers, Antone's, Wednesday, March 15, Bobby Rush, Antone's, Thursday, March 16, Ike Turner Revue, Antone's, Friday March 17

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...The Holmes BrothersAntone's, Wednesday, March 15Bobby RushAntone's, Thursday, March 16Ike Turner RevUEAntone's, Friday March 17 Although its presence waxes..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm Here and Now (IKON)

"...Ike Turner & the Kings of RhythmHere and Now (IKON)..."

June 8, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

After a Fashion

Stephen ranks the top trends, events, and train wrecks of 2007

"...Best National Headline on the death of Ike Turner from the New York Post: "Ike 'Beats' Tina..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Critics Poll

"...Beets Ike Turner, Denny Doherty, Byron Scott..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Music Feature

Music Recommended

"...two nights at Antone's (Friday and Saturday) with folks like The West Side Horns, Derek O'Brien and Rocky Morales,..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Music Feature

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...the exuberant joy and bitter heartache of young love like a heavenly choir of girls' angel voices. One Kiss..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...Make like Austin Powers this weekend and travel back in time..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Behold! The Austin Music Awards

Announcing the 2014/15 Austin Music Awards bill, the 13th Floor Elevators reunite for Levitation, and King Coffey recovers after being struck by a car

"...Streamlining meant pruning the shrub. Like the Oscars, we've broken off technical categories into a..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The New Craddick Ds?

Rep. Dunnam reveals list of 64 anti-Craddick Democrats, leaving questions about those that didn't sign

"...her district.) The rest are all either long-term loyalists like Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston (back after being replaced for..."

Dec. 29, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin music scene benefits the Red Cross.

"...notably worse. Over at the Hole in the Wall, Mike White (no relation) notes that in times of sorrow..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Glam Punks of 70s Austin Get Up to Their Gypsy Tricks

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part two: Glitter rock (1972-76) fades

"...rock & roll at age 5 as genre giants like Ike Turner and Bobby "Blue" Bland frequented his father's..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Rocket 808

"..."Rocket 88" is Ike Turner's contribution to the birth of rock & roll...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Meet the Women of Austin R&B

Spotlighting five formidable soul vocalists

"...Like those acts, Austin's small but formidable cadre of soul..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Summer Reading: Sam Phillips

Digging into the landmark bio of rock & roll’s colonel

"...releasing them himself or leasing to other seminal imprints like Chess Records, reveals that the title to Peter Guralnick’s..."

June 17, 2016 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Got My Mojo Workin'

Paul Oscher used to blow harps for Muddy Waters

"...tipsy young nubiles to chat up at break. Locals like Greg Izor and harp hero Walter Daniels watch and..."

June 27, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The AggreGAYtor: November 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...been getting “traditional marriage” advice from Charlie Sheen and Ike Turner...."

Nov. 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Off the Record

Chaos and creation at South by Southwest and the Monday realization that blues landmark Pinetop Perkin is gone

"...25th anniversary of South by Southwest last week looked like the brink of some hipster apocalypse. To an extent,..."

March 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Residencies and Roky

Something old, something new

"...in Austin. She can do that skinny-leg hip shake like Lou Ann Barton, but where Lou Ann loves Jimmy..."

July 13, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Black Keys

"...Originally conceived as a collaboration to include the late Ike Turner, Attack and Release retains the anguished soul and..."

April 25, 2008 Music Review by Austin Powell

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...people who didn't want to jump aboard, didn't especially like that music, or felt they were too old to..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Born In The Honey: The Pinetop Perkins Story

DVDnds

"...interviews with the pianist himself as well as followers (Ike Turner, Dr. John, Taj Mahal, Kim Wilson, Marcia Ball,..."

May 4, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

'Friday Night Lights': Up to Now

"...Matt's dad comes home from Iraq and generally acts like a jerk, causing his son to get benched, but..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Rock & Roll Books

Gift Guide

"...on their accursed awesomeness: Stoke-on-Trent, U.K.-born satanist-cum-base-ist Murdoc Niccals' unlikely role as band Reichsführer; the creation of Kong Studios..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Big Books

"...Life: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder" reads all too frighteningly like something you'd find on the cover of something you'd..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Holly Golightly

Music Showcase

"...spring evening outside, but Emo's Jr. was steamed up like August by the time Holly Golightly took the stage...."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Memphis Blues Again

Sheet Music

"...Memphis' famed Beale Street strip as much as he'd like, but when he did, beginning in the late Forties..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

Alt.rock and Woodshock out, Michael Corcoran back in.

"...asides. (Watch out, John -- it sounds to me like your new format is ready-made for those troublemaking Bush..."

June 8, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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