Imagine the Sound

"...Confidential) filmed this profile of four jazz avant-gardists in the early Eighties. Included are performances by Cecil Taylor, Archie..."

April 30, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sound of One Psycho Cracking

John Cale talks abut composing the original soundtrack for American Psycho

"...dog this highly charged movie. However, one aspect of the film that is indisputable is the importance of the..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Overlooked, Overheard Lets Us Hear the Sound of the City's Money Being Spent

Composer and audio artist Douglas Laustsen geo-tagged sites in the Govalle and Highland neighborhoods where local government's been at work

"...Your tax dollars at work: What do they sound like? All the myriad tasks of maintenance and..."

June 11, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Public Notice: What Is the Sound of One Shoe Falling?

City releases CodeNEXT draft to mild reaction ... so far

"...On the one hand, the world is going to hell, our..."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Sights and Sounds of Art in Sync

Ron Mann's jazz avant-garde exploration Imagine the Sound provides the perfect counterpoint to Austin Eye+Ear (which will screen Mann's film this Sunday in an E+E benefit): Both are bent on the blurring of artistic lines.

"...-- he crouches, hops forward on all fours, and then rises and urgently expels air from his pursed lips...."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

"...lives up to its hype. Overfiend has been making the rounds of the Japanimation underground for a year or..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Scratching the Surface

Festival films, the Austin Music Awards, and the truth about South by Southwest

"...To post and to blog is to be. The cacophony of voices available online is informative and refreshing,..."

March 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...illustration by Jason Stout The lineup at Emo's recent fifth anniversary show speaks volumes..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

AFI Review: Sound of Metal

The musician's nightmare becomes a catalyst for change

"...If you know a musician, you've probably joked with them more than once about whistling in your ears, or..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...On any given evening in the 1940s or 1950s, an old man named J. Frank..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...Little dusty towns, hundreds of miles apart from one another cling to the foothills of the mountains. If a..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

"The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop" Provides a Close-up on Cinema's Scenic Paintings

The exhibition of 12 vintage backdrops painted for MGM films reveals their techniques for creating grand illusions

"...seen so many times you know every frame. Now imagine being in a room where a place from that..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Band on the Run

ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury, represents another new paradigm of indie music exposure in the post-label era of the music industry

"...sun, Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner seem ill-suited for the glare of an Austin City Limits Music Festival afternoon..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...The God-Wheel of Fate has stopped for all these kiddies..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Brain Behind Ambient Trio Dallas Acid

Exploring the oscillators, envelope generators, and filters that create the band’s pastoral, spacey sound

"...Last year on Halloween night at the Blue Starlite Drive-In, Nosferatu awakened from his coffin to..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

The Liberation of Thao Nguyen

“I’ve never been interested in making something so personal”

"...Thao Nguyen’s work with the Get Down Stay Down has zig-zagged inward to outré,..."

April 20, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

The Reel World

Korey Coleman started The Reel Deal as a scam; he ended up with a show.

"..."Welcome to The Reel Deal." Inside the studio, the noise stops. The..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Sarah Hepola

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...Every time Denny Freeman picked up his guitar, whether a lean and mean Fender Stratocaster or a beautiful..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Pilgrim and the Stars

Q&A with Italian trumpet standard Enrico Rava at the Montréal Jazz Festival

"...daily occurrence in most big cities, including Austin, where the Frost Bank plaza on Congress Ave. makes an ideal..."

July 10, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mining the Soul Part 2

Reissues, continued

"...Proving once again why they are kings of the reissue game, Numero Group doesn’t..."

Jan. 15, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Fight Stuff

Jamaa Fanaka on racial myths and the ailing film industry

"...Jamaa Fanaka is the creator of some of the maddest, baddest filmmaking ever..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...that this is a perfectly sized South by Southwest. The streets are strollable, long lines are scarce – though..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview

The 'Good People' writer goes back to the old neighborhood

"...Tonight is your last chance to see the Different Stages production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the..."

May 11, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The X-Files' Invisible Ink

The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere

"..."The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere" was originally published..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Screens Feature

The Walk In Closet: It's Time

Silvia Sandoval is fundraising for San Marcos' first gay bar

"...San Marcos has been without an LGBTQ gathering space for too long. What is a city without..."

Nov. 20, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...It's not that the Velvet Underground were an influential band, though they were...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Buck Dharma in the 21st Century!

Epic Q&A with Blue Öyster Cult’s “Reaper”

"...cabal Blue Öyster Cult composed art-rock unlike any of their era peers between the late Sixties and the original..."

Aug. 9, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

La Follia's Start the New Year With Bach!

The baroque ensemble's first concert of 2016 delivers life lessons along with the beautiful music

"...I not make such a resolution after having followed the directive of La Follia Austin Baroque to Start the..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...Forget merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Homoween, Day 2: The Ex-Gay

Homoween costume #2!

"...An Ex-Gay, or if you really want a challenge: the Ex Ex-Gay. Now, some of you may be familiar..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

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