Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...LangerTHE HIGH STRUNG12mid, Soho Lounge Detroit's High Strung plies Kinks/GBV-infused power pop with an emphasis on power. Though currently..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Jennifer Gentle

"...Do Dream You," is a Nuggets-sized nod to the Kinks, blasted out of a yard-sale amp with quick, urgent..."

March 11, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Scandinavian Smorgasbord

Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland

"...Van kick out the British Invasion jams with a Kinks-like fervor on their latest, The Art of Rolling. Hailing..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Banzai Sushi & Grill

Never a town to ignore fashion, Austin has its own set of worldly fast-food eateries selling everything from wraps to pasticcio. One of the newest is this Japanese grill.

"...the more disappointing that Banzai has some serious service kinks to iron out. Once smoothed, however, Banzai should be..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Food Review by Rachel Feit

The Ugly Beats

Texas platters

"...a more punk rock context. Whether he's channeling the Kinks' London beat on "Lonely Side of Town," or the..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

New Rules or New Roles for Charter Schools?

TEA proposes a crackdown on failing charters, but can it be enforced?

"...advocates hope the new rules can demonstrate that the kinks have been worked out of the system. The rules..."

Jan. 14, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Saints

Gift guide

"...so Bailey's Strummer-like slur sits atop the mix. Underneath, Kinksian vox feed the phosphorous burn of "No Time," and..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Into the Heart

U2 drops the 'Atomic Bomb'

"...into his Eighties no-man's land. The Sex Pistols, Clash, Kinks, and Led Zeppelin were long gone. Yet U2 soldiers..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Athenian Grill

Things have changed at the space formerly occupied by Jean Luc's Bistro

"...Athenian Grill experience was good, there are a few kinks that need ironing out. They serve wine but have..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Food Review by Claudia Alarcón

TCB

A rock out, a rock opera, and a rock show. Must be Rocktober.

"...award-winning alternative theatre group, which has previously staged the Kinks' A Soap Opera and several original musicals, more so..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Libertines

Record review

"...in the case of the Libertines sophomore splatter-all, the Kinks. Where Mick Jones poured no small amount of kerosene..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...year features covers of the Beatles, Solomon Burke, the Kinks, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly, all arranged with electric..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Saving Face

Ian McLagan pulled up a few pints of 'black madness' and out popped 'Five Guys Walk Into a Bar' …

"...Walk Into a Bar ..., proves that, like the Kinks, Rolling Stones, or any number of first- and second-wave..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Fort Worth Teen Scene! Vols. 1-3

Texas platters

"...ditto "Train Kept A-Rollin'"), or even Them. Probably the Kinks, too. We're talking fuzz, distortion, raunch. T-Bone Burnett, one..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Music Review by John Morthland

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a strong trash-can pop concoction that hints at the Kinks, Buzzcocks, and Pavement. Their full-length debut, '03's These Are..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Crimea's compelling full-length debut, Tragedy Rocks, consolidates all three Kinks eras – Sixties, Seventies, Eighties – in a slick,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a series of EPs, neither have the covers: Beatles, Kinks, and, of course, the Austin quartet's grandiloquent cover of..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Interactive 04

Exclusive Web-only 'Austin Chronicle' coverage of the wonks, the weekend, and the wilder side of cyberspace

"...first generation, and thus have their creative and technical kinks to work out. What fun! Also, while online games..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...native Toronto. Rump-shaking buzzes of cocks Jim Carroll, the Kinks, the New York Dolls, and Richard Hell crank the..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

The Hightower Report

Bill Gates wants to tax your e-mail, and the Bush administration finds the science it wants

"...second largest e-mail provider, to work out the technological kinks to make it possible for them to create a..."

March 5, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Zombie Heaven

Two former Zombies, back from the dead

"...swan song, their goodbye, and today compares to the Kinks' Something Else as a pinnacle of the era...."

Feb. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

The new education commissioner has 'chosen' to accept 'school choice'

"...with a new program that will experience the same kinks and growing pains which public education has overcome? ......"

Feb. 6, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

The top 10 ways to take Bill Murray home with you

Every girl's a sucker for a disheveled goofball who's crying on the inside.

"...an underwater stupor, à la The Graduate, as the Kinks serenade him and his undulating comedic misery? Bill is..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

TCB

Kickin' ass and takin' names (for later litigation) with Gibby Haynes, Spoon, Masonic, the Tuna Helpers, and President Bush himself

Nov. 21, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Shins

Record Reviews

"...poet ("Kissing the Lipless"); snotty punk ("So Says I"); Kinks fan ("Turn a Square"); and the weirdo who wants..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Decoration Day

"...friend of mine blew out his hearing at a Kinks show 20 years ago. My left ear is still..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chiseled in Stone

An appreciation of honky-tonk veteran Billy Dee

"...Volkaert absent-mindedly dashes off the signature riff from the Kinks "You Really Got Me." Of course the audience calls..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Page Two

Meet our new Web site; local film news; and tackling denial, from the city budget to the Republican right.

"...technology, so please understand as we work out the kinks...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Deathray Davies

Texas Platters

"...your average, everyday rock. The Deathray Davies wear the Kinks on their sleeves, but they also incorporate bits and..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Bigamy Sisters

Texas Platters

"...epic scope rather than precise songwriting, this album of Kinks-inspired melodies and Texas-flavored psychedelia drowns in a sea of..."

May 9, 2003 Music Review by Matt Dentler

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