The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock & Roll

"...friendship and exchange of ideas between famed jazz guitarist Les Paul and two engineers: the wonky Leo Fender and..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

ACL Live Review: Paul McCartney

Beatle stomp

"...Jude.” You can't help but wonder if Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE ever asks himself, “Damn! Did I..."

Oct. 6, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

ACL Live Review: Paul McCartney

Listen to what the man said

"...The Beatles made pop music that normally shouldn’t work, and Paul..."

Oct. 13, 2018 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Les Choristes

A box-office smash in its native France, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, humanistic boarding-school dramedy.

"...Jugnot, Francois Berléand, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Kad Merad and Phillipe Du Janerand. A box-office..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

'Les Enfants Terribles'

Philip Glass opera gives new meaning to sibling rivalry

"...sibling ties, they're bound to pale beside those of Paul and Lise, the brother and sister at the dark..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Pope Must Diet

"...Holy Father is more into entertaining orphans with his Les Paul than he is the Papacy, he soon takes..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Song Remains the Same

Led Zeppelin reunion boot

"...Recorder of History issues the concert out of his Les Paul laboratory, the second Led Zeppelin DVD of the..."

Feb. 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Anomaly

Kiss at the Frank Erwin Center tonight ain't Kiss with Ace Frehley (and Peter Criss).

"...Instead, one’s left with Abbott (Gene Simmons) and Costello (Paul Stanley)...."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Love or Confusion?

More vinyl memories

"...own is wildly varied, reflecting mostly my tastes from adolescence through the late 1980s, when I gave in to..."

July 14, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Mother Texas

Welcome to Texas, y'all. Meet Ray Wylie Hubbard, 'The Grifter's Hymnal,' and 'Mother Blues.'

"...all I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and gold-top Les Paul...."

March 16, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"...of the latter "institution" – initial comment since his merciless criticism back in the spring set off a firestorm..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...Beefheart rarities?), this box set holds a blue million miles. At least half of the material has never been..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...acts announced, NYC rap heroes Mobb Deep, Primus frontman Les Claypool, hardcore supergroup Off!, sissy bounce queen Big Freedia,..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...on the gorgeous Sunday afternoon felt and sounded like Les McCann at Montreux. By the time Eddie Palmieri's twilight..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"...went to destructive extremes to get that same sound. Paul Burlison pulled a tube halfway out of a socket..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Critics Poll

"...CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET Hogg Auditorium (Jay Trachtenberg) Local Venue..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Feature

Remembering Rod Moag, The Pickin' Singin' Professor

Jeff Moag honors his academic, musician, and KOOP radio host father

"...“I'm not the kind of scholar who likes spending endless hours in the dusty back reaches of a library..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Music Post by Jeff Moag

In Service of Music Medicine, Jason Isbell Played at the Austin Library Last Night

Songwriter delivers phenomenal solo set for JoyRx fundraiser

"...performance sell out at $500 a pop. A Gibson Les Paul, signed by Isbell, is bid up into the..."

April 28, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Play It Loud

Play It Loud: The Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

"...the lifeblood of rock, the book revisits stories told countless times – Les Paul's tinkering, Leo Fender's eponymous line,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Playback: 2012-2013 Music Poll Ballot

Vote your local music conscience

"...his superficial desires for a stripper girlfriend and a Les Paul Goldtop guitar led him to a fulfilling family..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

ACL Interview: Iggy & the Stooges

Sunday, 6:15pm, Bud Light stage

"...AC: Do you play the same Les Paul now that you did back in the day?..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...color interview footage from Dinah Shore, up pops the Les Paul of bassists, James Jamerson, plucking away next to..."

May 26, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...The blitzkrieg rages until a Les Paul cuts through the din like a saber from..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Enfants Terribles

Cruiserweight, armed and ready

"...be expected to attach monetary value to Urny's gold-top Les Paul or Yogi's drum set. Cruiserweight was heartbroken...."

Feb. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...If Prince Paul's dramatic new album had its own movie trailer, it..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

Playback: ACL Mania

The ACL zeitgeist in review

"...her feet indicated she'd fallen off one of the flagpoles by which Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees locate..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Recent 'Rockpalast' Avalanche

"..."You guys look like one of the most unlikeliest couples in rock & roll today," opines the German host..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...your ass. Having established their proclivity for devouring an endless array of musical styles, Brown Whörnet's latest release is..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Austin Punk Chronicles: "I Don't Think the Sex Pistols Inspired Anything Other Than a Buncha More Punk Bands!"

The San Antonio shoot-out ricochets locally in Chapter 4 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...teenage New York Dolls-lovers, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook. Haberdasher Malcolm McLaren, who'd failed at saving the..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Reichardt's followup to Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, are Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (starring Jeff Goldblum), videogame adaptation/fanboy-bait Max..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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