SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Saturday

"...that it can't be wrapped up in a three-minute pop song. – Michael Bertin CERYS MATTHEWS8pm, B.D. Riley's After..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...8pm, Latitude 30Simultaneously fun-loving and sinister, this Manchester, England, noise-pop quintet proffers fuzzed-up hooks by the truckload. Touchstones like..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...trio follows up the terrific Sewn Together (2009) and Lollipop (2011) with the new Rat Farm. – Kevin Curtin..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...lo-fi modesty. With their mumbly, monotone vocals and cryptic, literate lyrics ("Fake IDs and honeybees/the jagged skyline of car..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...SXSW, Biz 3 is back, bigger, and badder. Adding ex-Antipopper Beans, freestyle fellow Aceyalone, Diverse, and buzz-bin breakout Jean..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...(Anti-), veers deep into The Love Below backwoods of soul-pop fusion. Recent collaborations with George Clinton and Gil Scott-Heron..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is perhaps the most literate, compelling performer in reggae music today. A Jamaican expatriate..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...Seventies when gay black men threatened to take over popular music. So pull on your Underworld concert T, comb..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Review

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...sugar-powered festival of fun. Rancho Cucamonga's Rufio take emo, pop-punk, and Eighties metal out in the desert for a..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Pool Parties, Pride Picnics, and Other Events Worth Braving the Heat

Get good and sweaty

"...Texas; the Little Gay Shop hosting an all-ages tie-dyeing pop-up; a drag n’ draw with Skechers Drawing Club; a..."

June 28, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Let It Rock

Rock & Roll Books Spring 2000

"...John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh for Zen is uncommonly literate, expressively revealing, and darkly humorous. That means all the..."

March 17, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...Also it may have made the article a little literate if we could have got some information on when..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Jess Williamson, Stay Black & Live, Babestock, and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the week in Austin

"...singer Motenko, dreamy psychedelic outfit Redbud, and, curiously, Arizona-born pop star Vaishalini.   – Carys Anderson Camera Obscura..."

June 14, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Abhi the Nomad, Animals on TV, Susannah Joffe, Nané, and more recommended tunes

"...a feel-good album for a what-the-fuck time. Rife with poppy, funky production and his signature speedy spitting, Abhi vs...."

Sept. 3, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Little Women, Big Games, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Get in the spirit with these arts and cultural happenings

"...action and characters that catch even the least cinematically literate among us, Penfold Theatre goes all audio by translating..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blues on the Green, Texas punk tales, and more recommended local shows

"...of the Aughts, Okkervil River rose behind an immensely literate and cathartic catalog, with Down the River of Golden..."

July 14, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

This Job Will Change Your Life

Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle

"...In July 1989, the Chronicle needed full-time, computer-literate designers to build the ads. In the reorganization Louis..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

SXSW Music: Must-See Punk

Fast and loud

"...The Britanys Wed. 15, BD Riley's, 10pm Literate NYC garage dwellers proving scrappy UK millennials the Libertines..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Heart of the Community

SXSWedu gathers voices on schools in communities, communities in schools

"...a parent, and I don't read English. I'm not literate in any language. Papers are coming home, I don't..."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Okkervil River Record Review

"...he's strafing the cultural subconscious, exhuming within his dense, hyper-literate narratives the tenuous traumas and defining details of his..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...The government had declared a sizeable segment of the population as "the enemy" and no one was sure how..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

"..."Hip hop is art. Don't make another pop hit, be smart," is the guiding credo of this..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Crack Music

2005's music haiku

"...in Crawford, Texas, was another stronghold for the musically literate below the Mason-Dixon Line. With a little help from..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...FREE-NET NEEDS YOU! Sensitive, good listeners (who are computer literate) are needed for client intake! IT geeks are needed..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Consonant

"...poet Holly Anderson. Conley's airy vocals weave eddies of literate introspection, but Burma's jagged, unpredictable fire still seeps to..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Joe Jackson

SXSW Records

"...Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. Like them, he had literate, often witty lyrics, an idiosyncratic voice, and a crack..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

GVSB

Jazz Sides

"...to display their formidable instrumental talents. Far more edgy, literate, and pungent is Patricia Barber's Verse (Blue Note), which..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...For more than 100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the household..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Honor Among Thieves

James Carlos Blake demystifies A World of Thieves and the world of writing.

"...keep the reader guessing. The biggest goose bumps, however, pop up during the short, chilling passages tracing the progress..."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Old 97's Satellite Rides (Elektra)

"...and girls, while furiously rocking out and remaining surprisingly literate. The last LP found the long-running quartet distancing themselves..."

April 13, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

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