Revolution Rock

At the crossroads of the Clash and the great state of Austin, Texas.

"...confused Crass. More importantly, the Clash was a great rock & roll band, above and beyond the roots music..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Music Feature

Rock This Way

The Semi-Annual, Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Rock & Roll Books Section

"...Catherine Denueve. Une object d'arte. She should be in..."

March 20, 1998 Books Feature

Twenty Flight Rock

The Life and Times of Robert Fraser

"...of characters tells the story in this Edie-like biography: Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono,..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Music Panel Recap: Going Viral with Mick Fleetwood & TikTok

Fleetwood Mac founder drums up dreams for yet another generation

"...and lip-syncing Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Overnight virality and a Mick Fleetwood recreation on the video-sharing service quickly followed...."

March 18, 2021 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Joe Strummer: 'Punk Rock Warlord'

"...was just prior to the release of 1982’s Combat Rock. The date on my bootleg tape, June 22, says..."

May 15, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

I Shot Mick Jagger

"...photograph by Margaret Moser "I can't get no..." Mick Jagger is directly over me, mike in one hand,..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

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Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Rock & Roll Free-for-All

Hole in the Wall, Sunday, October 22, 2006

"...before and scrunching her hair with mousse for that “rocker” look. Speaking of rocking, you might have just noticed..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

Life

Junkie chic achieves the ultimate high

"...time will ultimately prove the Dead Sea Scrolls of rock & roll, astrology may be the only germane topic..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy From Brooklyn Got Mixed Up With the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It)

Make a Stones fanzine; do drugs with Keith

"...let him tumble his dice with the world's greatest rock & roll band. It's a trifle of a book;..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Rock & Roll Books

"...He's a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...the bullhorn started sounding that familiar apocalyptic warning -- "Rock Is Dead!" -- but 1996-97, sometime after Soundgarden broke..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Groupie Chronicles

Groupies part one: Morgana Welch; groupies part two: Catherine James; groupies part three: Pamela Des Barres

"...Free Spirit (St. Martin's Press, 240 pp., $24.95) is rock muse Catherine James' story, as painful as it is..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane

The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane and Springsteen & I

"...The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane(Eagle Rock Entertainment) Springsteen & I(Eagle Rock Entertainment)..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir

Have axe, will grind

"...I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoirby Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil Touchstone, 416 pp., $26..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...Dolls, a band who practically invented the New York rock scene and dissuaded many of us from committing suicide..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by Jesse Sublett

83 US Festival: Days 1-3

"...– at least the New Wave, heavy metal, and rock days. Nothing from country day appears, though Willie Nelson..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights With the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved

Platinum groupie credentials

"...George Harrison ("Miss O'Dell")? An indispensable part of the rock machinery, from office assistant at Apple Records to a..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song

"...gansta rap, bolstered by interviews from artists such as Mick Jagger, Will Oldham, and Ice-T. Thomson's tenuous thesis holds..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Ronnie

Ronnie Wood leaves a few stones unturned in his autobiography

"...the Ealing Club, where Jagger and Richards, Keith Moon, Mick Fleetwood, and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Dan Oko

Super Heavy Stones

Assessing the Rolling Stones' 2011

"...together, the boys had a very, very good year. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill..."

Dec. 29, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

What Would Keith Richards Do?

Rock & Roll Summer Reading Lagniappe: “What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations from a Rock & Roll Survivor”

"...got it right. Even when her prayer book of rock & roll wisdom, What Would Keith Richards Do?, gets..."

July 17, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Beyond the Mat

"...two hours to get your first-edition copy of The Rock Says signed by the author, you'll find plenty to..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Muscle Shoals

The Alabama town that birthed two music studios and inspired great recordings by Aretha, the Rolling Stones, and scores more is viewed in this laid-back documentary.

"...predicament when a man loves a woman. It’s where Mick begged for some more brown sugar, and the Staple..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mick Jagger

Love and hope and sex and dreams still survive in Mick Jagger.

"...Mick Jaggerby Philip Norman HarperCollins, 640 pp., $34.99..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

It's SXSW all over, especially all over that other acronymically correct paradise, Austin's SoCo, our hallowed South Congress Avenue, south of the river. See what our Style Avatar has been up to and what he recommends.

"...THE ROCK On the roof of Factory People the charming and..."

March 18, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

An Appetizer Adventure

Virginia B. Wood interviews Chronicle contributor Mick Vann and Arthur Meyer, authors of The Appetizer Atlas.

"...Food section know a few things about longtime contributor Mick Vann based on the articles he's written over the..."

April 11, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Li'l Green Aggravation Society

Rock & Roll's Cain & Abel: The Kinks' Davies Brothers

"...bassist Pete Quaife abandoned post long ago and drummer Mick Avory finally followed suit in the mid-Eighties. And, yes,..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Inu-Oh

Japanese medieval history gorgeously reimagined as a rock & roll fable

"...magical and bloody historical musical drama Inu-Oh, is a rock & roll, stadium show, pyrotechnic extravaganza...."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shine a Light

The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.

"...concert leave its brand. Now well into their 60s, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts still emit that..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

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