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Faster Than Sound: DJ Shani Unites Black Women in House Music
Also the search continues for missing musician Brenden "Chameleon King" Foster, and increased afterhours sound enforcement impacts local venues
"...25-year-old's favorite places to meditate. Video shows the local musician, known as ChmlnKng, returning with snacks from 7-Eleven around..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Your Window Into the Austin Invasion Music Festival
Concert Window allows ATX fest to be streamed online
"...use. I call it high-tech streaming for the low-tech musician...."

June 19, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made, Julien Temple's film about the former Clash musician acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth.
"...one of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made. Like an early Clash number, it's by..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Slipping-Down Life
Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of an Anne Tyler story that was filmed in Austin several summers ago.
"...disaffected soul – Drumstrings Casey (Pearce) – a local musician who babbles nonsensically about his upcoming gig and desire..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blues Musicians Rally to Save Singer-Guitarist Sarah Barlow’s Finger
Dec. 10 Antone’s benefit show follows serious dog attack injury
"...on Dec. 10 for a benefit show supporting local musician Sarah Barlow, who was injured in a dog attack..."

Dec. 4, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

ASO Fires Player Over Racist Remarks
Austin Opera and area schools also cut ties with trombonist
"...The Austin Symphony Orchestra terminated its contract with musician Brenda Sansig Salas following a series of racist comments..."

June 2, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Documentary tracks the evolution of the artist and activist
"...while Loveridge’s doc follows the usual chronology of a musician’s trajectory, or as Maya puts it, a “starving child..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Poison 13, Meat Purveyors, and Churchwood Guitarist Bill Anderson Loads Out of Town
If not for Austin, “I don’t know if I would have been a musician at all”
"...Ask a seasoned musician how many bands they’ve been in. Their pupils will..."

March 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Stuck Between Worlds in Cine Las Americas' Feature Dear Homeland
Filmmaker Claudia Escobar finds musician Diana Gameros playing the waiting game
"...Americas 2020 Virtual Showcase), filmmaker Claudia Escobar follows rising musician Diana Gameros as she goes through the superficially bland..."

July 17, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Shelley Duvall, Erykah Badu To Be Honored at Texas Film Awards
Special screening lined up for Brewster McCloud
"...A legend of Hollywood and a musician of massive cross-cultural impact: The Austin Film Society has..."

Feb. 20, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Desolation Center
Before corporate fests, Desolation Center blew the Mojave apart
"...on-site medical professionals should anything go horrifically wrong. As musician Janet Housden recalls with a fond smile, “People in..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Yesterday
Imagine a world without the Beatles ... then imagine a better film
"...them to greatness. Except in this case, 27-year-old English musician Jack Malik (newcomer Patel, in an encouraging debut) shortcuts..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Babylon
Four decades later, this gritty and earnest recounting of black British life keeps all its power
"...and Jamaican. No one shows that more than Blue (actor/musician Forde), whose life is split between a day job..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
"...Joel, who would become a noted Bay Area jazz musician. "Fragments" begins by reminiscing about the sounds of the..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

HBO Documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher Debuts at SXSW
New archival footage of the king, the musician, and the man behind the music
"...a fresh look at one of the most famous musicians in history, with a dedicated focus on the man..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Blade of the Immortal
More blood-splattered samurai action from the Japanese master
"...fantastical elements. The sword wielder here is Manji (actor, musician, and anime voiceover stalwart Takuya Kimura) who has been..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Barracuda
Austin vibes meet darker skies
"...by a philandering (and long dead) Central Texas country musician she barely knew as a child, and raised by..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Playback: Walter Tragert Rises Up Singin’
Musician with MS finds hope in a songbook, Margaret Moser passes, and last shots at Bull McCabe's
"...into turmoil couldn't be any more detrimental to a musician. Walter Tragert would know. The local songwriter and educator,..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Patti Cake$
A hip-hop star is born in New Jersey
"...what you’d get if you shifted the gritty Midwestern musician origin stories of Eminem’s 8 Mile and Prince’s Purple..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wedding Plan
A rom-com with a twist
"...Yos (Israeli heartthrob Oz Zehavi), a handsome but nonreligious musician who finds her appealing. Despite her piety, Noa Koler..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Doc doesn't quite capture the spirit of the brilliant iconoclast
"...Trying to communicate the essence of musician Frank Zappa and his body of work in words..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Education Is the Next Punk Rock
Hands-on learning for those interested in the music business
"...why he teaches music business, not music: Any jobbing musician can play, but it's much tougher to make an..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Panhandle Rambler
Walkabout with Joe Ely
"...remaining a Texas treasure – designated official Texas State Musician for 2016 – he's repeatedly witnessed the local become..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Jimi: All Is by My Side
John Ridley's take on Jimi Hendrix veers away the standard biopic.
"...life: the pivotal time from 1966-67 during which the musician discovered his style and voice...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Summer's Tale
Eric Rohmer's 1996 film gets its first Stateside release – and the wait was worth it.
"...follows young Gaspard (Poupaud), a recent graduate and budding musician, as he spends a few weeks in Dinard, a..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Pawn Shop Rock
In hock? We've got just the ticket!
"...2007 documentary Fuzz, music retailer Jack Waterson claims, "Every musician is a loser ... a bum that can barely..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Wrong Cops
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
"...French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Dupieux has followed up his 2012 feature Wrong with..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Our Nature
Writer/director Brian Savelson’s feature debut is a study in fine gradations of resentment in the great outdoors.
"...son Seth (Gilford of Friday Night Lights), a brooding musician embarrassed by his family’s wealth; and Andie (Malone), Seth’s..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Neil Young Journeys
Jonathan Demme hooks up with Neil Young for a road trip through Ontario, Canada, in their third documentary together.
"...as it is for the many fans of the musician, it’s starting to sound a bit like a broken..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lawless
Abundantly violent yet decidedly listless, there’s very little kick to this moonshining picture from director John Hillcoat and musician/screenwriter Nick Cave.
"...the last time director John Hillcoat combined forces with musician and now-screenwriter Nick Cave to make the dark, brooding..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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