In With the Old, In With the New

"...to have at a wedding: something old and something new. Old comes in the form of reissues from the..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Rush, whose phenomenal new acoustic LP Rawer Than Raw focuses on the blues..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Puffy Chair

In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.

"...between when they embark on a road trip from New York down to Atlanta with the goal of picking..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Maeve Higgins Makes SXSW Ghost Comedy More Than Extra Ordinary

Comedian and podcaster takes on the afterlife

"...Not all Ghostbusters wear proton packs and defend New York from intergalactic invaders. In the case of Rose..."

March 10, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Sell a Song

Sir Doug Sahm in mono

"...released. Sir Douglas Quintet, The Mono Singles ’68-’72, from New York archivist indie Sundazed, has sat on my local..."

Aug. 9, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Guitarist Sterling Morrison of New York's Velvet Underground spent most of the Seventies in..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...past 60 photographers and reporters for everyone from The New York Times to High Times. They wanted the Pistols..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Velvet Goldmine

"...large, is the setting for Todd Haynes' wildly original new film, Velvet Goldmine...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

SXSW Turns Out Final Weekly Band List

De La Soul, Mavis Staples, Ximena Sariñana highlight 10th lineup drop

"...– which includes hip-hop innovators De La Soul, motivational rocker Andrew W.K., Grammy-nominated Latin pop breakout Ximena Sariñana, and..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

30 Years Ago, GG Allin Cleared Austin’s Scuzziest Punk Venue in 24 Minutes

Witness accounts of the notorious shock rocker’s antics and arrest at the Cavity Club

"...A typical night for the shock-rocker born Jesus Christ Allin on August 29, 1956, in..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW List No. 4

Dan Auerbach’s father and 118 other acts

"...As the new year picks up speed, so too does South by..."

Jan. 18, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pleasant Unpleasantries

"...lifted my image from an ad placed in the New York Rocker, a popular music mag of the day,..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Guy Juke

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...today the festival confirmed it will close with the new adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary...."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel Recap: From CBGB to the World – A Downtown Diaspora

“Mushrooms grow in the dark”

"...Weymouth of the mid-Seventies. “None of us had money, New York City had no money, but we also didn't..."

March 17, 2018 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

'The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting'

Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke serve as inspirations for Ariel Dance Theatre's new dance-and-music collaboration

"...Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting blends the rocker's original songs with riffs on them (some composed, some..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...radio. Under assaults ranging from satellite radio to the new, righteous, bullwhip-wielding FCC, Austin radio execs are reeling, trying..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Lean, Mean, and Smoking!

Kris McKay

"...As such, the real testament of McKay's new album is how little it sounds like a record..."

July 12, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

20 Questions With David Kilgour

The Clean guitarist comes, well, clean for Chaos in Tejas

"...As soon as I segued into the Dunedin, New Zealand, group’s pensive surf-fuzz instrumental, “Fish,” a rush of..."

May 30, 2012 Music Post by Greg Beets

Faster Than Sound: Spoon Returns On Full Blast

Reigning local rockers' surprise show at Mohawk and more music news

"...god for vaccines, and thank god for Spoon." Venue News..."

July 9, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Search & Destroy

Pages That Rock

"...collection on it. In the early Eighties, when the New Rolling Stone Record Guide was published I wept with..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature

MEOW Con: Suzi Quatro

‘Stumblin’ In’ from the Motor City to music history

"...high, watching reruns of Happy Days featuring the Detroit-born rocker as Leather Tuscadero. Her hits “Rock Hard” and “Stumblin’..."

Oct. 24, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Let Us Now Praise Sluggo

"...recent efforts. There are also brittle copies of Slash, New York Rocker, Search & Destroy, and various voices in..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Books Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...unlikely openly-lesbian-buddy-of-Howard-Stern comes to display her songcraft, old and new. (Cactus Cafe, 9:45pm) -Ken Lieck..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...Re-sequencing the word "bible," the newly christened Bleib Alien folded in Dylan­esque folk rockers including..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW List 8

Peanut Butter Wolf, Kasey Chambers, White Denim and 147 more

"...charmers Royal Teeth, Aussie songbird Kasey Chambers, and local rockers White Denim, adds grist for the mill...."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...come from Texas. Half honky-tonk hero and half outlaw roots-rocker, Ely rides a hard road into the sunset with..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Love Walks In

The first Rockrgrl Music Conference gets a blessing from Seattle's rain goddess.

"...demise of the mother of all music conferences, the New Music Seminar in New York...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...In 1982, when Mississippi-born Cassandra Wilson moved to New York City via New Orleans, she apprenticed with two..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX 2017

SXSW: Another year queerer

"...Poon + BLXPLTN = Oh My! – Local queer rockers Sailor Poon and BLXPLTN team up with Ringo Deathstarr,..."

March 3, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...Airplane alum Jorma Kaukonen, Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One’s new collab Tuxedo, Fun offshoot Bleachers, Arcade Fire walker Will..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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