The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...temperature records for the month of June, this year’s Oblivion Access marked a new high for the homegrown heavy..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Faster Than Sound: Unlocking Oblivion Access

Leaving the Austin Terror Fest title behind, Oblivion Access partners Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi reach for new horizons

"...forward with a total rebrand as the more genre- neutral Oblivion Access, due June 5-7...."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Oblivion Access Adds Danny Brown, Grouper, Death Grips’ Andy Morin and More

Experimental festival finalizes lineup for May 12-15

"...After two years away, heavy metal and experimental specialists Oblivion Access return to Downtown Austin May 12-15...."

Feb. 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Living in Oblivion

"...Nick, the director of the titular film Living in Oblivion, a sensitive, Nineties drama, a “serious film” that just..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: The Arc of Oblivion

Documentary explores the beautiful effort of human record-keeping

"...the physical world is folly, Ian Cheney’s Arc of Oblivion takes a pretty cheery tone...."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Philly's Soul Glo Comes to Oblivion Access and Brings Its Diaspora Problems With It

We talk with the hardcore outfit behind one of the year's best albums

"...no surprise to hear that eclecticism reflected in the Oblivion Access artists the band members geeked over: Melt-Banana, Kool..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Scenes from Oblivion Access Festival 2023

"...This year’s Oblivion Access marked a new high for the homegrown heavy..."

June 22, 2023 Photo Gallery

Oblivion Access 2022

"...Place to Bury Strangers at Empire Control Room during Oblivion Access on May 14, 2022..."

May 17, 2022 Photo Gallery

Faster Than Sound: How Two Years Off Made Oblivion Access Festival Even Better

An interview with the truly independent booking duo on their landmark lineup

"...their 3-year-old Austin Terror Fest with the new name Oblivion Access. For an absolutely landmark rebrand year, they'd booked..."

May 6, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Year Two of Oblivion Access Festival Fills the Experimental Gap in Austin

How the music festival co-founders keep up the mystique June 15-18

"...Oblivion Access is getting older, but the 15 years that..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Crosstalk: Urban Cultural Fest Returns, Oblivion Access Retreats

And Guy Fieri comes to (Flavor)town

"...Oblivion Access 2024 is canceled. Founded in 2017 by bookers..."

April 5, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

To Oblivion and Beyond: A Breakdown of the Bands at Oblivion Access

Translating the scrolls at Austin’s most interesting festival of the year

"...rappers, and sub-sub-subgenre breakouts highlight the 107 acts on Oblivion Access' poster. The festival, christened with a two-word title..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

10 Essential Showcases to See at Oblivion Access

Unpacking the unclassifiable experimental music festival, show by show

"...Meandering through buzzing electronics, hypnotic atmospherics, and ethereal vocals..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Oblivion Access Interview: SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Philly trio's sound "comes from a deep well of confusion and fear"

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Wayne Lim

Sun Up to Sun Down: Thou Crushed Double-Shift at Oblivion Access

A great, lumbering beast from the bayou treads into Valhalla

"...group that would serve as the exclamation point of Oblivion Access’ Friday offerings: Louisiana doomers Thou...."

May 14, 2022 Music Post by Robert Penson

Lil Ugly Mane’s (Very Good) Bad Hair Day at Oblivion Access

Reclusive legend of internet rap brings along a furry frenemy

"...zero songs – has provided the festival its moniker) Oblivion Access’s opening Mohawk showcase proceeded from an unmistakable hip-hop..."

May 13, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Oblivion

Tom Cruise stars in this science-fiction outing that favors style over substance.

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Mellow Harshers HTRK Offer an Oddly Satisfying Stab in the Heart at Oblivion Access

For the love of “hate rock”

May 15, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Crosstalk: This Is Austin, Not That Great Returns, plus Three More Spring Music Events

Punk fest joins CMT Awards, Austin Psych Fest, and Oblivion Access rollouts

"...Oblivion Access, homegrown fest specializing in cult favorites and rising..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Box of Moonlight

"...Johnny Suede and the low-budget filmmaking comedy Living in Oblivion -- the offbeat humor and magic realism of Box..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Have an Issue: This Issue Gets Around

Far-flung travels and, closer to home, Fuck Money plays Oblivion Access

"...to Iowa, you can catch Fuck Money live at Oblivion Access, a four-day underground music festival. Or you can..."

June 9, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: The Way They Process Time

Oblivion and lack of ill intent might be good explanations, but they’re not good excuses

"...the way they process time. Yeah, fuck that shit. Oblivion and lack of ill intent might be good explanations,..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Only the Brave

Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

"...Kosinski, the intensely visual director of Tron: Legacy and Oblivion, is great with the disastrous fire sequences and the..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Broken City

Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe mix it up in this mystery thriller directed by Allen Hughes.

"...little confusing. Four or five subplots wander off into oblivion, and it’s occasionally hard to tell whether Hughes is..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

The Luv Doc: The North American Oblivious Sloth

This is why foreigners hate Americans so much: Our ignorance, our self-absorption, our oblivion.

"...hate Americans so much: Our ignorance, our self-absorption, our oblivion. In the process of wasting our own time we..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

Wrath of the Titans

The Greek gods of antiquity must be angry: this sequel is merely loud and uninspired.

"...– gods, monsters, salmon and all – into total oblivion. What's a young(-ish) demigod to do? Align with Poseidon's..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw II

With nary a decent, connective character in sight, this nasty sequel quickly becomes little more than a strenuous battle for survival among the already damned.

"...other than how best to mindfuck its characters into oblivion. At the latter it does a fine job, dispatching..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Station Agent

Award-winning indie favorite shows how human beings form emotional connections – despite their best efforts not to.

"...the dwarf in Tom DiCillo’s 1995 film Living in Oblivion. There he raged against the filmmaker’s need to use..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Formula 51

"...noisily grinding its gearbox on a quick trip to oblivion. Formula 51, which was executive-produced by Jackson, would rightly..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Living in Oblivion

"...entry into the race is Tom DiCillio's Living in Oblivion. The critically acclaimed independent film about making independent films..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Screens Feature

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