Tennis Anyone?

Q&A with Tennis' Alaina Moore

"...seafaring was involved in new sophomore CD Young and Old, but some tough love helped the couple on dry..."

May 7, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Playback

Austin Psych Fest and Old Settler's Music Fest headliners Psychograss have more in common than you might think

"...I'm not the only one confused about psych music. It sounds like drugs, right? A lot of hallucinatory..."

April 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Old Settler's Music Festival goes to 25

"...This weekend marks the 25th annual Old Settler's Music Festival, but don't expect big celebrations surrounding..."

April 20, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

Austin Music Poll winners are just going to have to wait until the Austin Music Awards, plus a closer look at SXSW's international acts

"...For the first time since the birth of South by Southwest, the results..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

2011: Bring It On

Celebrities dish up their New Year's resolutions

"...1988, The Austin Chronicle asked some high-profile Austinites – musicians, artists, socialites, politicians, business people – for their New..."

Dec. 28, 2010 Chronolog Post by R.U. Steinberg

Lottery Ticket

Bow Wow stars in this comedy about a guy with a winning lottery ticket who must protect it over a long weekend.

"...mean the film isn’t a serviceable little laugher. All-grown-up music crossover star Bow Wow heads this cast as Kevin..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

Pulling back the (iron) curtain on Fun Fun Fun Fest and the Flying Balalaika Brothers in time for the 40th anniversary of the Armadillo World Headquarters

"...Funny How Time Slips Away..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...Ground zero of Neil Young's new millennial music box set reimagining occurs literally at Disc 0 –..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'The Doyle and Debbie Show'

The creator of the hit country music satire reveals its Grand Ole Opry roots

"...Doyle Mayfield is to country music what Nigel Tufnel is to heavy metal: an entire..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shot on Location

For All Mankind filmmaker Al Reinert goes walking on the moon one more time

"...Once upon a time, men walked on the moon. As the years of..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...not to mention a whole host of shorts and music videos...."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Henry Poole Is Here

Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.

"...Rachel Seiferth. Back around the turn of the century, music-video director Pellington carved out a small and unnerving patch..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Express Yourself

Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

"...talking microphones and stuff. We’re going to play funky music all night. Heh-heh.”..."

July 29, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Friday Sleepers

"...the industrial ruins of laptop maestro Frankie Musarra's 2004 Music for Drunk Driving (Schematic Waste Management) are melodies aplenty,..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Friday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...of the year. Ramsay spends the rest of his time as guitarist in A&C's Stars with fellow Canuck Amy..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.

"...company with the memory of John Lennon is usually time well-spent, and this documentary, which focuses mostly on the..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...where thousands of fans have converged for the Pitchfork Music Festival. As a young blond man walks past with..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

First Descent

This vertiginous documentary about snowboarding talks with the sport's greats and shows them in action, rocketing down crag-encrusted, virgin slopes like buckshot fired from God’s own 20-gauge.

"...the world. The five subjects of First Descent – 40-year-old snowboarding legend Shawn Farmer, 39-year-old Nick Peralta, plaid-clad Vermont..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.

"...a former girlfriend who tells Don for the first time about their now-19-year-old son, who may be on a..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Who Would Be Swing

A new play gives Ray Benson the chance finally to chat with the King, Bob Wills

"...modern purveyor of Western swing, that joyful, exuberant dance music so closely identified with the fiddle and the steel..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Friday SleepersAll showcase times subject to change. Please check www.sxsw.com...."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...WEDNESDAY PICKSAll showcase times subject to change. Please check www.sxsw.com. Rhymesayers8pm-2am, Emo's Main..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Together

"...contemporary story, instead of the more historically bound tales told in his aforementioned international releases. Together is also something..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sergei's Big Score

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

"...Great films deserve great music. When a movie is able to captivate us with..."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Long May You Run

Previewing the 2002-2003 Austin Music Awards.

"...couple of years have been as kind to Austin music as dot-bombers parked outside Liberty Lunch. The Hole in..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Ralph White

Full Disclosure

"...The label I currently work with on my own music, Terminus Records, has released Ralph's first self-recorded, self-penned effort...."

July 26, 2002 Music Review by Danny Barnes

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...a lot of questions and am labeled "negative" or told, "No, you don't want to ask questions."..."

March 29, 2002 Column

Twenty Years Ago Today

The 2001/2002 Austin Music Awards

"...going to see what participants in this year's Austin Music Awards were doing the night of the very first..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Elevation

Taking stock of music DVDs

"...2001 have been turned in, overanalyzed, and forgotten, it's time the truth was revealed: Bob Dylan's Love and Theft..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

The first of Austin's premier photographers shares some music history through his photos.

"...me of being lazy," he says, "but no, I'm old!"..."

May 18, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

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