Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A DAWA benefit, A Giant Dog album release, and a country showcase headline our recommended Austin shows

"...Beatles existed for seven years before Sgt. Pepper's and Pink Floyd for 14 prior to The Wall. So it's..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Music Column by Adam Cherian

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

Bio-doc of the psych rock pioneer leaves his later obscurity suitably untouched

"...has been told and retold is that he founded Pink Floyd, lost his mind to LSD-induced psychosis, and disappeared..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Soundwaves' New Exhibit Envisions 20 Austin Songs as Art Prints

Signed Spoon and Sue Foley pieces fundraise for the SIMS Foundation

"...bands, and we did George Michael, got all of Pink Floyd to sign, Coldplay, and a British band called..."

May 12, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Sundance 2023 Review: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Album cover maestro Anton Corbijn highlights the art mavericks

"...Led Zeppelin, and most importantly their old Cambridge friends Pink Floyd...."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Inu-Oh

Japanese medieval history gorgeously reimagined as a rock & roll fable

"...25-minute musical jaw-dropper that skips between Queen theatrics and Pink Floyd AV experience. Inu-Oh and Tomona are the classic..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Kendrick Lamar, Brandi Carlile, Red Young, Chucky Blk, and more recommended shows

"...quartet for a special tribute set paying homage to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. – Derek Udensi..."

July 15, 2022 Music Column by Julian Towers

Review: …And You Will know Us by the Trail of Dead

XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone)

"...grandiosity made it absolutely appealing to prog outfits – Pink Floyd even used a quad concert PA as early..."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

10 Bands Under 25 That Make Me Feel Alive

A quintessential coming-of-age soundtrack to score the next spiral

"..."starchy" and social justice prose in "TFF (Thugs for Floyd)," his drip of hooks and verses demonstrate a slow-burn..."

June 10, 2022 Music Feature by Mars Salazar

William Basinski: “My Work Had to Disintegrate in Front of My Face Before It Could Be Really Appreciated"

Texas-raised avant-garde composer drones eternal at Oblivion Access

"..."Funny you mentioned Pink Floyd, because in San Francisco when I was first..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Heavy Lifting: The Hammond Organ Has a Special Place in Austin ... I Should Know

Austin's an epicenter for an instrument that stopped being manufactured 47 years ago

"...use through artists like the Allman Brothers, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, and Jimmy Smith. Eighteen years old and sneaking..."

April 1, 2022 Music Feature by Red Young

Austin Punk Chronicles: "I Don't Think the Sex Pistols Inspired Anything Other Than a Buncha More Punk Bands!"

The San Antonio shoot-out ricochets locally in Chapter 4 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...Rhodes. Lydon's proto-Dr. Gregory House demeanor, ripped-and-torn "I HATE PINK FLOYD" T-shirt, spiky vomit-orange hair, and green teeth inspired..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Silent Night

English nightmare comedy is as much Noël Coward as George A. Romero

"...transform the party into a British You’re Next. As Pink Floyd once sang, quiet desperation is the English way,..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Silent Night

Social satire takes a surprising and bleak turn

"...transform the party into a British You're Next. As Pink Floyd once sang, quiet desperation is the English way,..."

Sept. 30, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Raoul Hernandez, Not Like Everybody Else

Outgoing Chronicle Music editor on 27 years of pure emotion

"...editor, Hernandez's full-hearted, long-winded confessions span Bo Diddley to Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can..."

July 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...firm Hipgnosis, eternally iconic for its Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd visual branding. Starman logo for 2112, Shakespearian apocalypse..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Doin’ It to Death: House Dems Chub Up Slim Victories

"...(SB 518, involving wage statistics) as colleagues waved small pink-and-blue Transgender Pride flags. As a handful of spectators stood..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin at Large: We Have Better Things to Do

Stay mad, Dan Patrick! Public safety will be reimagined, with or without you

"...of the statecraft devoted to this task under the pink dome has not improved. By the time any of..."

April 16, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: Say Their Names, at the Capitol

Four Black Texans, four lives lost, four chances to advance criminal justice reform

"...Oklahoma by decree, normal conditions are returning to the pink dome, including today's (Thursday, March 25) expected convergence of..."

March 26, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Sunshine Ghost, arriving March 26 on local imprint Mr. Pink Records, reveals a remarkable work where the bandleader works..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Freshman State Senator Sarah Eckhardt Lays Out Her Agenda

Sarah Eckhardt prepares for an uncertain session

"...help craft priorities for her first term under the pink dome. [inset-1-right]..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"...I noticed the lack of English rock bands, no Pink Floyd or Zeppelin, but here was Loudon Wainright, Jimmie..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

Sound Unseen Review: Bleeding Audio

How an emo band got screwed by the industry and (almost) survived

"...to be lost. Would they have become the next Pink Floyd? The Magic Eight Ball would say, don't count..."

Nov. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How I Won the War Against Stress With A Little Help From Vinyl & Tequila

Giving praise before the altar of the turntable

"...Seville's The Witch Doctor – my kindergarten equivalent to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon logging 917 weeks..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Velvet," hooded lust burner "Wolverine," and interstellar psychedelic cruise "Pink Jag." Lushly arranged thanks to producer John Spiece IV..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...YOU into the photographer taking the cover shot of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. B-side "All Out Living" delivers..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...stood on the corners. Street Medics Austin, in their pink shirts, hung at the edges of the crowd. Independent..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Watch: Trouble in the Streets’ Desert Dystopia

View West Texas post-apocalypse on new “Mad Science” vid

"...effort, Rule Breaker. The director cites Storm Thorgerson’s surrealist Pink Floyd album covers and sci-fi filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky as..."

June 29, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Checking In: Bridge Farmers Sustain Sonic Possession

ATX power triangulation bides its time

"...Charles Fuckin Bradley, Hawkwind, Neu!, the 13th Floor Elevators, Pink Floyd, Neurosis, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Budos Band,..."

June 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Heaven & Hell in 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History

We return to the Red River strip of March 1966 to witness Roky Erickson and crew

"...of that period – except perhaps the Syd Barrett Pink Floyd or the Skip Spence Moby Grape. There was..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Jon Savage

Longtime Austin Collaborators Patrice Pike and Wayne Sutton Finally Duo Up

At the heart of so many essential acts beats a duo, so it is with the Little Sister / Sister 7 legends

"...to from front to back, like Stevie Wonder or Pink Floyd," offers Pike. "We just had to follow our..."

May 1, 2020 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

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