Off the Record

Heavy lifting: No Control radio expands, hardcore punks hit the Monolith Training Center, and the Stocktons celebrate 10 years at Beerland

"...Flesh Lights and Bottle Service Friday, and the Crack Pipes and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Saturday. The decade..."

July 8, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...and Sub Pop employee Dean Whitmore, Unnatural Helpers cracks pipes like early grunge, a sweaty haze of two-minute punk..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...the band's practice space but that of the Crack Pipes and a handful of others. A random assortment of..."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...scene of his undergraduate degree in music in 2004. Fifty-plus years ago, the local music scene rode a single..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Shadowplay

Marching to the beat of Manikin's No Wave

"..."I will say this," pipes in Jeffery. "You're right about this band's work ethic...."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...goth-rock godhead proved once and for all his ethereal pipes have aged better than Bowie's. The world has not..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

A Cacophony of Passions

Why the City Council changed the boards and commissions system – and what still needs to be done

"...(the term includes commissions) governed by the City Code, plus 13 additional special-circumstance boards and 28 other formal advisory..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Sybris

"...roster in the early 1990s – Polvo, Superchunk, etc., plus the requisite bit of Sonic Youth and Swervedriver. They've..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

The Verve

"...ongoing feud with frontman Richard Ashcroft, whose splendid, soaring pipes were all too often eclipsed by his equally untethered..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

City Hall Hustle: Gas, Water, and Trash

There could be a higher utility bill in your future

"...$623.8 million, or 42%, goes to rehab of existing pipes and such, the bulk, $849.7 million, goes to new..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Two-Wheeled Texas

Bikers' best bets on the highways and byways

"...grow-supply shop, and above all, a smoke shop. Papers, pipes, vapes, and lots of yummy incense to mask, er,..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Angela Armstrong

Return to ACC's Room 221: Mercury or mystery?

Some ACC employees worry mercury still pollutes classroom that has been subject of legal wrangling over past decade

"...will be doing a full asbestos and lead abatement, plus yet more "precautionary" mercury tests. That has Irwin –..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Day Trips

The Crandall Cotton Gin Restaurant offers comfort food cooked all sorts of ways

"...and wheels still hang from the ceiling, and big pipes protrude from the floor. On the walls are yellowed..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Off the Record

Promoters square off on Red River, Daytrotter comes to Austin, Explosions goes international, and live music in Austin continues grinding

"...the Mountain Goats, Richard Swift, and the Ladybug Transistor, plus a handful of local acts. Gracious host Bill Baird..."

July 6, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Texas Platters

Live Shots

"...and the Lord Henry's dance dance revolution. The Crack Pipes' solid soul revue on Saturday was also a highlight..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Day Trips

Twister Alley is an art gallery of mobiles, pinwheels, and windmills created by craftsman Don Taylor

"...Although his creations are pretty sturdy on the steel pipes, the constant West Texas wind can get annoying even..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Discography

"...– counters with feeling. Meeting point: revisiting Brian Jones' Pipes of Joujouka on the pounding "Continental Drift." – R.H...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...Never in its 30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to keep citizens "in" as the Berlin Wall did), plus thousands of extra border patrols, surveillance technology, and all..."

July 14, 2006 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...pulsing rhythm, softly clipped reverb guitar, and Nimol's ethereal pipes. – David Lynch HONKY1am, Red Eyed Fly Southern rock..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...mad-funkateer artwork as much as those growly punk rock pipes that has ensured Turner's enduring notoriety amongst the underground's..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Girlie Action

Girlie action

"...litter begin with Bonnie Bishop's Long Way Home. Her pipes owe their power to operatic training, but the joyous..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Life on Mars: A Tribute to David Bowie

"...City." While singer Jerad Kolarik might not have the pipes he's trying to imitate, he does a fine job..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Look Around

"...run with the headlight on at all times. Exhaust pipes are often changed out to make them louder. So..."

May 17, 2004 Postmarks

Celtic 101

Texas platters

"...them tearing it up at McGonigel's Mucky Duck on "Pipes in Space" and "Bonny Portmore." Austin's much-praised Cluan is..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

TCB

There's like some shows and stuff, and some new places to see bands, and, like, people are getting shot, too.

"...the Austin slo-core quintet's brand-new album Cut the Cord, plus expanded and remastered versions of their first two, Plays..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

A Drip of Progress for Northridge Acres

The state questions why the plan to provide water to Northridge Acres costs so much.

"...other than Austin water flowing through antiquated and inadequate pipes that often are buried in their ditches and septic..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature

Orange Mothers

Texas Platters

"...Orange MothersTraditional Love (Jim Thunder) In 10-plus years of existence, the Orange Mothers have evolved from..."

May 24, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...all those marimbas, vibraphones, keen-o-tones, automandolins, reeds, loops, metal pipes, pump organs, found percussion, melodicas, and spoons. They've recently..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Picks to Click

Six Austin acts showcasing at SXSW 02

"...always, South by Southwest is a game of numbers: 1,000-plus bands playing over four days and five nights. To..."

March 1, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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