SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...MISTLETOE: Sincere, unsigned, and still-young indie pop quartet with just enough mystery to make it interesting...."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Bo Bud Greene follow with a unique take on psych-pop that revels in harshness without losing sight of melody...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Mixing Miami With Copacabana

A profile of Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

"...the most macho male, the validity of black cultural expression -- with an infectious, addicting, easy-to-swallow variety of musical..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...For me, the spirit of Liberty Lunch has always expressed itself through its relaxed, unpretentious atmosphere, encouraging you to..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...can be seen some 25 miles out to sea. Impressive to say the least, but enough to warrant its..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...the only revelation inside is how bland and unmemorable Poppy Z. Brite's writing can be once she abandons her..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...folks looking for the newest releases from the smallest press, books on activism and activists, books within walking distance..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Thursday Showcases

International hip-hop, or domestic, Modern Outsider sounds?

"...Korea Night 1: K-Pop Night Out 7:30pm, Elysium Sounds from the World This..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

At It Again

Say Anything savant Max Bemis let goes of his alienation

"...behind the microphone. Even though it's the 2006 Alternative Press day party at South by Southwest, the causal audience..."

April 27, 2012 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...eponymous LP finally debuted last year, culling its already popular, remix-ransacked singles from the past five years. –..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday blurbs slim down from the Wednesday bloat

"...Grimes' third album, Visions, which was quickly accepted with press attention and acclaim. – Zoe Cordes Selbin The Davies..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...next month. Hailed for its inventive updating of 1960s pop, the fivesome's harmonies, hooks galore, and kaleidoscope of instrumentation..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself

"...Jackson was born in tiny Pandora, Tex., (pop. 200) and grew up in nearby Stockdale, due south..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Iconoclast' Country

It's election time in Crawford – peace and free speech keep right on waving and smiling

"...purchased the nearby Prairie Chapel Ranch, dealing with the press has become old hat. In a town this small..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Dancing About Architecture

Driving a New Buick

"...swallowed up into Seymour Stein's Sire Records label; the press release for local saxophonist Ron Brown's new From My..."

July 4, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Looks Back... and Forward

Documentary Film Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker

"...also chronicled Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in Monterey Pop, and (with his wife and partner Chris Hegedus) Bill..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Trauma Ray, TILT, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

Lots of live music options ahead

"...Regrets? Plenty! That clear vinyl re-press of The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Sushi Bar Stays, the Field Guide Festival’s Foretold, Meanwhile Gets Dough Boys, and Who’s Gonna Win Free Breakfast For a Year?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...going on with Leanne Valenti’s Bento Picnic? That imported-from-California, wait-is-this-just-a-pop-up-or-what? den of raw fish brilliance and inspired drinking from..."

July 14, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

BabiBoi Releases Debut Music Video for “Molasses”

Video from local rapper pays homage to ballroom icon Amanda Lepore

"...collective House of Lepore, about the influence of ballroom culture, queer aesthetics, and why he doesn’t – and never..."

July 31, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Food-o-File: Weekend Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...the first 300 people who attend a Labor Day pop-up hosted by Hops & Grain Brewery (507 Calles). The..."

Sept. 5, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives 'em a look-see

"...it offers for cataloguing, almost failing to survive the repressive and bully-bludgeoned journey to adolescence. These strips, along with..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...From Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture by Kevin Phinney. Copyright (c) 2005 by Kevin Phinney...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...on Mondays, sirloin steak. Fuschak's also has a very popular item called the Bar-Burrito -- a tortilla stuffed with..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Gabriela’s Group Expands Latin Business Empire With Mala Fama on Sixth Street

See inside the new three-story neon nightclub, formerly Buckshot

"...Latin pop stars Bad Bunny, Karol G, Rosalía, Rauw Alejandro, and..."

Aug. 1, 2023 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Gift Guide for the Music Head on Your Holiday List

What a fan, finger drummer, or Austin nostalgia freak may want for Christmas

"...debut novel by Zauner, better known as the compelling indie-pop artist Japanese Breakfast. The deeply felt and fragrant story..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Page Two: Roger Ebert Added a Star to His The Whole Shootin' Match Rating

Last Night at the Alamo restoration revives Eagle Pennell's early promise for posterity

"...the DVD box set is available through the UT Press...."

March 11, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Hot for Teacher

History's sexy at UT Informal Classes

"...Tracy at UT Informal Classes amid a cluster of press releases and greetings from young publicists asking if I'd..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Your Name Here

Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...Park dwelling reveals a far more personal museum of popular culture. Each room has its own theme, with nearly..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Big in Japan

Austinites forge a career half a world away.

"...of the Asylum Street Spankers, enjoying a level of popularity halfway around the world that he never received in..."

May 2, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...what a song is," states Lincoln in the album's press, and Lincoln's not kidding; her songs, lyrics, and voice..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

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