Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...outlet for Beach Boys, Marbles is all about Eighties electro-pop. New Expo (SpinArt), is forward-looking Eighties nostalgia. – Melanie..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

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March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Reissues

"...Arguably the most popular film ever, Gone With the Wind was released theatrically..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...in 1997, Raymonde dove into the label. Glaswegian experimental indie-pop quintet My Latest Novel is among the most recent..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...Fronted by multi-instrumentalist Michael Doucet, who was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the NEA in 2005, the Lafayette-based..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...is Peach Train, a hot-shit quartet with Mudhoney and Nation of Ulysses whispers. Ari Audrey sings only between history..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Thursday SleepersBOXSTEP: The lush, orchestral pop of Pittsburgh-based Boxstep approaches grandiosity with a distinctly indie..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Wednesday Showcases

"...the Driskill With a diverse lineup befitting a diverse nation, SXSW's first-ever showcase of music from Pakistan promises to..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Saturday Preview

"...year, but little else has changed for the local indie-pop outfit. Its self-titled EP, available for free download on..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature

Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...septet that gleefully plumbs the infinite goodness of raucous geek-pop in the vein of the Buzzcocks and Weezer. Their..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...prurient-minded bastards, porn stars have occasionally crossed over into pop music with some degree of success. Who can forget..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Caleb de Casper, Money Chicha, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

Classical, hip-hop, jazz, blues, and much more

"...take the Little Darlin’ stage to ring in the nation’s near Semiquincentennial. The Notorious F.A.G. comes home after being..."

July 5, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Playback: ACL Fest Then & Now

What's changed and remained the same for ACL Fest over its 13 years

"...has conquered the festival world with a plethora of international gatherings; Lollapalooza's now in five countries, and there's a..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Friday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...effects and megareverb, Philly sextet ASDIG is really a pop group. The group's been quite prolific in its short..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Fivehead

Texas platters

"...FiveheadGuests of the Nation (Tight Spot) Noisy guitars crunch a bevy of late-Eighties/..."

April 23, 2004 Music Review by Matt Dentler

My Obsession

Joe Nick Patoski leaves this terrestrial plane -- radio plane, that is.

"...contemporary and alternative rock, country, reggae, and world music, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Bloomberg, and the BBC...."

Dec. 19, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...myself from the material issues (but not the legal machinations involving the lawsuit), I cannot address the factual representations..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...the forecast was used by anti-Estrada forces to mobilize popular opposition. Meanwhile, Estrada supporters dismissed the Stratfor analysis as..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Postmarks

Everybody talk about: pop music, aquifer protection, police presence, even doggie do and doggie don't.

"...does enjoy the occasional drink at few of the not-so-popular bars on Sixth. By popular, I mean a bar..."

May 18, 2001 Column

America Circa 1999

"...this juggernaut of adolescent spending power, and the corresponding pop-cultural reckoning, is only beginning. "This is the most significant..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...Roger and Me, in a recent issue of The Nation (December 2, 1996). According to Moore, his tour of..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

Inu-Oh

Japanese medieval history gorgeously reimagined as a rock & roll fable

"...burning in Masaaki Yuasa. That can be the only explanation as to why he has become one of the..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: KindKeith Has What You Need

A dreamy alternative R&B debut and a few major venue reopenings, too

"...moving to Austin in 2019, the multi-instrumental buddies backed indie-pop locals like Kitty Coen and Susannah Joffe. Away from..."

May 14, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: A Music Snob’s Guide to ACL Fest

There's more to any ACL Fest list than meets the eye

"...For such segments of the local populous and many more, the city's largest outdoor music festival,..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Sound on Sound Fest Is Set, but What About Fun Fun Fun?

SOS Fest dropped its lineup this week, but what of predecessor FFF?

"...buyer shifted efforts to Sound on Sound, an instantly popular music festival staged at a giant Renaissance faire village..."

June 23, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Gay Place

What's at the fest through a queer lens

"...y'all or nothing The Carry Nation, Big Dipper, Normaling, Francine Thirteen, Christeene, Biz Vicious, and..."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

21 Years: Richard Linklater

A subject as worthy of a documentary as this one is deserves a more thoughtful approach than this star-studded tribute.

"...there’s not, there’s always the entertaining animated segments that pop up with regularity to illustrate ideas...."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wednesday SXSW 2014 Showcases

Stay planted for an evening

"...similar raw and crude love of punk, garage, and power-pop stylings. Agape over this ambitious, triple-stage, 25-band bill, the..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Wednesday Showcases

Welcome to Texas via Boise, etc.

"...intense, gloomy tunes. Threepiece Finn Riggins pumps out engaging power-pop jams with dual male-female vocals. The latest scene king..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Fun Fun Fun Fest Sunday Picks

Blurbing Fun Fun Fun Fest one act at a time

"...The sprawling Austin pop collective expands the guitar-and-synth formula exponentially, surging with multiple..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature

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