Dancing About Architecture

Hot Butts!

"...Owen McMahon the previous night after the band's Capitol Records-sponsored schmoozefest at Stubbs', I had gotten quite a rosy..."

June 21, 1996 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Faster Than Sound: Cracking the SXSW Music Algorithm

If my phone broke and clickbait subsided, where would bring me joy at SXSW?

"...Wharf Cat Records co-founder Doug Warner says Minor invited the label to..."

March 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...ensemble, the group's sophomore album, Jackrabbit, due on Downtown Records in April, proves even more adventurous and ambitious. (Also:..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Tuesday SXSW 2015 Showcases

"...his sophomore 2015 release. Although he looks like a proper gentleman, electronic eccentric Daedelus spins beats like a mad..."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

The Great $100 Lottery Scam

Texas Lottery pursues bearers of 'previously paid' but forgotten scratch-off tickets

"...to look like they're actually winners. According to TLC records, from 2005 to late February 2012, TLC investigators conducted..."

June 8, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kicking the Tires at Fleet

City whistle-blower confirms that the trouble at Fleet Services has been much worse than scrap tires and bad record-keeping. And nobody in charge wanted to hear it.

"...of scrap tires being abandoned by the city on property southeast of Downtown. The tract was leased by Victor..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Record

Paying tribute to the Texas Tornado, working out at the Music Gym, and Trail of Dead's Justice for all

"...to Doug Sahm, due the following week on Vanguard Records. The previously mentioned compilation (see "Off the Record," Nov...."

Feb. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Turn the Other Cheek

Q&A with guitar virtuoso Kaki King

"...KK: I made a couple records that had a lot of instrumentation on them and..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Who Is Mandy?

The author hopes that history – so cruel to African-American women in the kitchen – can help breathe real life into a 19th-century portrait

"...It took several days, but there, tucked insignificantly amid property deeds, household ledgers and address books, society column clippings,..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Whut It Dew

They don't call DJ Rapid Ric the Mixtape Mechanic for nuthin'

"...on his fingers from a lucrative signing to Universal Records, reiterates the accolades...."

May 20, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Naked City

"...landowner who came within a whisker of selling his property to Wal-Mart is pursuing legal action in response to..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Be Real

The Bottle Rockets cut one helluva tribute to Doug Sahm.

"...in an unhappy record deal with Austin-based indie Doolittle Records...."

Feb. 15, 2002 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Dancing About Architecture

"...but plans were scrapped out of a lack of proper cases to show the posters in. (Art lovers can..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Reissues

"...exclusively on Charles' amazing nine-year R&B tenure at Atlantic Records, Genius and Soul wraps up the Atlantic era a..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...future, even though it'll be too late for a proper Silver Anniversary. "Twenty-six may be `magnesium,'" he muses. Pearl..."

June 23, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Allie X, the Bill Ball, and Oodles of Locals in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Lots of reasons to get out of the house and break out the earplugs

"...after signing with embattled mogul P. Diddy’s Bad Boy Records. Their debut, 1998’s Money, Power & Respect, was a..."

Nov. 22, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Provocative Pop, Emo Legends, and More Crucial Concerts

Know your shows

"...Friday 23, Waterloo Records..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Tim Kerr Sets His Own New Colors

Austin "Self-expressionist" paints visionary artists, photographs their environments, accompanies with old time music duo Up Around the Sun

"...book published by New Jersey über indie Don Giovanni Records. It comprises painted portraits of visionary artists – "visionary..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Debut on North Carolina indie royalty Merge Records and third LP overall for the raw, glammy Austin..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...that's when she and the band got their Arista [Records] deal. It was their first time going out on..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paul Cauthen’s Deep Country Gospel

Former Sons of Fathers frontman’s solo debut deals out one of the best country albums of the year

"...he didn't want to put out the disc without proper support. He set a deadline of his 30th birthday..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Austin Music Industry Award Winners

Business and non-performer accolades precede the AMAs

"...A swift prelude to the Austin Music Awards proper next Wednesday, March 16, at the Hilton Austin Grand..."

March 7, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Counting the Dead

Nevada journalist tries to do what the government won't

"...from the public as well as data from open records requests, is "more comprehensive" than other lists of law..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Playback: Behold! The Austin Music Awards

Announcing the 2014/15 Austin Music Awards bill, the 13th Floor Elevators reunite for Levitation, and King Coffey recovers after being struck by a car

"...We've also hired a proper music director. You might have heard of him: Charlie..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Evicted and Helpless

Disabled residents to be forced out of state supported living center

"...2013, the General Land Office recommended selling the "underutilized" property, some 93 acres of prime real estate in the..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Jake Gyllenhaal Is An Axe Murderer

Right now through the prism of actors in music videos

"...to an accompanying score ensuring its readers bounce on proper wavelengths before digesting. Albums released as films because the..."

Jan. 22, 2014 Music Post by Lexie Maravich

Clash City Rockers

Unexpurgated Clash box set review

"...“write about what you know.” By the time a proper drummer was drafted, Bernie Rhoades realized he’d unleashed a..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Birds Fly South

The Mastersons’ love story

"...telepathic level. They laugh constantly. Together, they’re New West Records recording artists the Mastersons, and they’ve been touring with..."

July 2, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Youngbloods Pretty Little Demons at SXSW

Not old enough to drink, but veteran enough to showcase

"...for their album release party March 3 at Amoeba Records in Hollywood...."

Feb. 18, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday blurbs slim down from the Wednesday bloat

"...a one-man guitar/drum band while working at Fat Possum Records. Although Colin Sneed has since joined as a proper..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

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