Checking In: Dylan Cameron Revisits the Rave Music of A Jilted Generation

IDM experimentalist notches third entry in a Holodeck triad

"...AC: As a global culture, people employ music for every purpose imaginable, obviously spanning..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pop Goes the Culture

The SAMOPC hosts a night of music and a movie

"...Whether there's a North Austin Museum of Popular Culture in the works, or a Central Museum maybe, is..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by John Davidson

Rave Over JAVA

New Noodle House Has People Talking ñ and Rightly So

"...the dry side. I was intrigued to find a culture from halfway around the world that featured fried chicken,..."

May 15, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Better Living Through Circuitry

"...In fact, Reiss' documentary, which attempts to demystify the culture of those all-night bacchanals known as raves, is full..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One Perfect Day

This earnest, soulful, and jarringly melodramatic rave-culture love story is from Melbourne, Australia.

"...any rate, throughout this earnest, soulful, and jarringly melodramatic rave-culture love story, which plays like a greatest-hits package of..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Disko Cowboy Discusses the Cross-Cultural Vision of Vinyl Ranch

"It's kind of like a pop culture blender of analog culture and postmodern memes."

"...mashing up a unique blend of Texas and pop culture for over a decade, and built his Vinyl Ranch..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...the early Nineties, with the birth of Austin's electronica/dance, music/rave culture, the little love drug that could has become..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Life of the Party

Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.

"...He's captured the vital heartbeat of an entire youth subculture, distilled it, and crafted the first honest, accurate, and..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...had something going on that leap-frogged industry and pop culture boundaries like a marmot dipped in napalm and methedrine...."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Beats

Scottish rave-culture story gets the details right but loses sight of the big picture

"...When the landmark Scottish rave-and-scag drama Trainspotting finally arrived on American shores, the scene..."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Why We Listen to What They Say

"...Doug Rushkoff has been writing about media, cyberculture, and rave culture for several years now, starting as..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...by Robert Christgau Harvard University Press, $29.95 hard Pop culture aesthete/connoisseur and senior music critic for the Village Voice,..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

That frazzled local who looks like he just stepped out of American Pie is actually one of the hottest DJs and producers going

"...Reared in the golden age of rave culture in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Gartner, the oldest..."

May 13, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Screen Play

Austin Film Festival Reviews

"...RAVED: Ron Krauss; with Douglas Spain, Aimee Graham, Nicholle Tom...."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Ken Lieck goes to Florida and leaves readers high and dry with a best of column.

"...Despite Marc Savlov's exhaustive study of the "rave culture" in other issues of the Chronicle, I figured..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Human Traffic

"...barely grazes the heads of the U.K.'s Ecstasy-mad youth culture. There's much about Human Traffic to enjoy: With his..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bangers and Mash

France and Germany, allies in the dance dance revolution

"...When the "new rave" (or "nu-rave") genre popped up sometime around 2006, it..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

How Did Legendary DJ and Londoner Paul Oakenfold Land in Bastrop?

The Londoner finds his way to a Texas ranch

"...teeth spinning hard-to-find soul around London's Covent Garden, Oakenfold traversed the Atlantic to stalk post-disco/dance and burgeoning hip-hop scenes..."

July 30, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Fantastic Fest Review: Who Killed the KLF?

Band biography that burns Behind the Music to ashes

"...A sample-driven dance band that both revived and throttled rave culture, doused it in agit-prop and art terrorism, and..."

Sept. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...2000’s funky Groove, which explored the Bay area’s underground rave culture from the inside out, if he’d directed a..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...info... "Chemical Generation" is the title of a new rave culture narrative program directed by former Austinite Tara Veneruso..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...What about CDs?) and a boastful offer from DJ culture's most notorious renaissance spinthrift...."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"...the reggae flame, Killer Bees or Tribal Nation. Bass Culture (Some History, Briefly)..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Untold Verve Rules Empire Control Room

Londoner sifts decades of UK bass culture for Chaos in Tejas

"...samples, and walked offstage. Such an entrance epitomizes London’s post-rave bass scene...."

June 2, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Page Two

In blaming the anti-war movement for all possible future scenarios connected to terrorism or the war in Iraq, the hysterical right has poised itself to lead a devastating assault on the Constitution and its protections.

"...Gil Cates Jr. is back with A Midsummer Nights Rave -- how can you go wrong combining Shakespeare and..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Concourse Project Brings the Raver Spirit Back to Austin

High-capacity event space looks to diversify their sound

"...Just give them the Raver Power Couple of the Year award already. Changing the..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend

Weary from the first week of school? Live music to the rescue!

"...Salute cassette culture! This triptych reps the time-honored four-track demo aesthetic, from..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

ACL Review: Die Antwoord

Nightmarish, hilarious, absurdly filthy – what did you expect?

"...The most controversial act at ACL, the South African rave-rap duo of Ninja and Yolandi Visser crashed the Honda..."

Oct. 1, 2016 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Rollers Refined

"...not give us respect. I've found that the average raver in this scene, someone who goes out just to..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature

Short Cuts

"...also esteemed highly. The GFVF is part of the Culture Jam associated with the Grassroots News and Media Conference..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

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