One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock.

"...Leading the herd were bands like Houston's nascent industrialists Red Krayola, San Antonio's pan-cultural Sir Douglas Quintet, Austin's divinely..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Red Krayola

Record review

"...The Red Krayola..."

April 28, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Best of International Artists

In Box

"...Thirteenth Floor Elevators (1966) is the first, and generally considered the best, album from the Austin band that introduced..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by John Morthland

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...The Other Sixties Garage Gods: Red Krayola Garage rock is a hard elephant to describe,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Record Reviews

"...Hunter Thompson as the first and last name in weird/wired hilarious literature and doing it as a piece of..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Review

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...to a rarefied musical collage that recalls both the Red Krayola's free-form freak-outs and Joe Raposo's Sesame Street songs...."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

"...course of two years, is a hallucinatory synthesis of fractured beats, New Wave synths, and Roxy Music, with flourishes..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

Saturday Picks

"...Eardrum (Blacksmith/Warner Bros.), is uneven but shows why he's considered the game's best lyricist. Kweli will be joined by..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Medicine Man

Up a Tree With Greg Ashley

"...dirt road. He stops the truck next to a red, white, and blue mailbox and unlocks a creaky gate...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...to the iconoclastic, avant-punk weirdness of groups like the Red Krayola and Bongwater. Though the quartet has been around..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

I See Dead People

The Black Angels conjure Austin's psychedelic renaissance

"...enters into the fold with a heavy dose of textured organ, sending the jam into interstellar overdrive. The comedown..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

SXSW Showcase Picks

Spend the evening with your favorite record label.

"...Shaving the Angel. The Spider Bags' crackle-scratch country gets filtered through a blurry garage-punk web on the Chapel Hill,..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

The Blurbing of SXSW 06

"...the Time Flys shine on their 2005 debut, Fly. Houston-bred Bay area transplant Greg Ashley leads Gris Gris down..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...from playing guitar with Mouse and the Traps to Freddie King-style blues. The Moving Sidewalks' guitarist Billy Gibbons became..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Weird Bands From Texas

"...fruition that year, with the release of Crust's The Sacred Heart of Crust EP. However, the label's genesis can..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Not Rocking

The American Analog Set

"...starts with Pink Floyd, and the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, Hawkwind -- all that stuff. I don't really..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Long Journey Home

The Houston Kid comes full circle

"...poverty-stricken Texas upbringing. In that process of recollection, Crowell discovered a new focus and passion. The Houston Kid..."

April 18, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Over the Wall With Will Sergeant

Rob yaks with Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen

"..."Happy Death Men", it sounds a bit like the Red Krayola. It's brilliant, the madness going on there. It's..."

May 7, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Galaxie 500

Reissues

"...like a hot summer day. That seminal album comes paired with bonus track "King of Spain" and Uncollected, a..."

May 14, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

More Good S.A. Pop

The Krayolas color outside the lines

"...to sweep the obvious off the table: Yes, the Krayolas are from San Antonio and bear the city’s definitive..."

July 21, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Pataphysics

"...the weirdo-pop formula and rolls downhill. Their cover of Red Krayola's "Hurricane Fighter Plane" takes on an otherworldly buzz,..."

April 11, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Gris Gris

Record review

"...to tape in the Lone Star state since the Red Krayola cut The Parable of Arable Land back in..."

March 10, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...Lee Brammer's book review of The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock in the first issue of the Austin Sun..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

That's Entertainment!

Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen: 'We've still definitely got it'

"...Andy Gill and I were talking about it and figured well, if Hugo and Jon were interested, why not..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

George Kinney & The Golden Dawn

Fanning the flames of legend

"...As George Kinney peered into the crowd that August night at Room 710,..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Glorium

Texas platters

"...that, calling on early touchstones like Can and the Red Krayola. Fantasmas consists of Glorium's unreleased final recordings along..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

Linus Pauling Quartet

"...for a product of the same hometown as the Red Krayola and Rusted Shut, Houston's Linus Pauling Quartet is..."

March 12, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

The Trees

Online music trading that "leaves" the RIAA and music industry in the underbrush.

"...For the past several years, "treeing" has been the preferred method of distribution for fans of live music, rooted..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Liliput

"...A lucky few on this side of the pond savored the warbly, riotous staccato of woman-powered, agit-scratched Liliput, whose..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Girl Robots

Record Review

"...Girl RobotsFractured Fairy Tales (Chihuahua Pit Entertainment) Edward Everett Horton, known..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

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