New Plans for Bastrop Film Studio Hope to Overcome Its Volatile History

Can new management help Spiderwood Studios rise again?

"...minutes east of Downtown Austin, along the winding frontage road FM 969, three inconspicuous steel-frame buildings house what could..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Old Man River

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw: The Return of Steven Fromholz

"...onto A Guest in Your Heart, Fromholz's first new studio album in nearly a decade. After years of tinkering..."

April 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Take Me to the River New Orleans

Rhythms of the generations resonate in a portrait of the Big Easy

"...musician and director Martin Shore went inside a recording studio to capture multiple generations of Memphis artists in collaboration...."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red River Shore

Lifting the Dylan sideman vow of silence, Lone Star-style

"...include "Dignity," "Can't Wait," and the previously unreleased "Red River Shore." Unreleased songs, such as the foreboding "Dreamin' of..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Mark Knopfler Repaves Telegraph Road

Dire Straits driver dusts up Music City southwest

"...double up on his former group’s numbers, 1978-1995: six studio LPs, three live albums, and an Extended Play. 1985’s..."

Sept. 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

East Austin Studio Tour: The Eureka Room

Hey, pssssst, citizen: Wanna have your mind blown?

"...Room does is pretty damned amazing: flowing like a river, hitting like a wave, downright dancing vivid patterns of..."

Nov. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pleasure Venom's Introspective Punk Road to Rebirth/Return

Revamped and fully realized Austin quartet breaks down debut

"...as a "secret fifth member." During recording, Frazier encouraged in-studio reenactments of live performances and tracked the band's parts..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Film News

Carolyn Banks makes her directorial debut in Bastrop

"...The latest evidence is the horror film Invicta, which River Road Studio and Upstart, the nonprofit that runs Bastrop..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Building Buzz, One 'Bag' at a Time

The Duplass Brothers buck New York and Los Angeles to premiere 'Baghead' here in the town where they started it all

"...Puffy Chair. The brothers make a deal with Universal Studios for a feature script. They start selling pitches to..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Art

Art Openings

"...AND SOMETHING DIFFERENT STUDIO GALLERY Conceptual photography by Leslie Pierce is on display..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

The Gravity of Sound

The Bubble's new studio stands as Mark Genfan's swan song

"...Recording studios represent more than finely tuned rooms filled with expensive..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: The Future of Austin Recording Studios

Studio owners look at different solutions to surviving in an increasingly expensive city

"...not possible," lamented McCarthy, who shuttered his local recording studio in February. "I'm fortunate for the run I've had..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Darkness in the Heart of Town

Will Sheff, one step forward, two steps back

"...in New Hampshire often while writing songs for Okkervil River's difficult departure LP I Am Very Far in 2011...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

South Austin's Neon Transformers Light Up Life South of the River

"...anything ... mostly because it's his future. His work studio -- a couple of rooms in an old store..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

South Austin Secede!

Our second installment in a series about South Austin explores the roots of "Bubba" and the rivalry between North Austin and south of the river.

"..."I don't go north of the river," he says, puffing on a cigarette in his mother's..."

April 13, 2001 Features Feature by Rob D'Amico

Marmalakes Homecoming

Popular Austin trio returns from tour to ready its debut LP

"...the headliner’s singer/guitarist Chase Weinacht about life on the road and the band’s debut LP...."

June 5, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Playback: Still Weary

Weary Boys reunite, Red River vies for cultural district designation, and MusicMania to close

"...Club certified them local luminaries, but it was their road warrior ways that ultimately led them to hang up..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem , more announced for 2024 festival

"...Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River. But now he's bringing his Hollywood action hero persona..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Let's Build a City

All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards

"...of Promises that same year, the only Bubble Puppy studio LP – recorded in Houston for psych rock monopoly..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ThinkNoThink

New single, new imprint, new Black Joe Lewis tour

"...a name for itself thrashing and belting on Red River. Forged in the now-boarded up confines of Club de..."

Nov. 13, 2013 Music Post by Andy Bianculli

Off the Record

Exit Music: Nakia leaves The Voice, Corcoran retires, and Mike Wiebe walks the plank

"...Meanwhile, Green's country crooner Curtis Grimes floats down to River Road Icehouse in New Braunfels Saturday, July 2. Squirrels..."

July 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...an ether-filled gondola, and "Hip-Notica" is a shuffle funk, roadhouse blues soundtrack for an end-of-the-universe outpost. Fans of straight..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Cold Sweat

Where have all our black clubs gone?

"...Mae Miller at the New Orleans Club on Red River all came, went, and even stayed. That was well..."

June 13, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...music with Jimmy Dale Gilmore, recorded her shining debut River Under the Road, and connected with heroes like Shawn..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Dip, Sip, & ’Que: A Texas Trilogy

Day Trips on the best barbecue and swimming holes in Central Texas

"...relaxed its grip on the state, the lakes and rivers are full once again and ready to be enjoyed...."

June 30, 2016 Columns Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Musicians on How Best to Employ City Funds Earmarked for the Local Scene

$3 million in HOT funds are coming. Now what?

"...to musicians who play, tour, release music, pay for studio time and rehearsal spaces, fund and produce their own..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...become something of a local cottage industry. Last year's live-in-the-studio debut, Freebird, and this year's follow-up, More Than a..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...– or too big – to weave into a broader narrative? Too complex and thus its own story waiting..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

Off the Record

Adventures with Charlie (Faye) and Up Close with Eric Johnson

"...for Best Album Notes for Roky Erickson with Okkervil River's True Love Cast Out All Evil, "it feels misplaced...."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

The South Bank

"...illustration by Robert Faires Crossing the river... If you live in Austin and happen to love..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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