Record reviews Reissues

"...Rockin' and Driftin': The Drifters Box (Rhino)..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

The Winners of the 43rd Austin Music Awards

The best bands, venues, backstage folks, and more, as voted on by you

"...Best Rock: A Giant Dog..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Park your hiney at a Saturday night SXSW showcase

"...assortment of area artists spanning multiple generations of R&B, rock, and hip-hop. This free public throwdown thus assembles many..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Off the Record

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

"...Austin music. "I was very influenced by the punk rock attitude," reflected Corcoran via email (see the full interview..."

July 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...clear that the road to school success runs through rockier territory than just finding the right curriculum and scheduling..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Playback

You thought SXSW was the spring festival end-all/be-all? You thought wrong.

"...our Music Listings), including soul man Bobby Patterson and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist James Burton...."

April 5, 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

"...gestation and beyond. Cast: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch, Hasan Minhaj (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

First Look: Sala & Betty

Fine-dining chef brings family fare

"...through neighborhoods filled with working families. The concrete and rock building came complete with a drive-through lane and its..."

Feb. 25, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...into a parody of itself when the good times roll. There is virtually no legal protection for historic structures..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...with a sole male lead - no less than rock star and untried actor Jon Bon Jovi - is..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

35 Recommended SXSW Music Acts

From rock to new age to Irish traditional, these are the incoming artists to see

"...Anycia appears at SXSW courtesy of Rolling Stone, whose Future of Music showcase has brought big..."

March 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...aside and reached for John Lennon's 1975 covers LP, Rock 'n' Roll. He slid the record on the turntable..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Feb. 11-18

"...BLOOD DRIVE: ROCK N' ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE Give blood; get prizes..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature

1999-2000 Award Winners

"...18. Adam Carroll..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...on a construction site barrier, hours after touchdown (Austin/Cincinnati/Paris/Berlin). "Rolling Stones, Olympiastadion." Imagine that. Olympiastadion, 21•7•06. Cursed metric/Celsius/cubit BS...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound's Musical Top 10s of 2020

Eleven lists of Austin's best releases, theme songs, livestreams, creative pivots and more.

"...4) The Lost Well's Rock for Rent..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...school teachers' sake: Raul's, described by king of all rock critics Lester Bangs in a 1980 Musician magazine piece..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The 2021-22 Austin Music Industry Awards Winners

"...Rock n Roll Rentals..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature

Chronolog Radio (Feb. 7)

An Olympian Austin Psych Fest and other reptilian sides

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Feb. 7, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...the Wal-Mart, and the discount dollar store of exploitation drive-in productions all at once. It released the best and..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

This Town Is Big Enough for the Four of Us

There's a new place to get drunk, full, and filmically informed, but it's still the Alamo Drafthouse

"...mammoth parking lot perfectly suited to reformatting as a drive-in theatre via the Alamo's Rolling Road Show inflat-o-screen...."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wednesday SXSW Showcases

"...darlings of Hotel Vegas booker Ben Tipton's Burger City Rock N Roll label; Norton Records' sinister garage-blues trio from..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Film Director Janet Pierson, posting later today, and keep scrolling down for the full lineup in all its glory...."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Film Fundraiser: 'Postmodern Undead' at The Mohawk

Dolls from the Crypt for Lindsey Alloway's vampire flick

"...this uber-worthy "blood drive." And, frankly, what's cooler than rock 'n' roll, hot dead babes, and vampiric shenanigans at..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

More adventures in Idoldom.

"...the Austin American Idol auditions winner from the Hard Rock Cafe competition (see "Idol Chatter," p.49), was going to..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Page Two

Remembering actor-filmmaker Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Cannonball, Eating Raoul)

"...or '78, I was reborn at a South Austin drive-in watching Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat. The story of why..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Industry Awards Grow Into Emo’s

Berkshire Hounds back a piano-smashing good time, non-Spring Break SXSW needs more volunteers, and Bayonne brings his piano home

"...band comprising former Berkshire Hounds duo Jim Campo (Magic Rockers of Texas) and Spencer Garland (PR Newman) with Brendan..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Krokus

"...form. Once "Born to Be Wild" dials up third, "Rock'n'Roll Handshake" clangs shut on Clinton-era AC/DC, which remains the..."

June 18, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mitch Ryder, Steamboat, March 16, 1985

"...versions of such battered warhorses as "C.C. Rider" and "Rock 'n Roll." Halfway through the set, however, Ryder, backed..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Review by Jim Shahin

Dome Sweet Dome

How do you contain an international music festival? Build a dome, and they will calm.

"...Milkmen splatter up dust and grit at East Side Drive-In, old-school punks espousing the work of new-school punks. Now,..."

April 1, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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