ArmadilloCon, Art, a Hot Sauce Hootenanny, and More Recommended Events

Get out and get spicy this weekend

"...Friday 6, the Contemporary Austin (Jones Center)..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Recommended Events for This Week’s Cooling Temps

Fairies, succulents, and lowriders in this weekend’s suggested happenings

"...Queer Film Theory 101: Back to School..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin

Triumphant world tour concludes at ACL Live at the Moody

"...Dylan squinted. He clearly heard her, as did everyone else in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts...."

April 8, 2024 Music Post by Shawn Badgley

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Hovvdy, Cherubs, Hoody Rap, a Tribute to Walter Hyatt, and more recommended sounds

"..."I love my nephew Rex/ My mama called me crying/ Her son is a father." Soon after, another revelation:..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Bill Callahan Finds an Elder Perspective on New Album

Paternal dynamics paint the Austin virtuoso's new Gold Record

"...virtuoso embodies a cast of wizened individualists – an angry late-night TV viewer, a Ry Cooder fanatic, and an..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Bill Callahan Album Review

Gold Record (Drag City)

"...It's gold-standard lyricism from the prolific Austinite, replete with out-of-the-ordinary details and smirking wordsmithery. At the song's end, he..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Another Epic Austin City Limits HOF

Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash, Neville Brothers, and LBJ honored

"...After more than three hours and enough opera, country, and fonk to fill three separate Austin City Limits..."

Oct. 26, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

2017 ACL Hall of Fame Induction

"...Orbison, Rosanne Cash, the Neville Brothers, and the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Public Broadcasting Act...."

Oct. 26, 2017 Photo Gallery

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...cars, super-stylized gang warfare, and a score that mixed Ry Cooder, megastar producers Jim Steinman and Jimmy Iovine, Stevie..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...2014, but after Belize felt a bit primitive in January 2016, the moved stalled. That bought me added bylines,..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Buena Vista Social Club Survivors Come to Austin

Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa lead the new Cuban-American frontier

"...In 1996, when journeyman guitarist/producer Ry Cooder traveled to Havana and recruited a group of..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Feature by María Núñez

Thursday SXSW Sleepers

"...Toothgrinder 8pm, ElysiumWelcome to Asbury Park, hope you survive. The Garden State's newest massacre..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Grupo Fantasma’s Quinceañera

And you thought you had Problemas

"...Beto Martinez [guitarist]: We actually finished this record in January 2013. It was supposed to come out that year,..."

Oct. 29, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

10 Minutes With Ry Cooder

Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe

"...Ry Cooder’s career has taken him from working with the..."

Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

WobeonFest Slinger: Vieux Farka Toure

Malian guitarist: “We are young, so [we] have to create new styles”

"...blues from Mali entered Stateside consciousness in 1994 when Ry Cooder and the region’s Ali Farka Toure staged a..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones' sacrificial lamb receives an overdue close-up

"...Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stonesby Paul Trynka Viking, 384 pp., $28.95..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Wayfaring Strangers

Old Settler's Music Festival assimilates

"...marquee act Hot Rize cites in Los Lobos and Ry Cooder. "[They] synthesize [roots music] into something new. That's..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...really healthy that, within the world of acoustic music, everything has opened up so much. I don't want to..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Little Feat

Texicana

"...from the second song on its eponymous, 1971 debut, "Strawberry Flats" (fleeing Waco satellite Moody) to the aforementioned opener..."

July 4, 2014 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Asian Exchange

New takes on old standards and international transplants

"...In his third feature, writer/director Yeng shows a mastery of set pieces, but it's really cinematographer Yu Cao..."

June 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Haden Triplets

"...time. The trio's debut features a supporting cast of Ry Cooder producing and adding guitar and mandolin, his son..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Chieftains Chief Paddy Moloney

On why Dublin’s trad masters didn’t become the Beatles

"...“Hello, Paddy Moloney here!” The voice is everything you imagine the elfin leader of the Chieftains to..."

Feb. 26, 2014 Music Post by Margaret Moser

It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Ready for some holiday LPs?

"...Every year, there’s always one new Christmas release that stands..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Charlie Robison

"...also boisterous Tex-Mex via Doug Sahm's "Nuevo Laredo" and Ry Cooder's "The Girls From Texas." At nine tracks, High..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...been Labor Day – and had we not been trying to hook up by phone for days already –..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...helped brand his and the region's Western breakthrough, 1994 Ry Cooder collaboration Talking Timbuktu...."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

From the Vaults: Blank Checks Out

Les Blank tells us the favorite all of his films

"...subjects include Dizzy Gillespie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifton Chenier, the Ry Cooder Group, Huey Lewis and the News, Mance Lipscomb,..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Best of 2012, Vol. 2

This year wasn’t such a wash after all

"...something new to check out and a diverse audience hungry for and ready to support what’s next. I only..."

Jan. 2, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Diamond in the Rough

Shawn Colvin's memoir in song

"...charm. Her voice rings sure and clear, settling into every corner of the boutique room, working through a kaleidoscopic..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Record Roundup: Election Special

New discs from Ry Cooder, Aimee Mann, Waylon Jennings, and more

"...result, Goin’ Down Rockin’, is one of the best country albums of the year. He may have been ill,..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

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