Moontower, Grackle, Swans, Soltanoff Trainwreck Betrayal

Not necessarily in that order, no

"...for any number of reasons. But this song by Swans, accompanied by a video collage for your greater visual..."

April 30, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

12 Days of Christmas Desserts

Dessert magic from Janina O'Leary

"...bakers might cut out cookies shaped like pears, partridges, swans, and dancing ladies for meticulous hand decoration, pastry chef..."

Dec. 10, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Male Gaze

Swans' ear-ringing return to the stage

"...ago, speaking to the physical effect of a live Swans show in the group's early days. On stage at..."

Feb. 21, 2011 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

SAS: Red Notice

The UK makes an entry in the "absurd jingoistic action" sweepstakes

"...government has used a paramilitary group called the Black Swans to quietly eliminate opposition in foreign countries. But when..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Slow Pulse EP release, Austin Afrobeats Fest, Border Kindness Benefit, and more recommended shows

"...bulletin of a long-awaited sophomore Pumas LP. – Raoul Hernandez SwansParamount Theatre, Sunday 3..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Music Column by Julian Towers

10 Essential Showcases to See at Oblivion Access

Unpacking the unclassifiable experimental music festival, show by show

"...vocals, and gloomy atmospherics.   – Wayne Lim Yellow Swans, John Wiese, Blank HellscapeElysium, Friday 16..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ebs Burnough Plays The Capote Tapes

aGLIFF opening night film finds new sides to the scathing wit

"...Manhattan's ladies of high society, who he called his swans - that Burnough finds fresh insight...."

Aug. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity

We spent election day with local percussive rebel

"...the local multi-instrumentalist – known for his work with Swans, Shearwater, Bill Callahan, Xiu Xiu, and Amanda Palmer –..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Rock Lobster

How do you eat healthy on tour?

"...the God of Thunder. With a drumming résumé including Swans, Shearwater, Bill Callahan, Amanda Palmer, and Nazi Gold, he..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Swans

"...SwansThe Seer (Young God Records)..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...over shoulders for the signal. The former Shearwater and Swans member solidified as conductor when he shouted each instrumentalist’s..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...of the film relating to his friendships with the “Swans,” the wealthy New York City society doyennes like Babe..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Faster Than Sound: Goodbye Prop B, Hello HOT Monies

Following the defeat of Proposition B, Austin music advocates brainstorm applications of the first city funding for commercial music

"...Control Room, June 5-7. Monday's reveal includes industrial pioneers Swans' first Austin performance since 2016, plus Converge, Anna Von..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Aftermath

Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård are stuck inside of Hamburg with the Casablanca blues

"...knit set and bias-cut gown she dons. As she swans around the largely empty mansion, the viewer is likely..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ash Is Purest White

The emotional cost of a life of crime across two decades in Northern China

"...and spouse since 2012) and from the minute she swans in to her first scene we can’t take our..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Performa / Dance's Artist and Muse

Performa / Dance's program of four pensive and sensitive works explored physical and emotional distress and pain in great depth

"...and the allusions to birds of ballets past – swans, alive and dying, and others – peppered throughout the..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus

Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete

"...seems to be a pretty happy guy," replies the Swans drummer – after a long pause – when asked..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dear God, What Hath Monofonus Wrought Now?

The Austin indie media company gets all epistolary with Thor Harris

"...Thor Harris – wildly talented painter, celebrated drummer for SWANS, helmet-wearing Viking-about-town – went through a period of extreme..."

May 25, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Housecore Horror Live Shot: Saturday Part 2

King Parrot squawk, Author & Punisher grinds, Neurosis evolves

"...progression from Einstürzende Neubauten’s earliest destructive tendencies smelted with Swans’ cosmic soar...."

Oct. 26, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Joe Satriani

"...Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008), Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (2010), Unstoppable Momentum (2013). Yet starting..."

July 4, 2014 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: I'm Sorry, I Can't Rock You All Night Long

An epic GrulkeFest fires the fall season, including John Prine

"...› Swans' show Friday at La Zona Rosa doubles as a..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'

"...compiled with help from his tourmates in Shearwater and Swans. The local art-rock ensemble is recording new demos next..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Sex and the City 2

Two years after the end of the last film, Carrie Bradshaw now frets that the "sparkle" has gone out of her marriage. It's gone from this movie, too.

"...is the film’s over-the-top gay wedding, replete with live swans and Liza Minnelli officiating, as well as performing her..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Season Opener: Swan Lake (Act II) and The Firebird

Ballet Austin's fowl-centric program bagged a comforting swan and powerful Firebird

"...made full height. The corps de ballet, 16 female swans, seemed robotic at times, but they turned this sort..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

tell me mick, how exactly did you get time on your side?

"...of the rest of my running life. there were swans honking and flapping in the lake; when i got..."

Oct. 8, 2007 Promotions Post

Hot Fuzz

Simultaneously smart and silly, Hot Fuzz demonstrates that it's not necessary to be a buffoon in order to lampoon.

"...of their duties involve tasks such as chasing lost swans and the like, but eventually a real plot involving..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Swan Lake

As Ballet Austin danced through a mist of blue, 'Swan Lake' cast its spell once more

"...Back at the lakeside, in the blue mist, the swans return for a final dreamlike sequence in which Odette..."

May 20, 2005 Arts Review by Ann Ciccolella

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Underground than the great outdoors. – Raoul HernandezTHE BLACK SWANS8pm, Friends Columbus, Ohio's Black Swans favor bittersweet minor-key reflection...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans Les Ballet de Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Using their intimate knowledge of dance and knack for slapstick physicality, the men of the Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo lampooned the dance world from Swan Lake to Balanchine, and won the laughing adoration of a packed Paramount Theatre, including reviewer Dawn Davis.

"...Monte Carlo:Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Review by Dawn Davis

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Ritual Device leader Tim Moss, who's been joined by ex-Swans, Helios Creed, and Acid King members, MOP aren't afraid..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

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