Playback: My Top 100 Austin Records of 2018

Kevin Curtin picks his favorite local sounds of the year

"...another bumper crop for Austin music. We've seen hundreds of records, EPs, and singles released over the last 12..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 National Albums of 2016

Our favorite picks from across the country

"...1) Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial (Matador)..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Alamo Drafthouse Announces Special Stephen King Season

Hail to the King, baby!

"...There's only one reigning king of literary horror, and that's Stephen King, the genre-defining and..."

June 27, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ex-Melvins Confederate Mark Deutrom Achieves Artistic Equilibrium

Longtime local learns The Value of Decay

"...years. Prog rock led him to the California Institute of the Arts as a composition student...."

June 22, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

A Chilling Time at the Drafthouse

The BBC's classic ghost stories haunt the screen

"...tree, there is a shadow. That's the dark side of the season of giving, and it's what M.R. James..."

Dec. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

National Top 10s

Best non-local albums of 2015 – by genre

"...6) Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Style (Matador)..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Top Tens

Tired of Brooklyn indie rock? Me too.

"...3) Charles Bradley, Victim of Love (Daptone)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 National

One hundred lines of album art

"...9) Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin (Castle Face)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Mark Deutrom Questions Happiness

Ex-Melvins local previews new LP

"...“The pursuit of happiness is being confused with the pursuit of materialism,”..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Dark Tower

Roland the Gunslinger hits the big screen

"...Only De Palma, Reiner, Darabont, and Romero can pull off that shit, homie. This eagerly anticipated movie version of..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kylesa

Metallurgy

"...KylesaSpiral Shadow (Season of Mist)..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Watain

"...WatainLawless Darkness (Season of Mist)..."

June 18, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Chaotic Platters

"...FloorOblation (Season of Mist)..."

May 23, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

St. Vitus

"...St. VitusLillie: F-65 (Season of Mist)..."

June 1, 2012 Music Review by Adam Schragin

National Top 10s

"...1) 'ANSWER TO YOURSELF' the Soft Pack..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Feature

All Life's Cracked Up to Be

The last days of Tobias Pecans

"...Hruska's, of course, is a favorite stop on any given road..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Food Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Lists

SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else

"...This Detroit duo packs the horsepower of a Postal Service soapbox derby...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Antlers

Del Toro-endorsed creature feature is stylish but empty

"...Barring a disaster in the next few days, the oft-delayed Antlers is finally poised to hit theatres. Scott Cooper’s..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Review: Offseason

Mickey Keating goes to the coast for cosmic horror

"...have to accept your nightmares and know they're part of you," Ava Aldrich (Melora Walters) warns the audience in..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

The Kentucky collective Appalshop presents a more truthful depiction of the rural life in Headwaters: Real Stories From Rural America.

"...Real Beverly Hillbillies) portray rural people as either bearers of homespun wisdom or bumpkins. There are some notable exceptions...."

June 6, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Holy Well, Sacred Flame

Irish mythology is littered with conflicts more dramatic than the material for Holy Well, Sacred Flame. Still, writer-director Bonnie Cullum makes a unique rite from sincerity, sensuousness, and outlandish vision.

"...Jimmy the bus driver deposited me and the rest of Mr. Keane's fourth-grade class at a national heritage site...."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 22-28

"...at-risk youth in low-income and rural communities. Here's one of his central teachings: "Sometimes the smallest step in the..."

July 22, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Magic Lantern Shines a Light on British Christmas Ghost Stories

Hang with the spirits of Christmas past

"...candles, winds whispering around the doors the funereal grays of cloud and mist strain out the world beyond. What..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hate Eternal = Multitasking

Famed metal producer and frontman Erik Rutan can’t sit still

"...press cycle for acts great and small comes blather of said LP being their finest platter to date. Seldom..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less

Putting a stake through some recent terror releases

"...The post-Halloween season is supposed to be all mist and mellow fruitfulness...."

Dec. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...guitar feedback balloons at an ear-piercing midpoint. As sirens of amplifier worship crescendo to a hemorrhage, a news bulletin..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Offseason

Coastal cosmic horror in the eerie latest from Mickey Keating

"...have to accept your nightmares and know they’re part of you,” Ava Aldrich (Walters) warns the audience in creeping..."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

6:45

Time loop horror relives a perfect and perfectly terrifying day

"...The definition of insanity, it’s said, is doing the same thing over..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Resurrection

Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth terrify in this psychological shocker

"...The Night House (which was woefully overlooked during awards season), she’s back with another Sundance Midnight darling: Resurrection, a..."

July 29, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

It's four days 'til

"...Christmas. Will December ever end? The cold, wind-blown mist makes it feel like it's been dark for hours,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Column

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