Haunting the Chapel

Q&A with Dave Lombardo of FFFF headliners Slayer

"...DL: He’s been rehearsing with us. He’s doing better, but he still has..."

Nov. 2, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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Penance of Pestilence, Descolada E.P., Status Quo Vadis

"...into the dual guitars and blast-beat percussion, there's a surprising clarity and depth throughout, especially in vocalist Trey Ramirez's..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

Drawing Inspiration Out of the Past

Writer Barry Gifford, still Wild at Heart

"...and occasional filmmaker, crafts gut-punchingly cinematic dialogue like nobody's business. Most famously the author of a septet of novellas..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...Every inch of the group's 45-foot, broken-down palace of sin, dubbed the Imperial Mansion, has been painstakingly converted into..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Such Stuff as Screams Are Made On

Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?

"...top of both, a voice that's screaming more than singing. It's raw and urgent, and it's there the instant..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...indie bands, giving them a sound that veers from singsong to miasmic. Their onda seems spare until they engross..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Pittsburgh Fans Are the Best in the NFL

Fans relate to the hard-working, blue collar mentality of the Pittsburgh Steelers

"...even I have to admit that I admire the tenacity of their fans. This admiration started a couple of..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Sports Post by Justin Sanders

East Austin Studio Tour

Art-savvy locals offer tips for where to go and who to see when you go EAST this year

"...full-color catalogs, available at BookPeople and art-friendly East Austin businesses, are phat with funny pictures and well worth $5..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Hey, Hey, Hey!

No. 2 hit from 1965, 'Treat Her Right,' by Roy Head & Gene Kurtz: 'Just one of them songs that hangs around"

"...it. Songs to praise the Lord and songs to sin by. Songs to work by, songs to play by...."

Aug. 31, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals

Live Shot

"...two sets. The rest of the show found him singing from the folds of the other Cardinals, couched inconspicuously..."

July 20, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Letters @ 3AM

Excerpts from Cassavetes Directs, Ventura's forthcoming book about the making of the film Love Streams

"...something. I'm trying to get my bearings while he's praising me for an interview we'd done six months before,..."

June 8, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Joe Ely

"...Although four years have passed since Joe Ely's last studio release, 2003's Streets of Sin..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

TCB

Halloween tricks and treats from the Rolling Stones, Pet Shop Boys, White Ghost Shivers, and Palm School Choir, while yet another Austin outdoor festival is born

"...a favorable impression for its first time on Bat City soil...."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Letters @ 3AM

On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.

"...South of Rapid City, up in South Dakota, driving the Black Hills, I..."

June 23, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

The Blurbing of SXSW 06

"...all, it'll be more pissed-off cynicism. Score. – Darcie StevensSINGLE FRAME9pm, Elysium A Single Frame show is like going..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature

The Bible Doesn't Tell Them So

"...the main biblical traditions about the destruction of the sinful city Sodom, you will find that Sodom’s sin was..."

Nov. 7, 2005 Postmarks

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from under the pink granite dome

"...uranium enrichment leftovers. WCS's facility, west of the small city of Andrews, sees two truckloads of the stuff weekly,..."

July 1, 2005 News Column

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...and trees and family, then you go to a city that's entirely concrete and overcrowded. I began to realize..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Out of the Shadow

Which new scary-programming cable channel will longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?

"...and then inside that damned house, as ancient as sin, boarded up and broken down and dank, dark, dead...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Sincerely,..."

July 9, 2004 Column

Ben Kweller

Record Review

"...Ben KwellerOn My Way (ATO) Since last we met young Ben Kweller, he's toured the..."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Faun Fables

"...Faun FablesFamily Album (Drag City) Somewhere to the left of folk, but not as..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Here We Go Again

The redistricting case resumes: one more battle in a protracted war.

"...the assembled supplicants with an invocation to go and sin no more. But few judges ever made history by..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Column by Michael King

TCB

Hepatitis C and the damage done.

"...part of the woof and weave of the music business in Austin," says (Condo) Joe Bryson, who owned Inner..."

June 20, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

Clifford comes home, Steamboat packs up, and Spoon seeks a pianist transplant

"...and revealed that his next solo album, Streets of Sin, is due next month on Rounder. His other band,..."

June 6, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

A Lege Too Far

With Six Weeks to Go, the Legislative Future Looks Dark and Darker

"...all but official traffic, and the troopers began discreetly perusing handbags and briefcases. Now, since the official kickoff of..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...Ole Miss in Oxford, where he has been writer-in-residence since 1983. He has taught Donna Tartt and Brad Watson,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Day Trips

"...fun and learn something at the Witte Museum. "Corridos sin Fronteras -- A New World Ballad Tradition" examines the..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Manikin

Texas Platters

"...its first half like a noir sedan in the city of sin is exhilarating. Opening with "The Sleeper," the..."

July 26, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...at Jovita's during South by Southwest, where the local singer-songwriter debuted her new album 1000 Kisses with a performance..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

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