RIP Sky Saxon

The Seeds frontman passes in Austin

"...Richard Marsh, known as Sky Saxon, passed this morning. The new Austinite had been..."

June 25, 2009 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Sad Death of Sky Saxon

"...to thank you for covering the sad death of Sky Saxon [“Off the Record,” Music, July 3]. The Seeds..."

July 2, 2009 Postmarks

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...With perfect poise, Sky Saxon sits cross-legged atop a bed of brown and..."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins, the Source Family, and Sky Saxon

"...a nation that doesn’t know how to mix foods,” Sky Saxon told me in June of last year, in..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Explosions in the Sky commemorates the Fourth of July, Harlem signs with Matador, floating down to Whitewater on the Horseshoe, and paying tribute to Sky Sunlight Saxon and the King of Pop

"...Sky Saxon..."

July 3, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Blaze's blues strike a chord with the SXSW Film 09 and dropping out for the Black Angels' Psych Fest 2

"...Saturday's headliner pairs garage rock pioneer Sky Sunlight Saxon of the Seeds with Austin's Shapes Have..."

March 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Playback: Bavu Blakes Carpes the Diem

Bavu Blakes seizes his own day, Shakey Graves lands an Austin City Limits taping, and the Saxon Pub turns 25

"...6, at 8pm. Enter the ticket giveaway at www.acltv.com/upcoming-tapings. Saxon Pub Superlatives..."

May 1, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Critics Poll

"...MICHAEL JACKSON, Sky Saxon, Ron Asheton, Lux Interior, Koko Taylor (Greg Beets)..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Feature

HOF Hopefuls

"...Bizarros, Blind Willie Johnson, Joe Sublett, Major Burkes, Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, Tex Thomas, Meat Loaf, Chris Ethridge,..."

March 13, 2017 Postmarks

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...meditations and shamanic improvisation, curated by the Seeds' late Sky Saxon. Last year, Dave Nuss of the No Neck..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

Juan González answers to no one

"...Kaleidyscope, which was inspired in part by the late Sky Saxon (see "March of the Flower Children," July 24,..."

May 14, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Inquiring into the city's new music program manager position, trick-or-treating with the Butthole Surfers, and introducing Thenewno2

"...in December. The concert film features a minidocumentary on Sky Saxon's brief tenure in Austin with Shapes Have Fangs...."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Marcia Ball turns 60 in style, Bill Baird finds himself in song, and more confirmations for the Austin Music Awards and SXSW 09

"...artifacts from the psychedelic era courtesy of the Seeds' Sky Saxon and Austin's cult visionaries the Golden Dawn, which..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

ACL Fest Live Shots

Sunday, Sept. 17, Zilker Park

"...clad in a highly inappropriate flannel shirt, but his Sky Saxon vocal pitch was spot-on. Focusing on songs from..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Austin Music Awards' Industry Accolades Announced

Best radio station, record store, club, and many more

"...Studios 2) 512 Studios 3) Gerron Music 4) Same Sky Productions 5) Orb Recording Studios 6) The Bubble 7)..."

March 6, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

2018/19 Austin Music Industry Poll Top 10s

Nearly half of this year's Austin Music Poll/Austin Music Awards winners are now known

"...4) Saxon Pub..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Feature

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Fri. 16, Saxon Pub, 11pm; Sat. 17, Continental Club, 12mid Chameleonlike singer-songwriter..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...8:30pm, Saxon Pub When he arrived in the late Eighties, hard-headed..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...for nigh-on a decade. Poster children Explosions in the Sky are absent from SXSW 05, but Japanese blood brothers..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Bob Schneider Ages Gracefully on Blood and Bones

New LP finds emotional resonance in personal experience

"...in this environment.' That's when I heard about the Saxon Pub."..."

June 8, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

HAAM Sampler

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians benefit day donations

"...“Baby What’s Wrong” (“... with you, weeping while the sky is blue?”) only stoked the brass-lined bandidos to greater..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place: ¡Hola Papi!

Prides loom across Texas as Austin crowns the hottest Daddy

"...Take a hike, and see the Pike. Thursdays, 8-10pm. Saxon Pub, 1320 S. Lamar. www.fb.com/patricepikeband...."

June 19, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

A Thanksgiving feast with Speak, A Welch Family Affair, and Ornette Coleman

"...Dustin came into his own with last year's cantankerous Whisky Priest, while Savannah leads the Trishas, the lovely, all-female..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

DVDanger: 'Frankenstein's Army'/'Hammer of the Gods'

Two different historic takes on the 'squad on a mission' tale

"...Frankenstein's Army (Dark Sky) is the latest tale of the revenant reich, and..."

Sept. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

What? No SXSW listings? What? Still a packed calendar?

"...PATRICE PIKE Thursdays, 8-10pm. Saxon Pub, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552. www.facebook.com/PatricePikeBand...."

March 22, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...the new young face of English punk, bearing melodic, sky-punching prole anthems like "Away From Here" and "Gimme the..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Off the Record

The good, the bad, and the ugly: a look back at the year in Austin music

"...Meanwhile, Explosions in the Sky crowned its decade with a fireworks display at a..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star

Austin's now generation comes of age in Suzanna Choffel

"...heaven. Those boundless horizons seem appropriate given that the sky's the limit for Choffel, 28. In the two years..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Faster Than Sound: Willie and a Movie

The Red Headed Stranger rides again at Luck Cinema's kickoff, thriving Austin rapper Ladi Earth can't be categorized, and more music news

"...her getup when we meet at a coffee shop: sky-high lashes, turquoise hair, and a bikini top. The night..."

July 12, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Chicken Shit Bingo Splits

Chicken Shit Bingo franchises, Obama music photo–ops, and Austin Music Industry Award winners, and RIP John Morthland

"...line at Franklin Barbecue, upping the brisket haven's already sky-high reputation. What if this time, Barry-0 catches the spirit..."

March 11, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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