City Officials Rebuke Out-of-Town Rep Wanting Austin’s Sound Levels Decided at a State Level

Adler says “outside interference” not welcome

"...strip large cities of their power to regulate amplified sound coming from bars...."

April 5, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound on Sound Fest’s Renaissance

Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Death Grips get medieval

"...Sound on Sound Fest has staked out a one-of-a-kind location..."

June 28, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound and Fury

"...Directed by: Josh Aronson. The sound of fury can be remarkably quiet. In the new..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sound on Sound Fest Canceled

Promoters cite loss of financial backing

"...Sound on Sound Fest has been aborted five weeks before..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound of My Voice

This festival favorite marks an impressive film debut for its director and star, but its sum total is less satisfying than its parts.

"...Sound of My Voice is an impressive debut feature, directed..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Decoding the Sound on Sound Leak

Medieval music convergence reveals lineup tease in video

"...Sound on Sound Fest returns to Sherwood Forest Nov. 10-12..."

June 12, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: DJ Shani Unites Black Women in House Music

Also the search continues for missing musician Brenden "Chameleon King" Foster, and increased afterhours sound enforcement impacts local venues

"...Temple. Illinois presence Dee Jay Alicia, emphasizing the soulful sounds of house, frequently stopped by as a guest. The..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Music Advocates Say Convention Center Expansion Key to Unlocking City Funds

Can the commercial music industry finally get a cut of the HOT action? Also: City protects venue employees from receiving sound citations and Austin rapper Hella Sketchy dies of overdose.

"...her eye on a specific bucket of city funding – she just wasn't sure how to get it yet. ..."

July 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Sound on Sound Gets Medieval

Sound on Sound’s über headliner: 23 acres of Sherwood Forest

"...Kingdom overthrown, banished to the woods – time to get medieval...."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players to Perform at SXSW

Lottery system for mega SXSW showcases confirms all-star act

"...lottery system to get into mega showcases for the Sound City Players, Green Day, and Nick Cave. Last March’s..."

March 4, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound of Noise

Unique to a fault, this Swedish film is a daft police procedural and an absurdist comedy about musical terrorists.

"...than this Swedish film doozy. Unique to a fault, Sound of Noise is a daft police procedural, an absurdist..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

William Basinski Proves a Rock Star of Experimental Sound

Texan auditory stud beguiles Elysium prior to lunar eclipse

"...William Basinski and opener Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe manifested sound manipulation equally wondrous and consciousness expanding...."

May 16, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...Get ready for a heavy story with pounding rhythms: Sound Unseen Film/Music Festival, the hybrid tunes and flicks fest..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound on Sound Fest Pops!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Wizard, and king Stooge himself

"...get us driving 35 miles east of Austin to Sound on Sound Fest, held in McDade on the weekend..."

June 20, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound on Sound Review: Dillinger Escape Plan

Farewell tour exhausts the metallurgists’ rabid fanbase

"...Keep stage speaker late on the second night of Sound on Sound. He then dove headfirst into the throng,..."

Nov. 6, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

Sound on Sound Review: Descendents

Milo Aukerman and the punks for president!

"...to be over?” Milo Aukerman polled the audience at Sound on Sound’s tree-lined Forest stage just before midnight Friday...."

Nov. 5, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Band doc ends up being breathtaking look at community building

"...Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound is a music documentary that’s trying to stand out...."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Sound Unseen Brings Fugazi, Cyndi Lauper Docs to Austin

Minneapolis-based film fest spotlights local links for Austin leg

"...Cyndi Lauper, Fugazi, the Carpenters, and Bikini Kill sounds like the most impossible festival lineup: well, it's happening,..."

Oct. 19, 2023 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound Team's 'Marathon'

Bassist Bill Baird digitally re-releases lost LP

"...Those who’ve never heard of Sound Team know not the tale of the band that..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Sound Unseen Review: Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

An intimate and emotional dance with the tap great

"...often as I could just to listen to the sound they made. Inevitably, my mother would make me stop..."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Sara Hutchinson

Sound Unseen Fest Comes to Texas

Hybrid music/movie fest brings Zappa, Stardust, more

"...and roll? Of course not. That's why the new Sound Unseen Film/Music Festival has announced that Zappa, the documentary..."

Oct. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Life story of a music legend never reaches those blissful high notes

"...not to snap to attention and spontaneously follow the sound of that voice...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sound on Sound Review: Thursday

Reunited ragers wait out the rain to bring fire

"...screamer Geoff Rickly broadly as the post-hardcore pioneers ripped Sound on Sound apart Sunday night...."

Nov. 7, 2016 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound on Sound Review: Damian Abraham

Fucked Up frontman podcasts from Sherwood

"...version of his Turned Out a Punk podcast at Sound on Sound Fest on Saturday...."

Nov. 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Sound of Thunder

Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.

"...to start with.) Now comes Peter Hyams’ (Timecop) broken vision of one of the author’s best and most well-known..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music-Themed Film Fest Sound Unseen Announces Round Three in Austin

With a Waterloo Records doc and Magna Carda-scored short

"...Back in 2020, Minnesotan films-about-music festival Sound Unseen made its virtual Austin debut with reasonable fanfare...."

Oct. 12, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin

Sound on Sound Review: Citizen

Plus the Hotelier, Sorority Noise, and Alex Napping

"...Sound on Sound crammed a whole lot of emotion into..."

Nov. 11, 2017 Music Post by Libby Webster

A New Sound & Vision for RAS

Grassroots hip-hop twosome gets serious

"...a new single, a new video, and a new sound. The mission remains the same...."

April 26, 2017 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Singing Out for the Sound of Silent

Score one (or seven) for silent film

"...I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping..."

March 31, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Daniel Lanois and the Improbabilities of Sound

"...his pedal steel guitar. “He’s a little sensitive to sound,” says his manager by way of apology. For one..."

March 20, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

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