County Court Tightens Up Mass Gatherings

Stricter regulations hit Travis County’s outdoor music events

"...Court voted in support of new statutes to the Mass Gathering Act on Tuesday afternoon. In effect, the changes..."

Aug. 11, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound on Sound Fest Make-Up Shows

Salvage includes Grizzly Bear, Cannibal Corpse, Noname

"...ACL Fest, the Austin music community received crushing news: Sound on Sound Fest had been canceled. The medieval-themed genre..."

Oct. 16, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Falling Into Levitation

With a new autumn time slot, Levitation finds footing as a Downtown “gaggle of bands,” Angel Olsen chimes in on new album All Mirrors, and more music events

"...formerly held by Fun Fun Fun Fest and later Sound on Sound. In its second year on the Downtown..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Bartender-Turned-Activist Jeannette Gregor Amplifies Her Profession

Mohawk's new venue manager on her "messy and fickle" industry and getting back to live music

"...Founded with former Barracuda booker Dan Holloway, the Amplified Sound Coalition focuses on those very issues of job security,..."

June 25, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Sound on Sound Fest Is Set, but What About Fun Fun Fun?

SOS Fest dropped its lineup this week, but what of predecessor FFF?

"...Stratus Properties, the veteran talent buyer shifted efforts to Sound on Sound, an instantly popular music festival staged at..."

June 23, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Aftereffects of Astroworld

Austin promoters ScoreMore fall under scrutiny after deadly concert

"...ground conditions, the concert not being halted for obvious mass injury, security staffing, and even the energy that an..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Outlays Another $3.5 Million

City program supports 28 venues with ongoing grants as national Save Our Stages funds stall

"...last 13 months. Without SVOG, there will be a mass collapse of our industry." Crosstalk..."

April 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: The Musicians at the Center of UT's "Eyes of Texas" Debacle

Inside the Longhorn Band's first-ever Black student group, LHBlacks.

"...all the questions raised about who oversees the voluntary mass of students...."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"...Austin City Limits Music Festival and other mass gatherings like UT football are unlikely to happen this..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"..."We build up the anticipation to a critical mass," adds the show DJ, also a member of the..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake

Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more

"...Prom" crams religious themes between punk, garage, and surf sounds...."

April 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: What Sparked Joy at SXSW Music

Marie Kondo-ing my Festival experience, with scooters and shooters in the giveaway pile

"...Friday mass shootings in New Zealand also affected the Fest. Onetime..."

March 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Music Lab Explores Consolidation

Rehearsal space’s Oltorf location posted for sale; Hi, How Are You Day draws the Flaming Lips; and Esme Barrera tribute launches Girls Rock El Paso

"...Sex, knew precisely what to cover at her closing mass: "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks. Some of Barrera's favorite..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It

The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.

"...clubs. For these bands, Clear Channel and a consolidated mass-media are only wished-for enemies. They would probably welcome emotionally..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Playback: Austin Record Label Rendezvous

The Austin Record Label Flea Market bands together local imprints, while County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt tries to scatter mass gatherings such as Levitation

"...that surrounds Austin, the hills are alive with the sound of music. Recently proposed changes to the way Travis..."

June 19, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fests Vs. Farms

Changes to mass gathering permits in the works

"...to introduce a series of changes to the county's mass gathering permitting process, thus kickstarting a 30-day public hearing..."

June 5, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Sad Music for Somber People

Toasting My Education and its dearly departed

"...the release of debut 5 Popes, a substantial if similar-sounding group of tracks Purington calls "more shoegaze influenced." 2005's..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

To Die For

"...and celebrity and toward the bearers of their power: mass media in the form of TV and the tabloids...."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Early to Rise

Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone

"...doesn't look like a rebel. And he certainly doesn't sound like a rebel. But don't be fooled by the..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lower City

The toastiest summer on record is but an intermittently flickering 40-watt bulb compared to this positively incendiary sexual firestorm.

"...while they're engaged in the act. Machado's storyline may sound uncomplicated, but it's hardly without nuance. Issues of race..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

News Roundup Special Edition: Campus Carry

Lawsuits and LARPers join the mix

"...were blissfully unaware of the prospect of a "mock mass shooting" timed to take place on the UT campus..."

Dec. 10, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...Mike G, Moonlight Towers, My Education, My Education/Theta Naught: Sound Mass, Quttinirpaaq, Ramesh, Graham Reynolds & Golden Arm Trio,..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Silence

Two missionaries in feudal Japan are tested

"...opening sequence sets the film’s overall tone as the sound of crickets gives way to the thick fog that..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life

Astronauts discover that a wall won't keep out a new alien life form

"...two little, three little astronauts … Any of this sound the least bit familiar? It’s got everything but a..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Miami Connection

This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.

"...Kim co-wrote the screenplay. The story is an incoherent mass of elements and a loving ode to Eighties kitsch...."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"...latter, his camp put together a guitarist's soft shoe soundboard...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Infinity Song, Softcult, and Hot Summer Nights Standouts in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Get out and get free

"...Lining) on tour.  – Rachel Rascoe My Education/Theta Naught: SoundMass III..."

July 19, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...three-part harmonies and then films them singing it en masse as she directs the vocal parts...."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Review: Electric Wizard, Russian Circles, the Well

Doom for the ages

"...When Sound On Sound cancelled last year, it robbed Austin heshers..."

April 28, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

Planes: Fire & Rescue

In this Disney follow-up, Dusty, the animated cropduster, still flies around like crazy, while learning to work in a group and be less of a showboat.

"...palette, however, the voices here are hardly individualized, and sound mass-produced and plastic-wrapped...."

July 18, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

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