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"...My Education/Theta NaughtSound Mass (Differential Records)..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

The Luv Doc: Elon’s Boring Phallus

When people say the word "subway" in Texas, they're usually not talking about underground mass transportation

"..."subway" in Texas, they're usually not talking about underground mass transportation. More likely, they're about to launch into a..."

April 28, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback – Omnibus: Destination Unknown

Vetting City Hall's recommendations to Mayor Adler's arts Omnibus and unveiling Sound on Sound Fest's Renaissance location and debut lineup

"...• Agent of Change Principle: Solving sound disputes between venues and residential dwellings by holding the..."

July 1, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Urban Heat Resurrects Synth-Pop With Towering Debut LP

The Tower is a grand-scale monument to the overindulgence of Eighties New Wave

"...Grave” introduces the band’s intentions, while “Addicted to the Sounds” explodes into a declaration of self. The closer acts..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...2005's triumphant Tanglewood Numbers, with a new, more hi-fi sound backing his heady lyrics about addiction and ironic nods..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Radio :30

Riveting revival of a dark comedy overcomes an outmoded script

"...the Volume (1990) – two films about the now-antiquated mass medium of radio – are streaming somewhere...."

July 11, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

SOS Q&A: Carcass

“Everyone in the band enjoys Austin”

"...Carcass rampages across the U.S. on the way to Sound On Sound this Sunday...."

Nov. 3, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Terror Fest Review: Church of Misery, Primitive Man, Unearthly Trance, Terminator 2

Indoors at ATF proves horror as sound and sound as feeling

"...glee. Given the group’s aberrant subjects – almost exclusively mass murderers – Church of Misery invoked palpable sociable exuberance..."

June 8, 2019 Music Post by Rick Weaver

Tuesday's Gone

On your marks, get set, Tuesday SXSW showcases!

"...Opening bell just sounded, and you're off, scouring media madly for insight into..."

March 8, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Trawling Panthalassa

Sound Sorcerer Bill Laswell Takes Miles Davis

"...earth's terra firma was contained in one gigantic land mass called Pangea. Geological forces pulled apart Pangea, the fragments..."

May 1, 1998 Music Feature by David Lynch

ACL Review: Thundercat

Bass prodigy resurrects Seventies fusion

"...Forest hours before the first and surely not last Sound on Sound Fest, Thundercat soundchecked to the trees, cool..."

Oct. 8, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Eco 2015: The Future of Hyperloops

First full track will likely be in Africa or Asia

"...first supersonic ground transport system – may be the mass transit system of the future...."

Oct. 6, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Making of Downtown North

The Domain may sound like just another fancy mall – but planners say it's the seed of a second Austin

"...industrial wasteland, accompanied in the distance by the gentle sound of backhoes and wrecking balls. A dusty expanse of..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

ACL Live Review: Tyler Childers

No honky-tonk masquerade this bracing, backwoods moonshine

"...their hard-driving hillbilly country proved powerful enough to encompass mass adulation...."

Oct. 5, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Rolls Out Sixth List

Deap Vally, Broncho, Chicano Batman, Peter Lewis and 122 more

"...stateside acts joining the fray include the epic EDM sounds of Infinity Shred, hot experimental metal band Tombs, BET-exposed..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

All Notes Off: Vincent Floyd, In Sync

An electronic column that's pulsating with re-pressings

"...Off is a weekly survey of electronic and experimental sound design that attempts to reach through the dichotomy of..."

June 19, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Children of the Grave

Black Sabbath sunders the Frank Erwin Center

"...raid sirens went up, and so did the critical mass inside the midtown arena. In the gloom, Geezer Butler..."

July 28, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

SXSW: A Thousand Bands And More

Latest huge infodump adds Clutch, Vampire Weekend

"...Heathens, East Cameron Folkcore, and My Education/Theta Naught collabo Sound Mass...."

Jan. 10, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

'The NFL Beat': Saints and Patriots Camps

Lots of win, from North to South

"...Let's kick this Beat off in Foxboro, Mass., before spinning the globe south to the Big Easy...."

Aug. 4, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Coulthard Revs Up Austin

Red Bull Racing icon brings the roar of F1 to the Capitol

"...roar of a Formula One engine. That was the sound of Red Bull Racing shooting some footage for future..."

Aug. 20, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Sentimental Doom Death Song

Monarch Event Center's metal christening

"...big hall stage and P.A. custom made for tinnitus. Sound and volume were crippling, acoustics as crystalline as the..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dumb but Pretty

Rilo Kiley vs. Devendra Banhart

"...vs. Mars fashion, the (young) ladies turned out en masse at Stubb’s for Jenny Lewis’ Rilo Kiley, while Tolkienesque..."

Oct. 8, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Catastrophe and the Cure

Explosions at the Hogg.

"...too … staid. Too controlled. Neutralized, compromised. That UT’s grand-sound cathedral, last bastion of symphonic and classical coagulation, would..."

March 5, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Weapons of Mass Deception

"...necessary for a totalitarian America. These words no doubt sound extreme; perhaps they won't when you examine some details..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Matthew Shepard live-streamed from the National Cathedral; Leonard Bernstein's Mass, produced by Merick Strategies; Vincent Valdez's “The City” at..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Work for Hire

The RIAA amends a copyright law that labels "sound recordings" as "work for hire" thus robbing most musicians of right to their masters.

"...for hire in paragraph (2) by inserting 'as a sound recording' after 'audiovisual work.'" Those four words -- "as..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...'Lizard' Sound Snafu Explained..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, Austin Choirs Seek Community Through Virtual Worship

Music remains an integral part of most religions, so what happens when the choir can't meet?

"...the outdoor memorial rendered the singers invisible, their voices sounding ethereal, angelic...."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Nataleah Small

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Jeff Mills, Three, or The Sound of the Great Existential Nothingness..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...pop of his Sub Pop labelmate Eric Matthews. Still sounds pretty darn unhappy, though. (Copper Tank Main, 10pm) -Jeff..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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