It Takes a Village: Memories of Kerrville Folk Festival 2023

Dispatches from the 51st campout, from Ray Prim to Flamy Grant

"...Picture, if you will, a village. Dirt roads and camps sprawl out in all directions, creatively named and decorated...."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Hank Erwin

We Have an Issue: This Is Austin, Sometimes Pretty Swell

A good issue for the reading, and a great Austin Music Awards on the horizon

"...Stadium. Got kids? Need to put them somewhere this summer? Kat McNevins has been putting together a mammoth summer..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Out There in the Fresh Air With Utopia, Old Settler's, and Kerrville Folk Festival

Fall fests coax us from the metropolis

"...to the pasture," reports Sutherland. "I know all the bands personally."..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza

No funding? No resources? No problem.

"...and the rain pounded down on Camp Esperanza, a campsite for the unhoused at the southeast edge of town...."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Bandcamp, Spotify..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...varied in style and hard to track as local bands, and every few months, they congregate in festivals so..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Dram Held High for Ed Miller

KUTX folk sage is shown the door after 43 years on-air

"...ones spent on the road performing or teaching music camps – or during the occasional summer months guiding folk..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock & Roll Summer Camps

Shaping the sound of Austin in 2018

"...your budding rock star isn’t already booked up this summer, there’s time to consider one of the several kids..."

June 5, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Sound of Music (1965)

Seven Von Trapp siblings

"...film references are like secret handshakes, affirming shared base camps in pop culture, and songs from musical films like..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Kathleen Hanna Kills It

'The Punk Singer' turns up the volume on Riot Grrrl pioneer's passion, politics, and devastating illness

"...into "Feels Blind" perfectly illustrates the Olympia, Wash., punk band's balance of subversion and empowerment, which pushed the third..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Mother Falcon Takes Flight on Radiohead

‘OK Computer’ for the holidays

"...be traveling, plus their sound engineer. Not your typical band budget...."

Dec. 18, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Summertime Blues

Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!

"...four horn players round out the rest of the band. A vocalist hopeful waits down in the seats where..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Kid Stuff, Part I

U18 rockers gather to support HAAM

"...Nutty Brown Cafe as five of Austin’s best under-18 bands crank it up in support of Health Alliance for..."

May 18, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...as their Chicago counterparts in Revolting Cocks, the two camps teaming up for the seminal Beers, Steers + Queers..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Off the Record

Good vibrations courtesy of the Roots, Distant Lights, and the Sword

"...water takes when subjected to the frequencies of the band's guitar cabinet – scientific psychedelia. "It's really unfortunate for..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Where do you want it?

"...new student activities center that will come online next summer...."

April 16, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...100.1FM, but in response to the government's letter this summer ordering him to stop broadcasting on 90.1FM, Frank claimed..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature

Sister Jessica Explains It All for You

The Girls' Guide to Rocking shows us the secret handshake

"...music creation and performance" (and since replicated by independent camps throughout the country); it contains inspiring essays and histories,..."

Nov. 16, 2009 Books Post by Cindy Widner

Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company

It's hard out there for a puppet

"...festival, made puppeteers of scores of local kids through camps and workshops, and just won a "Best of Austin"..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...The real indie bands in Austin are teen bands not affiliated with rock..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bluegrass Up in Her Head

On another Old Settler's weekend, festival perennial Sarah Jarosz is out of braces and into big-time bluegrass

"...upcoming discs, most notably Dave Alvin and his all-female band, the Guilty Women; local swingers the Belleville Outfit; and..."

April 17, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Napoleon: Dynamite!

The former Zappa sax man does it for the kids

"...the real Austin underground – the totally rockin’ teen bands – could easily take up two full pages in..."

April 7, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Mining the vaults of Austin City Limits, navigating the SXSW grid, and hanging with Jenny Wolfe After School

"...Southwest," affirms Creative Director Brent Grulke. "Some of Metallica's band members may make an appearance at the event." It..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Summer’s Here, and the Time Is Right

Rock camps: open!

"...It’s summer and the music camps are open. All around the..."

June 16, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Girls of Summer

Austin's inaugural all-girls rock camp looks out after its own

"...with her drumsticks, she has nothing but confidence. It's summer, and the world is hers. No one is rolling..."

June 29, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Forgione's BEST-Laid Plan for Closing Webb

"...they would still have access to schoolwide electives like band and foreign-language instruction...."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature by Michael May

P.O.D.

"...ambiguous and generic sound suitable for both Young Life summer camps and the main stage at Ozzfest (alongside Crazy..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Review by Austin Powell

Summer Camp Guide

"...I went to summer camp, and it was nothing like it was supposed..."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Summer Storm

German film is a trite tale of youthful angst and closeted sexual confusion about what really happens at those wild and crazy rowing camps that keep all of Bavaria abuzz.

"...know, really happens at those wild and crazy rowing camps that keep all of Bavaria abuzz. Of course, if..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rock School

More than his Philadelphia school of rock, it's blustery instructor Paul Green who becomes the true subject of this documentary.

"...than an already existing reality that’s happening in garages, summer camps, and afterschool programs throughout the city. That said,..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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