Celebration Day

A dying medium digs up dinosaur rarities

Dec. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton

Music from another dimension Friday at the Frank Erwin Center

"...Tom Hamilton: It’s a very dramatic thing. It’s really about some pretty fundamental differences, about how..."

Nov. 15, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Halloween

No one plays dress-up like Austin musicians

"...Whiskey Business and Minor Mishap Marching Band. "The cool thing about this lineup is all three bands have a..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...a mile a minute about Nick Lowe, Bill Graham, Thin Lizzy, etc. For the band's return – Sunday at..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Alejandro Escovedo

Alejandro Escovedo

"..."I'm a man of the world/It ain't no thing," crows Alejandro Escovedo on Big Station siren "Man of..."

June 22, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...support. Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands kick things off with a dance-synth sound that brings to mind..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Uwaga!

Polish metal got me to Poland

"...bought, proved my gateway to Kiss, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, etc. In college, 1983-1987 – after the..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Evil United

"...skinner Jason West go loco. Firestorm closer "Massacre" blitzkriegs Thin Lizzy's original. Evil United, pledge today. (CD release: Encore..."

May 13, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...going to be with him all the time. I think many parents would understand that in a way. We..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Melodymaker

Slayer's oracle originates from Palestine, Texas, for 15 years now

"...TA: That's the one thing that's very special about this band – our families...."

Sept. 24, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Sword

"..."In his solitary wanderings, he makes a singular discovery within an ancient ruin ...." What he's found constitutes a..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

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

"...Warp Riders (see "Texas Platters.") The opening shredder's delight, "Acheron/Unearthing the Orb," served as preamble to the sundering of..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings

Rockpalast, German for DVD gold mine

"...Europe and their first appearance on television also, I think. After that they were known all over Europe."..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Alejandro Escovedo

"...Real Animal tamer Tony Visconti (Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy) again harnesses Escovedo considerably more effectively than Stephen..."

July 16, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Celebrating Independence Day with Wild America and Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic

"...run of colored 7-inch releases, features the Sword breaking Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat." Grab it while you still can..."

July 9, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...eponymous three-song EP, the band's debut LP, Stuck on Nothing (DFA/Astralwerks), was produced by LCD Soundsytem's James Murphy and..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...evokes his pa, Steve, sharing a late-night campfire with Thin Lizzy. As for Deer Tick, the quartet left SXSW..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Melissa Auf der Maur, Voivod, Michael Monroe

SXSW showcase reviews

"...she tore through a ramshackle but ebullient cover of Thin Lizzy's "This Is the One," but it was a..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Richard Whittaker

Grunge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'Picture book of people with each other'

"...just how TMZ our cyber communities choose to be. Everything after that depends on your ink-jet color printer. Tacking..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum

"...induction ceremony for the heavier bands worthy of inclusion (Thin Lizzy, Rush, Iron Maiden, Motörhead), but only Kiss made..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Cowboy Song

Thin Lizzy's 'Cowboy Song' comes alive in rodeo vet turned Red Dirt ranger Ryan Bingham

"...own," cackles Ely in fond recollection. "When he plays something, you believe it. That's a very rare thing. It's..."

June 5, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Sentimental Doom Death Song

Monarch Event Center's metal christening

"...guitarist Brian Blickle's occasional six-string harmonies lit up distinctly Thin Lizzy, while brother Allen Blickle hammered war drums. Baroness,..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Metallurgy

Metallurgy

"...sound. The title track finally screams for vengeance, though Thin Lizzy did in one song ("Angel of Death") what..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bowie, Escovedo, and the Brooklyn Boy

Bowie/Bolan/Lynott producer Tony Visconti strings up a Real Animal

"...and a trio of titles by the Ziggy Stardust-scoffed Thin Lizzy (Bad Reputation, Live and Dangerous, Black Rose) took..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Review

"...that production by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex, Thin Lizzy) feeds Animal a sharper edge ("Smoke"). "We don't..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tony Visconti Part 1

"...music library. That producer’s credit carried over onto my Thin Lizzy CDs: Bad Reputation, Live and Dangerous, Black Rose...."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TSOP

"...“I think we need to take a taxi back to the..."

June 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"...ask me sometimes why I did the British children thing in "Washington" ... like if I have some kind..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Friday Picks

"...Vampire Weekend as an adjective. At some level, I think that means we're successful."..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Pride Tiger

Saturday

"...Thin Lizzy gets voguishly name-checked now, but it took 3..."

March 14, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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