Austin Psych Fest Live (Friday): Liars

Call the noise trio Throbbing Gristle but not antisocial

"...dance-oriented album Mess, it couldn’t be more obvious. They’re Throbbing Gristle!..."

May 3, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Throbbing Gristle

"...Throbbing GristleThe Second Annual Report (Industrial Records LTD) D.o.A. The..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Putting the Art into Fart: Peter Strickland Heats Up Flux Gourmet

The filmmaker traces how industrial music informed his new work

"...definitions of tunes and instruments. This was Test Department, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound …..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Love Story (Within a Love Story)

For Marie Losier, no telling where 'filmmaker' ends and 'friend' begins

"...concurrently (and later overlaid), and P-Orridge's decades-deep arsenal of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, et al., ditties thrum along. And..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Desolation Center

Before corporate fests, Desolation Center blew the Mojave apart

"...music fan, caught a gig by infamous industrial outfit Throbbing Gristle, which by his own admission “changed my life..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

His, hers, and ours: Outsider artists use plastic surgery to merge as one on the physical plane.

"...Neil Andrew Megson and the godfather of industrial music (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his lover and muse, Lady..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place

Austin loves itself. Hard. Gayness abounds.

"...not yet seen this story about the love of Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her wife,..."

March 18, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Kontroll

Hungarian writer-director Antal is like the conductor of a midnight express: Grab a rail and hold on while he whizzes through montages and extreme angles of impossibly precipitous escalators in the Budapest subway system.

"...the veneer of politesse has worn through to reveal throbbing gristle. And though the story is thinly conceived, Antal..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ether ore

Ether ore

"...The earliest and harshest of the industrial underground was Throbbing Gristle, as evidenced by The Taste of TG best-of..."

June 4, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...Mask of Sarnath, with its score by industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle.   – Richard Whittaker Time Passages..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Sundance 2023 Review: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Album cover maestro Anton Corbijn highlights the art mavericks

"...the studio, like designer Richard Evans, photographer and future Throbbing Gristle keyboardist Peter Christopherson and most especially Powell, who..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records Screening at Fair Market Encores With Cold Cave and Ministry

Chicago industrial began as dance punk

"...experimental music from Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, Throbbing Gristle, and other acts now called “Eighties industrial.”..."

April 20, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...fascinating Genesis P-Orridge, co-founder of iconic industrial/performance artrock outfits Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and his then-partner Cosey Fanni..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Great Moments in Cassette History

"...1976: Industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle release their debut album, Best Of ... Volume..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Gay Place

Welcome to your warm gay port in the storm, sailor.

"...an underground love – a big three-way affair between Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; her wife, the..."

March 18, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

"...but Brit-fit Genesis P-Orridge remains the constant. The former Throbbing Gristle singer draws from industrial to punk to dance,..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife Lady Jaye, centered..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Robert Dale Anderson

Remembering the much-loved artist and teacher of art at UT

"...arrangements, for example, all while blasting their ears with Throbbing Gristle – but his generosity was legendary: making drawings..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDnds

"...five members, as well as Faust's Joachim Irmler and Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, bring into focus just what uncharted..."

April 24, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Flipper, Baby

Flipper flaps live, plus a skate-or-die benefit ollies into in town.

"...Kezar Stadium in SF, where the group opened for Throbbing Gristle, is an even better representation of the group's..."

Feb. 6, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Look Into the Light Light Light Light …

Furniture Records refinishes an Oneida classic.

"...Wadley, Chicago dream-pill poppers Mittens on Strings, Insane Clown Posse-meets-Throbbing Gristle act Hearts of Darknesses, Mommy Dearest-meets-Yoko Ono queen..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...grooves; evil, pitch-shifted wind warps; or some vicious, synthesized Throbbing Gristle-like brutality that shook the 710 stage to its..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the 80s Underground

Gift guide

"...troops in this grassroots uprising: Aztec Camera, the Smithereens, Throbbing Gristle, the dB's. Do the Go-Betweens ring a bell?..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Pan sonic

In box

"...in the demolition laboratories of industrial pioneers Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, and Whitehouse, there was no music more visceral..."

June 25, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Metal Urbain

"...a template for Albini, not to mention industri-pranksters SPK, Throbbing Gristle, and Cabaret Voltaire. Despite the vocals being in..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music (Rhino)

Reissues

"...all comes down to a question of taste) are Throbbing Gristle's "Adrenalin," merry pranksters the Shamen's "Move Any Mountain,"..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"..."Original Rappers" (U-Roy and Gil Scott-Heron), "The Post-Industrial Wasteland" (Throbbing Gristle and Chrome), and "Riot Moms and Other Angry..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by David Lynch

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...with the thunder of AC/DC than the whir of Throbbing Gristle. McCarty still offers haunting, angular songs like those..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...always had an interest in it, whether it was Throbbing Gristle or Kraftwerk or SPK early on. He's always..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Turn the Beat Around

The Pre-Millennium Rise of Dance Music

"...had meant pretty much anything that fell within the Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV/Cabaret Voltaire banging on trashcan lids and chainsawing..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

1   2     NEXT ›    2 »