The Magic 8-Ball Says, 'Get a New Bass Player'

Memories of SXSW 2007.

"...Amazingly, people were still texting during the show. Something new: There were solid performances from 120 Days, Mika Miko,..."

March 21, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

How the Gods Kill

Danzig and the Jesus Lizard headline the fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...Death, No Age, Red Sparowes, Shonen Knife, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, This Will Destroy You, Crystal Antlers, Growing,..."

Aug. 25, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Heavy Rotation

A smattering of the new hot mess, plus the Doozy of the Month.

"...chords and pretty much sums up the whole album. Times New Viking Rip It Off (Matador) TNV's 2006 album,..."

Jan. 24, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Times New Viking

"...Times New VikingBorn Again Revisited (Matador)..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Times New Viking

Thursday

"...Times New VikingRip It Off (Matador)..."

March 14, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Thursday Showcases

"...MCs. Founded in 1999 by El-P and Amaechi Uzoigwe, New York's Definitive Jux has pedigree that includes Aesop Rock..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Day Party Crawl

"...Indian Jewelry, Make a Rising, Jana Hunter, Andy D, Times New Viking, the Rebel..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

A Gathering of Tribes

Timmy Hefner sleeps in a fortress of vinyl just to bring you Chaos in Tejas

"...Chaos in Tejas, four days in late May that sometimes take years of planning. When Ken Sanderson, who runs..."

May 22, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...of Magical Drinking, respectively). And what of recent signees Times New Viking? Love lifted the Columbus, Ohio, skuzz-pop trio..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...grooves and updates them with harmonies and hooks. A new split 7-inch with fellow locals Cavedweller is the perfect..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

Thursday

"...Quintet Slaraffenland dropped EP Sunshine last fall, and a new LP is forthcoming. North Carolina trio Megafaun paints bearded..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

"...layer of four-track distortion normally reserved for acts like Times New Viking. "Lazy Seventeen" kicks. – Austin Powell Esben..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature

Off the Record

Ashes to ashes: drying off and winding down after Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...blade and thickening its deep Texas swagger with its new "Lawless Land."..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Chaos in Tejas Schedule

"...Arrows, Judgement, AI, Warcry, Outlaw Order, Midnight, Drunkdriver; (inside) Times New Viking, Nodzzz, the Strange Boys, XYX, Ratas del..."

May 22, 2009 Music Feature

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...Media present These United States (noon), Evangelicals (12:45), These New Puritans (1:30), Yacht (2:15), the Raveonettes (3), the Mae..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Broadcasts From Planet SXSW

In-stores, broadcasts, and tapings. Oh, my!

"...Yeah? 7:30pm: Holy Fuck Saturday, March 15 2pm: These New Puritans 4pm: Tapes 'n Tapes 6pm: The Raveonettes 8pm:..."

Feb. 25, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Cute Band Alert!

Times New Viking's lo-fi nostalgia.

"...band of record nerds? Sadly, not the apocalypse. However, Times New Viking has tapped into something that proves a..."

April 9, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...March 11-20) has unveiled a whole extra slate of new speakers, panels, sessions, and podcast recordings...."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Shrewd Productions’ Small Steps

Intriguing maiden voyage for local playwright’s campy sci-fi romp

"...Isle of Man found a set of mid-10th century Viking jewelry, including a gold bracelet and silver brooch...."

July 25, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Waterloo Sunset

Down in the bins with Waterloo's Bill Jeffery

"...That’s a lot of used records, a lot of New Release Tuesdays, and a lot of in-stores. He’s the..."

Feb. 26, 2008 Music Post by Shelley Hiam

Am I Not Your Girl?

Sinéad O’Connor lays down at the Hogg.

"...much vocal shoegazing Sunday. She opened with “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” her upbeat hit from 1990’s I Do Not..."

Oct. 30, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...All showcase times subject to changeSleepers for March 17AUSTIN THEREMONIC ORCHESTRA8pm, Hideout..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Residential Art Gallery Collection Rert Is Creative Austin as It Used to Be

Amanda Jones and Chad Hopper let the Rert ones in

"...But what does that mean, exactly? Besides mounting a new art show every month – or even more frequently..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

We Come From the Land of the Ice and Snow

Sword drummer Trivett Wingo hammers out an appreciation of Led Zeppelin III

"...righteous and undeniably apropos claim than Led Zeppelin III Viking flagship "Immigrant Song." Robert Plant's wordless invocation, Jimmy Page's..."

March 28, 2008 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Nonfiction and Memoir

Justin St. Germain, Stephen Harrigan, and more delight with these true tomes

"...long when scrapping began about where to settle the new government of the Republic of Texas. The irascible Sam..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...So imagine the lodes of self-righteous vanity that fueled newspaper editors in the Western pioneer settlements, where the exercise..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...and Eighth, the heady intersection of gay America in New York's Chelsea district. He is pointing dramatically, with spindly..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Natrix Natrix

The Basement Tapes

"...offering, a split cassette between locals Adam Lipman and Viking Moses, the duo has released a pair of vinyl..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Letters @ 3AM

Something in me still wants to be a World War I fighter pilot – which is not only nuts, but helps me understand why we will always make war

"...duty – 75% casualties. Arriving at the front with sometimes as little as five hours of flight time under..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Love in the Time of 'Green Darkness'

Don't judge Anya Seton's reissued biographical novels by their romance and bad covers

"...She was born Ann Seton in New York City in 1904, the only child of Boy..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

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