Checking In: Lolita Lynne & Tito Larriva Wrote an Album Together

Father/daughter ATX musicos maintain during the chaos

"...Austin Music Awards honoree for Best Bass, Lolita Lynne, and best Quentin Tarantino vampire bandleader, Tito Larriva, made a..."

April 14, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Flametrick Subs

Texas Platter

"...the Cramps? Plenty. The Cramps don't call Austin home, and they've never played anything as rousing to a Lone..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...May 7, mentions feminist writer Tillie Olsen's Silences. The landmark 1978 text pointed out various factors stifling women's output..."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Noché de la Tarántula

Tito & Tarantula

"...Robert Rodriguez and Tito Larriva singing about "Angry Cockroaches" at Stubb's last..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...Wednesday, March 12 TITO & TARANTULA Steamboat, Wednesday, March 12..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...1983 cassette Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album and the mural at Guadalupe & 21st Street. "I didn't..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Adds 105 Acts

Whoop-Szo, Blood, Fennesz, and La Meme Gang join the fest

"...the Black Angels, Minneapolis soul-pop showman Har Mar Superstar, and Paisley Underground vets the Dream Syndicate...."

Jan. 30, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mexico and Mariachis

DVDnds

"...Mexico and Mariachis(Milan) With Once Upon a Time in Mexico body-bagging..."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Margaret Moser’s Retirement Party

Christopher Cross crowns the Continental’s all-star love-in

"...No slow build, the show rocked all day long and closed with a surprise performance from Christopher Cross some..."

May 6, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Sonidos del Barrio

Part 1, the overview, of Latino music in the Austin mainstream

"...local cable television program Fiesta Musical on Channel 16 and the radio show of the same name on KOOP,..."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Radar, On the Gaydar Shows

‘Gay Place Xtra’ reviews of Dreadful Sorry, Zoe Lewis, the Gossip, and the Eagles of Death Metal

"...coming, and a waterfall thundering from the center of a cave..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature

La Musica y el Director

Robert Rodriguez adds "composer" to his long list of film credits.

"...movies like Spy Kids, increasingly able to avoid Hollywood and occasionally ruffling feathers doing so...."

July 25, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wednesday Picks

"...7pm, Copa Austin's foremost Middle Eastern band has been providing the soundtrack to Persian nights in..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

Recommended

"...plan. During the day, go to the parties, barbecues, and panels, but be sure to get some rest. Practice..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...Spanish soldiers started killing the indigenous peoples of North and South America, la revolución has not ceased for one..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Recommended

"...much that wasn't either a eulogy or catchy pop candy, which is why Spiritualized sticks out so blatantly. Their..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Taking a P in the Snow

"...been won -- by the members of that wild and wooly supergroup P, who just returned from a pair..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Record Reviews

"...is subject to change; please check the SXSW schedule. TITO & TARANTULA..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Is the new Sir Douglas Quintet collection is from the original masters? Doug Sahm makes the final call. Also, Michael Nesmith, Junior and Tanya Rae Brown, and Clifford Antone updates.

"...madman genius Skip Spence featuring Beck, Tom Waits, Mudhoney, and Alejandro Escovedo -- basically the de facto sequel to..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RED DYE #4, THE DISOWNED, THE SNOBS, FORTY SECOND SCANDAL: Over the next few years, look for the teenagers..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided by you. And that's..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

South by Southwest '97

"...You always hear the rumble just before the avalanche, and this week's "Picks & Sleepers" section, limited to Wednesday..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature

It Takes a Village

Horn orchestra La Tribu blows it DiY style.

"...You try interviewing more than a dozen band members simultaneously. Impossible. Way too much going on to..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Dancing About Architecture

Elephant Parts

"...the one event that lets you know where you stand - somewhere in front of Wammo and behind Exene."..."

March 20, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

An SOS from AMN (or:) AMN: RFP or RIP? (or:) The MAN comes after the AMN

"...Southwest; It can issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) and contract the channel out to be taken over by..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...changeJAWBONE8pm, Red Eyed Fly A one-man Motor City blues band with a penchant for racket, Jawbone (Bob Zabor) was..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

No Law & Order

"...set at the Continental Club. In 1997, for instance, Tito & Tarantula laid waste to Steamboat as Jimmie Vaughan..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...It's detention for Kelly Willis, Charlie Robison (standing) and Bruce Robison photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Few..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer