Roy Orbison

"...Memories run both warm and sad for the posthumous comeback by Texas' most operatic rock & roller...."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Tripped Up

"...Editor, I just finished reading Raoul Hernandez's review of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Hypnotic Eye release, or at..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Postmarks

SXSW Music Announces First Band Cull

Some 10% of total acts showcasing March 11-16

"...as only this town can. Three days removed from the rain and ruin of a two-week Austin City Limits..."

Oct. 16, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Priests of Syrinx

What’s in a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame anyway?

"...When did the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony become..."

May 17, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

We Bought a Zoo

Matt Damon is a widower with two kids who buys a zoo after his wife bought the farm in Cameron Crowe's latest movie.

"...Animals; grievers; one child cute and precocious, another troubled and artistic; a makeshift community of oddballs; the..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alvin and the Chipmunks

What's it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

"...comic conceit for a whole new generation of proto-Willards. The adenoidal animated vermin of Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Jr...."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Public Notice

You name it, we stood left of it.

"...Back in our day at the college newspaper, we had our share of controversy. Our..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Dancing About Architecture

Barton Springs Eternal

"...There was confusion and more than a little concern in..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Drake Tungsten and His Boy Skellington

"...photograph by Bruce Dye Drake Tungsten and Skellington have the drop on Britt Daniel. Two minor toughs from the..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Record Reviews

"...Basehead were so far ahead of the curve that seven years after their debut we still..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

She's the One

"...Mcglone and John Mahoney. Bruce Springsteen mused lyrically about the opposite sex in his song “She's the One,” and..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

"...drummer (and this year's Austin Music Awards winner in the skin-beating category) Barry "Frosty" Smith bringing up their backbeat?..."

April 28, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Pearl Jam

"...Pearl JamLive at the Gorge 05/06 (Monkey Wrench/Rhino)..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Hero

"...Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack and Tom Arnold. It's getting to look like Stephen Frears may..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: A Hill of Beans

Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption

"...too excited about a trial over an eight-year-old grand theft when you know that – no matter what else..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

What We Learned at the King of the Hill ATX TV Festival Panel

First look at season 14 gives hints at revival

"...he's mad as hell. So sayeth Mike Judge in the inimitable tones of Hank Hill, pater familias of the..."

May 31, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"......"

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...Titanic What's a family to do in between all the holiday meals and the wrapping and unwrapping of presents?..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Platters

"...In the early Nineties, when Round Rock's Rick Trevino was making..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Will Courtney Summons Seventies L.A.

The rootsy popsmith takes the production reins in a West Austin duplex

"...The danger of interviewing someone like Will Courtney is veering..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Shelters

(Warner Bros.)

"...and cracklin' 45s sealed in epoxy maintain Sixties rock & roll values. In the late Seventies, we're talking Tom..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Record Reviews

"...Just why Chicago melodicore vets Screeching Weasel's back-from-the-dead platter is such a good one is a puzzler...."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...his state of mind. We'll leave those details to the lovely Tanya Rae. It's Nashville's siren song that'll drive..."

July 5, 1996 Music Review

From Sideman to Soundman

Stephen Bruton

"...Tom Petty's not gonna show. "I'm outta here," snaps a..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Feature

Music Reviews

"...The Gold Experience (Warner Bros/ NPG)..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Review

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...Streets of Fire is the Velvet Underground & Nico of Eighties movies. Almost nobody..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...a state level, especially when that state is Texas." – a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Critics Poll

"...Thomas Fawcett Rockit 7 with Brownout, DJs Manny & Bigface, Afrika Bambaata, Club de Ville..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Music Feature

National Top 10s

National Top 10s of 2006

"...7) Irving, Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers (Eenie Meenie)..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

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