Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...a tour of people's living rooms. – Michael Bertin Automatico/La Banda Elastica Showcase..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...version of the Deadwood theme with intermittent upheavals like Tom Waits getting pissed off at his percussion section. Either..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sarah Jarosz

SXSW showcase reviews

"...with songs from Patty Griffith, Bob Dylan, Shel Silverstein, Tom Waits, and the Decemberists, performed in a style that's..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Everyday Magic

Lee Barber returns to that place you go to find a song

"...of life along the Mississippi that could be a Tom Waits song...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Book of Eli

In a post-apocalyptic time, Denzel Washington is the lone man who carries the world's last remaining Bible.

"...Beals, Evan Jones, Michael Gambon, Frances de la Tour, Tom Waits and Malcolm McDowell. Has it really been almost..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The real Parnassus of this story is director Terry Gilliam, who salvaged his movie despite the sudden death of his star, Heath Ledger, midway through shooting.

"...Directed by: Terry Gilliam. Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer, Johnny Depp,..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Norah Jones

"...co-writers, including Ryan Adams and especially producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) to change direction, and the result..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Songs of Devotion

"...Mick Jagger and I say, "Augustin." 'Hang on St. Christopher'Tom Waits (1987)..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AE's Coal Conundrum

Energy planners and the fight over Fayette

"...too heavily on AE to spur private investment by customers. Still, what the more aggressive plans spend in the..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Legeland Update

Sunset shuffles, forensic fights, defections and campaign filings

"...doesn't mean there's nothing happening under the dome. Like Tom Waits said, there's always some killing you got to..."

Nov. 12, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dust In the Air

Q&A with Jay Farrar of Son Volt

"...the bio that came with the disc, you claim Tom Waits is more of an inspiration...."

Nov. 11, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Amazing Radio, Auspicious Sarah Jarosz

"...the amazing radio event; Sarah Jarosz was playing her Tom Waits cover (“Come Up to My House”) live on..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Postmarks

Fantastic Fest: 'Kaifeck Murder'

Bavaria: Come for the beer, stay for the rituals

"...unless it's the remote Bavarian village of Kaifeck. Like Tom Waits sang, there's always some killing you gotta do..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Love Is All Around

Lucinda Williams gets married onstage in Minneapolis

"...footsteps and marry her sweetheart of over two years, Tom Overby, onstage at First Ave. last Saturday night. As..."

Sept. 21, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...also wearing SPF 60 sunscreen and talking volleyball with Tom Hanks...."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hot Club Of Cowtown

"...handles Hoagy Charmichael's "Georgia" ardently, while James sparkles on Tom Waits' "The Long Way Home" and breathes sexy through..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

Premios Texas prompts OTR's inaugural Summer Vinyl Awards

"...(Bob Wills' "Can't Go On This Way"), surprising interpretations (Tom Waits' "The Long Way Home"), and some of the..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...only where are The Complete Leonard Cohen, Total MC5, Tom Waits: Asylum Seeker, and Don Walser's Pavarotti of the..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

Waiting for the Man

"...Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waitsby Barney Hoskyns Broadway Books, 640 pp., $29.95..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Running the Funny

Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years

"...you barely knew in junior high sending you virtual Tom Waits memorabilia on Facebook: All the way back to..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Low Anthem

"...trek equally compelling through stark haunted valleys and raucously stomped hillsides. Secular hymn "Charlie Darwin" opens with frontman Ben..."

July 3, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Snider/Riders

Todd Snider's latest, and the reanimation of New Riders of the Purple Sage

"...all along that he’s the equal to John Prine, Tom Waits, or Robert Earl Keen, yet it seems like..."

June 17, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Sarah Jarosz

"...in covers, tackling the Decemberists' "Shankill Butchers" and turning Tom Waits' "Come On Up to the House" into country..."

June 12, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Booker T.

Soul stirrers

"...on "Native New Yorker" buffs a thoroughbred coat, and Tom Waits' "Get Behind the Mule" pushes the heated end..."

June 5, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Nothing But the Truth

Alejandro Escovedo remembers his friend and collaborator Stephen Bruton.

"...South by Southwest 1999 was a good year. Tom Waits headlined the Paramount Theatre Saturday Night, and Sunday,..."

May 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Freddie's Place unplugs, crate digging for Record Store Day, the second coming of Arc Angels, and sitting stage left at Austin City Limits

"...Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton with Double Trouble's Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton – officially disbanded in 1994..."

April 17, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Felice Brothers

Friday

"...voice arrests even as he evokes familiar like-throated singers: Tom Waits on "Buried in Ice" and the haunted piano..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

One last night of band blurbs!

"...9:30pm, Smokin' Music With 2008's Jim Diamond-produced Detroit (Atomic a Go Go), the Love Me Nots stitched sinister..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

2008-09 Austin Music Awards Show

Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 18

"..."Changing Your Mind," Schneider cut more eccentric with the Tom Waits-ian growl and carnivalesque dirge "Murder." The Fireants held..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Parlor Game

The family that plays together makes pizza together

"...red, playing sad songs on accordion next to the Tom Waits mural while a tip bucket gets passed around...."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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