Faster Than Sound: Austin Imprint Keeled Scales Partners With Polyvinyl Records

New joint office expands the local label landscape

"...Over the past year, Keeled Scales label owner Tony Presley trekked to the post office almost daily to..."

June 4, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Long Waits at Record Pressing Plants Hinder Austin's Independent Record Labels

Production crisis disrupts the flow of local releases

"...Keeled Scales co-owner Tony Presley had hoped to spend much of this year..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"...outlets doubles as a community incubator. Since summer 2015, Tony Presley and Katherine Strandberg have hosted an unplugged monthly..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Knife in the Water Resurfaces

Nineties slowcore pioneers quietly re-emerge after a decade-plus layoff

"...subscribe to "Don't quit your day job," but for Tony Presley, it's the other way around. Co-founder of local..."

May 5, 2017 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Sun June's Regret Pop

The quintet rewrites the classic tapestry of an “Austin sound”

"...Tony Presley, half of local label Keeled Scales, lived above..."

June 8, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Faster Than Sound: Austin Terror Fest Crosses Over

Two birthdays and a dark christening

"...Touring as Real Live Tigers, house show veteran Tony Presley likes to hear what singers are saying. The..."

June 14, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Pride in Local Music, Brownout's 20th, the Late Joys' farewell, and more live music

"...Tony Presley is best recognized these days as head of..."

June 23, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Faster Than Sound: Kendra Sells, Unlimited

BluMoon singer's genre-dancing solo debut, a music supervisor panel, and more music news

"...imprint Secretly Canadian. Staffed by Keeled Scales co-founder/label manager Tony Presley, Polyvinyl Project Manager Natalie Dávila, and Polyvinyl Art..."

May 21, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Hear Will Johnson's New Old Single, “Cornelius”

Singer-songwriter revives shelved song for upcoming Wire Mountain LP

"...explains Johnson. “I was also taken with [label owner] Tony [Presley]. He’s welcoming to some of the musical adventures..."

June 12, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Natrix Natrix

The Basement Tapes

"...breakfast. Ghost Night's Steven Garcia and Real Live Tigers' Tony Presley jam in the converted garage studio; meanwhile, Kevin..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Live Shots

"...Nashville session man wore out the skins quite like Tony Harper. The Grand Ol' Opry has to wait, for..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...a dear relative of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Tony Bennett. The album's swinging, jazzy arrangements are courtesy of..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...(1957, 96min/b&w, 35mm) Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Dean Jones. Directed by..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

When they label war protesters' speech as traitorous, right-wing war supporters reveal themselves as truly anti-American.

"...stars Bruce Campbell in a twisted tale involving Elvis Presley having to battle an Egyptian deity who's invading our..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...D: Blake Edwards; with Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill...."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The strange border tale of Tish Hinojosa

"...Press P For Presley..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, John Gallagher Jr., Danielle Brooks, Tony Hale, Keith Williams, Tee Dennard (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Elvis Presley

"...Elvis PresleyElvis at Stax: Deluxe Edition (RCA Legacy)..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Music Review by Scott Schinder

Get It While You Can

"...The Life and Death of a Rock Legend by Tony Fletcher Avon Books, $30 hard The problem with every..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Spike Lee, Rian Johnson, and Chelsea Manning for SXSW

Plus major tech names, Westworld panel, and more added

"...big name announcements, including philanthropist Melinda Gates, and Priscilla Presley to discuss Elvis Presley: The Searcher, HBO's new two-part..."

Jan. 30, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Film News

Tall tales of the Texas film industry

"...with a cast including locals Charlie Hurtin (Infamous) and Tony Wolford (The Alamo). See more at www.myspace.com/wildmanofthenavidad.Hunting Mike Judge..."

July 14, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Rock-A-doodle

"...Directed by: Don Bluth. Starring: Glen Campbell, Tony Scott Granger and Christopher Plummer. This lastest animated feature..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Thursday Interviews

Busting out with six Thursday SXSW interviews

"...the moment. You reinvent it every night." Michael Toland Tony Joe White11pm, Continental Club..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumption

"...to quit, just the first time that Shuffield and Tony Scalzo didn't invoke contracts, etc., to stop him. Shuffield..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Checking In: Tara Bhattacharya Stages Interference Fest – Women Making Noise 2020

Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class

"...TB: My friend Presley sent me this incredible video of hardcore punk bands..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Tony Joe White

Gift Guide

"...Tony Joe White..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Sam Fuller (Merrill's Marauders). Foreign films were represented by Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...of introducing stories about his friend and peer Elvis Presley ("this business never had a more special fellow than..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

What Texas Artists Had to Say on the CMT Music Awards Red Carpet

Jackie Venson, Midland, and more talk country music’s Austin migration

"...Nashville as a high school senior cast as Elvis Presley in the CMT series Sun Records. He's been in..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"..."Iggy [Pop] played the Armadillo with the Sales brothers [Tony and Hunt, sons of Fifties pie-in-face comedian Soupy Sales]..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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