ACL Interview: True Believers (Part II)

Alejandro Escovedo wants to cut a representative Troobs LP

"...Last Saturday’s True Believers show during ACL Fest was cut short when..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Interview: True Believers (Part I)

Reunited with blood fury and dedicated to Brent Grulke

"...bands” he’d ever seen. Many critics declared Austin’s legendary True Believers as one of the must-see acts at Zilker..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

ACL Live Shot (Second Weekend): True Believers

Three-guitar assault goes out with a bang?

"...Still, you should’ve seen Alejandro Escovedo’s shirt after the True Believers’ set...."

Oct. 13, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

ACL Live Shot: True Believers

Raucous, but truncated, and back next week better than ever

"...The triumphant return of the True Believers, Austin’s best guitar army ever, continues, though Saturday’s..."

Oct. 6, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Interview: True Believers, Part Two

Saturday, Oct. 12, 4pm, Zilker Tent stage

"...True Believers, Austin's legendary guitar army from the Eighties, finds..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Interview: True Believers

4pm, Zilker Tent stage

"...True Believers4pm, Zilker Tent stage..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

True Believers? Painted Redstarts!

A second generation guit-army

"...a page from his and Escovedo’s good book: the True Believers’ “She’s Got.” Killed is what she got...."

March 4, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

True Believers' Science, Start With Belief, Go on From There

"...with textbooks." The only people who came with a true scientific testimony were individuals like myself who had actually..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Postmarks

True Believer

You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.

"...scene started in the mid-Eighties, with Austin groups like True Believers, the Reivers, Big Boys, Glass Eye, and the..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...From the first chord, the fivepiece plays hard and true, like its name, demonstrating the same force of nature..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Marvel's The Avengers

Excelsior! This Marvel adventure knocks it out of the universe.

"...This is it, oh true believers: the moment monumental Marvel Comics morphs – for..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What Would Jesus Buy?

The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.

"...who stands up to Walt Disney), but rather that true believers make for sloppy documentarians and that What Would..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Phoenix Forgotten

Missing teens and mysterious lights in this found-footage sci-fi film

"...Sophie gets the brush-off from the military, interviews UFO true believers, and ultimately finds the trio’s melted video camera..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Believe Me

In this faith-based comedy, frat boys create a fake charity to pay back tuition bills.

"...itself as an honest examination of belief. And that, true believers, is unforgivable...."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Henry Fool

"...of bathroom-humor comedies. Henry Fool is likely to make true believers out of Hartley's existent fans; to the newcomers..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alejandro Escovedo Grinds Axes at ACL

Austin escapee kicks out the jams in his fifth taping for PBS

"...Once Austin housed a guitar SWAT team called the True Believers – Lynyrd Skynyrd run by Mexicans as born..."

Dec. 1, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Rookie

The film recounts the baseball career of Texan Jim Morris, who, in 1999, became the oldest rookie major-league pitcher to take the field in 40 years.

"...“storybook” that if the events weren't more or less true, they would be dismissed as altogether hokey. Quaid is..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tony Visconti Part 1

"...Wanna Be Your Dog,” as three-guitar Skynyrd as the True Believers, as “Black Shiny Beast” as mothballed glam locals..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...or fail to appear," adding that "the same is true with other Governing Council members." The attitudes aren't much..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...Yeah, that involved Graham too, this time leading the True Believers alongside Alejandro and Javier Escovedo; there are even..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

This Magic Moment

15 Years of the Austin Music Awards

"...Roky Erickson experiences, Jody Denberg's unlikely jam with the True Believers, the unveiling of Gibby Haynes' and Johnny Depp's..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Hell of a Year

Kathy McCarty presses Jon Dee Graham about the good and the bad old and new days

"...Jon Dee went on to join the True Believers, a still-legendary guitar-heavy Austin band, whom I believe..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Music Feature by Kathy McCarty

Out of Pawn

Austin's Best Bar Band, Buick MacKane

"...have to say. It's time we ask Buick MacKane's true star, the sub-Bonham drum smasher Glenn Benavides, to tell..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Gypsy Son

Former Zeros front punk and True Believers co-captain Javier Escovedo circles back to Austin

"...spiritual sense, Javier Escovedo – former Zeros frontman, former True Believers co-leader, and member alongside brothers Pete, Coke, Mario,..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

True Believers

Live shot

"...True Believers..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rhapsody

Alejandro Escovedo pays tribute to 'Por Vida'

"...The True Believers are the most important band I've ever been..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...Smith stampedes her newsprint Horses up the staircase, the True Believers call out loteria imagery from a frame behind..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pop Beloved

Revisting the Reivers

"...music scene was still quite vibrant circa 1985. The True Believers' three-guitar roots blast had been tapped to take..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

By the Hand of the Father

Previewing Alejandro Escovedo's new autobiographical play, By the Hand of the Father.

"...with Jon Dee Graham, formed the core of the True Believers. Along with the Reivers (aka "formerly Zeitgeist"), the..."

June 16, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Big Sweet Life

"...solo debut from the former founding member of Austin's True Believers. With its songs of scraped hearts and cynical..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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