Benefits, Parties, and All-Around Crucial Concerts for the Week

Graham Reynolds, Big Bill, Urban Heat and more

"...savaged holiday music a half dozen times, taking your beloved favorites and turning them into moody, depression-triggering nightmares. He’s..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Splash Into the Season

Trying to stay holly and jolly in spite of the horrors, you know.

"...truly in the spirit, TBH, when a bad time waits on the other side of December. Whatever, you know...."

Dec. 6, 2024 Column by James Scott

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...Truth can be stranger than fiction, and that’s definitely true at Fantastic Fest. This year sees the return of..."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 5-11

"...teachings about how to enjoy the art of making love more than ever before. (Consider consulting tantric manuals like..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Other Worlds Says Sorry About the Demon

Sci fi film fest announces final lineup for final outing

"...over her cryogenically frozen son and husband as she waits and hopes for an improbable rescue...."

Nov. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 11-17

"...straddle reality and the imagination," says Sagittarian singer-songwriter Tom Waits. "My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 7-13

"...wasting time. The answer to everything was work and love, work and love. He had to spread this message..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Gift Guide for the Music Head on Your Holiday List

What a fan, finger drummer, or Austin nostalgia freak may want for Christmas

"...and a fun flexi disc of unreleased Erickson recording "Love Hieroglyphics." Pussy Gillette Pussy Gillette LP..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Hovvdy, Cherubs, Hoody Rap, a Tribute to Walter Hyatt, and more recommended sounds

"...Hovvdy's True Love..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Abhi the Nomad, Animals on TV, Susannah Joffe, Nané, and more recommended tunes

"...entry relating the feeling of someone falling out of love with you. You can almost hear the young Austin..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...a throat full of Leon Russell, Dr. John, Tom Waits. Synced to the election, Nashville's Shaye Smith whammies up..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...His songs have been covered by Tom Waits and Yo La Tengo and championed by Kurt Cobain...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

"...Johnston’s songs have been covered by Tom Waits and Yo La Tengo and championed by Kurt Cobain...."

Sept. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Old Man & the Gun

Robert Redford has rarely shone more than in this true-crime tale

"...Lowery. Starring: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...“Alcohol,” GBH (1981)..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

In Memoriam: Sam Shepard

The late writer-actor left lots of himself in Central Texas

"...for almost all of Shepard's masterworks, including the plays True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind,..."

Aug. 3, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...from the straightforward punk bill, Tomás Doncker & the True Groove All-Stars disseminate celestial Afrobeat blues and Sixties/Seventies funk..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...and a long-awaited insight into the mind of a true leviathan of cinema, David Lynch - The Art Life...."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Paul Cauthen’s Deep Country Gospel

Former Sons of Fathers frontman’s solo debut deals out one of the best country albums of the year

"...into a chair outside of the green room and waits to open for Elle King at the start of..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Hot August Nights: Cold

"...a different tack on 1980 dancehall tune "Ice Cream Love." "I don't want no ice cream love, it's too..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...recently begun booking. Her sultry murder ballads and tortured love songs play to a small but heavily tattooed crowd...."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Charlie Pierce Burns It Down

Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return

"...troubadour on Nowhere, effectively splitting the difference between Tom Waits' Closing Time and Neil Young's Harvest. Be it a..."

May 29, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Yawn 9pm, Valhalla Second LP Love Chills released last fall, this Chicago fourpiece trips out..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Nina Forever

When the three-way includes his dead ex

"...True love waits. And waits ... and waits ... and..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Election Night Live

Up-to-the-minute midterm coverage

"...Wiley and Zimmerman would probably vie for title of True Conservative. Flannigan and Zimmerman both tend to argue for..."

Nov. 5, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Summer Fun: Some Like It Hot Cold & Dreary

Counterprogramming Gidget: 11 icy, downer movies

"...her – but this second encounter turns into a lovely romantic idyll that nonetheless ends in Stefan’s casual abandonment..."

May 19, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe at ACL Fest

First weekend of ACL Fest – that's a wrap. Number two starts now.

"...the best local act until reformed guitar army the True Believers ignited the Zilker Tent with a set so..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Conversations With a VEVO Pickup Artist

Tommy Wooldridge brings his Lyric Lines to the ATX

"...used songs from Taylor Swift and Blink-182 – and waits with bated breathe for them to turn him away...."

Sept. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Chase Hoffberger

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...that bit where, “The hangman looks round as he waits/the cord stretches tight/then it breaks. How I live in..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

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