About a Girl

Dani Neff shreds Megafauna to Maximalist effect

"...Slicing between the two dancers onstage with a fluid high-kick, Megafauna frontwoman Dani..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Off the Record

Introducing the city's new sound engineer and the final verdict on the Cactus Cafe

"...proved not only how little the university valued those two cultural institutions and their impact on the surrounding community..."

May 21, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

For those about to rock (we salute you)

"...by no means the final chapter for Rokkervil. The two local entities are finishing up an appendix EP, The..."

April 23, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Bob Stoops on Line 2

No to fried butter, yes to a tough OU-UT matchup

"..."But who I am to talk. I’m living the high life in Oklahoma and my waist band is straining...."

Oct. 15, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

The Feelies

Reissues

"...High on a string of reunion shows this year, New..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Media Watch: Unwinding the Twine at KUT

Listeners protest cutbacks of legendary DJs Paul Ray and Larry Monroe

"...us," said musician Cleve Hattersley, co-founder of seminal local band Greezy Wheels, who is spearheading the protest. His supporters,..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

7 and 7 Is

"The Underdog (demo)" b/w "It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder, Now I'm Convinced I'm Going Under," Live at CBGB, "Committed to Wind" b/w "Stow Away," "Cut the Kite String" b/w "Circumsize Me"

"...a living-room atmosphere. It's a revealing glimpse into the band's creative process. The B-side creates an almost krautrock trance..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

Holiday Wish Lists 2006

Give 'til it helps: Part 2

"...Pentium 4 or higher PCs or laptops (or comparable with 1.0 gigabyte speeds)..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Features Feature

The Human Touch

Violinist Laurie Young Stevens finds the passion and flash in baroque music

"...music that they wrote. When she puts bow to strings for their compositions, she clears away the centuries of..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

The deficit explodes and the Lege convenes

"...After two hours of that sort of thing, Craddick might have..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys

"...its wisdom and connection to the old times. In two shows at the perfectly intimate Cactus Cafe Friday night,..."

May 4, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Hess

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...Sr. as the legendary archer, is one of some two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

La Guitarra de Callajera

"...their right, the guitarristas strum out rhythms on their strings and watch each other carefully, particularly the one in..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Coach's Corner

"...you watched or listened to Texas play, you've witnessed two of the stupidest football teams in North America, the..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Girls With Guitars

The New Generation

"...both a draw and a repulsion, depending on your higher purpose. From the very beginning, Griffith knew her distinctively..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Bandcamp..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Music: Ruled by Women

10 from indie rock’s new fem-led gen

"...moniker, launched a debut American tour backing Brooklyn buzz band Porches. Palm..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Simple Man, Simple Dream

Part of the Seventies Southern California songwriting cabal that produced Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles, J.D. Souther brings his craft to the Dripping Springs Songwriters' Festival

"...Nowadays, the mainstream knows J.D. Souther from a network television hit, ABC's Nashville. Before that, he was renowned..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

X Games: Kanye West Touches the Sky

Godlike MC ushers in his 37th birthday with a commanding set

"...continued in that spirit throughout “Don’t Like” and “Mercy,” two tracks from 2012 posse LP Cruel Summer. In a..."

June 9, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

'Send Off'

grayDUCK Gallery memorably closed its Bouldin Creek space with a show of its regular artists making prints

"...might've meticulously painted them during nightmare therapy. Here, Horan's String Game, depicting four women creating an arcane entanglement of..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bittersweet Life

Folksinging, an education

"...He tilts his head and squints, willing the B-string into key. "I say, 'I don't know why, darling,'..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Party on the Patio

Live review of ZZ Top's 1st Annual La Grange Fest.

"...the initial chill/thrill of hearing one of the original band’s favorite opening combos, “Working for MCA” and “I Ain’t..."

Oct. 24, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

This Is What Mourning Looks Like

Beginners sits shivah, postmodern-style and with profound humor and heart

"...for his music videos and album art for such bands as Air and Sonic Youth, as well as his..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Bootsy Collins

"...on Me -- The Bootsy Collins Anthology (Rhino) The two main signposts for contemporary funk, James Brown and George..."

July 13, 2001 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Wallpaper Psalm

In Wallpaper Psalm, a strange operetta about an elderly lady in an old apartment building who appears to go crazy, writer Ruth Margraff and director Jason Neulander produce a psalm, a hymn sung in challenging style.

"...Chaucia babbles for attention, Meissner lunges around her in two of the play's most powerful scenes. Meissner vindicates every..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Selections by Sublett

"...meeting? Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of what? Like over two dozen fucking crime novels. Plus, lots of movies have..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

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