Review: Ladyfang, Ladyfang

Austin quartet electrifies Eighties post-punk with buoyant pop sparkle

"...until she feels no pain. The group nods to Van Halen ("Like New"), veers alternative, and flashes pockets of..."

June 30, 2023 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Tribeca Film Review: McEnroe

Inside the mind of the self-destructive tennis great

"...rock star (and almost David Lee Roth replacement in Van Halen) Patty Smyth. Instead, he credits that relationship with..."

June 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

H.E.R. Schools Austin Fans in Music History and Instrumental Mastery During Stunning Moody Amphitheater Show

She isn't Prince, but she might be his No. 1 student

"...on “Girl Like Me” (a 2021 feature with Jazmine Sullivan) and achieved the level of Mariah Carey’s pristine falsetto..."

April 22, 2022 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

Finding More Eaze in the World of Experimental Pop

Austin composer Mari Maurice details her nonhierarchical obsessions

"...was working on in equal regards to more serious, avant-garde compositions. They were fine with that, and that's really..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Watch This: Darkbird’s Kelly Barnes Feels it Dance-heavy “Heartbeat” Video

Immaculate pop single pumps Eighties Grooves

"...revolutionary in all ways good and bad because technological advancement changed everything. But it also was ridiculous. The fashion,..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

In a Thankless Year, 20 Austinites We're Thankful for in 2020

We single out some locals who have given us hope

"...the streets; heartbreaking deaths, from Chadwick Boseman to Eddie Van Halen, Kobe to RBG; and, oh yeah, murder hornets...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Features Feature by Robert Faires

A Giant Dog Triumphs on A Giant Stage

Jack White plays too

"...scrapped his plastic Montgomery Airline guitar for an Eddie Van Halen signature series Wolfgang model, which didn’t significantly alter..."

May 3, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Lukas Nelson

"...Miller Lite stage sported at least one T-shirt commemorating Van Halen's 2007 tour. Another preserved Jerry Garcia. One cheeky..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature

ACL Review: Lukas Nelson

Willie’s kid proves his own Americana rockist

"...the ACL Fest Miller Lite stage: one T-shirt commemorated Van Halen’s 2007 tour. Another, the late Jerry Garcia. One..."

Oct. 7, 2017 Music Post by Tim Stegall

How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"...spell of Buffett's "A Pirate Looks at Forty" or "Havana Daydreamin'," and the emotional tug of "Come Monday," his..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Bedside Manner: Guitar & Pen

Homework vs. live music ascension

"...Cars at the same venue proved a poor runner-up. (Van Halen there next, no better.) The first proved a..."

June 22, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Everybody Wants Some Soundtrack

"...were actually big hits in their time, and although Van Halen's titular mating call leans AOR, it could've spun..."

April 22, 2016 Music Review by Greg Beets

That Eighties Film

How Everybody Wants Some!! re-created history

"...It’s not just about set dressing, or playing Van Halen's "Ain't Talking 'Bout Love" (released October 1978) rather..."

April 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everybody Has Some

In a round-robin interview, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black open up about their new films

"...it's punk. It's like punk, new wave, still metal, Van Halen, obviously. Stuff like that. But that's how it..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

The Doobie Brothers

"...debut LP The Doobie Brothers. Legend paints Moby Grape savant Skip Spence hooking up the fellow Bay Areans' early..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Scorpions – Dynastic Domination

Vinyl reissues tease Germany’s true rulers

"...Scorpions’ Teutonic arc transcends its mainstream pigeonholing. AC/DC and Van Halen sibling precursors Rudolf and Michael Schenker, both guitarists,..."

Dec. 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hot August Nights

Fire and ice for summer commiseration

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hot August Nights: Cold

"...sword fighting, Raekwon's "Ice Cream" compares women to French vanilla, butter pecan, and chocolate deluxe...."

Aug. 28, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

10 Minutes with Stephen Stills

CSN bandleader stops in for a lesson on the blues

"...for Kennedy numbers. He’s also going on tour with Van Halen. Next year will be a Rides year for..."

July 23, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Guitar Nerding With Chris Pérez

Selena lead man and Grammy-winning rock artist talks gear

"...AC: The 5150 is the Van Halen head, right?..."

April 9, 2015 Music Post by Kate X Messer

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"...vinyl to early U2 tracks. Phase shifters create Eddie Van Halen's whirling undertow on "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love." Chorus..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Unto Ashes

"...of Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" and Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil" nets two more Ghosts..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Decapitated

Blood Mantra (Deluxe)

"...last millennium as an extreme, Eastern European equivalent to Van Halen, teens Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka and his older brother..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

How Do I Food & Wine Festival?

An Austin Food & Wine Fest newbie retraces her steps

"...park on Barton Springs Road, and chased it with Savannah buttermint ice cream from Ohio's Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams..."

April 28, 2014 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

DVDanger: 'Holliston' / 'Knights of Badassdom'

A double bill of Joe Lynch genre comedies

"...the ambiguously sexual vocalist of Diver Down (Holliston's leading Van Halen original covers band.) In season one, Lance seemed..."

April 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

83 US Festival: Days 1-3

"...Nothing from David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, the Pretenders, or Van Halen, likely due to clearance issues, which might explain..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

Clash City Rockers

Unexpurgated Clash box set review

"...at Shea Stadium, and co-headlining the US Festival with Van Halen...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Louder Than Hell

Heavy metal both epic and breezy

"...headbangers. Throwing down a gauntlet by insisting Kiss and Van Halen aren't metal (sacrilege!), the authors slamdance through everything..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Kinks

In Box

"...underscores how the Kinks attracted disciples as disparate as Van Halen and the Jam. As Ray Davies' vivid depictions..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Review by Greg Beets

Lionel Richie

South by Southwest Aftershots

"...the showpiece treatment, complete with a left-field interpolation of Van Halen's "Jump." Onetime Houstonian Kenny Rogers materialized for an..."

March 23, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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