The Pink Pick

Kate Messer remembers when she first met Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison and they bonded over the Gibson SG like a couple of guitar geeks.

"...lost. I imagined his lanky figure framed against the wail and fury of the original mid-Sixties Velvet Underground and..."

March 17, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Hole in the Wall, Tuesday 14

Wednesday Night

"...Tom Freund set the night's tone with a lonesome wail and dark, spiritual subject matter. Whiskeytown's Ryan Adams, nearly..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Eric Mingus, Elephant Room

Thursday Night

"...back of the room, bellowing in a growly blues wail, his easily 6'4" frame meandering through the startled crowd..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Sister Sonny Lovesongs (Jetset)

SXSW Records

"...David Gilmour when he hits that plaintive, breathy, midrange wail, Norwegian fivepiece Sister Sonny ties post-rock to its influence..."

March 10, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Going Long

Scoping Out the Long Fringe of FronteraFest 2000

"...you'd even pay good money to listen to him wail and strum every now and then -- he draws..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wasted Days, Wasted Nights

The night in 1974 when Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek to play

"...of kindness from strangers -- and then proceeded to wail away in the Heartbreak Key, his distinctive tenor voice..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...the city, and Sixth Street comes alive. The constant wail of sirens, smashing of beer bottles, and gut-thumping beats..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...together. In "Epiphany of Saint Thomas," violins punctuate and wail, drums pile up and spill over, guitars engage in..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

Stompy Jones

"...these shores thousands of years later as a wordless wail after having been ripped from its mother's arms. The..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Where TV Fails

"...screens is the cause of all evil, the critics wail. But wait. Can it be true that viewers' relationships..."

April 30, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Divine Intervention

What Price Salvation?

"...The Wanderer, which has run stories with headlines that wail: "Chancery Documents Indicate Bishop Deceived Vatican," and "Bishop Ignores..."

March 12, 1999 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Shooting Star

"...guitar, turned the amp way up, and started to wail...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Blues for Life

"...to put on Archie Shepp and let him just wail his ass off and scare all the girls out..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Texas Platters

"...Maloney presides over the den with a slightly intoxicated wail that recalls Perry Farrell in a lower register. The..."

July 31, 1998 Music Review

Altered States

Daryl and His Other Brother Daryl

"...off the Boondoggle Early Warning System with a loud wail. In his "Council Watch" column of June 23, 1989,..."

May 15, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Texas Platters

"...Anderson's "My Biggest Mistake"). Throughout, BFC rattle, thrash, and wail out blues so wicked and throbbing that when these..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

SXSW Record Reviews

"...the keen sense of an experienced social voyeur and wails like he's possessed by the ghost of Steve Marriot...."

March 6, 1998 Music Review

Cultural Cross Pollination

A Cash Crop of Reggae Reissues

"...imprint. What you get are the likes of the Wailers, Desmond Dekker, and the Paragons skankin,' shufflin,' and fruggin'..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Texas Platters

"...modern rock couch. Starting off with the vaguely U2-ish wail of "The Fourteenth Day," they quickly track through the..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

In Person

"...mighty powerful, hell-raising hackles: like the desperate need to wail and gnash and rend and howl; or the all-consuming..."

July 18, 1997 Books Feature

Fox at 10

TV Eye

"...simply don black and wait for the banshees to wail...."

April 11, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Sxsw

"...proud owner of a raspy, smoky voice that whispers, wails, and sometimes sings along with her guitar, Austinite Pam..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

"...saying, "We're shit-hot players right now, and we can wail." Ego aside, their Elektra debut, Sweet Homewrecker, displays alternative..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...depicted by developers as fickle and unpredictable, ready to wail like banshees at any infill project for whatever reason..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Reissues

"...sensibilities against musician-friendly, two-chord V.U. drone and Wareham's wall-of-reverb wail. Each album is better than the last as the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...lines (especially on "Old Anxieties"), and sometimes the guitars wail like the whole shootin' match is coming apart at..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Review

First Steps

A New Life for Flamenco Star Pilar Serrano

"...starts as a dry lamentation and works toward a wail. Serrano shows the musicians a set of steps and..."

June 14, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Puerto Rican Literature The Land of the Brave Lord

"...teachers, professors, and critics scramble to hear the wakening wail of Asian, African-American, and female voices and clamor for..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Books Feature

Record Reviews: Christmas

"...Loreena McKennitt. And in this corner, in the misty-grey wail, weighing in at 43 minutes and 53 seconds, from..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Review

Perry Wears Egg

Agriculture Commissioner Takes It on the Chin

"...While farmers wail about their losses, Perry has insisted that the only..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

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