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"...their second album, Floor It!!!, courtesy of New West Records, unloading a characteristic blunderbuss of woozy playfulness, funky grooves,..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Iron Age's Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas' Metal Scene

The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence

"...Eye, originally released by stoner rock label Tee Pee Records and now with a new cover...."

Oct. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

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"...instrumental ambience. Sadness3, released last year via Sports Day Records, is six tracks of chugging, lo-fi melodics with pop..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: RSD in ATX

Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them

"...are two sides to Record Store Day," contemplates Exploded Records at JuiceLand operator Andrew Brown. "There's the shallow, short-lived..."

April 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dog Years

Austin's version of the Band – the Gourds – steps into those brown shoes almost literally with Old Mad Joy

"...that of its new label, respected roots indie Vanguard Records...."

Sept. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass': Bubble Puppy reunites, James McMurtry fires back, and a final verdict for the estate of Don Walser

"...of another giant from the band's original label, International Records, making a guest appearance. "We want to give it..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The estate of Don Walser and Southbound's Lowkey both get their respective days in court

"...yodeler Don Walser against his former record labels Antone's Records, Texas Music Group, and Texas Clef Enter-tainment took place..."

June 4, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Getting the runaround from UT administration

"...won the bankruptcy auction for the assets to Antone's Records, Texas Music Group, and Texas Clef Entertainment Group, Judge..."

April 9, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

"...window for mobile advertising – imagine checking into Waterloo Records or End of an Ear and being rewarded with..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Into the Vault

And the new owner of Antone's Records is...

"...bankruptcy protection in Nov. 2008, the assets of Antone's Records, Texas Music Group, and Texas Clef Entertainment – a..."

March 15, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Facing charges by the estate of Don Walser, three local music entities declare bankruptcy even as Julian Koster spreads holiday cheer

"...Still, which was released in partnership with Maine's Time-Lag Records, recalls the hazy bedroom folk of Benoit Pioulard, the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Film News

Dallas continues to dominate the Texas Motion Picture Alliance

"...biz on Aug. 16. No worries; the venerated Waterloo Records will continue in a spruced-up state with a remodel..."

July 18, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Gypsy Rose

The 'Rockabilly Filly' bucks back into Austin

"...in 1988, then back to L.A., where her HighTone Records career started. 1992 brought After the Farm, and 1995..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

TCB

Bidding farewell to dandy Don Walser, remembering Jerry Lightfoot, helping Chris Tominaga, and shopping for HAAM

"...title song of his 1994 breakthrough album on Austin's Watermelon Records, and sent it to Billboard magazine, which rated..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Poi Dog Pondering

"...they remain vibrant, recently besting some Windy City attendance records. The Austin Years aims to capture Poi's springtime, their..."

July 15, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

Working-Class Hero

Is Michael Fracasso's Austin's best kept musical secret?

"...Geissler, then running Watermelon Records, tried to put together a deal for the..."

April 23, 2004 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 1

"...week and next, many more Austin musicians are making records bearing an imprint of their own design. Most of..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Beat Box

Texas Platters

"...wise, because brewing in the backfield is ATX's Circular Records, recruiting and training an onslaught of MCs on the..."

May 24, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Coletti

Naked City

"...the results of internal investigations and certain police personnel records available to the public. If adopted by voters in..."

March 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Dancing About Architecture

Neil Diamond comes to town, the Metro stays open, Cotton Mather searches for a deal, Hamstein sells its publishing, Wynton Marsalis visits the Elephant Room, and much, much more.

"...Top, as well as their future recordings on RCA Records, plus country hits amounting to some 40 No. 1..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Fastball gets dropped, while fans of Billy Joe Shaver hopes he doesn't drop dead.

"...as the band has been dropped from the Hollywood Records roster following poor sales of their most recent album,..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Country Shuffle

Justin Trevino, the voice of angels

"...10, I set out to collect all of his records and they were all out of print. It took..."

June 8, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Sara Smile

Those teeth, those lips, those songs -- the one and only Sara Hickman

"...have tapes from when I was little, announcing 'the watermelon seed spitting contest of the universeí' and you can..."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...has an additional three cuts -- is now Waterloo Records' biggest selling album of all time. You read that..."

April 13, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...crooner has released a string of fine albums on Watermelon and Sire. His old-timey style has such an honest,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Texas Music Group

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

"...most prominent indie labels of the Nineties -- Antone's Records and Watermelon Records -- to create a new, dynamic,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...be released in Europe on their longtime label Munich Records and in the states by the highly respected American..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Lizards of Aus

'Never an Adult Moment' With Austin's Veteran Bluegrass Pranksters

"...and released as their debut in 1984 on Workshop Records, then home to Robert Earl Keen. Creatures From the..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Monte Montgomery hooks up with big-time booking; Texas Music Group has big plans.

"...where were we last time we spoke of Antone's Records? As I recall, former Watermelon Records czar Heinz Geissler..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.

"...the whole situation, because the song appears on their Watermelon Records EP Go Gitcher Shinebox, meaning that it's been..."

June 16, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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