The Lovers & The Fire Within

Louis Malle, lobbing smart bombs

"...Godard and Truffaut, with the revolution of French New Wave cinema, but Malle was never truly a part of..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Review by John Davidson

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"...Junkie), making a beautiful racket on "Truth in New Wave" that sounds like Sonic Youth twitching in a heat..."

April 18, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Friday Picks

"...is in the process of birthing the new No Wave scene. L.A. label Post Present Medium aids and abets..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

"...years, is a hallucinatory synthesis of fractured beats, New Wave synths, and Roxy Music, with flourishes of German drone..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

Rogue Wave

"...Rogue WaveThe Parish, Jan. 25..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Rogue Wave

"...Rogue WaveAsleep at Heaven's Gate (Brushfire)..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...movements such as New York punk, the French New Wave, progressive country, Sugar Hill rap, New Wave, young German..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

Against Me!

Waterloo Park, Nov. 3 & 4

"...night they proved it. Latest Butch Vig-produced disc New Wave provided a chunk of the high-energy set, and while..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

"...this Austin quintet, which marries classic indie with New Wave, always brings the energy. The Lemurs' self-released eponymous 2006..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Feature

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...town on 18-wheels of lust and a cargo of no-wave feminism not seen since Le Tigre's last pit stop...."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...out the night with foghorn blasts of trombone and wave upon wave of psychedelic vitriol, most recently heard on..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Women's Legislative Days

"Where are all the young people?"

"...Baumgardner and Third Wave Foundation founder Richards met in their early 20s working..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...producer and MC tag-team emerged in 2003 riding a wave created by their full-length debut, 8 Million Stories. Promising..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

It Is Easy Being Green

Rather than make you puzzle out for yourself what environmental art is, Austin Green Art is hosting a summerlong, citywide exhibition that shows you what it is

"...of this increasingly popular art form. The exhibit, "Green Wave," offers seven works in five locations across the city,..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

My SXSW

Music fest diary

"...is good 'cause he used to play that New Wave...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Mike Doughty

New Model Army

Anarchy in the UK

"...Glaswegians Franz Ferdinand's SXSW 04 success has kick-started another wave of new UK acts. Out of the 95 UK..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...the Soviet national anthem regaling the band onstage. A wave of chuckles swept across the full house that got..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

FronteraFest 2003

It's time again for that annual performance jamboree FronteraFest, and time to mark its first decade of presenting Austin with adventuresome new theatre, comedy, dance, and spoken word by anyone with the courage or folly to take a stage.

"...Heat Wave, by Rebecca Schwarz. Play about two characters dealing with..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...line local punk bands like Terminal Mind and Standing Waves were breaking up or evolving out of form. This..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...written 40,000 songs, he's one-half of the acclaimed New Wave-era pop group 20/20, whose song "Yellow Pills" still serves..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.

"...Eighties and was firmly grounded in disco and new wave (which were often indistinguishable). But as the Nineties were..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.

"...one omnibus film that boasted the talents of New Wave greats like Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer...."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

The Hightower Lowdown

Jim waves the flag; George Dubya plays his health-care shell game; the U.S. gets into bed with thugs.

"...Wave Our Flag!..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...Raul"s Austin's Punk/New Wave club on the Drag -- now the location of..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The 2001 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll

"...still riding the crest of the high tech financial wave. A new crop of good Italian eateries (La Traviata,..."

May 25, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Immaculate Film

Musicalia at the SXSW Film Festival

"...Saturday, March 17, Dobie 2, 11:30pmWave Twisters the MovieVideo, 50 min., 2001..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...1979, the times were a-changin' again. Punk and New Wave were in the air, and the club DJ was..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Letters at 3AM

Evaluating the Ten Commandments as a teaching tool in the American classroom

"...work ethic consists of waiting for just the right wave -- might be surprised to know that they coined..."

April 14, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...visited Austin [before SXSW] was in 1979 on the Wave tour. I'm hoping that if you do some shows..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Futura

"...contrasts even as it falls into perfect sync. Pulsing wave after wave after wave of shimmering, chiming, otherworldly Robert..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature

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