Geto Gala, Two Step Inn, and a 420 Smokeout Headline Our Crucial Concerts

From country to hip-hop to sludge metal, get some ideas for your week in live music

"...graces the Monks Jazz stage, which is why she’s throwing herself a birthday party alongside keyboardist Marcell Coleman, bassist..."

April 19, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Strip Club: Lake Creek Festival Shopping Center

Sampling noodles, shoes, salsa, and silencers at the Northwest Austin strip mall

"...NOW OPEN: AXE THROWING AT PINBALLZ!..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

Qmmunity: A Book of One’s Own

Queer book releases from this June, perfect for building a tiny Borrower house

"...Urban Axes Pride Night Celebrate love, diversity, and bull's-eyes with this..."

June 30, 2023 Column by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Dinosaur Jr. at Lakeline Park, Los Texmaniacs in Sunset Valley, and more recommended shows

"...sitting in with Los Texmaniacs relives the Texas Tornadoes. Throwing down in Sunset Valley, originally a Coahuila, Mexico, and..."

April 28, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Bad Axe

Extraordinary documentary inside one family's fight to survive COVID, the lockdown, and racism

"...In Bad Axe, David Siev's tender but resilient portrait of his family..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Bad Axe

Audience award-winner follows a family surviving Covid and racism

"...In South by Southwest audience award winner Bad Axe, David Siev's tender but resilient portrait of his family..."

March 24, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

30 Years Ago, GG Allin Cleared Austin’s Scuzziest Punk Venue in 24 Minutes

Witness accounts of the notorious shock rocker’s antics and arrest at the Cavity Club

"...he took a shit on the stage and started throwing it into the crowd/ But he was gone before..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Live and Recorded Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Black Pistol Fire, BLXPLTN, Jazz for a cause, and more

"...and I have just finished going head-to-head in an axe-throwing contest at an East Austin facility. He beat me..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of Carper's vocals – a nasal clip and twang throwing back to Kitty Wells, Patsy Montana, and Hazel Dickens..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Struggling to Connect With My Downtown Life Through Virtual Reality

Immersing my avatar in SXSW XR

"...surrounding appearing preposterously clean and there being an interactive axe throwing event on the top level...."

March 17, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Pleasure Venom’s Audrey Campbell Stays Calm

Firebrand frontwoman takes “a sec to reassess”

"...an already stressful music business. I got the temporary axe from my day job, like so many of my..."

April 3, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Luv Doc: Exposed Flesh

Please remember my disapproval

"...Think of it this way: You know how old..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Class Axe Throwing Gets in on Austin's Edgiest New Trend

Become an axe-pert in the comfort of air conditioning

"...enduring yet another bowling night and risking skydiving peril, axe-throwing offers you an adrenaline fix that won’t get you..."

July 1, 2019 Sports Post by Katelyn Landry

Playback: Bombs, Beto, and the Biggest Music Stories of 2018

“Playback” recaps the news, trends, and controversies of the year. Outrage level: high.

"...this year that you can still become millionaires from throwing shows. Austin concert promoters ScoreMore, who built a grassroots..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Victor Crowley

Adam Green and Kane Hodder head back to the swamp

"...they don't show the parts where everyone's crying or throwing up on themselves, and asking, 'How the fuck are..."

Feb. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Owen Egerton Gets Spooked Writing The Axe Murders of Villisca

Austin author on his new haunted house movie

"...when he signed on to write supernatural drama The Axe Murders of Villisca. Yet he doesn't see a big..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sound on Sound Review: Boyfrndz

Icy prog-noir locals help inaugurate first year fest

"...animation of a city rising out of the woods. Axe throwing, a half pipe in a jousting ring, headlining..."

Nov. 5, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Lee Majors Can't Stop

The Six Million Dollar Man visits Wizard World

"...for real. But when they do it, and he's throwing these crazy, funny lines out, it's just hilarious."..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Levitation Kick-Off

Even after Levitation’s cancellation ... the shows went on!

"...first half of the 30-minute set in guitar heaven, throwing shapes not unlike U2 as well as the sounds..."

April 29, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...accessory for which they're named, Cheap Trick-loving vox and axe Max Vandever, drum piston Elissa Ussery, and group Entwistle..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Playback: Phil Anselmo's Housecore Horror

Phil Anselmo returns with Housecore Horror, Marc and Elijah Ford jam family style, and Keith Ferguson gets his inked in new book

"...Elijah's considerable axe skills aren't hand-me-downs from Marc – though they share..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: 'Hatchet III'

Gleefully signing up for the Hatchet Army

"...this when he was eight, which makes it the Axe Cop of slasher movies...."

Aug. 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...Girlie Night is kicking it high school style and throwing a cinematic prom. Come dressed in your finest pink..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

That Time We Blowed Shit Up Real Good

Rambo 101 at Fantastic Fest

"...cracking up as she attempts to master a combat throwing axe. Or a 15-foot-long Nazi banner prop from the..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ceremony, Iceage, Moss Icon

Ceremony, Iceage, Moss Icon

"...sent Mohawk's ground floor into a forward charge with "Throwing Bricks" off 2006's Violence Violence and got a gang-vocal..."

June 8, 2012 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: News Not Fit To Print

Trying to find a silver lining ... anywhere

"...oleaginous campaign promise to "balance the budget without raising taxes" or accessing the Rainy Day Fund. Even if they..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Luv Doc Recommends: Beard Prom

American Legion Hall, Friday, January 28, 2011

"...is available. Five blades, motherfucker, five blades! Not even Axe's ball scrubber can outshine that type of brilliance. One..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Carnage, Wrath, and Righteous Waves

What's the story with Doug Dorst's The Surf Guru?

"...poison-pen biographical sketches written by a taxonomist with an axe to grind, to the dreamy but chilling "Jumping Jacks,"..."

July 16, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Manfest 2008 & Astronautalis

"...together a fantastic day celebrating all that is man. Knife/axe throwing, arm wrestling, Sasquatch, beer, scotch, hot dogs, and..."

Dec. 8, 2008 Events Post by Logan Youree

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the status quo." – Mayor Pro Tem Danny Thomas, throwing his hat into the ring for next spring's mayoral..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature

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