Playback: James Petralli's Constant Bop

Has White Denim become Bop English? Which festival might relocate to the new superstage at Circuit of the Americas? Is LBJ turning over in eternity over the Beatles exhibit at his library? That and other Q&As in this week's music news.

"...production, the frontman found time for a side project, Bop English, which debuted in April with the astonishingly good..."

June 12, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wop-bop-a-loo-bop

Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little

"...AC: Where did "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lom-bam-boom" come from?..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Cubana Be Cubana Bop

Field guide to Cuba's second-biggest export after cigars

"...notable recordings for RCA Victor, including "Cubana Be Cubana Bop" and "Manteca."..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Gay Place: Hop, Bop, Shop

Nothing like gifts for the fam made by your other fam ...

Dec. 6, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Blitzkid Bop: Austin Kiddie Limits

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Strawberry Letter 22 …

Our 2001 review of Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information

"...with Shuggie Otis by Thomas Fawcett. In 2001, Luaka Bop reissued an album's worth of songs by Otis that..."

July 10, 2015 Music Post by Kate X Messer

SXSW Music Jazz Sampler

Psychedelic, post-bop, Latin-inflected, and more: 11 jazz artists

"...London pianist Ashley Henry channels his muse into melodic post-bop that swings with soul. New EP Easter finds his..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

The actor Michael Rapaport turns director for this admiring portrait of the seminal Nineties hip-hop outfit.

"...and neither can the band's legions of fans, who bop up and down in sold-out arenas at the reunion..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Accepted

Accepted asserts that a college run by students might be better than its institutional alternative, but who wants education advice from the creators of such a witless, uninspired excuse for a college comedy?

"...a party and delivers an embarrassing rendition of "Blitzkrieg Bop." It's an obvious nod to Rock 'n' Roll High..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Haunting the Chapel

Q&A with Dave Lombardo of FFFF headliners Slayer

"...bass drum hits. The bass drum hits are going, “Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop,” and then the..."

Nov. 2, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is being accomplished by significantly reducing current and future BOP budgets...."

July 30, 2004 Column

Fight Prison Privatization

"...is being accomplished by significantly reducing current and future BOP budgets. The BOP currently houses approximately 179,000 inmates in..."

July 27, 2004 Postmarks

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...as an announcement of intent. Starting off as a hard-bop sideman, Hancock has spent nearly 40 years changing colors,..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Cubanisimo!

Ray Barretto and the Roots of Afro-Cuban Jazz

"...it was there that he became aware of the bop revolution, partly through his association with Belgian vibist Fats..."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Central Avenue Sounds (Rhino)

Box Sets

"...of Greek descent. L.A. was also a center of bebop activity. Bop precursor Lester Young performs on a 1941..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

A Cultural Imperative

"...to the New Orleans style of George Lewis to bop and post-bop to AACM avant-garde. Delmark has also purchased..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...Dorham capably blended his older influences with newer bebop and hard bop sensibilities. He also played tenor sax,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Playback: Ramones Signer Seymour Stein Visits Local Mentees Residual Kid

Plus Casey Monahan's exit interview, James Petralli's new side project, and SXSW's 547 additional acts

"...saying, 'We're important.' You have to constantly renew that." Bop English..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Free as They Want to Be

"...musicians. Others had little harmonic knowledge and couldn't play bop or post-bop music very well, so it was understandable..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Jazz Sides

"...album stands apart. Where Sanchez et al fortify hard bop with rhythmic variety, Parker completely jettisons the forward momentum..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature

Album Review: Haslanger and Sailors Rebop Hard Bop

Local jazz legends offer a world-class collaboration on co-leader debut

"...surprise that the record zeros in on Sixties hard bop as a baseline for their vision. Happily, the pair..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Music Feature by Michael Toland

White Denim 2.0

Frontman James Petralli talks of the old days and a new era

"...and I took the guys on tour for the Bop English record a little over three weeks in Europe,..."

Feb. 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jamie xx Superstars Mohawk

UK DJ gets the sell-out crowd trading porn tongue and vodka saliva

"...synth R&B duo Prince Innocence preceded his set. Austin’s Bop English, the excellent new band from White Denim’s James..."

Aug. 3, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

News Ticker: August 30

All the news that's fit to blog

"...registration cards and state I.D.s. Thank goodness Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop lives in Wisconsin...."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

The Hightower Report

War on Terrorists Gets Goofier; and An Early and Exclusive Primary

"...list. Calling this purge the Standardized Chapel Library Project, BOP says it relied on "experts" to choose 150 books..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Drug offenders are eating up the federal prison budget

"...budget shortfall that could total $500 million next year. BOP director Harley G. Lappin announced the freeze earlier this..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...the complex, tightly packed chord structures used in the bop and post-bop eras didn't allow improvisers enough time to..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia)

Reissues

"...history. Davis' leading role in so many movements -- bop, cool, post-bop, modal, fusion, and the unnamed genre he..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...en Español group, Bloque, signed to David Byrne's Luaka Bop label, named themselves after the government commando unit sent..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...introduction to this upbeat and festive music is Luaka Bop's CD Music of the Brazilian Northeast, which contains music..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

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