Uchibā Is Serving Vintage With a Twist

Sushi, scallops, and surprises from the newest Uchi offshoot in Downtown

"...visits – and even with a full house, the noise level works. Well done, Uchibā playlist-maker, with your Thundercat..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Temple of Angels' Joyful Dream-Pop Return and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Sabrina Ellis, DAIISTAR, Wilson Marks, and more

"...Courtesy of noise-pop quartet DAIISTAR, here's a recipe for a hypnotically raucous..."

May 19, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Seismic Dance Event Shows More Than a Market for House and Techno in Texas

Macrodosing the Concourse Project’s multi-gen fest

"...DJ acts worth of bass rumbles and perceptually intrusive/welcome noise this past Friday through Sunday. To the ears of..."

Nov. 15, 2022 Music Post by Christina Garcia

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday

Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights

"...this?” distraction (rateyourmusic.com has her tagged as “Progressive Pop,” “Noise Rock,” “Japanese Hip-Hop,” among many other equally unsatisfactory designations..."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy

Overcoming grief and exploring sobriety, Tim Showalter finds himself In Heaven

"...has crossed a threshold on his journey. He's sober, joyful, and on the precipice of releasing his eighth full-length..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

Powell St. John Brought Us the Message, 1940-2021

Psychedelic visionary and Janis Joplin bandmate – a "man for the ages"

"...On their top 100 charting 1969 LP Make a Joyful Noise, St. John wrote the excellent vagabond country tune..."

Aug. 23, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Love Wheel Records Rolls In

Austin music mainstay Mike Nicolai retails vinyl and Indoor Creature parties at the Ballroom

"...Adult Rodeo, which relaunched last year in partnership with Joyful Noise...."

June 18, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Born Stupid (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise)..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Ethan Billips' unyielding table of gear and the guitar-n-tape noise of Max Deems, resulting in a nearly 20-minute beast..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 18-24

"...philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I encourage you to adopt that joyful mandate as your own. It's a perfect time to..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Flatbed Press Is Open for Art Tours

Local epicenter of handprinting excellence uncloses itself

"...But let’s make a joyful noise unto the bored, as the Flatbed Center for..."

May 8, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...rather brief 12 tracks. Genre-hopping abounds via brisk and joyful strides through synth-pop, synth-wave, experimental beatmaking, and other electronic..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Hug

"...by local percussionist and experimental stalwart Thor Harris for Joyful Noise's White Label Series (he joins fellow 2019 curators..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Music Review by Greg Stitt

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"..."And it's just twanging and noise. There's no organization! And with Doug at the top..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake

Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more

"...Thor Harris of Swans fame has been named Joyful Noise Recordings' 2019 Artist in Residence. The outspoken local..."

April 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Review: Mavis Staples

The freedom highway extends all the way to the Clive Bar

"...The Chicago native spread joyful noise with the Staple Singers for nearly half a..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...compilation tape. Identical twins Mana and Kana lead the noise rock onslaught, channeling a punky Basement Jaxx on recent..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Page Two: The Good Songs We Need to Sing Together and Loud

Celebrating love and resistance at Terry and Jo Harvey Allen's 55th wedding anniversary

"...don't bemoan and despair – sing and make a joyful noise. Pray as you have always prayed and as..."

July 14, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Playback: Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee: A New Campaign

Begin your write-in campaign for Poison 13 duo Tim Kerr and Mike Carroll to reunite Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee – possibly at Grizzly Hall, with Leo Rondeau opening!

"...chant skronk. The LP advertises such euphoric chaos as "joyful noise."..."

May 27, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds' Joyful Noise

For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good

"...some of her chamber music loyalists may hear just noise. But as Reynolds sagely notes, what sounded dissonant and..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

National Top 10s

Best non-local albums of 2015 – by genre

"...8) Reptar, Lurid Glow (Joyful Noise)..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Quiet Company

"...of closer "Midnight at the Dairy Palace" erupt with joyful noise. Quiet Company arrived on We Are All Where..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Conspirare's Christmas at the Carillon with Ruthie Foster

The season's most glorious sounds – performed beyond the Carillon.

"...to raising, as the good book puts it, a joyful noise unto the Lord?..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Joyful Noise

How Saengerrunde Hall learned to sing a new tune

Sept. 19, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Make a Joyful Noise

‘Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton’ is revelatory

"...A proponent of joyful pansexuality and a queer activist long before there was..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gay Place

Do you know BoyMonroe?

"...GAY GOSPEL: SOUL TRAIN Bring your lord unto this joyful noise featuring Zane Xena, Jessica Kitty Buick, DJ GirlFriend,..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Column

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

"...Last time joyful noise proprietor Robert Randolph walked out the studio, he..."

April 11, 2014 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Farewell, Jordan Smith

Staffer to join First Look Media

"...has also been an inspiration, a vital presence, a joyful noise, an irreplaceable friend to every Chronicle staffer (especially..."

March 21, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Farewell, Jordan Smith

Longtime ‘Chronicle’ staffer to join The Intercept

"...has also been an inspiration, a vital presence, a joyful noise, an irreplaceable friend to every Chronicle staffer (especially..."

March 19, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...multi-instrumentalist broke out with his 2012 solo debut, 151a (Joyful Noise). Suddenly, the elegantly surreal violinist, who performs solo..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

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