Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sterling Morrison Birthday Tribute, Being Dead, Rod Wave, Shinyribs, Jason Eady, and Natalie Jane Hill with Julian Neel

"...argument that guitarist Sterling Morrison was the most influential musician to ever call Austin home. His petri dish of..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Giant Dog Teases Impending Concept Album

Austin punk quintet transports partygoers to “Avalonia”

"...to lead “normal” lives, but to the kind of musical experiences that make Austin a special place to reside...."

May 24, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend

Oh, the places you’ll go! The people you’ll see!

"...does for original-practices Shakespeare, that’s what the Texas Early Music Project is doing with Carmina Burana this weekend –..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend

In glorious addition to Fusebox and Moontower, of course

"...Moontower Comedy Festival. The edge-cutting brilliance of performance and music known as Fusebox Festival. Dig 'em this weekend, because..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

“Julie Libersat: Paved Paradise” at W&TW

This interactive solo exhibition may have you looking at malls in a very different way

"...has that same chirpy, jingly, aspartame-sticky sound as the musical pap piped through those colossal consumer cathedrals back in..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

On Polish Screens, the Past Stays in the Picture

Films from the past and present screen at the Austin Polish Film Festival

"...Hancock: She was a woman who loved poetry and music and who had a love for Romanipen, the Romani..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Austin Lyric Opera

What the 'Faust' – an opera with a nightclub scene?

"...Charles Gounod's 1859 operatic adaptation was originally set in medieval Germany, director Bernard Uzan has reinvented the production for..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Rachmaninov Vespers

Conspirare gave a balanced, brilliant performance of this jewel of sacred choral music

"...to perform one of the jewels of sacred choral music...."

March 6, 2009 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Trio Mediaeval

Live Shot

"...Pure voice, as exemplified by Trio Mediaeval, requires three music stands, two folding chairs facing each other stage left..."

March 30, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Conspirare

For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD

"...majestic, soaring on ancient wings as Pizzetti draws on medieval traditions that evoke angels singing within great Gothic cathedrals...."

April 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wondrous Journey

At Conspirare's concert Wondrous Journey, the sheer pleasure that this choral ensemble's members take in singing shone through even more resplendently than usual

"...of the sacred, opening with a plainchant, the even, medieval tones establishing an atmosphere hushed and holy, contemplative and..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Bride From Hell

The Austin Chronicle's style avatar wants your wedding to be the peachiest. Here, he offers helpful hints to make your wedding panning that much less disastrous.

"...flowers, the food, the hair, photo- and videographers, the music ... oh, yeah, and the groom -- culminate in..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Frontier Television

"...works using very different experimental styles -- digital graphics, music video, and documentary -- invoke the rebellious spirit of..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Feature

Day Trips

"...Austin hidden in the Hill Country. They have live music, arcade games, and a casual menu. Best of all,..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Memphis Goons

"......"

March 28, 1997 Music Feature

Libbi Bosworth

"...Austin's country music scene has been described in these pages as an..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature

Day Trips

"...because everyone seems to be having fun in the medieval village...."

Oct. 13, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Sterling Morrison

"...longer than any other member, yet often remained a musical enigma after the band broke up 25 years ago...."

Sept. 8, 1995 Music Feature

Being Dead

Debut LP uses fairy tales as a heartfelt, irreverent rock escape

"...Being Dead exists within a fantasy. Nostalgics privy to..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Best Things That Happened in Austin Beer This Year

Pregaming Austin FC at Hopsquad, Austin Beer Guide's Lager Jam, Live Oak Rauchfest, and seven more hoppy highlights from 2022

"...Aside from that, there's a full day of live music from ABGB's taproom stage to pair with your sessionable..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Chronophage on Their Salty-Sweet, Self-Titled Third LP

The bicoastal band explores “a place where I am in love and the world is ending”

"...compelling, but placeless. The high-contrast fundamental fruit matches the music – splashing down between the romantic, brash iconography of..."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Kacey Musgraves interprets heartbreak as chaotic, glamorous fever dream with star-crossed

One-time Austinite takes control of her own story in film debut

"...and debut as a filmmaker. The narrative around her music was already set: The followup to 2018’s triumphant Golden..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Post by Abby Johnston

10 Must-Visit Independent Austin Bookstores

For those still enamored by the written word

"...owners named the store after the Malvern Hills in Medieval Middle English poet William Langland’s epic, The Vision of..."

June 29, 2019 Arts Post by Sam Russek

Snapshot: 24 Hours in Angers

David Brendan Hall dives in to the cultural details of Austin's sister city in France

"...Creative, which facilitates cultural exchange between enterprising types like musicians, chefs, and visual artists...."

July 27, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Spring Things to Do in (or Around) Austin

How and where to take the most advantage of this weather.

"...A family-friendly (medieval) affair complete with jousting, costumes, and turkey legs. Whether..."

March 29, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...entered was adorned with all the trappings of a medieval institution of higher magical education: walls painted like a..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

The Mystic Western Game Jam Looks to the Stars

Local game collective Juegos Rancheros needs you to pick your favorite

"...story about Old West “cobys” and their adventures in medieval Europe. Giddy-up...."

July 5, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Luv Doc: Speculation

The facts are merely ornaments that adorn the Luv Doc's mighty Douglas fir of speculation

"...This is one of those many instances when as..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Robin Hood: An Elegy

Rough edges aside, Generic Ensemble Company's new work makes an urgent statement that #blacklivesmatter

"...falls in love with Marian (Chelsea Manasseri). The Renaissance-era music gives way to contemporary strains, and soon Robin encounters..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Song in His Heart

'The Essential Jacques Demy' anthologizes the French New Wave's chief romantic

"...sung dialogue, and the latter high-kicking a more traditional musical while dipping in and out of song as if..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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