The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...teen and post-teen combos whose distorted jambox and four-track tapes are dubbed from friend to friend with nary a..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Whut It Dew

They don't call DJ Rapid Ric the Mixtape Mechanic for nuthin'

"...In response, the genre is witnessing the reemergence of "mix tapes" – aka mix CDs – as the preferred..."

May 20, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Fantastic Fest: Starfish Clings to Grief

Writer/director AT White on how his own loss shaped his film

"...(Christina Masterson), and finding that there's more to the mix tapes she left behind than just some songs. And..."

Sept. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...With this track, Piña and producer Toy Hernández, the mix-master wizard for Monterrey's Control Machete, created a whole new..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Life, Animated

The magic of Disney unlocks a boy's mind

"...top of the TV/VHS that Owen regularly feeds well-worn tapes into. That’s the best angle to capture, head-on and..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters & Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves

In praise of dead and dying art forms, Parts I and II

"...The mixtape – another dead art form – was never about..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

Wheezing Spools: Cassettes in Electronic Music - Part I

Shriveled monoliths outweighed and overshadowed by vinyl

"...portable, isolated company in a Walkman; for the almighty mix tape; on road trips against a backdrop of monumental..."

July 16, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Walk Like Cleto

H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats

"...are the tracks full of chopped beats, hot DJ mixes, and improvised freestyles about supersized egos, insatiable sexual prowess,..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

DJ NickNack

Bavu Blakes turntablist DJ NickNack does his own creating and hustling.

"...of instrumentals, to his currently numerous weekly DJ performances, mix tapes, and albums, DJ NickNack has taken every chance..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Coletti

Austin Underground Veterans Immortalize the Nineties in New Oral History

A Curious Mix of People's Greg Beets and Richard Whymark plot October launch events

"...just about beloved, since-shuttered local music venues. A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin, recently..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

What the World Needs Now

David Lowery of Cracker reminisces.

"...the dubbing deck; people were dubbing cassettes and making mix tapes. As a corollary to that, bands were recording..."

Nov. 1, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Sara Smile

Those teeth, those lips, those songs -- the one and only Sara Hickman

"...skits, wrote the commercials and everything. I still have tapes from when I was little, announcing 'the watermelon seed..."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Chrontourage was at BookPeople Jan 27th

"...from his heartbreaking and hip memoir, Love Is a Mix Tape. The book documents Sheffield’s idyllic five-year marriage to..."

Jan. 29, 2008 Events Post

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...and an hour of turntable schadenfreude from DJs Lalo, Mixwell, Stylewarz, and Mad. Jeru the Damaja associate Afu-RA and..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Song Premiere: Walker Lukens’ “We See U”

Reworked tune kicks off new record club Nebraska-style

"...April 26, giving fans a crack at exclusive releases, mix tapes, and even private Zoom chats. He’s kicking off..."

April 17, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

LBJ Library Spotlights the Little House That Motown Built

Collection stars Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Supremes & more

"...Instead, lovers and dancers get a series of mix tapes that succeed in recontextualizing an eternally anthologized catalog..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Crime Month: Investigating True Crime on Netflix

Which shows deliver the criminal goods and are worth the watch

"...up content or producing its own (or even a mix of both)...."

July 25, 2018 Arts Post by Danielle White

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Anyone Buy a CD These Days?

With Guy Forsyth, Wren Anderson, Chad Nichols, Luna Tart, and more

"...complaint; I have a deep love of vinyl and mix tapes...."

Jan. 21, 2013 Music Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSWi 2013: MakerBot's Bre Pettis to Deliver Opening Remarks

But is it the real Bre Pettis or some creepy Thingiverse extrusion deal?

"...addition to heat-seeking death kittens and awesomely cool retro-USB mix tapes, both black and white hats at the NSA..."

Oct. 11, 2012 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

sxswi: Getting Folksy

Folkways, from the new mix tape to cockfighting knives

"...music is negotiating the tension between preserving culture and mixing culture, a new kind of folk music is emerging..."

March 12, 2011 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

Spotlight: Dizzee Rascal

Dirty South makes Brit rap star Dizzee Rascal dizzy

"..."See, I didn't come up doing mix tapes. It was pirate radio, illegal all the way...."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 1

"...DJ-oriented dance trax, local artists releasing their own bedroom mixes, white label 12-inchers, and live-set mix tapes at outlets..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Journals

Sheet Music

"...out back of a Wal-Mart, geekboy kills time with mix tapes, correspondence with Dale Crover, and his own damaged..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Welcome to the Underground

David Baerwald goes from Boomtown to bust-town, Austin.

"...they had this stamp that they put on rough mix tapes that were given to musicians and producers that..."

July 19, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Holly Golightly

Music Showcase

"...up front. Despite the fact that Golightly's trash can mixture of blues and rockabilly is backward-looking, her universal love-gone-wrong..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Picture Perfect

Life Aboard the Steamboat

"...Crooks would get the deejays to make his son mix tapes, it was clearly no place for a toddler..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Scare Package

Horror-comedy anthology pays tribute to the golden age of VHS

"...– those that appreciated how fragile the archive of tapes in run-down strip mall stores was – gathered together..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Living on the Air in Austin

Live Music Flourishes in the Studio

"...player, we started to amass a great collection of tapes. Just going through them, we realized we really had..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...single 9.0 rating. Most recently, it was Minneapolis quartet Tapes 'n Tapes, but in the past, Broken Social Scene,..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...call the geographical center of Asia home. Yat-Kha, however, mix this unique vocal style and technique with cantering guitar..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

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