Herb Alpert’s School of Music

Trumpeter’s alums include Waylon, Satchmo, and Karen Carpenter

"...but he also became a major force in the music industry itself. Now 80, he performs at the One..."

Sept. 24, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

"...This past November, the North Door hosted house music history. A more electronic and minimalist offshoot of the..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Backbeat to the Music

Pete Best at Threadgill's.

"...as the band ably shifted into “Rock & Roll Music.” The old hippies in the crowd were game enough..."

July 2, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Frank Kozik (1962-2023), the Man Behind a Poster Revolution

How Austin shaped the punk artist behind print mania

"...Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962 during the Franco regime. "It was a fascist country,"..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Music Man (1962)

Seventy-six trombones

"...paints the picture of that brass orgy in The Music Man, it's not just visible in your mind's eye;..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Dangerous Music

"...(l-r): Laura Krause, John Brewington, Cisco Ryder, Aaron Blount,..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

2005-06 Austin Music Awards

"...Austin Music Hall..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

SXSW Music Interview: Mastodon

Prog-metal giants go heavier yet

"...Heavy music, heavier subject matter, Emperor of Sand finds Mastodon trudging..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Sheet Music

"...The decades have not been kind to James Brown's 1962 breakthrough, Live at the Apollo. At 31 minutes, there's..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

"...too many boom-to-bust cycles to count, but while classic musicality and clever songwriting have earned them an arm load..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

"...in Room Full of Mirrors, Hendrix claimed homosexuality in 1962 as his ticket out of the Army's famed 101st..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Bettye LaVette

"...a 40-year tenure within the deepest recesses of the music industry. In 1962, at the age of 16, she..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Music Critic's Poll 1998

"...Quintet 1965-'68 Best Soundtrack The Power and the Glory: Music and Voices of NFL Films He Got Game Bulworth..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

Flatt & Scruggs

Gift guide

"...half-hour shows and concentrate on late 1961 and early 1962, a period when Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...how far they've fallen, go back 40 years to 1962...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Backbeat

"...of the Beatles, covering the years between 1960 and 1962 before Beatlemania seized the world. Centered primarily on their..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Experimental Films

"...mainstay of the avant-garde film scene. Conner was making music videos back before music videos were invented, as will..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Psycho Beach Party

This campy send-up of surf and slasher movies uses Gidget movies as its comic template.

"...knowing abandon. Set largely on a Malibu beach in 1962, Psycho Beach Party throws together a wannabe surfer girl..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On Chesil Beach

Desire and desperation in Ian McEwan's pre-sexual revolution novella.

"...gossips with Iris Murdoch, who only listens to classical music...."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Manchurian Candidate

Is it Gulf War syndrome or justified paranoia? The Manchurian Candidate thrills again.

"...blasts into its starting place on a shrapnel-storm of music. The sound is the first thing you notice about..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thanks Barbara Lynn

Empress of Gulf Coast soul graces the North Door Saturday

"...Barbara Lynn’s debut single, 1962’s “You’ll Lose A Good Thing,” soared to the top..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Man

Bobby “Blue” Bland (1930-2013) made me one too

"...I always looked to when I wanted to hear music that touched the heart. Bland taught me what soul..."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Insidious: Chapter 2

All the same gang's back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.

"...a good way. An early shot of Herk Harvey's 1962 Carnival of Souls telegraphs pretty much everything you need..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Variations on Carol of the Bells

Mermen, movies, and Whitney pulled me under for Christmas

"...Christmas music trends like any other. Mindblowing roadshow, Austin barn burning,..."

Dec. 24, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Girls on the Bus

Girls groups, from the back of the bus to Rhino Records.

"...as I boarded the bus during third grade in 1962, down in the desolate suburbs of southeast Houston. We..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Dueling Banjos

Is old-time music Austin's next big thing?

"...Center some Wednesday evening, you'll encounter a group of musicians sitting near a corner of the dance floor and..."

March 30, 2007 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

Checking In: Alex Coke Plays Saxophone In His Driveway

ATX tenor titan stops, looks, and listens – then blows!

"...“Tough Texas Tenor” described Dallas native and Austinite since..."

July 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Nine Essential Albums From Willie Nelson’s 90 Years

Wishing the Texas outlaw icon a Willie nice birthday

"...Born Willie Hugh Nelson on April 29, 1933, the..."

April 28, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

A Culture 50 Years in the Making: The Kerrville Folk Festival Experience

Life-altering and deep-listening scenes from the oldest music festival in Texas

"...by the Kerrville experience. It was there the Amarillo-born musician met her songwriter husband. They both quit high-paying jobs..."

May 20, 2022 Music Feature by Hank Erwin

Page Two: The Suburbs

Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary

"...It's a music story – a story of the blues and jazz..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Louis Black

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