Two New Music Documentaries About New Orleans Merge Genres and Generations

A river runs through it

"...Fans of film, music, and the city of New Orleans can enjoy a..."

May 20, 2022 Screens Feature by Michael King

Music From the Inside Out

Documentary filmmaker Daniel Anker spent five years with the Philadelphia Orchestra as they toured, rehearsed, and waxed poetic about the purpose of music in their lives.

"...Directed by: Daniel Anker. Sure, my experience with playing music began and ended with the sixth grade, a French..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Music of Chance

"...and not like the other. Filmmaker Haas moves from documentaries, where he chronicles the lives of visual artists, to..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: Cracking the SXSW Music Algorithm

If my phone broke and clickbait subsided, where would bring me joy at SXSW?

"...Streaming, which represented 75% of music industry revenue last year, stifles listener potential for finding..."

March 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

America's Music at Austin's Libraries

Austin Public Library gets noisy for this music doc series

"...the Terrazas Branch Library will host six nights of music documentaries as part of the Tribeca Film Institute's America's..."

March 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Other Music

History of a lost Manhattan record store keeps a basic tune

"...coronavirus pandemic, the release of record store documentary Other Music seems more than timely. The New York vinyl mecca,..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Three SXSW Documentaries Visualize SXSW Music

Somewhere you feel free

"...Co-directed with Paul Sng and co-written with music biographer Zoë Howe, the documentary focuses on Styrene's life..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Sheryl Crow Reflects Beyond the Music in New Documentary

No one said it would be easy

"...“I felt like documentaries were something that were made after you died in..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality

How documentarians pick a winner

"...guest into the “lounge” he’s set up (complete with music and beverages) in one of the school’s hallways. George..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Three Music Writers Descend Into the NFT Craze at SXSW

One NFT-fatigued, one NFT-Curious, and NFT-skeptical

"...I’m not slowly backing away from someone in the music world talking to me about NFTs. Roughly one-third of..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Wait, How Does SXSW Music Work Again?

Breaking down the basics, and some favorites, after three years away

"...supposed to channel this energy. What's South by Southwest Music all about again?..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...A brand-new documentary film, SoundTrek: A Musical Journey to Mount Everest, now streams exclusively on movie..."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...envelope with the longer tunes. It wasn't new to music because rock and jazz stretched out the solos, but..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Texas Music Group

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

"...caused a bit of a stir in the Austin music scene. It announced the "launch" of the Texas Music..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...YouTube series launched on the set of Little Mazarn's music video for "Vermont." After wrapping up filming in an..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music: Erykah Badu

Now you see her, now you don’t

"...end – very abrupt ends that include soliloquies about documentaries on Mexican occupation resistance. Actually, it was the tolling..."

March 17, 2016 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Music DVDs

"...and Frankfurt 2004 for Samuel Taylor Coleridge spin-off "Xanadu." Documentaries, motion picture-quality interstitials, tributes from South Park and Family..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

U2

Gift guide

"...U2 manager Paul McGuinness during one of four superfluous documentaries on a second disc of extras. "That's why we..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Music DVDs

"...Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Documentaries..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Shawn Badgley

Blackmore's Night

Gift guide

"...star for the Ren Faire crowd. Surrounded by sound musicianship and high-concept staging, the four hours of concert and..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Three SXSW Documentaries Visualize SXSW Music

Somewhere you feel free

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Dont Look Back Turns 50

AFS screens D.A. Pennebaker’s early Bob Dylan doc at the Paramount

"...tour of England, is a template for all the music documentaries that would come afterward. Released in 1967, the..."

Jan. 17, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Neil Young Journeys

Jonathan Demme hooks up with Neil Young for a road trip through Ontario, Canada, in their third documentary together.

"...Jonathan Demme now has a trilogy of Neil Young music documentaries to his credit and, as rapturous as it..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marley

Stir it Up: Finally, there's an authoritative film biography of Bob Marley.

"...the life of Bob Marley – the groundbreaking reggae musician who remains the voice of Jamaica and an international..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Scratching the Surface

Festival films, the Austin Music Awards, and the truth about South by Southwest

"...The retrospective this year celebrates music documentaries. Included are new prints of Bruce Weber's film..."

March 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Review: Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Band doc ends up being breathtaking look at community building

"...Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound is a music documentary that’s trying to stand out. Following the band..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Joe Strummer Was From Mars

The Future Is Unwritten, on DVD

"...close acquaintances. The results are one of the great music documentaries of all time. It’s a deeply engaging glimpse..."

July 23, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Story of the Weeping Camel

A story about a Mongolian camel and her newborn calf becomes a transfixing lesson about the rhythms of life.

"...Odgerel Ayusch and Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar. When William Congreve wrote, "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast," there’s no..."

July 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon

"...Schedules are emerging of acts and films for the Music and Film festivals as well as the conferences' topics..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...also been a longtime fan of our cornucopia of music, food, and people. On the stage of the Paramount..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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