Dancing About Architecture

Doug Sahm returns from beyond, MP3s shake up Austin music, Hip Hop meets R&B, and the Watermelon Saga continues...

"...settled (you'll remember what that did to the Meat Puppets). Attal says the band is just off the road..."

April 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...crunch, topped off by Curt Kirkwood's nasty new Meat Puppets. Bask in it. (Outdoor Stage, Waterloo Park, 4:30-9pm) --..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

"...with a many-headed local lineup of Davíd Garza, Meat Puppets, and Ian McLagan's Bump Band. Again, thanks are in..."

March 10, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Pong

Pong bounces up from the ashes of Austin'd legendary Ed Hall.

"...Can, the KLF, Devo, Beastie Boys, and the Meat Puppets. Fitting their retro-futuristic aesthetic, the instrumental catalyst for Pong..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

A Sound Salvation

Austin's Class of 2000

"...Abra Moore, but also long-awaited returns from the Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers. There are familiar names taking new..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Music Feature

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Carlos Trevino, the wistful humanity of some very non-human puppets, and classy evening attire.Honorable Mentions: The Soldier Dreams (Subterranean..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...a musical flourish or two, and a couple of puppets...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...7. The Billy-Club Puppets (Tongue & Groove Theatre, 1995)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Music Critics Poll: 1999

"...Local Show: Meat Puppets, Stubb's..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Ten Ways to Entertain Yourself Home Alone on New Year's Eve

"...4. Using hand-puppets, re-enact pivotal scenes from the movie The Incredibly Strange..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW kicks into gear, Eric Johnson gets intense, and things keep falling apart

"...75-minute performance was almost as well-received as the Meat Puppets' preceding acoustic set was reviled by fratboy hat-types impatient..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Peglegasus Tired of Adventures (Entropic Carnival)

Texas Platters

"...of the album happily meandering through loopy, vaguely Meat Puppets-sounding songs like "Shark vs. La Foussa" and "La Fouche,"..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling: Poetry-Soaked World

Ada Calhoun covers Frontera Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere of Erik Ehn's Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.

"...gets hokey at times (for example, with papier-mâché planet puppets). But there are moments of "smoke and starlight," as..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Dancing About Architecture

A Fond Farewell to the Texas Tornado himself, Doug Sahm.

"...numerous shows dedicated to Sir Doug, from the Meat Puppets (featuring Shandon Sahm) at the Cactus Cafe where Curt..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Life and death on the live music club scene; Dale Watson escapes, Huey Meaux doesn't; and more tantalizing tidbits of Terpsichore...

"...tour the band is joining... Fans of the Meat Puppets can rejoice that their new London Records album (delayed..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...English economy, to American misanthropes like the Misfits, Meat Puppets, and Minutemen DIYing at the fringes of Dutch Reagan's..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

Museum-hopping in Houston.

"...visitors of all ages. The current special exhibit of puppets from the Papalote Children's Museum in Mexico City through..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Fatigue: Deep Feelings Spilled

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...to deal with loss and love, while interacting with puppets, a piano, a fishtank full of blood, and the..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Why Should Anyone Care Now?

"...opened for the Butthole Surfers, Hüsker Dü, and Meat Puppets all in one week, then opened for NRBQ two..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Kent H. Benjamin

Candy Store Rock

Ten Years Gone

"...entertained. Then there's Coyne, who with his gong, hand puppets, video projector, and fake blood, promises to do his..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Feature by Jason Cohen

A Very Select (and Edited) List of Bands Who Played Liberty Lunch

"...Wheel, Wendy O., Hüsker Dü, Sugar, Bob Mould, Meat Puppets, They Might Be Giants, Uncle Tupelo, GWAR, 10,000 Maniacs..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Youth in Crisis

"...Roots, a 2-CD, 24-track set featuring Lucinda Williams, Meat Puppets, Whiskeytown, Jayhawks, Gillian Welch, Vic Chesnutt, BR5-49, Kelly Willis,..."

July 9, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Exhibitionism

Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon

"...like the first, with surreal masked woodcutters (resembling gigantic puppets) lumbering about and Martin Blacker bursting charismatically on the..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Review

Postmarks

CSC: It's a Good Thing

"...to think that "bombing to bring peace," as Clinton's puppets recite on the talk shows, is both an oxymoron..."

April 2, 1999 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...the Cosmonauts, Waco Brothers, Neko Case, Cibo Matto, Meat Puppets, Asylum Street Spankers, Exene Cervenka, ¡Viva Malpache!, Sister 7,..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...If Godzilla Motor Company's appearance at the Meat Puppets SIMS benefit a few weeks ago left you jonesing..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

"...way, with their SIMS benefit starring the new Meat Puppets. Besides helping the musicians' mental health organization, the club..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Arts Critics Poll BIGGEST ARTS STORY OF 1998

"...Robi Polgar - Puppets make it to the bigs! Who needs actors? BIGGEST..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature

Growth Spurt

Nine Shows That Transported Me

"...a singing Moon, a wistful figure in rose, and puppets who voyage to the bottom of the sea, Steve..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What? 1998's Over?

Nine Tv Faces We'll Miss

"...(1934-1998). Hard to imagine that someone could make sock puppets charming but that's just what Lewis did, endearing us..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

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