The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963

Local music journalism pioneer takes on all of rock & roll

"...Many a rock history's been written. Rolling Stone made three attempts, the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Seven Sci-Fi Rock Flicks

Bowie, Kiss, Flaming Lips, Guitar Wolf, Frank N. Furter, and Marty McFly: celluloid rockers

"...The Rocky Horror Picture Show..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Round Rock Drops Charges Against Immigration Demo Students

City Council saves face, and possibly a lot of money, by voting to drop misdemeanor charges against 70 students involved in pro-immigration demonstrations last spring

"...On April 12, Round Rock City Council saved face, and possibly a lot of..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosionby Paul Grushkin and Dennis King..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Whither Rock?

ii.

"...fall of 1991, money did indeed change everything in rock, and it changed it swiftly, and irrevocably...."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Gina Arnold

Round Rock Crushes Far-Right Candidates Running for School Board

Progressives won the day

"...Well, it's over – for now, anyway. Round Rock families and educators (and students!) are breathing a sigh..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Round Rock Superintendent Put on Leave

Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez's paid leave is pending the results of an external investigation over abuse, fidelity allegations

"...A group of conservative Round Rock ISD parents celebrated the district's decision last week to..."

Jan. 14, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Round Rock ISD Considers Recommendation That Superintendent Leave Amid Abuse Allegations

The latest development in a culture-wars-fueled fight against progressive RRISD Board

"...and feathers and dragon scales keep flying at Round Rock ISD, where dozens of parents, and now the Texas..."

Jan. 7, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Parents' Rally Accuses Round Rock ISD of Corruption

As tensions mount between conservative parents and the school board, statewide figures join the fight

"...by more than 40 parents and others outside Round Rock ISD's administration building on Dec. 1. As district trustees..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...The 571-pager, largely penned by Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond, flips through a..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback – ACL Fest: Dad Rock Is Dead

Wrapping weekend one of ACL Fest on the eve of the second iteration

"...than ever, kids own ACL Fest. Once a dad rock event where spawn were dragged along for headliners like..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Rock, Then Surf, en Español

Austin-based tastemaking website La Banda Elástica puts the emphasis on worldwide

"...Music – some might specify rock & roll – is the one language that knocks..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

ACC Campus on Round Rock Ballot

Round Rock voters will decide what could be ACC's largest campus

"...After a whirlwind courtship, Austin Com­mun­ity College and Round Rock-area residents may finally tie the knot if voters on..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...Is Rock Dead?..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Long Live the Rock

"...with Mike Luther ("Postmarks," Jan. 16) when he describes rock & roll as being built on simplicity, I have..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Postmarks

Rock Is From the Soul

"...reading a lot lately about the analytical forms of rock music, one guy even going so far as to..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Postmarks

Rock & Roll Ghost

Paul Westerberg looks forward, talks backward.

"...2-CD Stereo, composed of the gentler "Stereo" and the all-rock "Mono" (his second disc under the pseudonym Grandpa Boy),..."

May 3, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Rock the Boat

Atheist or Agnostic?

"...retired after working more than 30 years for the Comptroller's office, dresses neatly and wears a large-faced watch. His..."

Nov. 20, 1998 News Feature by Karen Olsson

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...the aggressive technology and energetic commercialism of not just rock & roll, but also Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Nevertheless,..."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

First Look: Pedroso’s in Round Rock

Pizza prodigy brings Detroit style to the other Rock City

"...The two recently opened their second trailer at Round Rock Tavern at 113 West Main Street in downtown Round..."

Jan. 29, 2024 Food Post by Haris Qureshi

Round Rock ISD Repels Invasion by Worm People

Voters in RRISD soundly reject an attempt by MAGA and QAnon-aligned conservatives

"..."You're about to go down the most interesting rabbit..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Friday’s Latinx Mega-Stream Proclaims Rock the Border, Stop the Wall, and Vote!

Online rally stars G-Fantasma, B-Pumas, G-Chavez y mucho mas

"...Thus, Friday’s Rock the Border, Stop the Wall online concert features considerable..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips: Round Rock Honey

Take a sweet trip to the land of golden sauce

"...Round Rock Honey opens the sweet world of bees to closer..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

"We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections From the Lisa Davis Archives"

The photos capture the kineticism of Austin's lesbian music scene in the Nineties and the magnitude of the photographer's legacy

"...extensions of memory that bring communities together. "We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections From the Lisa Davis Archive" aims..."

July 6, 2018 Arts Review by Beth Sullivan

The Show That Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock

"...hands with The Show That Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock. A genre almost as mocked,..."

June 16, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield

“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."

"...Dylan hunkers down in Columbia Studios attempting to apply rock & roll sonics to his beat verse. He's as..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

John Carpenter, Rock Star

Filmmaker as synth-pop pioneer horrifies the Moody Theater June 23

"...point I sat down at a piano and starting rocking some octaves together [scats the rhythm again], and going..."

June 15, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pawn Shop Rock

In hock? We've got just the ticket!

"...I'm living on Chinese rocks, All my best things are in hock. Everything is..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Lou Reed’s Rock & Roll Heart

Saved by that which he revolutionized

"...and others had changed the channel completely for how rock & roll was being experienced. Sure, we had the..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Ageless Climate of the Rock Star

Jason McMaster of Dangerous Toys: “I Don’t Regret Anything”

"...was in its 1980s glory, and the full-tilt Southern rock attack of Dangerous Toys' singles “Teas’n, Pleas’n” and “Scared”..."

Nov. 30, 2011 Music Post by Margaret Moser

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