Mardi Gras 2015: Local Gras and a Carnaval Comeback

Samba Police reassemble after 15-year hiatus

"...the mid-Seventies, has been the highlight of the Austin Samba School’s programming for the last 10 years. This year..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez

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Are you sure about that Rodney Reed death penalty? And, the second installment World Cup "Soccer Watch" from our esteemed publisher.

"...became concerned because players had stopped beating out their samba rhythms on the team bus on the way back..."

May 24, 2002 Column by Nick Barbaro

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."

"...Band, East-West (1966) Thirteen minutes of proto-acid rock, featuring samba rhythms and Bloomfield's dynamic exploration of Indian and Latin..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

'The Guardian' Recommends

Who better than the Brits to handicap SXSW UK?

"...jerkiness, while their last single, "Kiss of Life," integrated samba rhythms to create a frantic new dance hybrid. Lord..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Michael Cragg

The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...Harlow grew up in New York barrios where Afro-Caribbean rhythms drifted from record shops and bodegas. A Tito Puente..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Saturday Showcases

"...8pm, Club 115 Brazil isn't all samba rhythms and breezy bossa nova. Some musicologists argue that..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...most well-known of Brazilian musical forms, the 2/4 syncopated samba. The samba originated in Rio de Janeiro, created by..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Mixing Miami With Copacabana

A profile of Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

"...to lure listeners into the intoxicating vortex of Brazilian rhythms. Gil has the gift of coating even the most..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

The Last Shall Be First

New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin

"...and miniature train cars with robotic passengers. 2-4pm 2pm Sambaxé, Central Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Eighth.Classical Brazilian tunes and..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...cutting amalgam of spiritual jazz led by ancestral African rhythms. An electrifying version of Sun Ra's Space Is the..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Vamos Caetanear

"...drama, and rhythm of a song, where hundreds of samba drums drive the passion meter into the red at..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Brazilian Broadband

Gilberto Gil Q&A

"...In Rio for instance – the base city for samba and African rhythms as well as Bahia – both..."

Oct. 30, 2012 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Infinity and Beyond

Return to Forever captain Chick Corea takes his Millennium Falcon out of mothballs

"...while I began to want to play grooves and rhythms and lyrical melodies and so forth. One of the..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...erupts as the band starts hammering out their galvanizing, samba-inflected 1994 hit, "El Matador." Suddenly, Argentineans are surfing on..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Antonio Dionisio

Texas platters

"...Janeiro, Javaland picks up where Dionisio's 1994 debut Afro-Brazilian Rhythms left off: Brazilian-seasoned songs of the African diaspora. Here,..."

July 16, 2004 Music Review by David Lynch

Suba São Paulo Confessions (Six Degrees)
Caipiríssima: Batucada ElectRonica (Caipirinha Music)

"...Degrees)Caipiríssima: Batucada ElectRonica(Caipirinha Music) Midway through the dense jungle rhythms of Caipiríssima: Batucada Electonica, a spellbinding journey to the..."

June 2, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Sambaxé Macacada

Texas Platters

"...SambaxéMacacada The house band for Austin's popular Brazilian Carnaval, Sambaxé..."

April 14, 2000 Music Review by David Lynch

Live Music Recommendations: April 13-19

Texas Independence Fest grinds, Ibeyi smooths it out, and more

"...she moved to New York, adding electro and dance rhythms to the traditional samba and jazz of her native..."

April 12, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

La Bush Resistance

France and Israel put in a strong SXSW 07 showing, with Holland, Spain, South Africa, and Germany bringing up the International Bands' rear

"...SXSW veterans Daan and Tjees of zZz thrust organ/drum rhythms like the Doors – cock first, rock second –..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Winter's Tale

Tango and samba fit quite well in Austin Shakespeare's production of this romance, but the actors can't quite find the beat

"...In using tango and samba to distinguish between the two worlds of The Winter's..."

May 17, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Friday International Bands

Friday lists bleed both ways, backward and forward; know your lists!

"...Feel-good Musica Popular Brasileira is culled from the classic samba-rock and reggae of Sixties Brazil...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Thursday Sleepers

"...Eastern guitar and droning sitars to 1960s psychedelia, Afrobeat rhythms, and space-age atmospherics atop an indie rock foundation. The..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Off the Record

"...festivities with more traditional flavor, followed by the pulsing rhythms of Austin Samba School, former Grupo Fantasma frontman Kanko,..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Music Column

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...& KYPSKI11:15pm, Caribbean Lights Lacing strands of hip-hop, jazz, samba, and dancehall with felonious abandon, Dutch producers C-Mon &..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Ghandaia

Texas Platters

"...rock in "En el Alma" turns up the heated rhythms without breaking a sweat, while the title track excites..."

May 9, 2003 Music Review by Belinda Acosta

Suba

Record Reviews

"...Brazil in 1990 ... focused my research on Afro-Brazilian rhythms and native Indian music." Tributo, a pulsating amalgam of..."

April 19, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Moreno Veloso + 2 / Caetano Veloso

"...musical adventurers like Gilberto Gil made the "Tropicalismo" movement samba like the summer of love had been for squares...."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...as a top world-music draw last year. His reggae, samba, salsa, and soul-seasoned previous release, C'est La Vie, topped..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Rhythm is King

"...Latin music. Samba, salsa, merengue. Tango, son, vals. Mariachi, mambo, folk. Everything..."

June 25, 1999 Music Review by Jay Hardwig

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...the album -- mixing sad-sack cowboy ballads with Latin-Caribbean rhythms -- and that conceit is indulged immediately, as the..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

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