Top 10 National Albums of 2016

Our favorite picks from across the country

"...& Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

How La La Land Went From Pipe Dream to Musical Fireworks

Producers on creating a city of stars

"...be the perfect modern Nick and Nora. "The giant stroke of luck was Ryan and Emma coming on. If..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: Be a Champion

You have to silence the doubters, the boo birds and the armchair quarterbacks

"...size of your putter or the smoothness of your stroke, fix that shit – either physically or mentally...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Alejandro Escovedo Grinds Axes at ACL

Austin escapee kicks out the jams in his fifth taping for PBS

"...defunct punk greats the Fastbacks fused with Escovedo’s down stroke and up went the True Believers’ wall of amplifier..."

Dec. 1, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Luv Doc: Strew Your Seed

Usable knowledge in the agricultural sciences

"...But knowledge of agronomy? Nope. I'm still not entirely..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Sound on Sound Review: Cherubs

Reunited torrential Austin trio restarts a storm

"...the band thundered alive at the wet and blackened stroke of 6pm, shaking the charged, heavy air in a..."

Nov. 7, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...dog paddle (well, he did a slightly less attractive stroke) in the lake at one of the coves of..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Page Two: Moving Forward by Falling Backward

Keep on keeping on

"..."Again, 'an enormous stroke of good fortune' doesn't fully characterize it. I mean,..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Adult Play: Storm Thorgerson by Steve Miller

The joker and the LP art genius, an honest-to-God love story

"...I gave him $120,000 or something. He’d had a stroke, and was walking around with a cane, and he..."

July 29, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...("However Much I Booze") cuts as personal as a stroke, and the drummer's tidal pounding ("Dreaming From the Waist")..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

DVDanger: Fragile Minds

Dementia and Remember find terror in age

"...supporting actor), and scaring off the local bullies. A stroke means he’s becoming unwillingly dependent on others. “I’d rather..."

May 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Guy Clark 1941-2016

End Transmission: Adios Guy Clark, and Transmission Events as we knew it

"...could handle a paintbrush and he had a beautiful stroke, but his writing was very painterly too. A song..."

May 20, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Austin Cinema Limits

ACL doc fundraises, UT inherits Ian McLagan's personal collection, and ScoreMore for the kids

"...of the estate after his father died of a stroke in December 2014 in Austin – where the ivories-tickler..."

May 13, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Council Recap: Water and Housing

Council takes on excessive water bills, "missing middle" in housing

"...favor, and cut their workload in half at a stroke, if they just send a clear message to the..."

April 8, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

That Eighties Film

How Everybody Wants Some!! re-created history

"...After all, short-shorts and disco didn’t disappear at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve...."

April 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music: George Clinton

Three hours of barely controlled chaos and cosmic slop

"...“Flashlight,” “Bop Gun (Endangered Species),” “Up For the Down Stroke,” and “Atomic Dog,” and only occasionally ceding to the..."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Shakespeare's First Folio

Why the first collection of the Bard's plays is such a big deal and cause to celebrate on his 400th death anniversary

"...that's a reasonable culprit, as are plague, smallpox, a stroke, and, sad to say, syphilis. (Plus, there's a rumor..."

March 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Bandwagon: Blowfly’s Swan Song

Late porno parodist/dirty rapper’s final LP gets tribute tonight

"...when he probably had cancer, Alzheimer’s, suffered from a stroke, kidney failure, and liver failure – you couldn’t keep..."

March 16, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: Moving Panoramas

Jangling, surfy soundtrack to a kidnapping

"...“Tonight” commenced the group’s stroke-of-midnight set, melancholy, brooding. The former Texas Rollergirl recalled Best..."

March 16, 2016 Music Post by Neph Basedow

SXSW Film Review: My Beautiful Broken Brain

Doc opens a window into traumatic brain injury

"...Sodderland suffered an intracranial hemorrhage, or a kind of stroke resulting from congenital vascular malformation, at the age of..."

March 12, 2016 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Writer Pat Littledog

The Austin-based author of Afoot in a Field of Men is afoot again

"...Susanna" despite a left hand still slowed by a stroke suffered years ago. As opposed to the "don't you..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Kerry Dawson 1949-2016

Austin’s master of the radio graveyard shift passes on

"...problems, which began in 2000 when he had a stroke. “His body just gave out,” Booth appraised of his..."

Feb. 23, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

"Alex Diamond: Wette" at Not Gallery

An unlikely combination of violence, action, and watercolor stand out in this solo show

"...a pattern of dots, adipose-like folds, and others. The stroke is obliterated through the wetness of the substrate, leaving..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Playback: Re-HAAMing

HAAM needs you to re-up, Ian McLagan's been gone a year, and Hotel Van Zandt playroom Geraldine's restores our faith in hotels co-existing with live local music

"...One year ago today, Dec. 3, after suffering a stroke at home, Ian McLagan died in Austin at age..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...friend's sudden death ("For You Lucia," 2009), her brother's stroke ("Chambers," 2013) – through supreme musicality, supple physical expressiveness,..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Review: line upon line presents soft

line upon line percussion dials it down for season opener

"...watching Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk, and Matt Teodori strike, stroke, and tickle whatever items they're making sounds with, to..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Council Wrap-up

Staff not amused by some CMs' ideas on how to cut the budget

"...of the "concepts" proposed by the three Republican CMs: broad-stroke attempts to cut the budget as much as possible,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Rocky Horror Reissue – A Wild & Untamed Thing

A red vinyl adios to summer in Tim Curry’s lipstick

"...cult festishes (Legend). In July 2012, he had a stroke and only recently reappeared in June at an awards..."

Sept. 1, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Metaldom Will Miss Red 7

Closing club moshes this final week

"...wore the same elation everyone exited with upon the stroke of the witching hour. At 11:26pm, Royal Headache had..."

Aug. 24, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...recalled forgotten memories of her mother's lullabies after a stroke. He calls the condition "incontinent nostalgia."..."

June 19, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

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