How a Local Drummer Inspired Riz Ahmed’s Character in Sound of Metal

Revisiting Fuckemos drummer Sean Powell's Austin dives and Hollywood highs

"...With early acclaim rolling in for music drama Sound of Metal – currently holding a 95% fresh rating..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Reviews

Documentarian Alan Berliner explores his obsession with names, most specifically, his own name and the fact that he must share it with at least 12 other Alan (or Allen or Allan …) Berliners in the world.

"...The Sweetest SoundD: Alan Berliner. (16mm, 60 min.)..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Hollis Chacona

I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet

"...of archival and real-time footage and punctuated with pitch-perfect sound effects – lurked the steady gaze of Berliner the..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry

AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger

"...referred to Our Own Berliner's fourth film, 2001's The Sweetest Sound, in which Berliner brought together all the Alan..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

TV Eye

PBS's landmark documentary series, "Point of View," announces its summer lineup.

"...Alan Berliner's charming and visually intriguing film The Sweetest Sound is the second documentary in the POV series...."

June 15, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Page Two

SXSW: The glorious onslaught begins with film.

"...damn name? I'm at home watching Alan Berliner's The Sweetest Sound, a documentary about names (Anne S. Lewis, my..."

March 9, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Telling It Like It is

UT and SXSW host an all-day documentary summit.

"...spin, including Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter), Alan Berliner (The Sweetest Sound), and Alexandra Pelosi (director of the outrageously anticipated..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Richard Rodgers: These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

Three artists from Austin Musical Theatre's production of The Sound of Music share some of their personal observations about Richard Rodgers and his musical legacy.

"...artists working on Austin Musical Theatre's production of The Sound of Music with their favorite things about Richard Rodgers...."

Nov. 30, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chaos in Tejas Live (Saturday): Metalcore Mohawk

Rotten Sound, Baroness, Kill the Client, and Coliseum rip

"...stupefyingly dull set by True Widow, grindcore four Rotten Sound couldn’t help but look good Saturday at Mohawk. Capping..."

June 2, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

Car Stereo (Wars) v. Neiliyo

Local mash-up artists give it away now

"...of Car Stereo (Wars) and Neil Petty of Neiliyo sound off on the state of the genre and their..."

Aug. 4, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Make 'Em Laugh (And, Yes, Even Learn)

The Alamo Drafthouse inaugurates a new film appreciation series with Ninotchka

"...would have to wait another nine years for that sweetest sound: "Garbo Laughs!" It took someone very special to..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

"...of Dick Manitoba in the guitar and the vocals sound a tad more like Andy Partridge, and they do..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...of the leaders in the indie-folk movement with a sound both present and past. – Jim Caligiuri Not in..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW 2010

"...10pm, Encore Compositionally clean and sound as Baroness – whose John Baizley arts their covers..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...of his admiration for Miles Davis, he's crafted a sound largely around Davis' formative quintet of the late 1950s,"..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Reviews

"...begin with, so the tasteful addition of technologically ambient sounds and selective percussive enhancement only adds to the ethereal..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

The Sound of Music: The Sweetest Sounds

In its production of The Sound of Music, Austin Musical Theatre delivers Rodgers & Hammerstein's familiar songs with an ear for not just their beguiling tunefulness but their dramatic impact, so that the redemptive power of music makes itself heard again and again and again.

"...The Sound of Music: The Sweetest SoundsParamount Theatre,..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...true love? Yes, fairground attraction. Absurd as it may sound, Jumbo is the sweetest romance of the year. Somehow..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...221 S. Lamar in 1982, Austin's Smithsonian library of sound relocated seven years later. Kunz pointed down at the..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

How Green Is the Music?

Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony

"...Øya Festival; and Paul Diaz, owner of Atlanta's Tree Sound Studio, which has gone carbon-neutral in addition to helping..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

To Sir, With Love

The people whose lives were touched by Doug Sahm

"...with his magic briefcase will always be among my sweetest memories.Brooks Brannon, Hole in the Wall I loved that..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Texas Platters

"...musical exploration are wide open to Paul Newman, whose sound resides somewhere between the hard-grind post-punk rawk of The..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Review

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...the town's musical landscape. While the Armadillo's progressive country sound still dominated, the blues crying from Clifford Antone's eponymous..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...Höhne “Unexpected encounters that reveal themselves into just the sweetest thing ever.”..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...knows how to craft a joke so it doesn't sound like one. Brow makes it sound like a yarn..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...and it's not as amazing as everyone made it sound like it was going to be—and these kids build..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds' Joyful Noise

For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good

"...ivories, every note that's struck is echoed by what sounds like an angelic choir. And as Schumann continues to..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Have Love Will Travel with the Sonics

Guitarist Larry Parypa woke up 50 years later a punk godfather

"...were emulating us. They put out an album that sounded like the Sonics...."

June 12, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

UT School of Music

Ernest and Sarah Butler make the largest-ever donation to a music school at a public university

"...Of the many beautiful sounds heard around the University of Texas School of Music..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

U2

Gift Guide

"...off, the question remains: How could this album possibly sound better than it did on cassette in 1987? U2's..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

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