Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...it, but Keith Reynolds is performing his pratfalls in the right place. Younger sibling of this evening's guest of..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Not New Golden Arm CD

"...Dear Editor: In regard to your review of the Golden Arm Trio CD The Cry Pitch Carrolls ["Texas..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Postmarks

The Blue Noise Band

Austin neo-jazzsters the Blue Noise Band

"...As the title of their debut suggests, the Blue Noise Band..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...The Killer Bs must be proud of A-Town. The shades..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Singing Out for the Sound of Silent

Score one (or seven) for silent film

"...creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains..."

March 31, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Anyone Buy a CD These Days?

With Guy Forsyth, Wren Anderson, Chad Nichols, Luna Tart, and more

"...We mean, seriously, who the hell needs CDs anymore?..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Music Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...It's tough to be an experimental filmmaker these days. Not only do you have to find a..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...7 Rooms to the Soulby Ariel Dance Theatre..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...The house lights are still up as the crowd files..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Czars Were Brightly Shining

"...Once you learn that the band's aesthetic approach to songs is to imagine them..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Decade on the Vanguard

No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!

"...school grads from Brown showed up in town, proclaimed themselves a theatre company, and aimed to prove it by..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: And the Award Goes To ...

The Grammys went bust, but their local equivalent – the 34th annual Austin Music Awards – just dropped its star-studded lineup

"...Monday night, I submerged into the couch and stared at my television, cross-eyed and drooling,..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Mommy, Why Is Chris Black Gonna Be Drunk at the Funeral?

Just ask Graham Reynolds at the Dive Bar on Monday

"..."There's a right way and a wrong way to do..."

Nov. 1, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...organization for committed dramatists. Two plays each night: Lea Matthews/John Walch Thu; C. Francis Blackchild/Amparo Garcia Crow Fri; Paulette..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How About Some Music a Little out of the Ordinary This Weekend?

It’s not only rock & roll, but we fucking love it

"...Edge, as they say, cutting? Some of it...."

Aug. 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dispatches From the Edge

A roundup of the FronteraFest 2001 Long Fringe.

"...As if the original version of FronteraFest, the annual performance jamboree, didn't..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Why Is the Dionysium at Hyde Park Theatre this Wednesday?

What dire, contrail-spewing, conspiratorial forces are to blame?

"...intellectual entertainment and wine-fueled argumentation is … taking over The House of Webster for its latest show? WTF?..."

April 30, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across the Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2008

"...Austin) So Ballet Austin took a creation myth from the complexly warped imagination of visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock,..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Sounds of Silence

"...you may have thought, if you were one of the 700 or so people packed into Emo's on a..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Lost World

"...Wallace Beery and Bessie Love. Live musical accompaniment by Golden Arm Trio and Brown Whörnet. This precursor to King..."

Sept. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scavengers of the Vast Wasteland

Whether they're riffing on punk, metal, funk, jazz, film scores, or even klezmer music, Brown Whörnet attacks each passage with a vociferous intensity that seldom fails to keep an audience at attention.

"...You don't have to wade too deep into the Op/Ed section of any newspaper to find some egghead..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Golden Hornet Project

Since Mozart isn't writing any new chamber music, the Golden Hornet Project is picking up the slack with concerts of new works for small ensembles by local composers

"...The drag about all that great chamber music that Mozart..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shawn Sides and Graham Reynolds: Rude and Golden

How two of Austin's top creative stars meld a busy life of art and love

"...romantic situation, more than merely a domestic living arrangement. There's sheet music strewn across a floor; there's a punked-out..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast

Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production

"...On Friday, August 2 of this year, the Texas city of Galveston gets blown to smithereens...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District

"...Dust in the Wind..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on

"...City Limits taping on Thursday and not just because the studio had removed its seats for the occasion. The..."

March 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across The Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2007

"...1) "City Folk" (1906 Gallery) The first solo show by painter Christa Palazzolo featured 3-foot-by-4-foot..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Story of Davy

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum devotes a summer film series to that immortal coonskin cap-wearer, Davy Crockett.

"...The battle cry, of course, is to remember the Alamo;..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The 10th Annual Austin Jazz & Arts Festival

"...Johnny Adams Year 10 for the Austin Jazz & Arts Festival, which runs this Sunday,..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature

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