Elvis Died for Somebody's Sins but Not Mine: A Lifetime's Collected Writing

He died onstage, not on the page

"...Headpress, 420 pp., $19.95 (paper)..."

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ghetto Ghouls

"...Ghetto Ghouls(Monofonus Press)..."

May 23, 2014 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Crawl With the Authors of Your Favorite Books

The Texas Book Festival's Lit Crawl gets weird & boozy with 'em

"...and film connect, focusing on writers associated with small press publishing, creating an Austin home for independent authors and..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Miami Connection' Connects After 25 Years

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim reels as his 1987 flop becomes a 2012 cult

"...Miami Connection has been given the Drafthouse full court press. After a screaming screening at Fantastic Fest, where audiences..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Teatro Negro

Reunions, fundraisers, performance videos – trying to rein in local music as 2012 draws to a close

"...effectively ending a collaboration that won favor with the underground on 2008 EP Sistema de Terminación Sexual. Recorded in..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Everything Went Black: Let's Talk About Pron

Why cineastes should give a fuck about anti-porn rhetoric

"...when the va-va-va-voom photos he shot of Page became underground – and then, as ever, mainstream – sensations...."

Sept. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: The Second Story

Remembering the cowardice and dysfunction of the White House on 9 / 11

"...Soon after, a live press conference was given by one in authority: Joseph Lawless,..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Slanted & Enchanted

Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the 'live music capital' into a Casual Victim Pile

"...his near-century-old two-story home on Lindell Avenue, except to express his gratitude for the communal support that surfaced in..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

The Fab Four ruined so-called 'rock 'n' roll music'

"...History of American Popular Musicby Elijah Wald Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $24.95..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...of activist-oriented UT students, along with the creators of underground activist weekly The Austin Javelina, got their wish for..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature

Band on the Run

ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury, represents another new paradigm of indie music exposure in the post-label era of the music industry

"...dynamic duo's brand-new notoriety, a throng of college kids pressed against the outside stage supplanting the usual hipsterati. By..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Naked City

"...concept allowed CLB to put in two stories of underground parking and preserve 616 Ranch, which sits on the..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature

The Insomniac Reader

There is an impulse in all of us that is solicited by the night: to look in a stranger's window; to walk, alone, into a seedy bar; to dare to make that pathetic 3am call to an ex

"...Manic D Press, 255 pp., $13.95 (paper) There is an impulse in..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...music venue" – winning bands often come from the underground. Although a CD release is often a factor in..."

April 1, 2005 Column

Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...of the Blaze jazz quintet, the progenitor of an impressive 2004 solo release titled Improving Silence, and the creator..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...tried to rein in his behavior (later diagnosed as manic-depression) by giving him electroshock treatments that he claims erased..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...short rest before "right," but it's not meant to express skepticism. Right's like a lid: Once he says it,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

War Drums

"...book Rapid Dominance: Shock and Awe (National Defense University Press, 1996), which argues, "Theoretically, the magnitude of Shock and..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...person was possibly the most sterling example of peer pressure passing as independent consciousness in local history. And yet,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Mind Wide Open

D: Fuse, one of the world's biggest emerging DJs, hails from A-town.

"...singles to Chris Fisher of San Antonio label/record store Underground Sound, who then sent them on to various heavy..."

April 12, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...UK lads seem unfazed by the ever-fickle British music press having already tagged them with the "Brightest New Hope"..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM

As events unfolded on September 11, it became difficult to overcome the impression that no one was in charge.

"...moment, is unknown." Soon after that, the first live press conference by anyone in authority is given by whom?..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Where Are They Now?

The future of Music Televison

"...promised to an awful lot of people. The Internet Depression hit this country hard, and it's not just hearts..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Neighbors vs. Neighbors

A profile of the Central Texas struggle over Alcoa Rockdale and its plans for expansionAlcoa announces new "voluntary" emissions reductions.

"...entire area. In standard operation, the strip mine uses de-pressurizing wells to allow lignite excavation below the water table...."

July 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...Although exact details are slim as we go to press, Horton has posted a short memorial on http://www.ScriptDoctor911.com with..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Back Door Man

A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence

"...Bentley's credentials are certainly impressive enough. As a publicist, he's worked Los Lobos, Elvis..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...Hemingway's 100th birthday passed with small mention in the press. He is not PC these days. Declassé, as they..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Arista out of Austin?

"...Records president Clive Davis as the Chron went to press Wednesday, Cameron Randle, Vice President and General Manager of..."

April 17, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A Potpourri of Pages

On the Bookshelf

"...the future of the Internet is both promising and depressing. After all, we've never seen a faster-growing communications medium...."

Nov. 21, 1997 Books Review

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...by Joe Lansdale Mysterious Press, $22 hard..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

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