AltWeeklies Wire
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's 'Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo'new
Flow and connectivity: two things Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta, At the Drive-In) fails to supply.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-16-2007 |
Reviews
Spoon's 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga'new
Spoon's sixth LP beams with decades of research and development by one Britt Daniel.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Safe Crackingnew
Longtime screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank talks about The Lookout.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
03-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Lookout
Indie Rockers Go Majornew
Austin's Sound Team is rewriting the definition of major label band, with fingers crossed.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
10-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sound Team, Movie Monster
Tom Petty Comes Back Home
Petty’s third solo album and 13th overall is a glimpse into the soul of a musicman.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
10-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Highway Companion, Tom Petty
Over the Edge
Mars Volta has dived head first into the abyss of self-indulgent, brain-fried, mad-tapping wankery -- but this you already knew.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
10-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: the Mars Volta, Amputechture
Creep Out
The Knife is rewriting the definition of electro-pop.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
10-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Silent Shout, The Knife
Amy Millan Goes Solo
Amy Millan, the elfish voice behind Stars and collaborator with Broken Social Scene, worked for three years on her debut solo album -- surprisingly, Honey From the Tombs is the furthest thing from indie rock.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
10-07-2006 |
Reviews
Young Heart Attack Rocks Out Texas Style
Mouthful of Love is a short ride to a good time, a hair more than 35 minutes of drug-addled, sex-crazed, head-bangin’ blues rock – just enough to tease, not enough to revolutionize.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Biographer Martin Roach Phones in This White Stripes Book
A grammatical nightmare, Morphing the Blues is not an insightful look into the "mysteries" of the White duo, as it claims to be; it is simply a restatement of everything we already know, as well as a very detailed history of Detroit.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Nonfiction
UT's College Radio Station Masters the Mix-Tape
This eighth installment of tracks from the college radio station’s touted Local Live Sunday night show shines with a melange of genres and an honest representation of Austin’s rabid music scene.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Midlake's Debut Full-Length Is a Masterpiece
Somewhere in the sea of disenchantment floats Midlake, kept adrift by rolling waves of keys and Tim Smith’s lighthouse vocals that warn of future doom and tell life’s stories, and the Denton quintet’s full-length debut, Bamnan and Slivercork, comprises limestone layers and swirling pools, dreamscapes and foggy mornings.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Midlake, Bamnam & Slivercork
Austin's Li'l Cap'n Travis Build up Steam for the Future
This is Li'l Cap'n Travis, five grown Austinites taking life one breath at a time and preparing to take over the world.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
PJ Harvey's Newest Proves She's Still the Queen
Four years after PJ Harvey illustrated Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, her voice growls with unbelievable ferocity and passion with Uh Huh Her.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Trail of Dead Kill at Last-Minute Austin Show
Austin’s anarchist sons, Trail of Dead, rock a new lineup carrying a batch of tracks off their recently completed, Mike McCarthy-produced album set for a late-September release.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Concerts
