The Austin Company

SXSW News: Adds Include DEATH, Voivod, Neon Indian, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Trae Tha Truth and Chamillionaire & Paul Wall, Together Again

This past week a few Houston musicians began getting their dreaded SXSW rejection notices; most notably we heard that Robert Ellis' entry was not accepted. That's a tough bullet to take, considering how well his band does on Wednesday night at Mango's and the quality of his solo album. Either way E ... More >>

Afermath: The Sword Puts Some Thin Lizzy Boogie In Its Mystical Metal

Photos by Marc Brubaker / Click here for a slideshow​While Aftermath was watching The Sword at Warehouse Live Sunday night, our mind went forward, H.I. McDunnough-style, into our own future. We imagined ourselves waking up on some less-than-velvet morning 20 years hence, cracking open a cold ... More >>

ACL 2009 Day Three: In Which We Fall In Lurve With White Dress

Photo by Craig Hlavaty​White Dress opened for the Heartless Bastards on Thursday night in Houston, while we were at Them Crooked Vultures in Austin. We finally got to catch them just a few minutes back and sweet mama was it nice. The Austin-based band, led by the raven-haired Arum Rae, kicked the ... More >>

Random Notes from ACL: The Grass Is Always Greener...

Chris GrayIt's a little more crowded than this at Zilker now, but it was fun while it lasted.​ The grass is especially sweet at this year's ACL festival. The new turf at Zilker Park is nice too.Now we are in the media tent, surrounded by friends and family: Rocks Off's Austin Chronicle mentor (and ... More >>

Aftermath: New York Dolls & Black Joe Lewis at the House Of Blues

Photos by Daniel Kramer Aftermath is not going to purport to know what the New York Dolls were like live, in their Thundered and Killer-ed heyday of kitsch and campy kiss-offs. We weren't even in Pre-K when Buster Poindexter was singing "Hot Hot Hot" on Saturday Night Live. But for chrissakes ... More >>

Tonight: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead at Walter's on Washington

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is a new band. Sort of. The Austin prog-punks apprenticed on legendarily freaky Central Texas label Trance Syndicate (Pain Teens, Ed Hall, Crust) after founders Conrad Keely and Jason Reece to the Texas capital from Olympia, Wash., in 1994, ... More >>

Follow Friday for Foodies

The group collective on Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging and social networking platform, has developed a recent tradition called Follow Friday.  Follow Friday is part circle jerk, part honest and helpful advice from your Twitter friends on who to follow if you're new or simply l ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Gourds, Part 1

LOM recently conducted a wide-ranging interview with Kevin Russell of the Gourds. The Austin roots-rockers - for lack of a better term - released their 9th studio album, Haymaker! (Yep Roc), today, and play a Cactus Music in-store January 9 and later that night at the ... More >>

What to Get a Texas Beer Lover for Christmas?

The Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner celebrates its 100th birthday next year and while we'll have to wait until January for the anniversary beer to be released, a new book on the history of the brewery has already hit the bookstores--just in time for Christmas. The hefty coffee table book (beer table book? ... More >>

More Warehouse Live Postponements

Is The Reign Of Whole Foods Over?

Dale Watson, with the Derailers

Going to the Chapel, Going to Jail

Lions

Three Nights Ago: Hometown Showdown at Warehouse Live

Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers

Valient Thorr and Riverboat Gamblers perform Monday, August 6, at Red Room inside Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. ASG and Totimoshi are also on the bill.

Grupo Fantasma

Grupo Fantasma performs Friday, January 19, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Check out the HouStoned Rocks music blog for an interview with Grupo Fantasma vocalist/songwriter Jose Galeano.

The Gourds

The Gourds perform Saturday, December 30, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our critics' opinions on local exhibits

Bring It On

Why Houston should want a nuclear power plant

Junior Brown

Friday, December 2, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Hip-hop Hoedown

Bavu Blakes rides into town on Blazing Saddles

Million-Hour Madness

Religious charities discover state welfare reform savings are based in part on their backs

Rotation

Screen Playing

Hollywood mixes and mingles at the Austin Film Festival

Great Globes of Flesh

A Carnaval celebration, Austin-style

Caroline Herring

Friday, January 23

Collision Course

Cyclists are finding out what really lurks along those serene country roads

Hot for Teacher

Jack Black makes School of Rock rock

Blunt Force

BMC plays ragga jungle at NoDo's Underground Lounge

Chipotle off the Old Block

Austin's Serranos Café and Cantina tries out its Tex-Mex on Houston

By the Wayside

This weird school will wow kids

Barnyard Boogie

Former Houstonian Kev Russell talks about Snoop Dogg and Cow Fish Fowl or Pig

Does Not Compute

Loopholes still hamper electronic reporting of campaign finances

The Vaginas Are Coming

A candid look at what is it and what it means to boys and girls alike

Taken for a Ride?

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

The Whole (Foods) Story

Outside Agitator

It's not enough for Marc Levin to publish a conservative newspaper. Now he's organizing student clubs at Rice.

Texas Music 1998: The Year That Wasn't

In the Clear

Busy Body

Good Golly, Miz Molly!

Static

Static

Static

Press Picks

Yiddish Yahoos

The Austin Klezmorim's clamorous eclecticism

Young, Gifted and Dead

Gallows humor at some club, and the attack of the killer accordions

Lost Cyberweekend

CyberCulture Houston: Three days of art, music, dance and deep thoughts