Subject: Austin

• Rolling Out the Red Carpet

  March 14, 2007

• Circulation Down -- Again -- at DMN

  April 25, 2007

• Stealing Stevie Ray

  June 18, 2007

• Deep Ellum is Self-Destructing

  July 3, 2007

• Dallas Mascot Challenge: Furred vs. Feathered

  September 10, 2007

• Austin Fights Back, Sending Famous Furniture Store to LFT

  September 20, 2007

• I Want My MET!

  October 8, 2007

• Deuces Out, Dallas

  December 28, 2007

• Face It, Most Air Travel is Emotionally Distressing

  January 2, 2008

• Record Hop Still Unsure About Album Release

  March 3, 2008

• Why SXSW When You Can NPR?

  March 14, 2008

• Bonus MP3: Lions -- "Evil Eye"

  April 17, 2008

• Dallas Loses Latino Ad Agency to Austin

  April 21, 2008

• Bonus MP3: Broken Teeth -- "Roll Over"

  April 24, 2008

• Bavu Blakes Gets XXL Magazine Nod

  May 28, 2008

• Road Show: Shearwater's CD Release Party in Austin

  June 2, 2008

• Punk Act Warcola To Split Single With Austin's Spitting Bullets

  June 2, 2008

• Boston Phoenix Names Greatest Bands, Solo Artists and Current Acts For All 50 States

  July 1, 2008

• I've Had Dreams Like This

  July 18, 2008

• Poster of the Week: HEALTH

  July 24, 2008

• Dallas and Those "Scary" Chemtrails

  September 8, 2008

• One of These Things is Not Like the Others on Texas Book Fest Schedule

  September 8, 2008

• ACL, Meet DC9

  September 26, 2008

• Rabbis Give Texas State Board of Education the Hebrew Hammer

  The Texas State Board of Education's meeting in Austin about, among other things, whether the board ought to revise the state’s science curriculum to allow for, ya know, the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Which is why three rabbis, two from 'round these parts and one of whom hails from my old camp down in Bruceville, found themselves in Austin yesterday trying to convince the board that eating church and state off the same plate is decidedly not kosher. Said Rabbi Nancy Kast

  November 20, 2008

• Scenes from the White Rock Marathon

  Dylan Hollingsworth was out at the Dallas White Rock Marathon yesterday, gathering photos for our slide show. The event, though, was been overshadowed by the death of Erin Lahr, a 29-year-old newlywed from Austin whose mother tells the Austin American-Statesman today that she was "really positive and always smiling and joking." An autopsy is pending. --Robert Wilonsky

  December 15, 2008

• Blockdot Goes on the iPhone Apps "Gold Rush" With Chicktionary

  The latest issue of Newsweek IDs the latest and greatest way to make money since Ponzi schemes: iPhone applications. Says one Austin-based developer, "It's kind of a gold rush." Which, nice segue, leads us to the media release that landed in the in-box a couple of days back from yet another Dallas-based company developing games for the iPhone: Blockdot on N. Central Expressway, the Kewlboxers who, earlier this month, dropped word-game fave Chicktionary into the Applications bin for a cool $1.99,

  December 16, 2008

• Better Late Than Never: Airline Wins Competition To Play RedGorilla Fest

  Jason UpshawI guess maybe I should've posted this on Monday morning, as I knew the news then, but for whatever reason, it slipped my mind: Congrats are in order for Airline, who, on Saturday night at Club Dada, beat out Sunward and Hendrick in an audience vote to determine which act gets to perform at March's RedGorilla Music Festival in Austin. Actually, I think all three are playing the fest anyway, but the win nets Airline a better billing for the showcase. Whatever. I really only posted abou

  December 18, 2008

• Dotty Griffith's Top 10 Things I Miss About Dallas

  Just about three years ago, the damn near legendary Dallas Morning News food critic Dotty Griffith decided to hang up the notepad and head down to Austin. Now, the UT grad and unrepentant Texan (who once said "barbecue is the most American of foods; to hell with apple pie") spent plenty of time in and around the Hill Country. Yet the transition can be difficult, especially after decades in Big D. According to oft-repeated stereotypes, Dallas is pretentious, Austin laid back; we support 500 seat

  December 30, 2008

• Ten Years On, Office Space Returns!

  Patrick MichelsFrom left, Office Space stars Gary Cole, David Herman and Stephen RootFans and cast members filled Austin's historic Paramount Theater last night to honor the 10th anniversary of one of Texas's greatest gifts to the global zeitgeist: the Mike Judge classic Office Space. With its office park sprawl and generic American flag license plates on its cars, the movie looked like it could've been anywhere. Where it was, though, was Texas -- Austin and Dallas -- and that's where Judge and

  February 9, 2009

• The Nervebreakers To Reunite For Austin, Club Dada Shows

  The Nervebreakers are back. While Zac Crain is geeking out over on Frontburner today about a Sex Pistols cover band playing the Longhorn Ballroom next month (my how the mighty have fallen...), he was able to touch on some interesting news that I'd missed earlier today...(Thanks, spam filter!)...namely, that the original lineup of Dallas punk rock legends The Nervebreakers have reformed (just as had been suggested here by an anonymous commenter a few weeks back). But it's not just for a couple Au

  February 23, 2009

• My Bloody Valentine To Perform At Palladium Ballroom As One Of Just Four Stateside Post-Coachella Dates

  It's been pretty widely reported already this morning, but it's definitely worth pointing out again, in case some of you might've missed it: Seminal shoegaze act My Bloody Valentine is coming to town for a Palladium Ballroom performance just over a month from now, on Wednesday, April 22. It's one of just four post-Coachella stateside performances currently slated for the band--and as such, you can expect tickets to this show (along with tickets to the Austin, Denver and Seattle shows) to be qui

  March 12, 2009

• South By On A Dime: Wednesday

  With the music industry, print media and the economy all struggling (to put it mildly), I imagine there are a lot of people in Austin trying to pinch pennies however they can. At least, I am. Now, I don't want to be a piker when it comes to bringing home music and souvenirs, but as for the essentials--beer, food and parking--I'm going to pretend my expense account doesn't exist. Because it doesn't.  It's too early to tell how realistic a goal it is to be thrifty. Music festivals are usually

  March 19, 2009

• Dude Food: SXSW Edition

  Patrick MichelsRoppolo's Red River "location" did big business at SXSW.I spent much of the last week in Austin for SXSW, so rather than hipping you guys to some local jewel this week, I've decided to give a play-by-play commentary of how I vittled down in the Live Music Capitol of the World.Comprehensive Dude Factor: 9, or Doug Sahm, on a scale of 1, "Christopher Cross," to 10, "Willie Nelson."Wednesday:After three and half hours of assorted I-35 bullshit I arrive in Austin, where I immediately

  March 24, 2009

• The Ideas Behind The No Idea Festival

  February 19, 2009

• ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Dead Twins

  Friday, November 7, at Club Dada

  November 6, 2008

• Dallas benefits, again, from being near Austin City Limits

  Look at all the concerts ACL is leading our way this weekend (while ignoring the ugly side effects)!

  September 25, 2008

• Green Memories

  June 5, 2008

• Band of Heathens, Trey Johnson

  Friday, March 21, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

  March 20, 2008

• South by Southwest Bounty Overflows to Benefit Dallas

  This and next week are full of big-name acts making their ways to or from the Austin festival

  March 6, 2008

• Ghostland Observatory

  Saturday, May 19, at House of Blues

  May 17, 2007

• Mr. Sunshine

  I see Dallas' glass as half-full in 2007, but what's in it?

  January 4, 2007

• Li'l Cap'n Travis

  Twilight on Sometimes Island (Glurp)

  July 19, 2007

• Young James Long

  Friday, July 6, at the Granada Theater

  July 5, 2007

• Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Catch Lymbyc Systym At Hailey's Tomorrow Night

  Austin's Lymbyc Systym sure makes some purdy instrumental ambient electro, as the above video shows quite capably. And tomorrow night, when the band hits the stage at Hailey's with experimental Denton instrumental duo Florene, it should make for a pretty trippy time. Maybe not as trippy as the above video, though.Either way: We've got a pair of tickets to the show, courtesy Spune again, if you want 'em (which you should, even though this weekend is SUPER packed to the gills). Email me with the

  April 17, 2009

• Centro-matic To Tweet Tomorrow Night, Whilst Rocking Your Robin.

  As I retweeted just moments ago (check out our Twitter-log in the right-hand column on this page...and follow me, too, if ya want), Centro-matic's got a gig tomorrow night at the Granada Theater with the fine fellows of The Crash That Took Me and Austin's The Monahans. And while that's fine and good--great even, for fans of the local music--what's really unique about the gig is that, starting at 7 o'clock tomorrow night, Will Johnson, Scott Danbom, Mark Hedman and Matt Pence will be live-tweeti

  May 6, 2009

• Good Friday: The Felons, Joe Ely, Peacemaker, Telegraph Canyon, Sleep Whale, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Daniel Francis Doyle, Little Black Dress, Record Hop

  Weekend's here and I'm sure we're all eager to get it launched. So, without further ado, let's get right into it. First, the shows we've already talked up...Tonight, Ben Kweller stops in for a homecoming gig of sorts at the Granada Theater, Cryptacize stops by Rubber Gloves for a set with Fishboy and Shiny Around The Edges and Erykah Badu stops by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a televised performance with The Roots.Tomorrow night, Brave Combo takes to Sons of Hermann Hall to celebrate thrity

  June 26, 2009

• Sweep the Legs! It's Gonna Cost More -- and Take Longer -- to Get Rid of Reunion Arena.

  ​When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like "a coffee table from 1974." Or, "that carport thingie that's going up in the Arts District." Turns out, it'll stay that way a while longer -- like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena's exterior plaster finish, there is a layer of styrofoam insulation backing material mounted on concrete masonry units which circle the upper ring of the arena. It has been determined that blasting operations would result in breaking the

  August 11, 2009

• Festival News from Austin City Limits: Bands Wanted

  ​The lineup for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival is being set and worthy bands are being encouraged to sign up for something called The Sound and The Jury competition.Here's the scoop that got sent to me via email this morning: "Round One is live now and bands can upload their music at http://delllounge.com/soundandthejury/ to enter the competition. To stay in the game, bands must generate enough votes to land them in the Top 100 by Aug. 28. From there, industry judges will narrow

  August 14, 2009

• Owen Temple

  October 8, 2009

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Leftovers

  Patrick Michels​Three days after getting back from Austin, I've still got a good post-festival buzz. With all apologies to NX35, it was by far the most fun I've had at a Texas music festival. Oddly, the rain didn't bother me all that much. It made things messy and uncomfortable, but it also kind of humanized the festival for me, if that's not too corny a way of putting it. It makes it hard to judge people's coolness level when they're muddy from the knees down, huddled under umbrellas and wear

  November 11, 2009