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Action Bronson at Dada

Sunday, September 23, at Dada

It's Good To Make Time For A Bro, Even After SXSW and NX35.

What's In A Name?

There's plenty of music business precedent for Santogold's reinvention as Santigold.

Anatomy of a Buzz

With the proper machinery in place, a band could remain a Secret no more

Melody Maker

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch might claim to be an amateur on the six-string, but don't let him fool you

Tired of Waiting

The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

Sweet dreams

Amy Crenshaw isn't playing anyone's Patsy anymore

Silver Scooter

Lip service

The Flaming Lips come back from outer space to deliver The Soft Bulletin

Perfect, now

Built to Spill makes a record too good to Keep It Like a Secret

Bastard of middle age

Paul Westerberg digs intoa deep, dark place and makes a brilliant, horrible record

The great divide

Levon Helm, the heart and soul of The Band, looks back in anger

Cosmic love song

A "new" Roky Erickson record might be as close as anyone will ever get to him

Grown Up

R.E.M.'s new adventure in hi-fi is its finest in years

Oh, brother

Charlie and Bruce Robison make their country family-style

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

All the catchy songs

There was no bigger or better Texas band in the 1980s than The Judy's, who are long gone but not forgotten

Out of a Trance

Trance Syndicate--Texas' best label--closes its doors, leaving Bedhead without a home

Sound ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

Let's play four

The Flaming Lips release four new CDs--and one new album

Believe the hype

Austin's Sixteen Deluxe is as good as advertised

Out There

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

'Kill him again, he's not dead yet'

Memories of Ronnie Lane, 1946-1997

Jingle bells, Jingle sells

The industry aims for the heart of Christmas-- with a shotgun

Blood on the tracks

A former Chili Pepper embraces his demon

Rhyme and Reason

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

Blowing down the walls

Joshua Redman is a young lion primed to become a jazz king

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

Swingin' the blues

Big Al Dupree makes his recording debut after 72 years

Shock rock

Hagfish tries to figure out if they're punk, pop, or just plain horny

Writer's block

Marshall Crenshaw struggles to recapture his inspiration