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SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.
"...singing backup for Motown queen Mary Wells and late disco queen Sylvester. My Higher Ground is her latest. –..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Breakfast on Pluto
In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who wanders through and into the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.
"...her implication in the IRA’s bombing of a local disco, you’d like her to offer an opinion one way..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chili Cold Blood Loves You!
Black & blues cowboy metal
"...the glue that brought CCB out of obscurity. His disco beats erase any need for bass...."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Red Eye
Red Eye’s no classic, but with its smart, twisty little script and those two killer performances, it's a helluva lot of fun.
"...in risky, often daring films like Kirsten Sheridan’s riveting Disco Pigs, John Crowley’s grimly funny Dublin portrait Intermission, or..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. 3000
This Bernie Mac baseball flick is standard genre fare.
"...himself in the Jumbotron and strutting around to a disco remix of "Appalachian Spring," the movie very nearly captures..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Page Two
We celebrate the opening of Jonathan Demme's complex and moving The Agronomist and cherish the sensibilities of horror-film art director Robert Burns, who passed away this week
"...Ballad of the Sad Café, was art director for Disco Godfather, wrote and directed Mongrel, and starred in Confessions..."

June 4, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Soul Plane
Everything is lewd and crude at this mile-high club.
"...purple plane decked out with low-rider hydraulics, an on-board disco, and enough funky eye candy to blind the Beast..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dawn of the Dead
It's hard to keep a good zombie down
"...post-Vietnam consumerist lifestyle that had taken hold amid the disco and me, me, me-isms of the Seventies. Romero’s plot,..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...Line) is a saucy smattering of New Wave and disco filtered through singer Maja Ivarsson's snarl, summed up in..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The Insider: Joe Perry
Brief conversations with very important people
"...fast that things are always going to change. When disco was king and our kind of rock music stopped..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Andy Langer

TCB
She's got her TV eye on me
"...This Microwave World's scorching, disco-rooted post-punk has made them one of Austin's can't-miss acts..."

March 5, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

After a Fashion
This week, Uncle Style Avatar explore Platforms, Vespa Girls, red pumps that mysteriously turn into black high-tops and back again, and what's in Blackmail's trunk
"...car accident in Columbus Circle. The second one is disco deluxe, with sinewy models in stilettos, harem pants, and..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

TV Eye
The best of TV in 2003 -- with some weirdness and disappointment in there somewhere
"...6) Fabulous trannies working it on The Disco Ball (an ABC special rerun in July)...."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Spinners
In Box
"...and by disc three, which has them entering the disco era, the fluff is overwhelming. As disco became more..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Matrix Reloaded
"...funky) as though they’d suddenly been transported to Blade’s disco bloodbath. I’ll take a Jon Stewart on this one..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Do the Tighten Up
'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel
"...funk ensembles tapered off with the mid-Seventies ascendance of disco. "The club owners thought they could just play a..."

May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

A Different Kind of Player
As far as nightclub concepts go, LAN parties aren't exactly thought of as pickup hotspots. Well, think again.
"...like little lighthouse beacons. "What the heck is this disco ball doing in the middle of Northcross Mall?" I..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Fluffers Union
Texas Platters
"...Fluffers UnionSirens Disco (Chocolate Johnson)..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Psychedelic Warlords
The kings of Texas psyche rock, ST 37
"...appearances, and albums on small indies and European labels (www.st37.com/st37.disco.html)...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

After a Fashion
Style Avatar Stephen gets his tiara out of whack at Gay Pride. Was it the Flaming Dr Peppers or just fame's blinding spotlight -- trained on the fabulous Miss Kitty of Mega 93.3?
"...the club. Then it was off to Dick's Deja Disco, which I've never been to before, and it was..."

June 7, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

En Français
En Français
"...has, a lethal combinaison of New Wave, R&B, et disco, whereas the Montpellier duo's U.S. debut, 1999's Installation Sonore,..."

May 10, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

After a Fashion
Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.
"...in the late Eighties and was firmly grounded in disco and new wave (which were often indistinguishable). But as..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Iron Ladies
"...unconscious by a powerful spike, he experiences a little disco reverie that will have you rolling on the floor.)..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Glitter
"...queen. Next scene finds Billie shaking booty at Eighties disco in New York City. Infantile stage of character's mental..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Summer Fun on Wheels
"...and Golden Earring's "Radar Love," both white hot and disco-balled in my memory as clear as my first couples'..."

May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Xanadu

April 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Angel in the Dark
The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.
"...the Blue Belles became LaBelle and reinvented themselves as disco queens a few years later with the huge hit..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...THE DISCO BISCUITS: Making their music industry debut on the SXSW..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Sangre de Toro, Buffalo Club, Saturday 17
"...for me. Fortunately, the hypnotic sight of Sangre's fast-spinning disco ball in the shape of a bull's head made..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
"...DOG FASHION DISCO: If Marilyn Manson is an exercise in bad taste,..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

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