Top 10 National Albums of 2016
Our favorite picks from across the country
"...1) Lambchop, FLOTUS (Merge)..."
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Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow
SXSW Preview: Wye Oak
A quick chat with the Baltimore rock duo
"...Their new LP Shriek is out April 29 on Merge. More info at Merge Records online...."
March 13, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen
Top 10 National
One hundred lines of album art
"...7) Superchunk, I Hate Music (Merge)..."
Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature
Top 10 National
"...1) Bob Mould, Silver Age (Merge)..."
Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets
SXSW Friday Showcases
Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good
"...Merge Records..."
March 18, 2011 Music Feature
National Top 10s
"...7) Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (Merge)..."
Jan. 4, 2008 Music Feature
Spoon
Record review
"...Telephono (Merge)Spoon..."
Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.
"...since the Essex Green's sophomore release, The Long Goodbye (Merge), came out in 2003. Who knows what the Brooklyn..."
March 17, 2006 Music Feature
Dinosaur Jr.
"...Dinosaur (Merge)Dinosaur Jr...."
May 27, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only
"...hype of their forthcoming album E&A. 2003 witnessed the emergence of Soul Position, a collaboration between Blueprint and RJD2..."
March 12, 2004 Music Feature
Spoon
Reissues
"...SpoonA Series of Sneaks (Merge) "The aftermath of promotion -- it's time to take..."
June 21, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy
The Gridlock at TxDOT and 51st Street
Traffic jam on 51st Street defies highway solution.
"...drivers hoping to enter the freeway at 51st must merge left immediately through two lanes of westbound traffic and..."
April 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Tying the Knot: A Drama
Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.
"...Forget merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre..."
Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Everything is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology (Matador)
Reissues
"...the business this year: Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance's Merge (observed by the excellent Oh Merge! set); the UK's..."
Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Jeff Mccord
Destruction as Beauty
Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna
"...You couldn't help but wonder how the band would emerge from such a brutal one-two punch...."
Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Review: A Giant Dog, Bite
Glam rockers’ sixth album traverses an ambitious space-age hero’s tale
"...rock opera if not gratuitous? A Giant Dog Bite (Merge) Bite by A Giant Dog..."
Sept. 1, 2023 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann
Interim City Manager Quietly Unveils Budget Proposal
In it: raises, more police funding, and restructuring
"...The three public safety departments – police, fire, and emergency medical services – account for about 62% of GF..."
July 21, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders
The Phantom of the Open
Mark Rylance raises this fantastical golfing biopic above par
"...the film’s more fantastical elements. Roberts can never entirely merge the two sides of the film; individual sequences often..."
June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Morbius
Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff
"...back those more terrifying aspects they still wanted to merge them with their existing crop of superheroes. Thus, Morbius,..."
April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
A Giant Dog Teases Impending Concept Album
Austin punk quintet transports partygoers to “Avalonia”
"...innocent punk offering of “Nutria,” off the group’s final pre-Merge Records release Bone. Amid the staccato pulse of the..."
May 24, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
Sator
Occult horror will hold you in its dark, subtle spell
"...and pace, layered with foreboding and implication. Home movies merge seamlessly with trap cam footage and elegantly framed darknesses,..."
April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Bullet Head
A cracking good Tarantino-esgue heist film
"...dog story to tell, mostly in flashbacks that visually merge the present-day and past memories. It’s an effective trope,..."
Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Suburbicon
The dark side of Fifties middle America
"...this unmade Coen brothers script and received permission to merge the two storylines. However, the final product is an..."
Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?
Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them
"...Eventually, after signing to mid-level North Carolina indie Merge Records and putting out Kill the Moonlight in 2002,..."
Jan. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson
Thursday SXSW Picks
"...Dog was picked up last year by influential indie Merge Records. Andrew Cashen's roaringly precise guitar work and charismatic..."
March 18, 2016 Music Feature
Meet Me in Montenegro
Real-life couple and co-directors explore whether love is better the second time around
"...been more than tickled if Holdridge had chosen to merge his true-life love story with the fictional Supercollider and..."
Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Everything Hits at Once
Give the drummer some: Spoon backbeat Jim Eno
"...years ago, after his band, signed to indie powerhouse Merge Records (longtime home to Spoon), played Mohawk...."
Aug. 1, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Then There's This: The Road to Fewer Roads
Can the latest advances in intersection designs fix Austin's gridlock?
"...to turn right, make a U-turn around an ellipse, merge with oncoming traffic and continue through the intersection –..."
May 2, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith
Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview: Superchunk
"...As bassist of Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records with bandmate Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance maintains a..."
Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Magnetic Fields
"...Magnetic FieldsLove at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)..."
