The Flaming Lips
"...their 12th studio LP. Dense, dire, pushing at the shattered edges of psychedelia, Embryonic eschews the uplifting bravado of..."
Search
Visit the Shattered Music location page.
271-300 of 588 results, sorted by date | sort by relevance
Dec. 25, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman
First Night Austin
This New Year's Eve, why not join the throngs at this free arty party on the streets?
"...Maiden), Kim Ritter (the Peace Expedition), and Nicole Strine (Shattered Vanity)...."
Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Hightower Report
Obama's War; and Federal Execution Commission
"...soldiers (and thousands more who will be mangled and shattered) does the government's "new" Afghan policy deserve? How many..."
Dec. 18, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
Off the Record
Stephen Bruton's final cut, a parting gift from At All Cost, and other holiday stocking stuffers
"...community at large. "Even on our first EP [2003's Shattered Dreams and Bourgeois Schemes], Andrew was using a vocoder..."
Dec. 18, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell
Brothers
This drama is inferior in practically every way to Danish director Susanne Bier’s original – but now with more U2!
"...film, gets to do some acting pyrotechnics – dishes shattered, a gun waving wildly – but he’s more compelling..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Hightower Report
Battle of the Green; and Taxpayers Art Museum
"...is enormously popular. But, suddenly, the tranquility has been shattered by someone seemingly determined to turn the landmark tavern..."
Nov. 20, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Year of the Flood: A Novel
Atwood's latest is a remarkable parable of a world ruined by corporate tyranny, reckless technology, casual violence, and utter disdain for the natural order
"...and flawed people uncertain how to live in a shattered culture. "As for writing," reflects Ren, "it was dangerous..."
Oct. 16, 2009 Books Review by Michael King
A Woman in Berlin
This is that rarest of wartime dramas: an intimate, sorrowful glimpse into the heart and loins of the hellish aftermath of war when sex is used as a weapon.
"...that rivals or bests that of Joseph Vilsmaier's epically shattered Stalingrad cityscape, this is that rarest of wartime dramas:..."
Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Into the Wild
Balmorhea might not be one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, but it scored the movement
"...mosaic of sound; the effect resembles that of a shattered mirror. The Fun Years' percussion-heavy treatment of "Coahuila" borders..."
Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Humpday
Shelton’s winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Prize starts an interesting conversation about sexuality, but ultimately doesn't add much to the dialogue.
"...children – but that contentment, or its illusion, is shattered when Ben’s old college buddy Andrew (Leonard) shows up..."
Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
A Love Supreme – The Music of John Coltrane
Turtle Island Quartet's tribute to the jazz genius was fresh and thrilling
"...on artists who have torn down traditional barriers and shattered the ceilings of expectation." The 104-degree swelter notwithstanding (can..."
July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman
Crime and the City Solution
How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?
"...up some scratch lest their Lexus adds to the shattered automobile glass that's everywhere, every weekend, all the time...."
June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Loud, abrasive, and featuring performances seemingly calibrated to be heard over the cacophonous roar of Travolta's mad, bad overacting, this is an unnecessary and ill-advised remake.
"...that was grimy about the Big Rotten Apple of recession-shattered NYC circa 1974, is a minor classic of the..."
June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Letters at 3AM
Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up
"...unfairly) well defined. In the ever-faster 20th century, definitions shattered, boundaries blurred. Just as cinema understood what to do..."
April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Record Reviews
"...Minneapolis date with rare tracks proves BoDeans were never "Shattered." (Friday, April 17, 8:30pm, Hill Country Stage.)..."
April 17, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Love Stories In This Town
Ward has a heart for women, and these stories underscore that fact
"...to settle for what's left amid the shards of shattered dreams. "On Messalonskee Lake" depicts the paradoxical death of..."
April 10, 2009 Books Review by Melanie Haupt
Metallurgy
Wednesday
"...and kick-drum retribution spews fire atop Necromancer vox and shattered glass arrangements on Absu's fifth studio LP and first..."
March 20, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
American Rust: A Novel
Former Austinite Philipp Meyer has impeccable, even prescient, timing with his debut novel about an economically ravaged steel town in Pennsylvania
"...into the prose, showing how a town's battery of shattered dreams can alter actions in drastic ways...."
March 13, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch
Midnight Madness
Fantastic Fest and SXSW partner up for midnight movies
"...are two hapless losers whose idyllic country holiday is shattered by the arrival of an army of thirsty lesbian..."
Feb. 17, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
A Revolution of Spirit
Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin
"...slave woman shattered I love you...."
Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young
Page Two: Inertia, Inverted
It isn't the outside world but oneself that most often determines the nature of experience
"...of unending blizzards, and the once-familiar is now so shattered and disfigured that just talking of the tenor of..."
Jan. 9, 2009 Column by Louis Black
Welcome to the Bungle
A review of Guns N' Rose “Chinese Democracy”
"...root canal in Marathon Man – the illusion’s been shattered. Succeeding, Prodigy-prone clunker “Shackler’s Revenge” sheens like every bad..."
Dec. 5, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Almost Half of Registered Voters Cast Early Ballots
Early voting is over; 299,325 went to the polls
"...The total, both in raw numbers and percentage, easily shattered the previous record – the 222,085 from the 2004..."
Oct. 31, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols
Travis County Smashes Its Early Voting Record
Previous high from 2004 falls, with two days still remaining
"...back, Travis County residents of 2008 – you have shattered our record for early voting. After 10 days of..."
Oct. 29, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols
What We Do Is Secret
Darby Crash, the L.A. punk rock junkie godhead leader of the Germs who died of an overdose in 1980, is revivified in this long-gestating but strangely sterile biopic.
"...and the obvious love of all involved for their shattered subject, What We Do Is Secret is, in the..."
Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
It Came From the Back Yard
House of Torment's yearlong scare tactics pay off in Halloween screams
"...a gore-drenched charnel house, an apocalyptic hellscape draped with shattered corpses and patrolled by twisted creatures that has become..."
Oct. 3, 2008 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker
Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup
AFF's finalized lineup
"...and relocates to South Texas. His ideas are quickly shattered when he finds himself holed up in a town..."
Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
'Cynthia Camlin: Extremities'; 'Marianne Green: Silence and Sound'
These two exhibits celebrate natural wonders exquisitely with expert technique
"...and presence, the positive and negative spaces dancing a shattered quadrille against the canvases' vertical floor...."
Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Bottle Shock
Stuff the cork back in: This wine movie was sold before its time.
"...true story of how the wines of Northern California shattered France's oenological hauteur in a blind taste-testing in 1976..."
Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Science Fiction Gets the Vapors
On steampunk
"...of wonder on a realm that relentless industry has shattered into a fractal clusterfuck of shifting possibilities? Also, isn't..."
