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Terry Allen, ericdoa, and More Crucial Concerts
Essential Austin gigs in the coming week
"...bounces guitar twinkle around bandleader Olivia Garner’s sugary vocal drone. Dreamy rockers Proun feed the lineup’s unofficial twee narrative,..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2023
A-bombs and b-movies were what you were interested in this year
"...“The opening action sequence – a drone-based assault on the international space elevator – is a..."

Dec. 23, 2023 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Deerhoof at Wizard Rodeo and More Crucial Concerts This Week
Austin acts El Combo Oscuro and sleep well. both host album release shows
"...Ourselves." Seeking more autumnal magic? Try a Bill Baird-assisted drone zone, a cozy house stage featuring Ethan Azarian and..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Kendrick Lamar’s Perfect Decade at ACL Fest Snags With Delayed, Cut-Off Performance
“I heard y’all have a curfew… I told them they’d have to shut off my mic”
"...waiting audience oohed and aahed to a mostly underwhelming drone light show...."

Oct. 7, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
HAAM Day, Ron Carter, and Pecan Street Festival lead our recommended shows
"...release "Won't Die Slow" churns buzzy guitars into ear-splitting drone. Bubble-grunge getup Farmer's Wife joins the penultimate night of..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Band Called Ma’s Slow Burn and Five More Songs From Austin Artists
New music picks from Ifé Neuro, Kydd Jones, Fuvk, and more
"...Chris Himelblau deadpans, final syllable howling over an electric drone. Aaron Reecer's warbling solo slices through the noise before..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Column by Elizabeth Braaten

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Jordan Moser's August residency, a pair of Millers, and more recommended Austin shows
"...inflect with slightly more charisma than James Murphy's sad drone. Call that post-post-post-punk? – Laiken Neumann Miller Time: Scott Miller/Rhett..."

July 28, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A celebration of Bobbie Nelson, a big birthday for Carousel Lounge, and more recommended shows
"...Drone music can fascinatingly fuck with your perception of time,..."

July 7, 2023 Music Column by Abby Johnston

Year Two of Oblivion Access Festival Fills the Experimental Gap in Austin
How the music festival co-founders keep up the mystique June 15-18
"...genre, industrial metal innovators Godflesh certainly qualify. Likewise formative drone metal icons Earth. Though the 30-year-old band now plays..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

10 Essential Showcases to See at Oblivion Access
Unpacking the unclassifiable experimental music festival, show by show
"...on debut Earth 2 and invented an entire genre: drone metal. Without Earth 2, there's no Sunn 0))), no..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park
Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later
"...May 22 throng frying in the heat with African drone and a Mississippi hum. Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, and..."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Psych Fest Interview: Vieux Farka Touré
Legacy blues scion talks Malian music and Khruangbin collaboration
"...Vieux's first release of 2022, Ali stills and stings: drone, nuance, metaphysics.  – Raoul Hernandez..."

April 21, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hearing the Imperceptible as Laraaji Collaborates With Plants in a Church
Welcome to the most curious performance of SXSW Music 2023
"...then stroked with a bow – all to a drone and pulse triggered, apparently, by chloroplasts moving throughout leaves...."

March 19, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Wednesday
A primo Tiger Den showcase, iLe, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and more
"...Logan Wagner kicked things off with a ticking cowbell drone before guitarists Thom Waddill and Anthony Laurence slipped in..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music
Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival
"...harsh noise that break the spell of a simple drone. 2022 brought both An Insult to the Sport, a..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Nagavalli's East-and-West Fusing LP Reaches Beyond
The divine feminine of Numinosum
"...or even Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters: stinging, sternum-tingling drone and Indian mysticism. "Ocean Blue" plunges just as quickly..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Eddie Taylor's 100th birthday, Dry Cleaning, and Terry Allen highlight our recommended shows
"...makes you lean in and listen. Not a full-on drone night, Vegas' lineup invites skeletal synth-pop, buzzy DIY, and..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Wizard Rodeo Wrangles a Day of Musical Magic
Eclectic gathering returns to the Long Time sandlot field
"...and A Hawk and a Hacksaw's Heather Trost. A "Drone Zone" of experimental artists will keep the music continuous..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Memorable Moments From Levitation's Halloweekend
Standout sets from the four-day Austin fest
"...conjure one of his iconic riffs out of the drone metal morass, a booming dance rhythm would kick in,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Crosstalk: Golden Dawn Arkestra Records Live Album and Metal Breakouts the Sword Break Up
Austin music news headlines of the week
"...Lounge 90 minutes of heady, mostly instrumental compositions spanning drone, worldbeat, experimental, and beat music (the latter thriving in..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Luv Doc: No Questions, Just Answers
Two is plenty, thank you
"...have purchased a 65-inch 4K UHD TV, a 4K drone, or at the very least a stand-alone VR headset..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

What We’re Listening to Right Now
DJ Jester & DJ Marz, Willie Nelson on Billy Joe Shaver, Lisa Morales, High Heavens, and ZZ Top
"...bloom, trickle like rippling raindrops, or ring to a drone with encroaching dread. As if stuck in rush hour..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Eat Like an Austin Movie Star
Your guide to local restaurants featured in famous films
"...an escape for Peter (Ron Livingston), the archetypical white-collar drone, and the place where he meets cute with waitress..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: A One-Way Ticket to Johnson City
Are yuppies still a thing?
"...some deep conversational dives into topics like van renovation, drone photography, cannabis strains, woodworking, and yes, barbecue. Oh, and..."

July 8, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Jimmy Buffett Revisits Life Before the Beach in Return to Austin
Willis Alan Ramsey and Django Walker bubble up at Moody Center show
"...of the show. The animations were amateurish, the myriad drone pans of oceans and beaches played like a Windows..."

June 12, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

What We’re Listening to This Week
A. Sinclair, Quin NFN, Denis O’Donnell, Alexalone, and more sounds worth your time
"...Alex Peterson first saw Boris perform a 2014 drone set at End of an Ear. Influence of the..."

May 27, 2022 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW
Our favorite musical moments from the fest
"...starting a gas burner – grew slowly to entrancing, drone-leaning, loose pop structures, beckoned by reliable and unexpected club..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday
A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more
"...dream-pop), the Irish upstarts don’t particularly sound like any drone-poetics before them – their purple-noise-wash emerging less from overweening..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday
Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights
"...starting a gas burner – grew slowly to entrancing, drone-leaning loose pop structures, beckoned by reliable and unexpected club..."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Luv Doc: A Low Tolerance for Inaccuracy
Further proof that Latin is a trash language
"...to prattle on for more than an hour about drone photography, brewing hops, and the van he is refurbishing..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

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