Subject: Austin (Texas)

• LastNight: Menomena at the Independent Friday, June 8, 2007

  June 10, 2007

• Lo-fi Spotlight: Julie Sokolow's "Violins"

  July 16, 2007

• Cold War Kids Back for ColdWinterSF

  August 21, 2007

• Battles Back in San Francisco In November at Great American

  September 26, 2007

• Dead Meadow Announce Tour Dates and New Album

  January 14, 2008

• Ipecac Records Toys Around with Their Bands

  January 18, 2008

• Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

  January 18, 2008

• They've Put a Hex on Me

  January 24, 2008

• Saul Williams Brings Niggy Tardust to SF in March

  January 29, 2008

• Human Giant Hit SF for NoisePop

  February 11, 2008

• The Black Keys Play Free SF Weekly Party in Austin, Texas at SXSW: Just Announced

  February 14, 2008

• Friday Photos: Pre-Best Buck in the Bay Rodeo Party

  August 18, 2008

• Track of the Day: The Strange Boys

  Last week I got a great little platter of artfully sloppy garage pop from In the Red. It was the CD The Strange Boys...And Girls Club by a band that sounds to either be fronted by an eight year old or is rapidly aging backwards: Austin, Texas' the Strange Boys definitely live up to their name. They're like the Cheater Slicks on cough syrup, all broken hearts and broken chords..and yet possessing a real cool country punk blooze sound. The front man is the band's real wild card, though, hootin' an

  February 23, 2009

• Street Economics: Lopsided Moving Rates, Discarded Furnishings Portend San Francisco Jobs Exodus

  Adventures in moving indeedBusiness boosters may talk about "green shoots" suggesting an economic recovery, but SF Weekly has been monitoring real-world indicators implying things are still bleak in San Francisco. Two informal economic indicators suggest the city is suffering a jobs exodus. First, city sidewalks in local residential neighborhoods last weekend were littered with an unusual excess of free house furnishings, dishes, clothes, and other detritus typical of residents pulling up roots.

  June 4, 2009

• SF @ SXSW: Talking House Records' Texas Takeover

  EKAphotographySee You in Austin: Bart Davenport If you're going to Austin, Texas' annual music festival SXSW, remember the date March 20. On that day, SF-based indie Talking House records is throwing what it calls a "14-hour rager" featuring "a ton of the Bay Area's most interesting bands" at the Wave nightclub in Austin. Co-sponsored by Live 105, the event features a free day party and an official SXSW showcase in the evening. Without even the hint of local bias (okay maybe just a hint), this

  March 2, 2009

• Track of the Day: Hex Dispensers

  Sometimes you can't help but love a cynic. Case in point: Austin, TX punks Hex Dispensers--who although they're very much alive, still crow about their imagined obit, sneering, "I can't believe that's what they said about me." The song is the group's latest single, "O-B-I-T," and it's a taste of the death obsession that's apparently gonna lurk on their upcoming EP (the other new song they recently posted: "It's YOUR Funeral, Minion."). There's always been something dark about these Texans, thoug

  March 10, 2009

• San Francisco Does NOT Win 'Most Photo-Friendly City' Contest -- So We'll Denigrate the Poll (It's a Coping Mechanism)

  National Archives 111-SC box 692 329507Has our beauty deserted us? And without it -- what's left? This is not pee-wee soccer. There are winners and losers in life. In the immortal words of Reese Bobby, "If you ain't first, you're last." So, we're chagrined to announce that San Francisco has been named first loser by Popular Photography Magazine in its "Most Photo-Friendly City" contest (that'd be second place). Now San Francisco needn't win everything; perhaps it would have been better to not to

  April 3, 2009

• Revival Meeting

  March 6, 1996

• Samples

  March 13, 1996

• The Flying Nun

  May 1, 1996

• Mexican bribes and high gas prices: The May Fire's tour diary

  September 3, 2008

• Going Off

  April 25, 2007

• Net Gains

  Get to know your overnight indie rock sensations

  August 16, 2006

• Ship of Fools

  July 26, 2006

• Funk, Revisited

  Luv 'n' Haight's 50th release adds to local music lore

  April 12, 2006

• Song Bird

  Through beguiling contrasts and magical moments, Jolie Holland has emerged with a singular, elusive sound

  April 5, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  August 10, 2005

• Ugly Duckling

  Sandra Bullock fires off another Miss

  March 23, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  August 11, 2004

• Law and Borders

  Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  November 14, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from April 4, 2001

  April 4, 2001

• South to the Future

  October 20, 1999

• Tom Waits' Variations

  May 26, 1999

• Music.competition

  April 28, 1999

• Hip Pocket

  In Austin, Texas, it's a neck-and-neck race between art and commerce at South by Southwest

  March 31, 1999

• Night + Day

  January 27, 1999

• Riff Raff

  March 4, 1998

• Get Your Bearings

  March 26, 1997

• Du Me

  March 12, 1997

• Down by Law

  January 31, 1996

• The Stick-Up Artist

  December 13, 1995

• Samples

  March 22, 1995

• 'Air Sex' Championships Headed for San Francisco

  Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, you may ask is "Air Sex?" Well -- and we're not going to make a Paris Hilton joke here, we promise -- it appears to be folks comically re-enacting sex with invisible partners in front of a quasi-ineb

  May 8, 2009

• SFoodie Hosts Texas Taco Blogger in a Week-Long Crawl Through the Mission and Beyond

  Mando Rayo: The mask helps hide the salsa burns.If you see this man around the Mission, promise you'll be nice. And offer him a Tums. Austin, Tex., taco evangelist Mando Rayo is engaged in an epic taco crawl through the Bay Area, and he'll be reporting his findings here. At TacoJournalism, a blog of tacos and taco culture, Rayo collaborates with taco homies Jarod Neece, Cornbiter Deluxe, and The Commish. They've been featured in the Austin American-Statesman and at Austin360.com, in the "Best o

  June 22, 2009

• El Mundo de Mando: The Great Taco-Burrito Smackdown

  Mando Rayo: Which one roolz?Austin, Tex., taco blogger Mando Rayo (aka El Mundo de Mando of TacoJournalism) is in Cali this week, getting his first-ever taste of Bay Area-style flavor. We've asked him for a blog-by-blog account of his findings in the MIssion and beyond. Got a tip for Mando? Leave a comment, homie. When I started my in-depth taco inquiry in the Bay Area this week, everyone I met kept telling me, "Try the burritos -- it's California, man!" But being a taco lover I said no guay Jo

  June 24, 2009

• El Mundo de Mando: A Texas Taco Blogger's Crawl Through the Mission

  Mando Rayo The holy trinity at Taqueria Pancho Villa.Austin, Tex., taco blogger Mando Rayo (aka El Mundo de Mando of TacoJournalism) was in Cali this week, getting his first-ever taste of S.F. flavor. How did the Mission stack up to taco culture in Central Texas? Read on, homie. Ahh, San Francisco: What a great city. You are home to Journey, Rice-A-Roni, trolleys, and most important ... tacos! I was told that tacos would be hard to find in the city by the bay but, alas, I have found you,

  June 26, 2009

• Air Sex Competition Makes Us Want to Start an Air Abstinence Campaign

  Air Sex is a novel and intriguing concept. "It's like air guitar, but sex," the Austin-based creators of a national touring Air Sex competition like to say, and with that explanation come the mental pictures of people idiotically humping, sucking, and rubbing up on air. It's practically inevitable to think, hey, that's kind of genius. I should go to that.Don't. Unfortunately, it was too late to give this advice to the packed house at the Independent in San Francisco Wednesday night. Ev

  June 25, 2009

• Last Night: The Strange Boys at the Hemlock

  The Strange BoysThursday, July 2, 2009The HemlockBetter than: Fireworks.The Strange Boys' ringleader, Ryan Sambol, has the girth of a stray dog and the voice of an alley cat. Last night he was a scrawny scrap of musician tucked under a white two gallon cowboy hat, and his gaze was cockeyed: of his two glassy, heavy-lidded peepers, one seemed to drift into repose when Sambol howled while the other paid a little more attention, rolling around inside its socket. All this is to say Ryan Sambol look

  July 3, 2009

• The Nine Best Bar Foods in the U.S.

  Photo by Rick via Flickr Creative CommonsBuffalo Wings​Bar food is designed to keep you thirsty as you toss 'em back. Fatty, often crunchy, and above all salty, bar food is so popular there's even a new L.A. gastropub simply called Bar Food. We've culled the nine best from across the country, from classics (nachos and buffalo wings, so common they're now in lowercase) to trendy takes on Brit pub grub (devils on horseback, Scotch eggs).9. Buffalo Wings Anchor Bay Buffalo, New York There are a

  August 20, 2009

• 10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

  Caroliner @ the Lab (Sat. and Sun.)​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Golden Gate Park (Fri.-Sun.)Wait, what? Steve Martin and MC Hammer and Neko Case and Steve Earle? Yeah, it's the city's biggest free hootenanny with a cross section of roots music fans. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today at 10:30 a.m.; the last act hits the stage Sunday at 7 p.m. Inaugural Show @ Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (Friday)GAFFTA aims turn an eyesore neighborhood into a destination for rising art stars. It s

  October 2, 2009