Michael Lang talks about producing the original Woodstock with Eddie Kramer, sound engineer and American icon Wavy Gravy.

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July 8th. Yeah, it’s a Wednesday night. And yeah, it’s probably going to be hot as shit outside, but don’t let that deter you from coming out to see a show that’s worth the listen. I mean, come on man, it’s hump day. Gotta get out of the box and get some listenin’ in. Read the rest of this entry »

Flounders Without Eyes—What’s the Rush: Flounders has six singers and songwriters who contribute to the album and take it far past its jam band genre. Read the rest of this entry »

The birth of the moon walk. As soon as I saw this, I had to learn. Thank you MJ!

Hey folks, Harry here... I saw this at the IMAX. If you want to see this - that is how to see it. It makes two action sequences pretty fucking amazing to just stare at. You won’t really be emotionally involved because frankly, no character work has been done to make you feel involved. But for pure IMAGERY - there are two sequences that the IMAX experience makes unbelievable.The film is padded by an hour of completely unnecessary, worthless, offensive and repugnant sequences that do nothing but tread water. Be it the family dogs fucking, twice. An extended sequence of Mom hopped up on pot brownies on a reefer madness binge. The well talked about racist foul-mouthed robots that are built in monkey proportions, have a big shiny gold tooth and do nothing to advance the story an inch. It’s almost like Michael Bay showed the script to George Lucas and Uncle George let loose with another of his awesomely inappropriate animated racial slurs. But the racial stuff isn’t limited to just the animated variety. There’s a black man with bad teeth working in a Butcher Shop to earn new teeth that kinda blew my mind. But my problems with these things aren’t so much of the PC variety. Read the rest of this entry »

The Invincible Czars–Fortissimo: Austin’s “everything and the kitchen sink” rockers have become known for projects as outrageous as their name would suggest. Read the rest of this entry »

High Ceiling—Illusions: High Ceiling fuses the classic Roots, Rock and Reggae sound of groups like Easy Star Allstars or UB40 with unpredictable instrumental jam band tangents similar to bands like Tea Leaf Green. Read the rest of this entry »

Away We Go

The saying “Home is where the heart is” takes on new meaning in Away We Go, a romantic comedy for the unaffected. Burt (the irresistibly charming John Krasinski) and Verona (a perfectly quirky Maya Rudolph) are a smart, modern (she doesn’t see the point in marriage), unconventional (and refuses to marry him) couple who discover through one of the film’s funniest moments, that they are having a baby. A series of circumstances free them up to go in search of a place to start their new family.

After the torturous look at love gone wrong with Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes has pulled a 180, using Away We Go to celebrate a rare kind of love between two people who seem to fulfill every cliche known to man (and woman) about completion and one-ness ever created.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film so unapologetically committed to the notion of love.

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Phil Lee–So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You: Nashville singer, songwriter releases his first solo album departing from the Mighty King of Love. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeremy Nail and The Incidents–Self-Titled: Heart on your sleeve rock and roll meets Americana. Based in Austin, they celebrated their release of their self-titled EP on Saturday, May 22nd at the Belmont. Read the rest of this entry »

Two comments were heard repeatedly from the audience at the screening of The Hangover: “That shit is out!” and “This is every man’s worst nightmare.” Both, were alarmingly, hilariously true and could easily have served well as the film’s interchanging poster slogans.

The Hangover is a genuinely committed, gross out, raunch-fest comedy, that if at times uneven, never succumbs to sentimentality or sap. This is no small feat considering the premise which is about as formulaic as they come: A crew of  friends go to Vegas for a bachelor party that goes all wrong.   Part of its success is the fearlessness with which they push the dark-comedy envelope. Part of it is the treatment of the whole  buddy movie/road trip and their ability to embrace one of the most worn out plots in film with a  a  we-know-the-concept-sucks-but-trust-us sensibility that seems to motivate the filmmakers to stay one step ahead of its audience’s we’ve-seen-this-before expectations.

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Elaine Ryan will be performing this weekend as part of Media Arts and Literary Institute (M.A.L.I) Women’s Film and Performance Arts Festival here in Austin, Texas. Music showcases will be held at the Long Center, Cafe Mundi, Green Muse, Austin International Youth Hostel & Hot Mama Espresso, Thursday, May 28,2009 through Sunday, May 31st, 2009. All efforts benefit the M.A.L.I  summer media camp for at risk teen girls and women in the media arts. For more info go to, http://www.blowinupaspot.com/Home.html

AUSTIN DAZE: Tell us about performing as part of  M.A.L.I’s festival.

ELAINE RYAN: I can’t wait. It’ll be my first performance in Austin and my first trip to Texas. I’m really looking forward to hearing all of the other musicians and watching the films. It should be a fabulous time.

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La Snacks–Newfangled: La Snacks got its start in the good ol’ town of Beaumont, TX under a different name with a more punkish sound with front man Robert Segovia pushing schoolmates to accompany him on stage and get loud. Read the rest of this entry »

Scary Mary plays the Continental Club June 18th opening for the Krayolas. Not heard of Scary Mary, well check them out on myspace (www.myspace/scarymarytx.com). Read the rest of this entry »

And walk away feeling fulfilled. If you spend the funds on Terminator Salvation, you will regrettably not be ! I call for a boycott of this flick. Let’s send a message to HOLLYWOOD THAT THIS WON’T DO! Really, how did this get greenlighted?  This is another clear example of what the hollywood machine thinks of the masses. Yes they think we are stupid. Funny that I mention machine, one thing is certain you’ll  be cheering for the machines, as we were.
I refuse to waste any more time. This film was awful.Terrible. Even the whispering Batman and the body cast of Arnold couldn’t save it. Bad Writing,bad acting, bad directing just plain bad

$200 million was spent on Terminator Salvation. They should have fed Africa. This was a story that did not need to be told, and with its shoddy execution, weak plot, and down right bad acting, should never have been. The entire thing seems like an afterthought, an appendix to the several video games available on the website (which also seem to have more personality), and the endless marketing opportunities that surround a painful bastardization of the original machines vs. man cult classic. Read the rest of this entry »

Cooley Fly–Kiss My Converse: Proves dangerous with his lyrical rapping and soul. Pulling double duty rapping and singing he draws crowds in to promote his first album throughout Austin. Read the rest of this entry »