One of the busiest filmmakers at this year’s SXSW, documentary filmmaker Keith Maitland has two films premiering at the festival, both with roots firmly in Texas. A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story is a loving look back at the PBS program that featured some of the music industry’s most iconic talent like Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Tower, a partially animated documentary that incorporates archival footage and first-person testimonials, reconstructs the University of Texas campus shooting that took the lives of sixteen people in the summer of 1966. The Grand Jury winner for Documentary Feature, Tower has been praised for […]...
- 3/16/2016
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Bill Jensen: Transgressions Cheim & Read Gallery Through May 9, 2015
There was a time in modern music when the role of the artist changed from being the custodian of cultural knowledge to something more of an autobiographer. We might choose that moment in the late sixties when Lou Reed abandoned the writing of pop ditties about boys and girls, to focus on his own, more personal interests, like boys and girls and heroin.
In other art forms this sea change was happening -- in comedy, where once jokes were shared, un-authored, between performers in Vegas, the Catskills, and New York City clubs, Lenny Bruce made comedy suddenly personal -- talking about race, politics, cops, censorship, and heroin. It is tempting to suggest that in painting this shift had happened decades earlier, particularly in that sub-category of painting called "abstraction." Once artists like Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Dove, and O’Keefe had looked for...
There was a time in modern music when the role of the artist changed from being the custodian of cultural knowledge to something more of an autobiographer. We might choose that moment in the late sixties when Lou Reed abandoned the writing of pop ditties about boys and girls, to focus on his own, more personal interests, like boys and girls and heroin.
In other art forms this sea change was happening -- in comedy, where once jokes were shared, un-authored, between performers in Vegas, the Catskills, and New York City clubs, Lenny Bruce made comedy suddenly personal -- talking about race, politics, cops, censorship, and heroin. It is tempting to suggest that in painting this shift had happened decades earlier, particularly in that sub-category of painting called "abstraction." Once artists like Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Dove, and O’Keefe had looked for...
- 4/30/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
I've seen so much music over the years it's often difficult for me to find much that is authentic. I have to get off the beaten track and lurk around the fringes of the music scene. Find those pockets of music where the authentic bubbles and boils. Where artists are making authentic art, for themselves, for their small stake in the world; hoping to get some response back from an audience or a scene, hoping to be noticed, hoping to share their art.
I was talking to painter Ron English at lunch in Austin during SXSW and he reminded me how cities use to stake their claim in creating a music scene with an identifiable sound -- San Francisco in the '60s with the psychedelic bands like the Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, et al.; London's punk/new wave scene in the mid/late '70s with the Sex Pistols,...
I was talking to painter Ron English at lunch in Austin during SXSW and he reminded me how cities use to stake their claim in creating a music scene with an identifiable sound -- San Francisco in the '60s with the psychedelic bands like the Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, et al.; London's punk/new wave scene in the mid/late '70s with the Sex Pistols,...
- 3/24/2015
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Celebrating the best and brightest rock stars on the planet, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just announced their inductees for 2015.
“Welcome to Paradise” rockers Green Day will be added to the illustrious roster in their first year of eligibility (25 years after their debut record), joined by Joan Jett and the late Lou Reed.
Furthermore, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble will be inducted at the April 18th, 2015 event, as will the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Bill Withers.
Also on the docket is a special recognition for Ringo Starr, who will receive the Award for Musical Excellence.
Unfortunately, Sting, Nwa and Nine Inch Nails couldn’t gather the needed support for 2015, but there’s always next year!
“Welcome to Paradise” rockers Green Day will be added to the illustrious roster in their first year of eligibility (25 years after their debut record), joined by Joan Jett and the late Lou Reed.
Furthermore, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble will be inducted at the April 18th, 2015 event, as will the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Bill Withers.
Also on the docket is a special recognition for Ringo Starr, who will receive the Award for Musical Excellence.
Unfortunately, Sting, Nwa and Nine Inch Nails couldn’t gather the needed support for 2015, but there’s always next year!
- 12/16/2014
- GossipCenter
The Black Keys are spreading the "Fever," as the legendary concert series Austin City Limits prepares to return with seven new episodes of its 40th season. In a new exclusive preview clip from the Black Keys' forthcoming episode, the Nashville-via-Akron duo kick out a taut, twisting rendition of the Turn Blue single that spirals into a crunchy concluding freakout.
Austin City Limits returns to PBS on January 3rd with a performance from the Avett Brothers and bluegrass trio Nickel Creek. Austin hometown heroes Spoon will share the stage with...
Austin City Limits returns to PBS on January 3rd with a performance from the Avett Brothers and bluegrass trio Nickel Creek. Austin hometown heroes Spoon will share the stage with...
- 12/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
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