This year students from UT Austin’s Texas Applied Arts partnered with Waterloo Conservancy to create an interactive and “multi-sensory experience” for Austin’s light installation show at Waller Creek.
For over 13 years, starting in the 2006 Fall semester, Joel Guzman and J.J. Barrera have been conducting the Tex-Mex Conjunto class at UT Austin. The course gives students the opportunity to learn a repertoire of Texas-Mexican music, and for some, connect with their roots.
It was a quarter past 12 a.m. on a particularly lively Friday night when I made my way to downtown Austin. Last weekend, the second consecutive year of Levitation was in full swing and I was nothing short of ecstatic to experience a piece of the niche festival’s hypnagogic lineup. The edgy fuzz sounds of the band BRONCHO drew me to Barracuda’s outdoor stage for a moody psych-rock performance.
Levitation 2019 was incomparable. Underground metal, electronic and rock genres, hypnotic visuals and enough secondhand smoke to hotbox multiple outdoor venues; that’s just a snapshot of the festival.
As a first-time attendee, I swiftly came to understand how Levitation found its name — each performance was an idiosyncratic, transcendent experience. I might think the entire night had been a dream, had my ears not rang with surreal echoes for hours after I made my way home.
Amid lineup changes and concerns over their changed sound, the beloved Washington band played the Moody Theater with the same energy and love they’ve been delivering for a quarter century.
Kim Petras is the picture-perfect pop star. Precipitating the airwaves with feel-good singles that came together on her debut album, Clarity, solidified her place in the pop music landscape. Her exuding confidence and syrupy-sweet production is paired with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and a hyper-feminine aesthetic. These features culminated a sold out show at Emo’s Nov. 3.
Frank Ocean’s irregularity when it comes to releasing content makes him a high demand artist. The two albums he released, Channel Orange and Blonde, have solidified their places as notable releases in the R&B music canon with both releases placing in the top 10 of Pitchfork’s “Best Albums of the 2010s.”
Dropping off singles here and there to high praise positions him as one of the greatest, yet mysterious, artists of our generation. It’s safe to say that whenever Ocean releases something, everyone goes crazy and he can do no wrong. However, with the opening of his new night club series Prep+, it flaws Ocean’s character and reveals that, he too, makes mistakes.
Held annually, the Austin Powwow has remained one of the largest single-day celebrations in the country. This month, the Great Promise for American Indians conducted the 28th Annual Austin Powwow and American Indian Heritage Festival.
For author Thaïs Bass-Moore, syllabuses are not only essential for the classroom, but for life as a black woman. This year, Bass-Moore wrote and published her new book A Syllabus for Black Women: 110 Life Lessons for Sistahs in College
The video department of the gourmet food publication, Bon Appétit, has become an unstoppable force over the past year since the release of its Gourmet Makes series. We take a look at why exactly the members of the Test Kitchen have had such an emotional impact on their audience.
